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Scottish 6 Days Report
News and results from the Scottish 6 Days in Moray ...
Last week saw the highly anticipated Scottish 6 Days event take place in Moray, centred on Forres. This was the first full event since COVID, as the 2021 event was 2 x 3 Days in the end. Mind you, it was 5 forest events plus rest-day sprint making up the 6th, so some have questioned whether Scottish 5 Days might be more accurate. Regardless of that, the event was a great success with 5 excellent forest areas, and mostly dry weather with very few midges.
Interlopers were organising club for day 3 at Roseisle, with Robin Galloway lead organiser, ably helped by Max Carcas. Thanks to all our volunteers, everything was put out on time, including during a wet afternoon the day before. All went well on the day, including sunny weather all day, and rounded off by a club party on the beach in Burghead after courses had closed.
Arena at Roseisle (Robin Galloway)
A quick round up of each day:
- Day 1 - Lossie Forest (long) - this was a tough start to the event, with long walks to the start and back from the finish in very hot conditions. Terrain was a mix of sand dunes and vaguer open forest, the latter catching some out after the intricacy of the dunes earlier on.
- Day 2 - Darnaway (middle distance) - different terrain for this day, away from the coast, with starts close to the arena, and the run-in right next to download, allowing live commentary to note incoming runners.
- Day 3 - Roseisle (long) - back to sand dunes, with lovely open running in the pine forest. Courses set by Tim and Zoe Griffin from GRAMP met with almost universal approval (apart from one control hidden behind a bush!) and of course INT organisation was perfect!
- Rest Day Sprint - Forres - and MTBO kept those who weren't exhausted busy.
- Day 4 - Culbin East (long) - classic forested sand dunes again, with a mere 3.5km walk to the start and 2km back from the finish. This allowed for Culbin to provide 2 days, with the arena hosting the finish on the final day ...
- Day 5 - Culbin West (middle) - more classic sand dune terrain for a middle distance race to finish off the week
Roseisle Start (Robin Galloway)
Plenty of Interlopers made it up for some / all of the week, and the following club members were in the top half of their age class (top 3 finishers in bold):
- W12A: Laura Kitchin 6th
- W14A: Lucy Ward 8th
- W45L: Claire Ward 2nd
- W50L: Heather Hartman 3rd, Mary Ross 4th
- W55L: Lorna Eades 6th, Ann Haley 14th, Jane Ackland 16th
- M10A: Inis Chepelin (3rd)
- M14B: Matthew Hartman (2nd)
- M18L: Laurence Ward (17th)
- M18S: Thomas Ross (1st)
- M21E: Sasha Chepelin (5th), Scott Fraser (7th), Aidan Smith (15th), Col Moran (17th), Oleg Chepelin (24th)
- M35S: Steven McHarg (2nd)
- M45S: Ray Ward (2nd)
- M50L: Ben Hartman (10th)
- M50S: Graeme Ross (4th)
- M55L: Colin Eades (14th), Andy Kitchin (16th), Robin Galloway (34th), Max Carcas (46th), Paul Caban (53rd)
- M60L: Rob Lee (8th)
- M60S: Ian McIntyre (20th)
Beach Party (Kirsten Strain)
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