Author Archives: Alf Tupper

Fairly atrocious weather on both days and a paucity of people competing, but some confirmation that the handicaps are in the right ball-park. Anwen and Chris are clearly not as used to imbibing the weekend falling-down water as some we … Continue reading →

A morass, with intermittent rain and gusty westerly winds. Approx 12C.  This is a rolling table of results, to be updated on Monday 2nd November. Final results below. The comparison with the drier conditions at the beginning of the month … Continue reading →

Notional start times based on the last of the summer Tuesday evening list. Hopefully people can do this in twos and threes so that it feels a bit better than the solo efforts of April to June. Particularly important in … Continue reading →

Pretty wet underfoot after heavy rain all day but not so cold at 12C and no wind. Not quite as heavy conditions as in March but bad enough, particularly because most of the 14 participants had spent the previous few … Continue reading →

This is a fairly comprehensive revamp of the early season list taking account of times done in the Virtual handicap series and times in virtual races, including biased observations and rumours. Declarations of intent to run need to be made … Continue reading →

Not many left to make it through to this last round of a tough series. Psychologically very hard to face that hill every week (I couldn’t do it), not to mention some risk on the descents through the woods. The … Continue reading →