I would like to start the report with a huge thank you to the following; all of you who took on the challenge and spent the weekend with us, our amazing volunteers who worked tirelessly over the weekend to provide another seamless event, my hill team who ventured into the hills to place and collect the controls, Emma and Stuart for another incredibly well-organised event. It was awesome to see everyone with different experience levels take on the challenge; from first-timers to returning faces and Mountain Marathon veterans. I hope I was able to speak to all of you at some point over the weekend, hearing about your challenges, experiences and route selection was amazing and made the courses I had made much more than some circles on a map. We were graced with superb weather again and I am looking into securing similar conditions for next year.

When Emma and Stuart offered me the chance to take on the course planning duties again for this year, I was delighted. I knew the challenge for me would be to create two more courses that could accommodate everyone’s ambitions over the weekend while offering a different puzzle for you if you ran the event in the last 2 years.