Geoff writes: first, we’ve been updating the Twitter feed most of the day with information about the North South Cup. However, Twitter itself – not our feed specifically – has some problems, and is only working intermittently, so if the tweets don’t appear on the right, refresh the page later and they will reappear.

We can’t give a full report on the first day of the comp because we weren’t there. Because of the poor forecast here, they went to Milk Hill, a round trip of around 250 miles, where the forecast was better. This, of course, meant some pilots local to that site drove all the way here last night, only to drive all the way back this morning. But, you do what you have to do to get a good flight (well, most people do, but not us! We were too lazy to do the drive, even though it was pretty clear it would be a write-off here, and probably a reasonable XC day there).

And in fact, from reports, it was definitely the right decision, with many going XC. As far as we know, the furthest was Richard Bungay at 116km, but others in the 70s and 80s. Some results, all to be confirmed, are Dave Thomas at 70 km, Martin Knight 40, Helen Gant 87, Alex Colbeck and Kirsty Cameron around the 50s. Of course, far more than those went XC, but we haven’t seen the list yet. We’ll find out later tonight when we are going to the comp party.

Tomorrow, we think they are staying local, and Long Mountain or the Mynd seem the most likely. But that won’t be decided until tomorrow. But at least they seem to have had a great first day for the comp.

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