Happy New Year, Moravians!
Entries are now open for the Quarry Wood local event…
Burn off the Christmas excesses at our first event of the New Year on Saturday 14th January in Quarry Wood. We look forward to seeing you there, and at the Club Awards and Social event that evening at Roseisle Hall. 

Christmas Cup News from Eddie
First day of Christmas Cup with horrendous weather forecast and a few inches of snow when we arrived . The weather was actually largely dry and most of the snow had gone overnight.
I loved it, a fabulous technical area. Margaret did her first rough terrain course for years since heart and second hip - a baptism of fire (or ice). Just too much for her but dogged as she is, she completed the short course. Caroline also went round the very physical course and was so inspired she arranged to go round day 3 as well. Roo also completed two runs, Day 2 was cancelled because of advice from the police about the snowy roads.
NB you can see a larger version of the map by clicking the image.

Day 3 of The Christmas cup was fabulous (although my run was not). Beautiful deciduous woods and dense conifer technical plantation. Very low temperature but dry.

What a contrast! Day 4 of the Christmas cup. 2 short races in probably the filthiest part of Edinburgh, reminding me of Brazilian favellas for junk. At least one thoughtful local placed a bed in an alleyway so that we could have a rest.
The racing was quite fun and the forecast rain all day never materialised. 
More map images can be seen on Eddie's own FB page

Event news
The first regional event of the year is on Sunday at Potarch. This is your first chance of the year to kickstart your challenge for the 2023 main league. The details are here. 

If you think that you are probably coming to the event, and have a fair idea of which course you would like to run, please fill in the form which can be found HERE by Friday evening 6th January. Please fill out a separate form for each person coming. 

Having an idea of numbers intending to come along will help us with map ordering and car parking on the day. You just come along to registration at the event, pay for your run and pick up a dibber, if hiring one. A map will be reserved for you up until mid-day on Sunday. NB you can see a larger version of the map by clicking the image.

News from BASOC about the next Night Cup event
Entries for NNC4 at Heathfield, Grantown on Spey on Wednesday 18th January have now gone live. All details are on the BASOC website
https://www.basoc.org.uk/events/heathfield-2023-01-18
Entries close Thursday 12th January 2023 at 23:59 to allow for map printing / postal strikes etc!