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AGC JOURNAL 2016

Tommy Harper and Andy Snell had their
best results of the week coming 3rd and
4th respectively in their categories.

Graig Fawr and Margam
Country Park

Graig Fawr is a beautiful wooded slope,
steep in places with scattered rock and
contour detail. Margam Park is a fast
open area with mixed vegetation detail
In our internal mini competition, a pattern including scattered rhododendron clumps.
was emerging with both the male and The views were amazing, apart from
female ‘final leg sprints’ with Tommy when I was pulling myself out from boggy
Harper and Surya Limbu battling it out for marshes. The results from this event
the males and Rowena Griffiths and Lisa would give us our overall placing for the
Welsh in close competition for the females. week and was the culmination of all our

Rest Day

After three days of tough competition,
there was a planned and well-deserved rest
day. Limbu and Lisa Welsh faired best, but
all of the novices showed noticeable
Mynydd Llangynidr improvements and progressed in leaps
and bounds throughout the week.
Mynydd Llangynidr consists of open
limestone uplands lying between 420 My Thoughts
metres and 550 metres above sea level
featuring numerous depressions, sinkholes What an amazing week I had with the
and pits. Drizzle and mist descended encouragement and training given by
making visibility really poor and we were hard running and navigating. Lyndsey the rest of the team being faultless. Do
unable to see the ground around us for Jones, Karen Baker and Tommy Harper all not be put off by thoughts of getting
more than 5 metres in front of us at some had a top five placing in their category, lost, as there is so much experience
points. With no trees or tracks to follow, with Andy Snell placed eighth in his within the team and they made all the
navigation by bearings was key today and category. Of the novices, Miles Cuff, Surya novices feel welcome and relaxed.
I had to count the number of sinkholes
and depressions to the next checkpoint
being cautious to make sure I navigated
to the right ‘hole in the ground’ as there
were so many of them. In the internal
competition, the novice course had a
particularly short ‘random leg’ today with
Lisa Welsh taking the winning point in an

impressive 59 seconds, whilst in the ‘final
leg sprint’, Mark Robson was leading a late
challenge matching Surya Limbu’s time.
Meanwhile in the proper competition, both

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