That is a shame Travs!
Now for my take on the XC .. I LOVE IT! What is not to love about the XC. I'm XC coordinator for the men and women teams in our Club and I have been told that I'm rather "over excitable and annoyingly over enthusiastic!" I took this as a compliment. I loved it at school and would get home, get me shorts on and straight out over the fields as soon as I got in while mum cooked tea.
A big change is when I raced as a youngster the field was following my butt ... Now, I'm following everyone else butt haha.
However, there is no change 40yrs later of how much I love the XC. The noise of the field, the mass of Club tents, the amazing Team camaraderie. We are affiliated to North Staff League and the Manchester League and ours has already started.
Yayyyyyy, let the fun carry on :-)