Seeing as last year's thread nearly reached double figure pages, seems the XC is still popular on here. Hope everyone is right up for another winter of mud, sweat and tears.

Relays starting in a week or two, then the first league fixture at Cheltenham.

Personally i'm just hoping for an improvement on last year, and hopefully a much improved showing at the Mids and National Champs, after injury-hampered races last year. Perhaps break the top 150 in the league fixtures in what are always fast moving and competitive races.

Team-wise, our club sponsor is offering some generous incentives to get out and compete consistently in the league fixtures, which will hopefully encourage the big guns to turn out regularly and shoot us up the rankings a bit. But in all reality, with the likes of Loughboro, Tipton, Cheltenham, Birchfield, B'ham Uni.... the top 5 positions seem pretty nailed on. We will look to perhaps challenge the likes of City Of Stoke for the top 6 places.

Have a good season everyone!