I understand the guy who won yesterday is very high level at xc...

Incidentally I was discussing yesterday’s race with a county team manager this morning.... the words used were along the lines of “inter counties fell/cross-country race, whatever you want to call it, there wasn’t much difference...”

I have no view on this as I wasn’t there yesterday, and certainly no wish to decry the efforts of the Flower Scar organisers... I believe the comment was aimed at the marking of the course (as already discussed above), rather than the quality of the course... just passing it on...