The Three Towers is over for 2012

14 April started our with a light drizzle but soon dried up to provide ideal walking conditions, not too hot, not too cold. At 07:30 prompt Classic teams began their epic adventure from Purley, while Scouts began walking from Pangbourne. Within a few hours there were 400 competitors out hiking!

Inevitably there were a few retirements and some slow teams that had to pull out, but overall the rates of completion in all five categories was very high.

This year's one-oiff Jubilee class proved to be popular amoung lesser experienced walkers and could prove to be the grounds for something new next year. The ScoutPlus and Scout sections were positively bursting, particular with the new permitted 4-in-a-team rule. And in the Explorer and Classic events, numbers were well up on 2011 too!

Congraturaltions to all competitors and particularly those who managed to finish their own event. Full results listings are now available.

Winners

Classic

The 70km event was won by Callum, Ben and Aaron from 63rd Reading / Aber Anon Network in 10 hours 25 minutes (averaging 6¾kph).

Explorer

The 45km event was won by Jess, Matt and Lukas from Wokingham Explorers in 8 hours 47 minutes.

Jubilee

The one-off 20km event was won by David, Mark and Graham from 5th Woodley in 2 hours 43 minutes.

ScoutPlus

The 40km event was won by Amber, Dan and Ben from 1st Finchampstead in 6 hours 8 minutes.

Scout

The 25km event was won by Sam, Jake and Rory from 1st Finchampstead in 4 hours 33 minutes, beating the current course record by 3 minutes.