Current series leader Steve Dawes tackles the Fauxquets Valley course last year. (Picture by Tony Rive, 0512332)

THE GIAAC OSA Recruitment Winter Cross-country League takes to Fauxquets Valley tomorrow for the third race of its five-strong series.

‘We’ve been amazed at the turnout for this year’s series.  Obviously we hoped to capture the interest of the leading local runners, but it is also great to see competitors from other sports or people just turning out for fun,’ said organiser Paul Ingrouille.

The Fauxquets Valley course has built up a reputation as being a bit of a tough one, but that is something Ingrouille questions.

‘There is no way you could claim it to be an easy course, but it certainly presents an easier challenge than our cliff-path events or, for that matter, the old Havilland Hall course which, to some extent, it has replaced,’ he said.