Category: Race reports

Well done to Pete Parker who was the M55-59 age group winner in the Not the Roman Nine race.  He ran the 12km course in a time of 45.01.  Other Royal Sutton runners were Ali Evetts, Stephen Sutton, Sarah Smewin and Bunny Kyd.  Results are available here

Nicholas Pryce, Adam Barnes, Charmaine Riley and Georgia Dodd were all in action at the High Performance Centre on Saturday and Sunday.  Results are available here

The results (provisional) are now available for today’s race:

Bham XC Div 1 – Individual Results – 14.1.12

Bham XC Div 1 Team Results – 14.1.12

We finished 13th on the day but are now in 14th place in the league (140 points behind Stoke and 145 points behind OWLs).  There was a good turnout and some great individual performances.  Well done in particular to Colin McAuley who scored for the “A” team for the first time and Kevin Sharkey who had a great run on his debut.  Race photos are available on Nick Price’s flickr site here.

Many thanks to Megan who sacrificed her Saturday afternoon to perform marshalling duties.

Great results in all age groups at the Warwickshire County Championships yesterday.  In particular congratulations to Katie Ingle who won the U17 women’s title and to the U17 women’s team who dominated their age group with the first two teams home.  Well done to Megan McBrien (3th), Rebecca Robinson (4th), Gabrielle Kinney (5th), Rachel Smith (11th), Nicole Parsons (15th) and Miranda Stoddart (16th).

Other medal winners were:

• Laura Richardson – 2nd in the U13 girl’s race
• Amy Johnson – 2nd in the U20 women’s race
• Elemena Saunders – 3rd in the U15 girl’s race
• U13 girl’s team – 2nd place for Laura Richardson (2nd), Grace Stirland (14th) and Jessica Tarr (16th)
• U15 boy’s team – 2nd place for Alfie McBrien (5th), Shaun Evans (6th) and Jerome Austin (15th)
• U15 girl’s team – 3rd place for Elemena Saunders (3rd), Molly Rees (12th) and Elizabeth Ward (14th).

Well done also to Andrea Deathridge who had a great 4th place finish on her club debut in the Masters women’s event and to the U13 boy’s team (Keiran Mullis, Joel Kirsten and Ben Horton) who had a 5th place finish.

The Masters Men’s team finished just outside the medals in 4th place and the Senior Men finished 7th.  More importantly,  the Masters Men beat (trounced) the Senior Men for the second year running on points scored – bragging rights earned for another year!

The full results are available here:  Warks XC results – 2012

Photos are available to view here

The Staffs XC results are now available: Staffs XC results – 2012

Well done to Gemma Gilbert who finished 6th in the U17 women’s race and Lizzie Farrow who finished 6th in the U20 women’s race.

Photos are now available on Bryan Dale’s site here

Six runners were in action at the Wheaton Aston 10k: 

Dave Liddall (39.43), Ian Gilbert (41.18), Richard Cashmore (51.22), Tamara Savage (54.48), Sarah Smewin (1.00.45) and Bunny Kyd (1.04.22).

Results are available here and photos (like the one shown) are available on Bryan Dale’s website here.

Results are now available for race at Hatton Country Park on Sunday.  Click here.  After 3 races we are in third place behind Birchfield and Rugby and Northampton.  There were top 10 finishes for a number of athletes:

• U11 girls – Melissa Adkins (7th), Ellen Humpherson (9th)   
• U13 girls – Laura Richardson (2nd)
• U15 girls – Elemena Saunders (3rd)
• U17 women – Katie Ingle (1st), Megan McBrien (2nd)
• U11 boys – Ben Horton (8th)
• U15 boys – Alfie McBrien (10th)

Well done to everyone who took part.  The next race is on 22 January at Nuneaton.

A number of athletes were out on the roads this weekend.  Clive Sayer (1:12:12), Roy Humpherson (1:14:15) and Richard Cashmore (1:23:11) were the M65 team winners at the MMAC 10 mile race, which was run as part of the Sneyd 10.  Well done gents!  Other runners at Sneyd were Nick Corker (56:42), Dave Long (1:00:00), Chris Taylor (1:01:04), Ali Evetts (1:26:07), Sarah Smewin (1:40:52) and Bunny Kyd (1:47:48).  The MMAC 10 mile results are available here and the Sneyd 10 results are available here

Russell Simpson ran in the Keyworth Turkey Trot Half Marathon and came 36th in a time of 1:24:43.

First the good news – both the A and B teams scored less than the first fixture (586 and 934 compared to 588 and 1022).  Now the bad – OWLS had a much better day and scored 345 points.  Overall the team is in 13th place (one above the relegation zone) but is only 7 points ahead of OWLS.  Individual positions were as follows:

1st six scorers: 40th – Ollie Haradence; 69th – Nick Corker; 111th Paul Terleski; 119th – Simon Corker; 123rd – Fred Tremblay; 124th – Russell Simpson

Remaining scorers: 129th Chris Taylor; 140th – Dave Long; 155th – Colin Mcauley; 158th – John Fletcher; 165th – Tony Hinchley; 187th – Dave Bowen; 203rd – Clive Hackforth; 216th – Ian Gilbert; 231st – Matthew Lumley

The full results are available here.

Photos taken by Nick Price are available here.

The next league fixture is on 14 January at Coundon Park, Coventry on a flat and fast course.  Let’s make sure we get a strong team out!

Katie Ingle, Megan McBrien and Rebecca Robinson (U17 women) competed at the McCain Liverpool Cross Challenge at the weekend.  They put in excellent performances with summary results as follows:

11^th – Katie Ingle

17^th – Megan McBrien

27^th – Rebecca Robinson

Full results and race reports available here.