Results

Well done to our senior XC team who won promotion back to Division 1 following a fantastic win in the final match of the season at Gloucester today. We packed our 6 1st team scorers into the top 39 places with Shaun Evans winning his second race of the season, Ollie Haradence 10th, Nick Corker 11th, Tom Chew 12th, Jerome Austin 28th and Dave Long 39th. Our other six runners battled manfully in tough conditions meaning the B team finished 3rd – well done Simon Corker, Fred Tremblay, Steve Marklew, Paul Terleski, Steve Semple and Matt Powell. This means that overall we finished in 2nd place for the season behind Cannock & Staffs. Well done to everyone who has competed this season. Special mention to 4 runners who have been the core of the team:

• Shaun Evans, who won the last two races and was the joint top individual runner for the season and top junior.
• Ollie Haradence, who was in the top 10 for the season.
• Tom Chew, who has improved every race and finished in a best ever 12th position today.
• Jerome Austin, who was the 3rd placed junior for the season.

Thanks to our supporters who braved the cold and wet yesterday and to Phil Pollock for doing our officiating duties. Full results are available here: RESULTS

Get training everyone – it’s tough in Division 1!

There were some great performances at the Midland Championship at the weekend. Here’s Margaret’s report:

“The Midland Championships were held at a new venue, Prestwold Hall, Leicestershire, on Saturday. On a deceptively tough course, Royal Sutton Coldfield AC was well represented and there were some exciting performances.

In form Shaun Evans, had the best result of the day in the Under 20 men’s event. Always in contention he tracked the leaders until half way and ran on strongly to be rewarded with a bronze medal. He was also celebrating selection to race for Midland Counties in the Home Countries International which will be staged in Falkirk in March. Jerome Austin battled well in 26th place.

The club’s sole representative in the Under 17 women’s race, Georgia Curry, had a great championships crossing the finish in 7th position.

The Under 17 men packed well with Alex Jones impressing in 14th, Alex Blackham ran a determined race in 33rd and Tom Parkes completed the scoring with a strong run in 46th.

Under 15 Ellen Humpherston put in a mature performance to finish in 17th in her event.

The senior women put in a strong team performance to finish 7^th overall, with Andrea Deathridge 32^nd, Mel Woodward 40^th, Lizzie Wignall 53^rd and Rachel Thebridge 108^th. For the senior men the first runner home for the club was Tom Chew in 60^th place.”

RESULTS

Our Senior men’s and women’s teams were out competing at Crypt School in Gloucester last Saturday.

Roy Humperson reporting on the women race:

Katie Ingle in 31st place, her 1st race for close to a year, great return Katie..
Helen Elsoueidi in 137th as reliable  as ever in her 1st season with the club.
Rachel Thebridge 172nd her 1st ever XC race in her life !
Emily Campion 175th her 2nd great run for the XC team.

There were 281 finishers
So thanks to those that ran a great effort, the next league race is February 13th  at Wolverhampton, so lets make sure we have a team out for this local race.

Results of the ladies race will be posted here soon.

RSCAC Men made a hard push for promotion, in the penultimate race of the season, by achieving 2nd place on the day, at Gloucester on Saturday.

With the recent onslaught of rain and with temperatures getting close to freezing levels, the course was always going to be very challenging for all participants, although it was shorter and flatter than in previous races.

The team managed to place 3 runners in the top 20 for the first time this season.

Shaun Evans gained victory for the first time in the Senior Men’s league, following on from his win at the U20M Cross Country County Championships last week.

Ollie Harradence finished strongly in 9th, and Tom Chew a great 17th. Both also sit in the Top 20 scorers overall in the league after 3 races.

Closing the march for “Team A” was the always improving Jerome Austin (36), Dave Long (59) and Steve Marklew (82).

All other runners managed to get vital points over our closest rivals, with Simon Corker (110), Chris Taylor returning to good form (119), Jon Higgins (129), Paul Terleski (135), Russell Simpson in a sliding performance (141), Fred Tremblay (144), Steve Semple (155), John Fletcher (177), Simon Hall (190), Matthew Powel  (200), Paul Jenkins (203), Matthew Stenson (205), John Alcock (219).

All results from the race are here.

The team now stands in 4th place after 3 races, 39 points away from 3rd spot synonymous with promotion.

 

For the men’s team, the last race is at the same location on the 13th Feb, and promises to be a great fight.

Nicholas Pryce has had a great start to the year comfortably winning the 400m at the Midland Championships in a time of 50.12. Well done Nicholas!!!