Results

Laura Whittle and Katie Ingle were in action against some of the best runners in the country in Cardiff yesterday. Laura had a great run to finish second behind Charlotte Purdue in the senior women’s race. Katie Ingle continued her great form to finish sixth in the U20 women’s race. A race review is available on the British Athletics website.

The results for todays race are available on the WMYACCL website. The club finished 4th on the day and remains in 4th place overall – well done everyone!

The top performances came from Alex Stapleton who had another great run to finish 2nd in the U11 boys, whilst Georgia Curry ran superbly to finish 3rd in the U15 girls. Shaun Evans had his best run of the season to finish 7th in the U17 men’s race, whilst there were also top 10 finishes for Tamsyn Booth (U11 girls) and Lewis Duval (U13 boys).

In the team races the highlights were provided by the U11 boys who finished 2nd, whilst the U11 girls and U15 girls both finished 3rd.

There are some excellent photos taken by Marc Kirsten available on our FLICKR page – Thanks Marc!

The next match is on 9 February at Perry Park (Birchfield).

Our women’s cross country team put in their best performance of the season to win the latest Midland Women’s XC League race at Droitwich. On a muddy course (thanks Andrea for sending in a photo of the team’s muddy legs as proof!) everyone ran superbly to beat the 35 other teams including all the best clubs and Universities in the region.

As usual there was a high quality field, with the race won by 2013 ITU Triathlon World Champion Non Stanford (yes – you read that right!). Katie Ingle was not far behind, finishing in a superb 3rd place. Megan McBrien was 13th, Larna Partridge 21st, Andrea Deathridge 32nd and Amy Johnson 65th. Fantastic running by everyone!

The results are available on the Midland Counties website. Photos taken by Dave Payne are available on the Mudrunner Photography FLICKR page.

Fiona Ellis started the indoor season in record breaking form. She used her trademark lightening fast start to set a new W35 club record of 8.33. This breaks Sandra McDonald’s record of 8.40 set in 1998.

Nick Pryce and Amiyah Forrest were also in action. Nick ran 7.08 in his first outing of the season, whilst Amiyah ran a PB of 8.31. Results

The senior men put in a solid performance to finish 4th in the latest league match at Wyken Croft Park. The result moves the club up to second in the league with one match remaining. The B team again had a great day winning the B team race – the points score would have been sufficient to place them 12th out of 18 teams in the overall race. With 19 runners competing it shows the great strength in depth of the squad.

Ollie Harradence was the first runner home finishing in 6th place. Other standout performances came from Paul Davey and Tom Chew, who both recorded their best finishes for the club. The results are available on the Birmingham XC website, whilst the individual placings are below:

• A team – Ollie Harradence (6th) Nick Corker (10th), Fred Tremblay (42nd), Paul Davey (44th), Simon Corker (48th) and Rob Andrew (49th)
• B team – Tom Chew (50th), Chris Taylor (54th), Colin McAuley (69th), Steve Marklew (90th), John Fletcher (104th) and Vikram Balachandar (105th).
• C team – Russell Simpson (114th), Dave Liddall (130th), Subodh Dave (162nd), Simon Ralph (191st), Matt Stenson (194th) and Paul Jenkins (211th).

It was also Vikram’s last race for the club for some time as he moves to Brussels at the start of February. Vikram has been an important member of the XC and Athletics team over the last couple of years, travelling up from London to compete – we wish him all the best!

The next race is at Coundon Park, Coventry on 8 February. Let’s have another great turnout.