Liverpool Cross Problem wasn’t the one muddy occasion going down within the UK this week
The primary focus of the weekend was the Liverpool Cross Problem at Sefton Park. You possibly can meet up with our protection of that assembly right here, the place winners included Kate Axford, Tomer Tarragano, Innes FitzGerald and Henry Dover.
Elsewhere, there have been a number of occasions throughout the UK regardless of Storm Bert inflicting troublesome situations for organisers.
SOUTH OF THE THAMES CROSS-COUNTRY ASSOCIATION 5-MILE TEAM RACE, West Horsley, Surrey, November 23
Belgrave Harriers dominated the boys’s race with their Mack Downey main a membership one-two-three as former a number of champion Phil Wicks took second and Georgie Bruinvels notched up her sixth ladies’s victory within the Affiliation’s occasions.
Hosts Guildford & Godalming discovered a brand new course for residence fixtures simply 10 minutes down the A25 from their as soon as normal Farthing Nook website, right here at West Horsley Place.
The Grade I listed medieval Manor Home offered a becoming again drop for the golf equipment competing, as their affiliation dates again to the inauguration of the 2 occasions placed on by the South of the Thames, in 1888.
Golf equipment north of the Thames tried to affix however have been rebuffed and so shaped their very own affiliation, however it’s unlikely that their championship can be held this yr as no membership is at the moment eager to host the occasion.
This five-miler is the now listed as ‘Workforce Race’ and was initially entitled the ‘Junior’ race and had barring clauses for higher runners who have been disqualified in the event that they, or their staff, handed sure standards in different championship occasions. Since 2004 the occasion is open to runners from all golf equipment headquartered south of the River Thames.
Heavy rain and gusty winds from Storm Bert have been promised for the runners and so it proved and the going was slippery quite than muddy.
Bruinvels has now gained 4 particular person titles on this 5-mile ‘staff race’ and two in the principle 7.5-mile championship, which she gained final yr.
It’s 10 years for the reason that Aldershot W35 gained her first title on this occasion, with additional victories in 2017 and 2022.
Right here a gold medal was once more comparatively simply obtained with victory over Belgrave’s Emily Bradley by simply over a minute and it was they who added the ladies’s staff title to that of their males, with Kent AC second.
Mack Downey leads Belgrave to victory (Mike Boucher)
Belgrave headed Kent, final yr’s staff winners, within the males’s race with Downey, a former junior triathlete, who switched from the Guildford membership to Belgrave, getting residence first in opposition to a number of former winner Phil Wicks.
The three Belgrave males ran collectively for many of the race till Downey made his break 300 metres from the road.
Now an M40 and after overcoming critical knee issues, Wicks gained this title in 2018 and has gained 5 South of the Thames titles since his first in 2007. His final main success nationally was when putting third within the 2012 inter-Counties.
Right here Wicks simply acquired the higher of staff mate Findlay Dyer within the race to the road. Kent AC took each units of minor staff medals and simply headed Belgrave within the eight-to-score contest.
In a reference to the occasion’s earlier ‘junior’ credentials, a medal was awarded to the primary under-20 residence and that was Aldershot’s Dylan Clarke.
Dylan Clarke (Mike Boucher)
General: 1 M Downey (Belg) 26:33; 2 P Wicks (Belg, M40) 26:36; 3 F Dyer (Belg) 26:37; 4 O Hind (Kent) 26:47; 5 C Dockerill (Kent) 26:57; 6 F Delgago (Kent) 27:28; 7 S Somerville (Belg) 27:36; 8 B Babaker (Camb H) 27:48; 9 T Foster (G&G) 27:54; 10 M Velocity (Kent) 28:12
M45: 1 A Harris (Kent) 29:38
M50: 1 N Terle (G&G) 31:52
M55: 1 T Sales space (G&G) 29:51
M60: 1 I Acreman (G&G) 32:06; 2 M Tennyson (G&G) 32;27
M65: 1 S Bean (E&E) 35:19; 2 S Smythe (Dulw R) 38;38
M70: 1 H Balfour (Dulw R) 40:22; 2 A Catton (Ilf, gst) 41;15
M75: 1 M Mann (Dulw R) 42:38; 2 G Newton (B’mth) 44;10
U20: 1 D Clarke (AFD) 29:01
TEAM (4 to attain): 1 Belgrave 13; 2 Kent 25; 3 Kent B 65; 4 Belgrave B 80; 5 Guildford & Godalming 90; 6 Cambridge H 93
TEAM (8 to attain): 1 Kent 90; 2 Belgrave 93; 3 Guildford & G 322
Ladies: 1 G Bruinvels (AFD, W35) 30:21; 2 E Bradley (Belg) 31:25; 2 E Robbins (Belg) 32:02; 4 A Aherne (Kent) 32:27; 5 H Preedy (AFD) 32:47; 6 E Harrison &G&G) 32:59
W40: 1 V Cartwright (Kent) 34:03
W45: 1 M James (S Lon) 33:35
W55: 1 S McDonald (S Lon) 35:10; 2 R Hutton (S Lon) 37:13
W60: 1 S Harrison (G&G) 38:03; 2 A Norris (Dulw R) 39:10
W65: 1 P Iannella (S Lon) 40:23
W70: 1 M Statham-Berry (Ling) 42;30
TEAM (4 to attain): 1 Belgrave 23; 2 Kent 43; 3 G&G 73; 4 S London 80; 5 Dulwich R 107; 6 Dorking & Mole V 123
KENT LEAGUE, Swanley, November 23
The senior males gave this occasion a miss this time so the main target was on the ladies and youthful athletes though vets over-70 did get an opportunity to race and John Tolhurst led them residence.
Chloe Sharp had a snug win within the ladies’s race and got here residence 50 seconds to the nice of Blackheath & Bromley team-mate Millie Smith. It was the Blackheath & Bromley runner’s third Kent league victory of the autumn.
M70 Males: 1 J Tolhurst (Padd W) 26:34; 2 A Newman (Ton) 27:30; 3 S Briggs (Orp) 28:47
U20 Males: 1 H Kelk (Inv EK, U17) 27:07; 2 O Buck (Camb H, U17) 17:13; 3 F Shepherd (M&M) 17:17
U17: 3 W Batchelor (Ton) 17;30
U20 TEAM: 1 Blackheath & Bromley 18
U17 TEAM: 1 Tonbridge 12
U15: 1 J Shaw (B&B) 14:48; 2 C Warren (Ton) 14:50; 3 D Horgan (B&B) 14:57
TEAM: 1 Blackheath & Bromley 8
U13: 1 G Bowers (Padd W) 11:09; 2 E Aldridge &B&B) 11:12; 3 J Dinage (Weald Tri) 11:02
TEAM: 1 Tonbridge 25
Ladies (5M approx): 1 C Sharp (B&B) 30:56; 2 M Smith (B&B) 31;46; 3 E Nash (Tun W) 32:49; 4 A Seager (Inv EK) 32:57; 5 A Karlson (Tun W) 33:08
W45: 1 J Butler (B&B) 34:04
W55: 1 T Taylor (Tun W) 37:28
TEAM: 1 Blackheath & Bromley 9
W65 (4M approx): 1 J Lenton (Orp) 26:31; 2 M Bradshaw (Tun W) 26:49
U20: 1 H Diprose (S’oaks, U17) 20:28; 2 E Tynan (Camb H, U17) 20:41; 3 N Mossi (B&B, U17) 20:58
TEAM: 1 Blackheath & Bromley 17
U17 TEAM: 1 Blackheath & Bromley 17
U15: 1 S Richmond (Weald Tri) 15:48; 2 A McDonough (B&B) 16:34; 3 S Mossi (B&B) 16:41
TEAM: 1 Blackheath & Bromley 9
U13: 1 C Foster (Camb H) 11:53; 2 T Thomas (Dart) 12:07; 3 I Jenkins (B&B) 12:42
TEAM: 1 Cambridge H 13
START FITNESS NORTH EAST HARRIER LEAGUE, Eltringham Farm, November 23
As a result of considerations about athletes travelling to the venue in Storm Bert, the occasion was postponed however an try can be made to re-schedule the occasion within the New Yr.
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