Off Track Distance Races
The club had a great day at the second meeting of the West Yorkshire Cross Country League that was held over a muddy and slippery course at Guiseley. Across the 10 races the club had 42 runners taking part and had 5 individual winners and 4 wins in the team events.
Senior Men – 1st team – GB triathlete Sam Dickinson made a rare appearance for the club to win the race, Sam pulled away from Joe O’Brien, who came 3rd, halfway round the last lap. Alex Dickinson (11th) finished one place ahead of tim Strtton in 12th whilst Tommy Shaw (23rd) just held off James Tucker in 26th. Steve Asquith (31st), Mark Cage (32nd), Ben Thompson (46th), Ed Mezzetti (80th) and Mike Raynes (116th) also ran.
Senior Women – 6th team – Izzi O’Brien was first home from the club in 12th place which was also the 2nd junior runner to finish. Angharad Pryce made her debut for the club in 29th place. Therese Jansson came 48th, Alex Tetley made a very unusual discipline change from Javelin throwing to cross country running to come 51st, Katie Brennan made her debut in the senior race to come 54th with Karen Wood coming 62nd.
Under 17 Men – 1st team – Lucas Stabler in 3rd and Ed Brown in 4th led the club home with Luis How completing the team in 11th place.
Under 17 Women – Clementine Tighe was the only runner from the club to take part in this race as she came 16th.
Under 15 Boys – 1st team – Isaac Stabler won the race with Isaac Bastow (3rd) edging out William Keens (5th) in the sprint finish. Josh Sandwell (12th) and Miles Watson (24th) also ran.
Under 15 Girls – 1st team – Lottie Langan won the race with a commanding last lap with Katarina Savkovic coming 6th. The club had a good turn out in this race with Kaitlin Keens (15th), Ellie Johnson (16th), Martha Sigsworth (18th), Katie-Ann Vatga (22nd), Georgia Bell (29th) and Anna Proctor (33rd) also running.
Under 13 Boys – Daniel Campbell won the race comfortably. Connal Cairns came 13th but the lack of a third runner meant that the club didn’t finish a team in this age group.
Under 13 Girls – 2nd team – Lucy Gilbertson (5th), Nina Hopkins (8th) and Isabel Madden (9th) all packed well but were beaten into 2nd place in the team race by Wakefield. Kate Setchell (15th) and Annabelle Coxon (18th) also ran.
Under 11 Boys – Ollie Wright was a convincing winner of the race in his first run in the league.
The club had 8 runners doing parkrun this weekend with Jessica Robertson-Dover coming 1st at Heslington in 20.34. Nick Elliott was the fastest male parkrunners from the club with 19.31 also at Heslington.