Cross Country, Trail and Road Racing
Beth Lewis was in the intermediate relay on the fourth and final leg at the Schools International in Scotland. When she set off England had a five second lead over Scotland with Ireland just behind in third. The Scottish runner narrowed the gap to two seconds by the half way mark but Beth put her head down and extended the lead making it a comfortable win in the end for England. Unfortunately, the first and second leg runners for England were deemed to have not touched hands on their changeover so the team got disqualified. It was a great experience for her though.
Three younger juniors ran in the big open race for their age group at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire which attracted entries from all over the country. Harriet Brown was 49th in the Year 7 race. In the Year 6 race Scarlet Bycroft was 34th and Harper Newcombe 46th, out of 180.
Chrissie Dover finished 2nd in her age group (and 94th overall out of 1100 runners) in a time of 1.32.03 in the Forest of Dean Trail Half Marathon, which was the trial race for the England Masters team, and has qualified to represent England in a race later this year.
Simon Bolland-cage ran 1.10.36 in the Wilmslow Half Marathon.
Indoor Track and Field
In the last meeting of the Sheffield series, Esme Lee and Florence Meek finished 1st and 2nd in the 200m, and 1st and 6th in the 150m from an entry of 35. Jaxon Marshall was 6th in the 150m. Agnes Michelon was 5th in the 300m, her first race at the distance. Jaxson Forshaw was 3rd in the 150m and 5th in the long jump. Jaxon Marshall finished 3rd in the Under 13 Boys table in the South Yorkshire Indoor series at Sheffield over the winter.
Daniel Cluderay and Lily Johnson competed in the Wakefield Indoor, and both won their age group over the series.
Parkrun
24 runners from the club did parkrun on Saturday. Hannah Lovett (19.36), Lydia Scott (20.25) and Imogen Brown (20.34) got the first three female places at Heslington. There were 2nd places for Isla Watson (23.28) and Jack Ford (18.44) both at New Earswick, Ewan Robertson (17.28 at Selby), Wilson Moisey-Smith (19.37 at Dalby Forest) and Lucy Davey (21.11 at Roundhay). Ed Brown came 3rd at Milton Keynes in 17.11. There were junior age group wins for George Ghosh, Rosie Davis, Amy Kennedy and Cara Berry with veteran age group wins for Steve Wright and Mike Raynes. Noah Stipetic and Josh Reid were 1st and 3rd in the York Junior Parkrun.