Competition

Goodwood cross country relays

U13 boys

4 City of Portsmouth Cameron Walker-Powell 10:57 Josh Fawcett 10:42 Seamus Morrison 10:25 32;00

U13 girls.

4	City of Portsmouth A	Natalia Smith	11:28	Ellie O'Neill	11:25	Olivia East	11:38	34;31
5	City of Portsmouth B	Isabele Brydon	11:18	Sophie Newsome	11:49	Hattie Locke	11:53	35;00
15	City of Portsmouth c	Brooke Edyvane	14:30	Milly Laing	12:51	Jess Smith	13:57	41;18

U15 boys

9 City of Ports A (non Sx) Callum Crook 09:56 Josh Goldfinch 09:55 Ben Cross 11:16 31;07

City of Ports B Alex Cresswell 11:36 Matthew Thomas 11:01

U15girls

3 City of Ports (non Sx) Charlotte Bullard 10:53 Mia Billins 11:10 Bo Sansom 11:19 33;22

City of Portsmouth Matilda Atkins 10:51

U17 women

City of Portsmouth Eleanor Perdue U17 16:30 Katie Simister U17 17:15

U17 men

2 City of Ports (nonSx) Harry Moore U17 14:39 Steven Cross U17 13:26 Jacob O'Hara U17 12:54 40;59

Sen men

8 City of Portsmouth Adam O'Hara SM 14:22 Mark Ferguson SM 16:08 Shaun Newton SM 14:08 Nialls Davies SM 14:28 59;26

 

As the Goodwood relays are not high priority for the club it was good to see so many scratch teams competing for the club, the fact that two u15 girls and u17 men won team medals is a bonus.

 

NationalRoad Relays.

All legs 3.88km

U17men

34 13:01 Steven Cross U17 M City of Portsmouth

8 12:23 Jacob O'Hara U17 M City of Portsmouth

33 13:47 Adam Kimber U17 M City of Portsmouth

U13 boys

28 14:29 C Walkerpowell U13 M Portsmouth

52 16:49 Moore Logan U13 M Portsmouth

U17 women

32 15:53 Anya Pigden U17 W City of Portsmouth 37 16:21 Elizabeth Rose U17 W City of Portsmouth

16 15:08 Elizabeth Hedley U17 W City of Portsmouth

20 15:52 Eleanor Purdue U17 W City of Portsmouth

U15 girls

17 Saffron Moore CityOfPor A 14:41/ 52 Charlotte Bullard CityOfPor B 15:57/ 68 Hannah Newton CityOfPor C 16:53/ 79 Penelope Batty CityOfPor D 17:41

5 (fastest 2nd leg)Nicole Ainsworth CityOfPor A 14:25/ 43 Mia Billins CityOfPor B 15:47/ 47 Matilda Atkins CityOfPor C 15:17

5 (7th fastest 3rd leg)Olivia Wiseman CityOfPor A 14:26/ 35 Bo Sansom CityOfPor B 15:39/ 54 Phoebe Carlile CityOfPor C 19:14

U15 boys

44 Callum Crook CityOfPort A 14:14/ 60 Ben Cross CityOfPort B 16:19

27 Joshua Goldfinch CityOfPort A 13:49

36 Matthew Thomas CityOfPort A 15:31

U13 girls

20 15:31 East Olivia U13 W City Of Por / 31 15:54 Natalya Smith U13 W City of Portsmouth/60 17:45 Jemima Batty U13 W City of Portsmouth

9 15:40 Eloise O'Neill U13 W City of Portsmouth/ 29 16:23 Locke Hattie U13 W City Of Por/65 19:10 Digby Bella U13 W City Of Por

12 15:53 Isabelle Brydon U13 W City of Portsmouth/ 34 16:50 Sophie Newsom U13 W City of Portsmouth

As expected our u15 girls were the star performers finishing in 5th place. It is a mark of how high the girls expectations are in that they were disappointed with this result, given that two of the three girls will be in the same age group next year I think this was an excellent result.

Our u13 girls in finishing 12th also showed tremendous potential the vast majority of the team are bottom year athletes, and some are running faster than some of our better u15 girls.

As has been the pattern over the years at this younger age group the girls are more numerous than boys and more willing to compete. We had a number of late withdrawals through illness and these were predominantly boys.

 

A note on the SEAA road relays.

Compared with the AFD organised events of previous years this was verging on the chaotic, there were no change over pens and given that it was a motor racing circuit the changeover point was hemmed in by crash barriers so athletes had to press up against the barriers until number called needless to say there were missed calls, crashes and officials getting in the way. Initially the athletes were asked to ‘tag’ one another at the changeover, this was quickly abandoned after several crashes.

There was no results service, so individual times were not available.

The toilet arrangements also need addressing, they were perhaps a quarter mile from the start line, and of course there were not enough with the inevitable long ques.

It was an extremely open course and the wind was a serious factor especially for the smaller, lighter runners. By way of example our u13 girls were only placed 23rd in the SEAA race compared with 12th in the Nationals.

Our major success was in Lachlan Wellington achieving fastest u17 runner. The u17 mns team were also our best place team, 5th.

We had no senior teams.

 

Wessex cross country league.

As usual this league offers the opportunity for athletes to participate in a relatively low key event, but with reasonable competition. It was until recently the only chance our u11s had to run cross country. The Hampshire League now has u11s at discretion of host club. The first match was on 11th October, the day after the nationals so was not expecting great numbers to attend, in all there were 7 competitors from the club. The best place being Callum Crook 2nd in u15boys.