Georgie Bruinvels and Mack Downey win South of the Thames five-mile crew race

Liverpool Cross Problem wasn’t the one muddy occasion happening within the UK this week

The principle focus of the weekend was the Liverpool Cross Problem at Sefton Park. You’ll be able to 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 girls’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 regular Farthing Nook web site, right here at West Horsley Place.

The Grade I listed medieval Manor Home supplied 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 fashioned their very own affiliation, however it’s unlikely that their championship will likely be held this 12 months as no membership is at the moment eager to host the occasion.

This five-miler is the now listed as ‘Group 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 crew, 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 moderately than muddy.

Bruinvels has now received 4 particular person titles on this 5-mile ‘crew race’ and two in the principle 7.5-mile championship, which she received final 12 months.

It’s 10 years for the reason that Aldershot W35 received 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 crew title to that of their males, with Kent AC second.

Belgrave headed Kent, final 12 months’s crew winners, within the males’s race with Downey, a former junior triathlete, who switched from the Guildford membership to Belgrave, getting residence first towards 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 received this title in 2018 and has received 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 obtained the higher of crew mate Findlay Dyer within the race to the road. Kent AC took each units of minor crew 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.

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 focus 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 cushty win within the girls’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 issues about athletes travelling to the venue in Storm Bert, the occasion was postponed however an try will likely be made to re-schedule the occasion within the New 12 months.

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