A true mix of events this week with Met League, Valencia marathon and opening Indoor Open all taking part, The Met league saw Rebecca Bunting 2nd in her first XC after injury, Sam Macaulay was the fastest Heathsider in Valencia and the first open meeting of the year at lee valley saw 4 new club records set.
This week features Championship athletics from Horsenden Hills with Charlie Nicolson finishing 2nd in the U15Boys Inter-counties. Others took part in the Masters XC. There was also Road racing form Florence and Indoor athletics. Elsewhere there was good representation at the Hatfield 5. In Battersea Rebecca Piggott was 1st woman in the British Masters 5Km while James Hurrell was 4th in the men’s race.
Cross Country at Trent Park was to the fore this week, where Peter Gould finished first Chingford League runner ( taking 2nd in the Fraternity Cup ), while the Men’s and Women’s teams took 1st and 2nd places respectively in the Div 2 team competition ; there was also the 3rd NWLL meeting of the season for our junior athletes, featuring individual wins for Lettice Gundry and Dylan Mills
Thanks to SAL Team Captains Lily Woolcock and Richard Macaulay for judging and making the following awards top recognise some of the fantastic Track and Field performances for the Club in the Southern Athletics League this season.