Frank Tickner swept to victory at the McCain Challenge cross-country event held as part of the Mike Sully races at Bristol's Ashton Court on Sunday Nov 13th. Older brother Ben Tickner set the early pace and finished 4th. Both were using the race as a sharpener in an effort to prepare for the TeamGB selection race to be held on Nov 26th at Liverpool.

The Liverpool XC McCain Match doubles as the trials for the European XC Championships to be held on Dec11th at Velenje, Slovenia

“I’m very pleased, this was my first competitive race back,” said Frank. “It was good to come back in what was not the strongest field it could have been, but that’s probably a good thing in the lead up to Liverpool (European Cross Trials).”

UKA report on Frank's victory:

http://www.uka.org.uk/media/news/november-2011/13-11-11-mccain-bristol-cross-challenge/

There were also some great runs by some of the Harriers Monday training group competing as part of a Mendip primary schools team: Dylan Dukes; Annelise James and Freya Cavender amongst them. See full results at http://www.runbristol.com/SearchResults.aspx

Well done all of you!

On the same day 56 Harriers of all ages were at the Gwent League XC match at Bath - see separate report