Latest on the Cross country races - schools championships & McCain Challenge
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Well over 40 of the Harrier cross-country juniors have been selected to compete for their County Schools teams this coming Saturday at the South West Schools Championships to be held at Blaise Castle. A number of Harriers are riding high in the national McCain Cross Country Challenge series with Frank Tickner looking to retain his Series title from last year.
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Area Schools XC Trials & that man Frank
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The weather put paid to both the South Somerset area and the Mendip area schools trials due to be held Friday & Saturday, respectively.The Sedgemoor area trials went ahead as planned on Wednesday 16th ahead of the snow and there was some excellent running by the Harrier members taking part on behalf of their schools. In the minor girls (year 7), Victoria Prior was 7th & Lauren Cook 8th; in the junior boys (Year 8 & 9) Oliver Dickinson was 1st; in the inter boys (Years 10 & 11) Luke Prior was 1st; and for the inter girls Darcie Cook was 2nd. Well done all - all will be selected to compete for their area schools team at the forthcoming County Schools Championships. Mendip & South Somerset school athletes should contact area school team managers to be considered for their area schools team. See details about the County schools on their dedicated website at http://www.somersetschoolsathletics.org.uk/
Meanwhile one of the clubs senior internationals, Frank Tickner, is running himself back into form in an effort to once again be selected for Team GB at the World XC Champonships. Frank who has been selected 4 times for those Championships was disappointed not to get into the team selected for the recent European Championships but he had a very good race last weekend Jan 12th, running in the IAAF International at Antrim, Northern Ireland where he finished 4th behind Ayeko of Uganda , Bett of Kenya and fellow Team GB member Andy Vernon. We hope that Frank will be running for the Club at the South of England Championships on the re-arranged date of Saturday 16th February where he will come up against the defending champion and fellow Harrier, his brother Ben! Good luck to both and all the Harriers able to race on the new date..
Pearce & Maskell battle it out at Street 5k!
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The 142nd edition of the Street 5k race took place last Wednesday January 9th. Mike Pearce of Crewkerne Running Club swept to victory just ahead of the Harrier's Paul Maskell. It was a personal best for each of them. Mike's time places him 2nd nationally for the V40s over this distance so far in 2013, and follows on his excellent Budapest marathon time of 2.45 from October.
Paul's marathon training has been going really well too and this was his 2nd race in 4 days- a period which also included the hard Tuesday night session with the Harriers. For the ladies Emily Smith was first home in 18.43 with Harrier team-mate Charlotte Baker home in 19.36 - the first of the four excellent performances on the night by the fabulous Baker family.
For a full set of times and positions after 4 races see to the right. For the Series it is the best 5 results (of 6) that count. See you next month for edition number 143.
Great racing at Bicton
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There were almost 70 Harriers out racing at Bicton College, Devon in the South West Clubs and Inter-Counties Championships on Sunday Jan 6th.
Headlines were made by Isobel Glaisher winning the u17 womens race; Oliver Fox & Sam Sommerville, 2nd in the u17 men and u15 boys races; Nathan Young 3rd in the senior mens race; and by Emily Smith & Matt Dickinson who were both 4th in the u17 womens and u17 mens races respectively. For the veterans Lloyd Collins and Steve Masters were 2nd & 3rd V50s and Clive Harwood was 3rd V60..For the team the u17 men and women and the u15 girls all won team Gold, whilst the u15 boys were silver medal winners (4 to count in the junior races) and the senior men were 2nd in the Mob race (based on 12 finishers).
Well done to all that competed especially those competing for the first time for Club or County.
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Provisonal results here:
http://www.sw-athletics-academy.co.uk/directions/
New Years Day racing
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Harriers were out competing successfully at two races on New Years day; the Chard Flier 10k (race No 1 in the 2013 Somerset Series sponsored by M5 Glass) and the Weston AC Hangover 10k. Whilst Tim Hawkins triumphed at Chard; Matt Dickinson was 2nd at Weston.
At Chard, Tim's time of 37.59 was enough to finish two seconds ahead of his 2nd claim club team-mate Paul Rose. Paul Allen was next in for the Harriers in 9th, 41.43, with Clive Harwood (1st v60) in 12th with 42.02. Colin Williams was next in with 48.03 for 41st with 112 finishers in all.
At Weston, Matthew had a good run with his 2nd place being clocked at 33.28, close to his personal best set at Poole last week. Matthew was the only Harrier amongst the field of 224 finishers.
All of the Somerset Series races are as listed on the dedicated website at http://www.somersetseries.co.uk/. Next race is the Hestercombe Humdinger on Sunday Feb 3rd, followed closely by the Harrier sponsored Babcary Race (Feb 24th) & Butleigh multi-terrain race (March 17th). Entry forms for these races can be picked up off the Calendar to the left....
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