South of England Road Relays

Aldershot Saturday & Sunday Sept 27^th & 28^th 2008

(First report)

Well done to all the athletes that competed at the weekend at these prestigious Championships.

Once again teams were drawn from across the region to the Rushmoor arena in Aldershot. The Arena is a former military parade ground and provided for excellent races on a traffic free circuit. Teams had travelled from as far as Norfolk and Cornwall for the races with Saturday seeing the senior and veteran men’s races and the Sunday seeing the juniors and women’s races.

Wells City Harriers, combined with athletes from Yeovil Olympiads, had teams entered in 12 different age groups, and finished complete teams in 9 of them. Completed team positions:

Senior Men 12th (A team) & 61^st (B team)

V40 Men 17^th

V50 Men 9^th

U13 girls 14^th

U13 boys 12th

U15 girls 36^th (A team) & 46^th (B team)

U15 boys 20^th

This is an excellent set of results and all individuals that ran performed to the best of their ability. The next fuller report will have more information on individual times and how the teams fared and will be posted later in the week. Also look out for the photos that will appear in the Rogues Gallery over the next few days.

Many thanks to team managers and parents that supported.

Next Team competition will be the Gwent XC League match at Bridgend on Sunday Oct 12^th . Contact Paul if you can run. chair@wellscityharriers.org.uk