Gwent League Cross Country at Bath, by Matt & Dick
After the sun of Bridgend the Gwent league reached round 2 in wet and windy Bath. Despite being a World Heritage City the course designer had selected a field close to the University for us to run around and around, not the most interesting of courses. Still, it did provide the opportunity for a bit of celebrity athlete spotting at the Uni. Olympian Craig Pickering was the best I saw. These sprinters must be cleverer than they look, as he was indoors doing some stretching while we were out in the wind and rain.
Polly and Georgie ran well in the novice girls. Next off for Chepstow were the Wright twins, continuing to sport the Harriers colour coordinated socks. Can we get them on the club kit page? Paige unfortunatley injured her ankle, which left Darcy to lead home the harriers junior section. However, this injury didn’t stop both girls joining their mum in cheering on the rest of the harriers in the subsequent races.
Next up were the women who, despite missing injured Mrs Excuses, put in a strong team performance to please Captain Lou. Leading them home was Marianne, followed in quick succession by Lorna, Lou, Helen, Sian, Jane and Natasha. All the ladies had good runs, and seemed to enjoy themselves.
Just as the rain decided to really get going it was time for the men.
And the men’s positions were Calum 67, Mark 88, Stuart P 101, Ivan 104, Paul 117, Matt 157, John 160, Stuart A 215, Kevin 229, James 240, Mike 253, Dick 265, Geoff 276. Syd - first 70A strong line-up of 13 harrier men, which should mean good scores for both an A and B team. Perhaps most notable was the outstanding cheering from Marianne, Sian and Lou - which the announcer liked so much, he joined in and started supporting Chepstow. Kevin was particularly suprised to find himself being cheered on over the mic.
Most important of all was the post race cake challenge. Despite a strong showing at Bridgend Sians Tesco Finest Muffins were pushed into third place. Grizzled veteran Stuart Penny took the silver medal with Welsh cakes. But winner was new boy Stuart with Jaffa Cakes, always a favourite.
And thanks Eric for looking after entries and results tags.
And well done everyone with putting up the tent (and taking it down with me still inside - no change there).
Next up, Blaise Castle (Bristol) on Dec 6th, thanks Matt and Dick.
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