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A strong turnout from the club saw Chiltern Harriers have great success at the Buckinghamshire Cross Country Championships at a chilly and windy RAF Halton on Saturday.
The senior men won the team race for the first time, the women's vets team were victorious, the Under 13 boys won their event and there was an individual win for Alex Watson in the Under 15 boys race.
There were 20 Harriers in the Senior and Veteran men's race, running over a tough, undulating four lap 12K course around the sports fields at RAF Halton. With six to count, Chiltern packed well with Tom Beedell third (42.19), Matt Bennett fifth (43.31), Eddie O'Gorman sixth (43.51), Derek Brown tenth (44.38), Stuart Ellerby eleventh (45.15) and Kingsley Nanton twelfth (45.25). Fabian Downs also ran well to be thirteenth in 45.43.
It was pleasing for the club to see several of the team having come up through the junior ranks in the past ten years.
Race winner, running for RAF AC, was David Cole in a time of 41.13.
This gave Chiltern 47 points, clear winners from Milton Keynes with 63, and Vale of Aylesbury with 128.
The men's vets team were a creditable second behind Vale of Aylesbury with Derek Brown (third Vet 40 medal winner), Paul Manners (27th in 48.31), Michael Turney (32nd in 49.36), and Tony Richardson (35th in 49.54) being Chiltern's counters. In the shorter 6K race for Vet 60 runners Phil Roberts was second in 31.34.
The Senior women, running over a two lap 6K course, were third but the strong veteran's team won out with Sandra Reynolds (fifth in 25.55), Judith Orr (thirteenth in 28.09), and Cath Holloway (fourteenth in 28.23) counting. Sandra was first Vet 35, Judith third Vet 35, and Kate Loach (29.19) and Barbara Ralph (29.35) were second and third respectively in the Vet 45 category. Laura Butt was seventh lady overall in 26.20. Winner of the women's race was Aylesbury's Phillippa Prescott in 25.06.
There were also good performances in the younger age groups with the Under 13 boys continuing their successful winter. The winning team comprised Michael Goddard (second in 11.57), Dan Barraclough (third in 12.00), Jack Dutton (fifth in 12.17) and youngest team member Andrew Stenning running very well to be sixth in 12.36.
Alex Watson was the individual winner of the 4.5K boys Under 15 race in 17.21 with Dan Loach in fifth in 19.33, and Alan Stewart was ninth in the 6K Under 17 men's race in 24.43. The Under 13 girls did creditably to finish as third team with Ellie Jones eighth in 14.35, Emma Barraclough twelfth in 15.05 and Jemma Wenman fourteenth in 15.23.
Full results on Bucks AA Website