Course maps: https://nottsac.co.uk/latest-news/na...aps-site-plan/
Appear to be the same as 2017 (for the senior men at least)
A muddy heavy National and I've got beggar all fitness to go and use, damn!
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Course maps: https://nottsac.co.uk/latest-news/na...aps-site-plan/
Appear to be the same as 2017 (for the senior men at least)
A muddy heavy National and I've got beggar all fitness to go and use, damn!
Thanks Nic. Saves me buying a program for £3. Just need to save up for the parking now!
Could be an interesting day... numerous dire warnings of potential car-park chaos due to the weather, and lord knows what the course will be like!
As always a great day at the Nationals.
Certainly was tough conditions.... I wasn’t at the Alton Towers Race a few years back, which seems to have gone down in legend at our club... but today was the toughest XC course I’ve experienced.... such a mixture of fast running and then endless bogginess which made the Lee Mill Relay look like the turf at Wembley Stadium.
Personally I felt I’d ran fairly well, and certainly made plenty of places up in the 2nd half of the race, so was slightly downbeat to only finish 1079th. Whilst it was a pb of over 150 places (not surprising considering it was the first National I’d done whilst vaguely fit and uninjured), I had been hoping to get in the top 1000, but would have needed to pull out another 1min20 to have made my target. Doesn't sound much, but at the time the thought of speeding up to that extent was impossible...
Had a great battle with an old schoolmate from another local club... after swapping places a couple of times in the first couple of laps, I put a big shift in on the middle third, turned round expecting him to be out of sight, and he was only 20 yards behind, eyes fixed on me! I knew it would go to the wire, and luckily held him off by 4 seconds in a desperate dash for the line.
Well done ba-ba and GazB who finished considerably higher than me!
Team wise, we lost our fastest guy with an injury in the warmup, but managed a pleasing 29th team. 4th Midlands team behind the heavyweights of Bristol&West, Birchfield Harriers and Notts AC.
In the ladies, Aldershot took the team prize, followed by Leeds, then Highgate Harriers.... I noticed a couple of fellrunning names high up... Bronwen Owen and a lady from Holmfirth Harriers...
In the men’s, Tonbridge regained the title, with Bristol&West and Leeds 2nd ad 3rd, not sure in which order. I noticed Matlock had some fellrunning names high up.... Billy Cartwright, Harry Holmes, Joshua Jardine. Keswick who have a strong XC squad, based on their Fell team, were absent, although I think most of them in action at High Cup Nick instead.
Shout to all the Fell teams I spotted today.... Kendal AC, Clayton Le Moors, Bingley Harriers, Blackburn Harriers (2nd lady), Altrincham, Holmfirth Harriers, Springfield Striders, Anthony Kay’s very own Thames Valley, and Race The Sweeper’s Buxton...
Good summary Travs. First National XC I've done and loved it. Felt like going into battle at the start when a big cheer went up as we started to wade through the standing water. Not sure "muddy" and "heavy" do the conditions justice!
Thames Hare & Hounds !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
That’s the ones, they had a great day, 12th team! With Warwickshire’s own Pat Roddy, and ex-Godiva “Ammo” Attimai Ben-Israel.... a very rapid young guy who I assume must be at Uni down that way...Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonykay
I bloody love the National, even if I'm about 150 places down on my best.
The stand-out current fell runner performance was Dan Haworth's (Matlock) monster run to 19th place. I believe he's in Marathon training. Caroline Lambert (Ribble Valley) was 26th in the Women's race.
Selected Men's results (top 600):
Billy Cartwright (Matlock) 80th
Harry Holmes (Matlock) 109th
Aiden Smith (Dark Peak) 120th
Duncan Birtwhistle (Mercia) 144th
Murray Strain (HBT) 147th
Duncan Coombs (Dark Peak/HBT) 197th
Joe Law (Dark Peak/Holmfirth) 266th
Pete Hodges (Dark PEak) 364th
Nic Barber (Helm Hill) 386th
Luke Beresford (Ripley) 570th
Adam Stirk (Wharfedale) 574
Selected Women's results (top 300):
Bronwen Owen 3rd (ex-North York Moors racer)
Georgia Malir 22nd (sometime mountain runner)
Caroline Lambert 26th (Ribble Valley)
Katie Walshaw 32nd (Holmfirth)
Ellen Downs 42nd (Dark Peak)
Nicholas Jackson 53rd (Ribble Valley)
Helen Berry 92nd (Holmfirth)
Chloe Haines 244 (Dark Peak)
Ellie Crownshaw 289 (Dark Peak)
Great running from you ba-ba…. if that was a below-par run...!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ba-ba
Can add into the men's list Matt Battley (Coventry Godiva Harriers) 137th....
New Zealand representative at World Mountain Running Trophy
Ran the OMM Elite past two years
Approx 30th at English Champs race last year Stretton Hills
9th fastest time at last November's Lee Mill Relay
Doing a few fell races and mountain trials this year
Might head over to watch the inter-counties at Loughborough on Saturday if nothing else comes up. Will be interesting to watch a real high-level race without any bias or club loyalties.
One of the minor disapointments of running the championship races, is that you don't get to see what's going on at the front end. It's a shame the ICs and Nationals aren't televised, even a red-button jobbie.
Mark Hookway's (Tonbridge coach) videos on Youtube are OK to get an overview of what went on, if you have the time to spool through a bit.
Yes they really should be on tv.
It's a bit of a sad commentary on the sporting priorities of this country... you can dress up like an absolute muppet and walk the London Marathon in 7 hours, and you're virtually guaranteed tv coverage. But win the Nationals or Inter-Counties, and outside of Athletics Weekly you're unlikely to get even a column inch in a newspaper.
We have a few guys running in the Warwickshire team, which does look reasonably strong this year (although merely being "strong" is par for the course at that level!)
A glance through the start lists and there's some top fell names gracing the race tomorrow.
My mum enquired yesterday why I wasn't running the inter-counties... :D
Good racing today at Loughborough. I think the winner was that guy Mohammed from Southampton AC.
I believe the top three counties were...
1 North East
2 Yorkshire
3 Hampshire
... But I stand to be corrected.
Plenty of fellrunning names on the start list but I only recognised Jez Brown running well for North Wales.
Standard appeared to be fantastic as you would expect.
My county inexplicably managed to not field a full team. Despite a county champs earlier this year with a couple of hundred people, and 15 names on the start list, only managed to field 5 people. I'll not be critical at all (especially as I'm trying to organise a county team for the Fells!), and I know four or five of the fastest guys were tempted to go and run a road race somewhere for money, but seems a massive shame...
Selected top 100 finishers:
1 Mahamed Mahamed 4207 Hampshire 00:37:21
2 Adam Hickey 4162 Essex 00:37:36
3 Tom Evans (Mountain/ultra runner) 4528 Sussex 00:38:15
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13 Daniel Haworth 4116 Derbyshire(Matlock) 00:39:50
35 Thomas Adams 4585 Yorkshire(Ilkley) 00:40:52
44 Joseph Dugdale 4105 Cumbria(CFR) 00:41:12
46 Billy Cartwright 4115 Derbyshire(Matlock) 00:41:13
56 Joe Baxter 4586 Yorkshire(P&B) 00:41:41
80 Nathan Lawson 4281 Leicestershire and Rutland (Dark Peak) 00:42:15
88 John Battrick 4098 Cumbria(Keswick) 00:42:26
92 Harry Holmes 4117 Derbyshire(Matlock) 00:42:29
1 Charlotte Dannatt 1280 Surrey 00:43:01
2 Jessica Gibbon 1188 Oxfordshire 00:43:07
3 Phillipa Williams (GB Mountain running team) 1135 North East 00:43:13
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16 Caroline Lambert 1362 Yorkshire (Ribble Valley) 00:45:47
18 Megan Carter-Davies 1324 West Wales (GB orienteer) 00:46:17
20 Georgia Malir 1364 Yorkshire 00:46:32
44 Alice Leake 1363 Yorkshire (GB orienteer) 00:48:04
47 Nichola Jackson 1044 Lancashire(Ribble Valley) 00:48:13
Phillipa Williams is definitely one to watch!
Anyone doing the Masters XC at Corwen tomorrow?
We have a few guys and girls heading over in various categories.
Not for me though, i'll be just down the road at Aran...
Something to look forward to.... National Cross Country next year at Parliament Hill... fantastic venue... March 6th 2021.