Quote Originally Posted by Roadrunner View Post
Not 100% true. What about the WMRT in NZ? Did he not win it there and was it not an up and down year?
Good man! Yes he did win there.

I was England Selection Chairman in 2005 and actually went to Wellington when I was on holiday in New Zealand to run the course in the Spring.

It was a multi lap race and a mixture of promenade (start/finish), grassy banks and running through a wood; so very soft underneath. Not a stone in sight.

As Team Manager Mark Croasdale wrote in TFM (Feb 2006, page 20) "the course was different to any World Trophy course I had encountered before".

Given Wyatt's antagonism to running downhill the NZ people designed a course that he would agree to run on. Perhaps Jonathan designed it himself? He was WMRT champion and for NZ to host the WMRT and their own WMRT Champion not run there was clearly unthinkable.

And yes he won and the Senior Women's race was won by, surprise, surprise, a New Zealand woman.

So there you go eh?