Juniors at Surrey League Season Opener
Posted by on 17 October 2017
Saturday 14th October brought the opening race of the new Surrey League season.
The juniors raced at Reigate Priory, and conditions were as good as they ever are for cross-country running with beautiful warm weather and very firm ground, but the running was certainly tough nevertheless with the various courses each including significant hills.
We were represented by a fantastic total of 21 juniors from the club, comprising a nice mix of experienced campaigners and those who were making their debut in a contest at this level. The photo below shows most of our U13 girls just before their race start.
As ever there were some who had the race that they hoped for, whilst others didn’t have their best day, but that’s the nature of the game and the goal is to learn lessons and try to improve next time out. The best part of the day for me was that everyone seemed to have enjoyed the racing and all supported each other throughout.
It was particularly pleasing to see how well the youngest runners in our team performed: Darcey-Rose Mitchell and Charlotte Conway. These girls are still in primary school and despite racing in the U13 category among girls up to 2 years older than themselves they finished just below halfway and just behind the leading girl their age.
At the other end of the age range it was a very welcome first appearance by Charlie Jeffrey at a Surrey League race for Stragglers, and we’re hoping to see him racing regularly with us through the season.
Results
Links for full results: GIRLS & BOYS.
When interpreting these results it is important to appreciate that there is a single division for juniors in Surrey League junior, and so the races is very high with all the quickest runners in the county competing.
Straggler results below:
|
Position |
Name |
Time |
|
U13 Girls |
80 Finishers – 5th placed team |
|
|
20th |
Maisie Jensen |
14:07 |
|
24th |
Sophie Desmond |
14:14 |
|
29th |
Gabriella Ceccherini |
14:36 |
|
36th |
Poppy Mitchell |
14:46 |
|
55th |
Darcey-Rose Mitchell (2nd U11) |
15:43 |
|
56th |
Charlotte Conway (3rd U11) |
15:48 |
|
66th |
Amber Bryan |
16:56 |
|
71st |
Chloe Hoseason |
17:22 |
|
78th |
Rose Wiltshire |
18:00 |
|
79th |
Megan Best |
18:04 |
|
80th |
Lucy Garnish |
18:04 |
|
U15 Girls |
53 Finishers – 8th placed team |
|
|
25th |
Poppy Jensen |
18:51 |
|
35th |
Lucy Hoseason |
19:41 |
|
U13 Boys |
36 finishers – 8th placed team |
|
|
6th |
Dan Levine |
16:25 |
|
26th |
Tyler Tugwell |
19:18 |
|
34th |
Jaden Russell |
20:45 |
|
U15 Boys |
42 finishers – 12th placed team |
|
|
23rd |
Joe Levine |
16:34 |
|
27th |
Spencer Bateman |
16:55 |
|
U17 Boys |
24 finishers – 12th placed team |
|
|
12th |
Ben Dibley |
15:51 |
|
23rd |
Charlie Jeffrey |
18:14 |
The next Surrey League is on Saturday 11th November when we’ll be looking to build on this great start, with the girls racing at Nonsuch Park & Boys at Mitcham Common.
