Weekend Round Up 19th/20th October

ESSEX CROSS COUNTRY LEAGUE KICKS OFF IN BRAINTREE

The 2013/2014 cross country season got underway at the weekend as round 1 of the Essex Cross Country League took place at Great Notley Country Park, Braintree. Conditions were wet which meant soft ground and plenty of mud around the course as athletes from across the county came to do battle!

The top three in each age group were:

U13 Girls
1st: Molly Bath (Havering Mayesbrook) 12:19
2nd: Kate O'Neill (Havering Mayesbrook) 12:21
3rd: Joanna Elizabeth Rimmington (Southend) 12:26

U15 Girls
1st: Khahisa Mhlanga (Chelmsford) 15:23
2nd: Jodie Judd (Chelmsford) 15:41
3rd: Rachel Broome (Chelmsford) 15:49

U17 Girls
1st: Gemma Holloway (Thurrock) 18:37
2nd: Claire Wilson (Cambridge & Coleridge) 19:02
3rd: Lydia Hallam (Havering Mayesbrook) 19:23

U20 Girls
1st: Alice Perky (Basildon) 18:48
2nd: Emily Bullis (Basildon) 20:37
3rd: Hayley Lamkin (Southend) 20:55

Senior Women
1st: Lauren Deadman (Havering Mayesbrook) 22:00
2nd: Gemma Kersey (Basildon AC) 22:28
3rd: Kerry Holland (Southend AC) 23:06

U13 Boys
1st: Joseph Clark (Orion) 11:20
2nd: Thomas Keen (Cambridge & Coleridge) 11:25
3rd: Mitchell Lawrence (Southend) 11:31

U15 Boys
1st: Joseph Patterson (Colchester & Tendering) 13:51
2nd: Max Jones (Basildon) 13:53
3rd: Jordan Wood (Cambridge & Coleridge) 14:11

U17 Boys
1st: Timothy Cobden (Cambridge & Coleridge) 21:22
2nd: Laurence Willmore (Southend) 21:27
3rd: Adam Houchell (Basildon) 22:06

U20 Boys
1st: Ross Tennant (Ipswich) 27:42
2nd: Bradley Wattleworth (Ipswich) 27:57
3rd: Hoseah Gikundo (Havering Mayesbrook) 28:32

Senior Men
1st: Adam Hickey (Southend AC) 25:49
2nd: Grant Twist (Chelmsford) 27:09
3rd: David Gibbon (Southend) 27:15

Well done to everyone that took part, full results can be viewed here.

Below are the main Cross Country dates for the 2013/2014 season:

RAIN DOESN'T STOP LEIGH ON SEA 10K

 Despite dismal conditions Sunday morning, almost 500 runners turned out for the Leigh On Sea Striders 10k road race.

 First across the line was Billericay Strider's Crispian Bloomfield in 33:24, followed by Southend AC's Rhys Gillard in 2nd in 34:41 (who ran superbly the day before in the Essex League to finish 4th Junior!), and Leigh on Sea Strider's own Neil Spicer finishing 3rd in 37:05.

 On the women's side, Southend AC's Sarah Imbush was first female finisher in 42:09, followed by Rochford RC's Lindsey Colman in 42:53 and Southend AC's Anne Jenkinson third in 43:12.

 Well done to everyone that completed the notoriously hilly 10k course, full results can be viewed on the Leigh On Sea Striders website here.