12 March 2011
The cross-country club travelled to Harrow School today to compete in the South East Schools' Championships. As defending champions the pressure was such that the Senior team were looking to place in the top three at least - a good enough proposition for a relatively young senior squad who will hopefully reach race-readiness by next year. The opposition was as expected: very strong and already race-sharp. It was a good opportunity for us to measure up against our average times of last year and to see how the teams would cope with unexpected injuries from key runners.
The Senior team managed a respectable second place and so they were awarded silver medals; runners who stood out were Mathew Hartshorne and Thomas Kelly in the A-team as well as Stuart Jones who led from the front, and Nicholas Williams in the B-team who had the race of his life and quite probably earned his half colours from that event alone. Also from the B-team, Joe Greenman and Thomas Fabes ran brilliantly. The Junior team ran valiantly despite circumstances beyond their control to score a fourth place: Teddy Curtis, Joe Kelly, Alex Gatenby, Dominic Whaler, Edward Reynolds and James Tebbs were very impressive in their debut on such a traditional and very hard course.
