Saturday 25-Feb-2012

For more information, go to the English Cross Country Association web site.

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2011 champs on Saturday 19-Feb-2011

Well done to the Striders who took part at Alton Towers.  The course was muddy and the spectator areas were even muddier!  Due to course conditions & safety concerns, the courses were shortened.

Full results are available on the English Cross Country Association web site:

• Womens results
• Mens results

Some photos taken by Les Hewitt & Mick Charman are available here.

Many thanks to Julian Spencer for doing the entries & trying to make sure we had teams, also to Les Hewitt for Team Manager & kit man duties on the day.

Here is a race report from Julian:

"None of us have ever run a cross country that was as muddy.  It was tough out there today.  Only on the steep hills was there a little less mud.  For the runners it was really hard to find a good running line.  The spectator areas were even more slippery than out of the course, so you needed spikes or studs to just walk around.

The courses were shortened by 2k perhaps as the course was so muddy."  [There were several injuries on the day but they were not as serious as the rumours suggested! - Les].

Mens results – 10k - 6 to count for a team

Pos	Time	Name
1	00:35:11	Steve Vernon	winner - Stockport Harriers
621	00:49:15	Neil Garnett
700	00:50:31	Ian Pudge
793	00:52:13	Julian Spencer
794	00:52:15	Jim Dawson
1195	01:03:24	Barry Allman
	DNF	Kit Whitfield

1302 finishers, last finisher in 1:29:54.

Womens results - 6k - 4 to count for a team

Pos	Time	Name
1	00:23:49	Louise Damen	winner - Winchester & District AC
64	00:27:38	Liz Whitfield
544	00:47:23	Anne Hewitt
	DNF	Steph Charman

 552 finishers, last finisher in 52:22.

2011 race information

The 2011 Championships was held at Alton Towers, ST10 4DB.  This event is organised by the English Cross Country Association.

This is one of the classic events in the UK athletics calendar with its memorable mass start.  It has been won by some of the great names in British athletics.  The mens race was first run in 1876, women in 1927.

Entry is only in advance via your running club and there are no entries on the day.

You must be registered with England Athletics to take part and you must wear your club vest in the race or you will be disqualified.  The race will have chip timing.  Numbers and timing chips will be collected by the Team Manager on the day.

Full race programme

Time	Class	Dist.	Team
11:00am	U17 women	5k	4 to score
11:25am	U15 boys	4.5k	4 to score
11:45am	Junior women	6k	3 to score
12:15pm	U13 girls	3k	4 to score
12:35pm	U17 men	6k	4 to score
1:00pm	U15 girls	4k	4 to score
1:20pm	Junior men	10k	4 to score
2:05pm	U13 boys	3k	4 to score
2:20pm	Senior women	8k	4 to score
3:00pm	Senior men	12k	6 to score

The race "prospectus" which gives full details of all of the races and of qualifying criteria is on the ECCA websiite.

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2010 champs on Saturday 27-Feb-2010

The champs were at Roundhay Park in Leeds.  Results are available:

• click here for mens
• click here for womens
• click here for U17 men
• full results here

In total there were 543 senior women & 1328 senior men.  They don't provide age groups in the results so we don't know where everyone came in their age group categories.

Mick Charman was taking photos.

Race report from Julian:

"For the first time ever we fielded an U17 mens team at the Nationals on the challenging Leeds Roundhay Park course.  I hope they enjoyed the event.

The ladies team on the day had only 2 runners, so was an incomplete team.  The men managed 8 finishers and beat arch rivals Liverpool Running Club; they were 75th compared to our 72nd position in the 107 complete teams.  It was great to be part of a race along with 1328 other cross-country addicts.  To ensure Alan Peers was on the start line on time we got Neville and Geoff Hand to deliver him."

U17 Men 6k at 12:25

Winner:  Richard Goodman (Shaftesbury Barnett H) 19:21

247th Georges Rouillon  24:45
251st Chris Dawson        24:50
290th Chris Owens         26:17
299th Ollie Kewley         26:47

308 ran

Team Scores

1st      Tonbridge AC   61points
29th    Spectrum       1087points

Senior Women 8k at 14:15

Winner  Stephanie Twell (Aldershot, Farnham & District) 27:52

224     Marian Martin   36:24
512     Stef Charman    48:05

543 ladies ran

Senior Men 12k at 15:00

Winner:  Andy Vernon, Aldershot, Farnham & District 38:01

509th   Ian Bamber       49:07
599th   Colin Martin       50:18
649th   Neil Garnett       50:57
681st   Mike Houghton   51:19
968th   Julian Spencer    55:37
1129th  Geoff Hand       58:47
1350th  Nev Griffiths      66:20
1398th  Alan Peers        70:44

1428 men ran

Team Scores

1st      Aldershot, Farnham & District   182 points
72nd    Spectrum Striders                4355 points
75th    Liverpool RC                        4695 points