Cumbria League XC #3: Maryport -Sat 27th Oct

There was fine weather for the third meeting in the 2012-13 Cumbria XC League which took place yesterday (Saturday 27th October), with light winds and warm sunshine.

Keswick's newest junior recruits once again performed well in club colours, Katy Livesey finishing 5th, and Lucy Pye 10th in the U13 girls over 2.8km, while Emma McKinney placed 5th in the competitive U15 girls race over 4.2km.

There was a new course for the U17 and senior runners that took in two laps (seniors) of a loop along the sea front and Brows, accessed by a fast run out and back along a farm lonning from the start/finish. The whole course was largely dry and firm underfoot leading to a fast race from the off.

Carl Bell led from the start and though the lead changed hands several times he was never far from the front eventually winning in 27:14, from Steve Hebblethwaite (27:17), and Kendal AC's Alasdair Russell (27:41). In clocking 31:23 Graham Airey placed 6th place overall, and along with Dave Burton (36:12, 22nd overall) and Steve, helped Keswick AC to a cumulative team score of 30, ahead of host club Ellenborough (34) and CFR (45). The fixture also hosted the 2012 Cumbria County Vets Championships -Graham's 6th place being good enough to take the V35 title -well done Graham.

The senior women ran the same 8.5km course as the men, with Sam Ayers putting her fitness to the test on return from injury to clock 36:03 second only to Eden Runners' Ruth Heatherington (33:54). This secured Sam the FV40 vets title while not to be outdone, only 50 seconds back Hazel Davies (36:53) took third place and the FV45 medal.

The next fixture is at the Sheepmount in Carlisle on Saturday 10th November.

Round Rotherham 50 mile trail race

Just posted a short report and video of this race from last weekend

http://fromrecoverytobeyond.blogspot.co.uk/

Cross Country 2012-2013 fixtures

A winter of cross country develops a great base for a summer of competition on the fell, road or track while the events are great fun too. Numerous leagues up and down the country are already underway, with many a runner now also tweaking their training diary with the bigger fixtures in mind. Get the following dates in your diary.

Cumbria League

The Cumbria League is now underway, with the next fixture at Maryport this weekend (Saturday 27th October). A friendly league with a number of low key races suited to all standards. All senior races start 1.10pm, junior races at all fixtures start from 12 noon.

Oct 27: Maryport, Netherhall
Nov 10: Carlisle, Sheepmount
Jan 5: Keswick (incorporates Cumbria AA County Championships)

Mid Lancs League

Bigger fields than Cumbria League, and a better standard of competition, well worth the extra drive.

Nov 24: Sefton Park, Liverpool (Incorporates McCain Cross Challenge and Euro Trials)
Dec 8th: Crooklands, Kendal
Jan 12th: Wilson Playing Fields, Hyndburn
Feb 9th: Lancaster University 
Mar 2nd: Beacon Park, Skelmersdale

More details at http://midlancs.org.uk/ 

Cumbria AA County Championships

Jan 5: Fitz Park, Keswick

Northen Championships

Jan 26: Knowsley, Cheshire

More details at http://www.noeaa-athletics.org.uk/

English National Championships

Feb 23: Herrington Park, Sunderland

More details at http://www.englishcrosscountry.co.uk/

CAU Inter Counties Championships

March 9: Cofton Park, Birmingham

Details at http://www.ukcau.co.uk/

London Marathon

We are still waiting to hear how many club entries we will get for next year's London Marathon. As soon as we hear, we will let everyone know, and invite applications. Another way to enter is to apply to run on behalf of a charity. I get quite a few emails about this - including one recently from Traidcraft. For details, check out their website here.

Round Rotherham 50 mile trail race

Finished the season off in style with a new pb, knocking 1:15 hours off previous best time. 22nd place in 8:04 hours. Tried sooooo hard to break 8 hours but just had nothing left.

http://www.rotherhamharriers.org/events/RRR2012/results2012.htm

The 2012 Derwentwater Ten

This year's Derwentwater Ten will be taking place on the 4th November 2012 and we already have over 250 runners pre-entered.  We will continue taking pre-entries up to Sunday 28th October and runners will also be able to enter on the day.

As always, we are hoping and expecting a good turnout from the Club and I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing an abundance of green and yellow on the start line.  But if for any reason you aren't racing but have a free Sunday, we would be really grateful for any help that can be provided.  The DW10 is always a logistical challenge and requires volunteers before, during and after the race.  So if you can help in any way, please get in touch with Steve Harwood who will issuing a formal request for volunteers shortly.

Many thanks,

Ian

Cumbria League XC #2: Penrith -Sat 20th Oct

Well done to all the Keswick AC runners that took on the testing course at Frenchfields yesterday -a great showing from the club with a strong men's and ladies team out, and excellent performances by juniors Katy Livesey and Emma McKinney. Photos are at www.athletesinaction.co.uk

Katy Livesey

Emma McKinney

Formation running from the ladies. L-R: Hazel Davies, Helen Winskill, Sam Ayers

Victoria Haworth

Steve Hebblethwaite

Ian Davies

Jonny Beetham

Craig Smith

Rob Jones