The Magnificent Sevenths
Saturday’s trip to Lightwater Valley ably demonstrated the club’s superb team spirit .
It was a joy to see the club field a good number of runners in both the Ladies and Men’s races, and our strong individual performances and great team results showed once again that we are both York’s and North Yorkshire premier running club. It was superb to see the club having enough runners to be able to have ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams in both the Senior Men’s and Ladies races
Knavesmire Ladies ran a superb race , the ‘A’ team took an excellent 7th place out of over 20 teams , possibly their best ever result at the Yorkshires. In a quality field of 165 runners Knavesmires finishers were:
37 th Andrea Lancaster
38 th Nic Vogan
40 th Anwen Darlington
67th Cassie Holmes (1st four being the ‘A’ team)
82nd Sarah Atwood
106th Bryony Parkinson
122nd Liz Matthews
128th Kirsty Harvey
Not to be outdone Knavesmire’s fellas also had a stonker of a race, the Men’s ‘A’ team also managed to place 7th in the team competition, excluding Leeds City’s ‘B’ team means that we were actually 6th.
Knavesmire men were lead by Kim Critchley who showed his class with a strong run to place 12th in the field of over 200 , followed by :
48th Josh Beech
58th Chris Roberts
74th Simon Collins
95th Giles Hawking
101st Barry Atkinson (1st six being the ‘A’ team)
105th Tom Ratcliffe
109th Darren Hendley
114th Rory Henderson
134th Danny Chan
151st Phil Richardson
170th Pete Downes
179th Richard Tarrega
188th Stefan Durkin
221 Alistair McQueen
222 Ian Bithel
It was a cracking day out enjoyed by all, with everyone giving each other great support and encouragement, special thanks to Pete Schofield and Andy Neale for their support on the day and the time they give to help us train for events such as this.
The team bonding continued into the evening with a few beers and a indian meal.
It’s now onwards on upwards for our intrepid XC runners, to Pontefract for the Northerns and then the main event the legendary Nationals at Parliament Hill, London.
Selected photos courtesy of Woodentops
