Northern Cross Country Championships 2010

Witton Park, Blackburn
23rd January 2010

Through thick fog, a handful of Chester-le-Street athletes battled the hills and mud in the Northern Cross Country Champs. The day’s top placing came in the U13 boy’s race with Thomas Goulding finishing in an excellent 7th place, only 24 seconds behind the winner. Tom was quickly followed home by Daniel Pickering in 16th place (11:36) and completing the Chester trio was Robert Peverley who raced hard all the way to the finish with a time of 13:18 and 131st position. In the U15 boys race Chris Peverley finished a creditable 43rd in 14:41, whilst Andrew Sill finished in 193rd spot (17:50). Callum Morgan was the only U17 male and with a gutsy sprint finish, came home in 96th with a time of 17:50. Tackling the “teaspoon” hill and the “saucer” hill four times each, James Raven represented the senior men well finishing in the top 6th of the field in 106th with a time of 46:52.

Only three female athletes competed with Anna Fawcett finishing 14th in the U13 girls race over 3km. With only two senior women running, C-l-S were unable to retain the team title won at these championships when it was last run on the Blackburn course. Nevertheless, Tracy Laws continued her good run of form to finish 10th in 32.56 ahead of Maxine Czarnecha in 15th 33.30.

Link to some photos:

http://mickhall-photos.com/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=672459


Newcastle and Sunderland Parkruns

Opting to race over 5km in Sunderland and Newcastle instead of the Northern Cross, Angela Hunter and Melissa Turner both won their respective Parkruns recording 19:03 and 17:13 respectively. Mel’s time was a PB.