Oxfordshire Cross Country League: Race 1 Ascott-under-Wychwood
An uncharacteristically warm day (c. 20˚C) greeted the 31 Eynsham participants at the first cross country race of the season, allowing some of us to even enjoy a pub lunch outside in the sun afterwards. Many thanks to Witney Roadrunners for hosting this event (they hosted the race, not the pub lunch!)
Congratulations to Hannah Hale for finishing a strong 7th overall in the Women’s race (3rd Senior); Jacky Pinnock (3rd V55); Mark Baker (21st place) bringing the Eynsham Men home; Tom Binnie and Henry Hart for very solid debuts, with Lee Hillsdon grabbing the 7th spot in the Men’s A team.
It was great to see so many familiar faces and ‘well done’ to everyone who took part, especially the nine entrants debuting as Eynsham XC runners: Arthur and George Walker, Kate Welsby, Tom Binnie, Henry Hart, Peter Green, Bob Newby, Nick Hardwick and Colin Hancox.
Follow the link below for the official results…
http://www.oxonxc.org.uk/index.php?view=results
… and thanks to Barry Cornelius once again for the photos which can be found here:
http://www.oxonraces.com/…/2015-11-01-ascott-under-wychwood/
In the team events, both the Women (6th in Div. 2) and the Men (6th in Div. 1) were unfortunately somewhat hampered by the absence of potential A and B team personnel, due to injury, illness, half-term, working on a Sunday (eh?), holidays, hangovers (apparently), lie-ins (?) … and so one might conclude that the opening race of the season was an averagely steady one, rather than anything notable, from that perspective.
The ERR XC Championship handicap results will be issued separately in due course. One amendment to this year’s competition is that the committee has agreed to allow four out of five races to count (instead of last year’s 5/5). Those absent from Ascott still now have a good chance of winning, and those runners who do run all five races will be able to drop their weakest race (we all have one!).
Special commemorative engraved medals to honour XC commitment across the season will remain eligible only to those running all five races.
So do please support the club and commit to your team-mates by making yourselves available on Sundays to run Race 2 at Culham on December 6th, Race 3, the County Championships at Horspath (Oxford) on January 10th , Cirencester Park on February 7th and the finale at Harwell on March 6th … let’s really further the momentum we have all created so well these last few years.
Benedict Pollard (Men’s XC Capt.)
| Oxfordshire Cross Country League Race 1: Ascott-under-Wychwood | |||
| Race 0 | Under 9 Girls and Boys (30 finishers) | ||
| 23 | Arthur Walker | Debut | |
| 30 | Florence Wetherald | ||
| Race 2 | U11 Boys (52 finishers) | ||
| 33 | Alexander Bishop | ||
| 50 | George Walker | Debut | |
| Race 7 | Women (185 finishers) | ||
| 7 | Hannah Hale | 24:27 | 3rd Senior |
| 90 | Tess Evans | 31:18 | |
| 91 | Jacky Pinnock | 31:22 | 3rd V55 |
| 102 | Kate Williamson | 32:10 | |
| 110 | Tara Lawfull | 33:10 | |
| 112 | Rain Newton-Smith | 33:16 | |
| 115 | Kate Welsby | 33:30 | Debut |
| 144 | Elaine Butler | 35:36 | |
| 149 | Jane Whitlock | 36:23 | |
| Race 8 | Men (306 finishers) | ||
| 21 | Mark Baker | 32:13 | |
| 24 | Benedict Pollard | 32:24 | |
| 36 | Thomas Binnie | 33:07 | Debut |
| 46 | Henry Hart | 33:21 | Debut |
| 109 | Dave Ferrier | 36:24 | |
| 130 | Graham Bridges | 37:11 | |
| 150 | Lee Hillsdon | 38:16 | |
| 167 | Simon Walker | 38:52 | |
| 231 | Peter Green | 41:30 | Debut |
| 232 | Robert Newby | 41:35 | Debut |
| 234 | Nick Hardwick | 41:41 | Debut |
| 240 | Mark Creasey | 42:15 | |
| 256 | Colin Hancox | 44:00 | Debut |
| 260 | Steve Butler | 44:31 | |
| 262 | Alastair Graham | 44:42 | |
| 271 | Tony Whitlock | 45:52 | |
| 299 | John Bishop | 52:24 | |
| 302 | Keith Baker | 54:37 | |
| Marshalls | |||
| Tess Evans; Adrian Pinnock; Jacky Pinnock; Kate Williamson | Thank you ! | ||
| Cake | |||
| Jacky Pinnock | Top recipes | ||
