Tuesday, December 28th.
Ladies (4km)
11 3 Sally Gilliver 15:37
13 4 Jane Clarke 15:50
15 6 Kate Ayres 16:10
16 Katy Green 16:19
48 Sally Maddock 18:58
51 25 Kate Sutton 19:00
69 finished
Senior Ladies
1 Vale Royal (2,9,12,29) 52
2 Wilmlsow (11,13,15,16) 55
3 Macclesfield (8,10,17,21) 56
Veteran Ladies
1 Macclesfield (2,8,11,12) 33
2 Wilmlsow (3,4,6,25) 38
3 Stockport (5,7,18,22) 52
Senior/Veteran Men (about 7.2km)
6 2 Tom McGaff 24:10
11 Mike Halman 24:39
19 6 Graham Taylor 25:34
26 9 Stuart Parrott 25:48
28 Jim Pendrill 25:58
29 10 Rob Downs 26:01
54 28 Tony Hulme 28:00
113 Ian Smallwood 35:12
117 68 Trevor Faulkner 35:41
118 finished
Senior Men
1 Trafford (1,10,17,21) 49
2 St Helens (5,9,12,23) 49
3 Vale Royal (2,8,16,33) 59
4 Wilmlsow (6,11,19,26) 62
Veteran Men
1 Wilmslow (2,6,9,10) 27
2 West Cheshire (3,5,11,12) 31
3 Macclesfield (14,16,25,30) 85
Ian Ashcroft
This annual event starts the Cheshire Cross Country series. Having done the event before, I know that it is a wonderful course wandering through mixed parkland and woodland. It also offers a few hills to spice up the proceedings. The only impediment to my participating in the event was that I was meant to be in York, a minor trifle of a few more miles according to the coach.
Well, I left York on time, arrived in Wilmslow a little later than expected (2pm!) a sprint round the house to collect my shoes, then out the door to Frodsham. At 2.35 I dumped the car unceremoniously at the park gates, as Graham & Jim sprinted past me. I had missed the start by several minutes, (who says that the Cheshire series never start on time?)
Having got this far, I proceeded to the start line, and with several odd looks from the spectators set off. I quickly closed in on Rob and Jim who confirmed how far they had already done and how far I had to run. I eventually completed the course having ignored the finish marshals twice to by-pass the finish line to make up the distance.
I finished in 130th, probably my first last place!
Ian Smallwood
Thanks to Rob Downs for pointing out the results on the Cheshire AA site:-