What a great turnout at Graves Park last Saturday and big thanks to everyone who set-up, took down, marshalled, car park attended or routed competitors to the Northern CC Relays. Once again, the event went off without incident. Just to directly quote the Northern Athletics website “Thanks to all our brilliant officials and the volunteers from Sheffield Running Club – we couldn’t do it without you”
Meanwhile out on the course. Olympic triathlete Georgia Taylor-Brown destroyed the women’s course record, slicing 18 seconds from it, and posting the first sub 11-minute time running 10 minutes 58 seconds on leg 1. City of York’s Angus McMillan ran 9 minutes 50 seconds on leg 1 of the men’s race, just 6 seconds short of the current course record held by Preston’s Patrick Dever.
SRC debutant Shaun Boatwright posted SRC’s fastest leg of the day with 11:22 on the last leg of the men’s race. Followed by Joe SP with 11:32 and David Millns with 11:38. Credit here to David for his performance off the back of a busy marathon season as our Mens A team finished 22nd, the B team 36th, C team 39th and D team 49th out of 57 closing teams.
In the women’s race Ellen McLeod claimed SRC’s quickest leg with 13:11 sneaking ahead of Rachel Rose’s 13:16. From my perspective the highlight of the ladies race was the number of new faces wearing the SRC vest mixing in amongst the more established club members. Our ladies A team also finished in the top half finishing 20th, B team 31st and C team 37th of 43 closing teams.
There were some great performances across all the teams and before finishing a big respect to those of you who did the double both volunteering and racing. There must have been some pretty impressive warm ups required after standing out in the wind for all those hours. Full results can be found here >>
Northern Cross-Country Relay Championships