The last week has seen the start of the school cross country events which as ever mean great results for our Beagles (even when the specifics of the results are hard to find!). We also saw some brilliant team work from our Beagles at the Southern Road Relays where both teams came away on the podium. Brilliant work.
Southern Road Relays
An incredibly rainy Aldershot was the destination for today’s SEAA Road Relays. The Beagles U13 and U15 girls were in action both running 3 legs of 3km.
First up for the U13 girls was Amalie Twydell who ran a strong opening leg (11:41) to position the team 9th at the handover point. Sophie Bickerstaff took over and continued the charge seamlessly moving the team up to 6th with her run (11:40). Madison Kindler set off at pace determined to chase down the leaders and successfully picked off the competition as she went. Running the fastest leg of all the U13 girls in the competition (10:12) she took the lead and ensured victory for Team Beagles! A great result for our U13s!
An hour later and our U15 girls started their race with Heidi Woodley giving the team the best possible start, running from the front with a small group and just ending the lap in 3rd (10:06). A valiant effort by Missy Tiller to keep the team in contention saw her run strongly (10:52) and end her leg in 5th. The final leg saw Summer Smith charge off through the field passing competitors at every opportunity. Summer took the individual fastest U15 girl of the day title (9:59) but ran out of road so our U15 girls finished second overall! A brilliant achievement.
Thanks to our brilliant parents for sticking it out in the horrendous conditions
Lee Valley XC
Congratulations to all of our Beagles who took part in the first schools cross country event of the season at Lee Valley this week. We have some results (apologies if not yours) and we know that so many of you were out representing your schools at this event and doing a great job with several of you taking part for the first time in your new secondary school so huge congratulations!
Year 7 girls – Emily Johnson 43rd (12.44)
Year 7 boys – George Smith 8th (9:58) and first team!
Year 8/9 girls – Summer Smith 1st (8:56), Aria Sabado 9th (10:32) and both first team!
Year 10/11 girls – Jess Page 9th, Daisy Middlemiss 10th
Year 10/11 boys – Orly Morton 10th
Langham 2k
Congratulations to Amalie Twydell who competed in the Langham 2k race on Sunday finishing third overall, second female and first in age group with a new 2k PB of 7.27.
Eagles Relays
Congratulations to our Beagles who were out competing for their school (Coopers) this weekend in the Eagles relays. Each team consisted of 4 legs and each leg ran 3k. Well done to:
Aria Sabado – in the winning female team (despite it being an all ages competition and their team being junior girls) with a great leg of 12:30.
George Smith – bronze medallist in his junior boys team – leg time: 12:13
Daisy Middlemiss – gold medallist in inter girls team – leg time: 13:04
Orly Morton – bronze medallist in inter boys team – leg time: 10:56
Parkrun and Junior parkun round up
There was a good turnout of Beagles at 3 of our local events on Saturday. At Raphael, the fastest over the line was Simon Knightbridge (18:27) who finished 5th, with Keith Thornton (20:51) in 22nd. Matthew Jones (21:42) also ran well to finish 28th while Freya Brewington (28:01) took 150th from a field of over 350 runners.
At Brentwood, a strong performance from Max Sanderson (17:21) who took 1st place and was just 3 seconds outside his course best. First female & 4th over the line was Evie Warn (20:11), an impressive time over the hilly course, while 2nd female was Mara Thomas (22:07 PB) whose first visit to the event in nearly 2 years saw her take a significant chunk off her previous best time. Max Massarella (23:58) finished 32nd while Lorraine Massarella (24:30 PB) 39th and Lola Massarella (28:53 PB) both secured course bests, Lorraine by 3 seconds and Lola by 35 seconds.
At Chelmsford, Adam Armour (21:13) made the top 50 finishing 47th, while Cameron Young (22:16) and Alex Young (22:16) just missed out on their course bests but comfortably made the top 100. Another father/son combo were present as Liam Worth (25:37) and Elliot Worth (25:39) finished just outside the top 200, while Isabelle Young (39:54) was also enjoying her Saturday morning run.
We had one tourist as Dylan Hussain (25:10) ran at Hogmoor Inclosure parkrun in Hampshire, finishing 45th.
The heavy overnight thunderstorms had fortunately cleared by the time our juniors set out on their 2k runs. Just one runner at Lake Meadows but doing us proud at the front – Mason Grindrod* (8:02). At Hutton Rec., a fast-finishing Jamie Murphy (08:27) took 3rd while next over the line was Liam Worth (09:16). Jessica Thomson* (10:01) was first female, finishing 6th, while Max Morris (10:28) was not far behind in 9th and Chloe Thomson* (11:04) 13th.
At Harrow Lodge, Matthew Jones (07:32) ran well to finish 1st with Blossom Smith (08:13) the first female and 2nd overall. Emily Brewington (08:19) made it a 1-2-3 of Beagles while Willow Smith (08:52 PB) secured a new course best, finishing 6th, closely followed by Finley Smith* (09:00) in 7th. Finally, Freya Brewington (10:07 PB) was also in good form collecting her best time and taking 11th.
Well done to all our runners this weekend. Can we please remind you that we can only pick up your results in the parkun club report if you register yourself as being part of the club in your parkrun profile. Unfortunately the club report only works on the Saturday parkruns so we are unable to spot performances at junior parkruns behind the local ones. Feel free to contact us if you need help setting up your profile or if you want to tell us about your run.
Coming up
It should be a quieter week for the Beagles! Good luck to those travelling to Berlin this weekend to compete in the Marathon there! May the miles be kind to you!
A reminder that the Essex XC league starts on the 5th October – if you are in year 5 upwards then please look at the details on Spond and sign up to run!
