Herts Phoenix athletes turned out in force for the first Metropolitan Cross Country match of the new season which was run in gorgeous late autumn sunshine over the tough, undulating but dry course in Claybury Park, Woodford last Saturday.  A full set of results can be found through the Main Menu by clicking "Results" then "Cross Country".

The under 13 boys set the targets for the other youngsters packing their four counters for the Team event finishing in the top six to take first place and their next four counters finishing in the top 18 to secure the third team place. This result was immediately equalled by the under 13 girls with Mary Gough coming home in first place and her three team mates also finishing in the top six, our next four finishers then all came in the top 19 places. The under 15 boys ran with the under 17 men, but whilst not filling the top places packed well to take fourth and tenth places in their team event and the under 15 girls and under 17 women managed to finish in 5th and 13th places in their team race. The senior men’s team finished in third place in Division 2 and so are well placed to bounce straight back up to the top division for next year. The mens Vets Team finished in 12th place overall.  Also, Simon Doyle completed his 100th Met League race so congratulations to him.

2nd Liam Cloona 11:19, 3rd Jake Barraclough 11:32, 7th Ben Morter 11:57, 8th Nick Doyle 11:57, 9th Sam Jones 12:00, 10th Jamie Jones    12:13, 17th Jake Cable 12:53, 18th Sam Hartnup    12:53, 22nd William Swinburn 13:12.
32 finished “A” Team 1st, “B” Team 3rd

1st Mary Gough 12:28,  3rd Emily Ruane 12:37, 4th Gaby Bissett 12:56, 6th Laura Coffey 13:22, 7th Lizzie Parry 13:26, 8th Megan Breen 13:30, 15th Georgia Bennett 14:24, 19th Ellie Baker 14:38, 25th Isabel Found 14:55, Alicia Found 14:59, 33rd Mya Zaver 16:23, 34 Hannah Nolan 16:28
36 finished “A” Team 1st, “B” Team 2nd

14th Edward Shepherd (u15) 14:37, 15th Tom Gough 14:44, 18th Tom Barfoot 14:48, 27th Joe Gaynor 15:07, 31st Richard Parker 15:13, 32nd Andrew Walshe (u15) 15:14, 34 David Wilson 15:18, 54th James Waterman 16:23, 83rd Jaffar Miles 18:44
86 finished “A” Team 4th, “B” Team 10th

7th Lizzie Bird (u15) 17:43, 14th Ella Lloyd (u15) 18:00, 27th Helena Page (u15) 19:58, 29th Molly Veitch (u15) 20:03, 31st Shannon Procter (u15) 20:39,36th Rachel Hore (u15) 22:42, 45th Megan Smedley (u15) 27:01

46 finished “A” Team 5th, “B” Team 13th

42nd Steve Prosser 28:22, 74th Andrew Benson 29:31, 98th Peter Townsend (u20) 30:37, 185th Louis Walshe (u20) 33:31, 192nd Mark Faughnan (v45) 33:50, 195th Simon Doyle (v45) 33:55, 225th Martin Jones (v50) 35:07, 236 Gavin Hobson (v45) 35:49, 243rd Richard Bloom (v60) 36:19, 250th Richard Foskett (v50) 36:39, 259th Robin Baynham (v45) 37:01, 281st Dave Beasley (v65) 38:17, 290th Jeff Veitch (v45) 38:49, 311th Mike Dixon (v60) 41:00, 320th Ash Zaver (v50) 42:39
325 finished Team 3rd Division 2, Vets Team 12th

Adrian Newman, Cross Country Team Manager