Sunday 4-Mar-2012 at 10am, kids race at 9:30am

This was the 6th and final race in this winters league, organised by Spectrum Striders RC.

Don't forget - it is a rule that you wear your club vest in this league. 

If you are looking for general details (including directions to the venue & a course map), please look under the "Our races" menu at the top of this page.

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Event report from Julian:

"Thanks on behalf of the committee for all the help on Sunday in making the cross country a great success.  This was one of the bigger fields we have had in years with 60 more runners than last year….

I think special thanks though are due to the team at the Tennis Centre as here to some poor communications a lot more stress and pressure was heaped on them.

I was especially thanked for the care I had taken choosing the varieties of sticky mud I identified for you.

Thanks to all the runners too.  Overall after 6 races we were 3rd in both men’s and ladies this year.  Graham Houghton was best male runner over the series with five 1st places out of six races.

Well that’s all the cross country until next October…  If you miss your off road fix try a trail run or an easy fell race... or Bill Bradley’s parkrun at Pennington Flash, ….

Julian - on behalf of the committee"

There are lots of photos from Andrea Millington & Brian Tuohey.

Also, thanks to Julian for typing up all of the results below, as for all the races this year and in previous years.

Finally, many thanks to Steph Charman for noting down race times for Striders from the race clock which was at the finish.

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Individual results

The times after "cf" are last years times for the same race.

Pos	Name	Pos	Name
1	Graham Houghton (32:51 cf 33:25)	8	Karon Forster (43:14 cf 41:35)
14	Chris Millington (35:20 cf 36:11)	9	Alison Draper (43:46 cf 42:19)
16	Neil Crompton (36:48)	19	Gemma Barton (47:56)
26	Neil Garnett (35:30 cf 36:33)	36	Total
33	Ian Bamber (37:48)	21	Carol Stynes (48:25)
35	Mike Welsby (38:04 cf 36:47)	23	Helen Caldwell (41:38)
125	Total	42	Tracey Hart (66:08)
38	Dave Hudd (38:20)	43	Alison Astles (66:51)
40	Phil Daintith (38:41)
46	Julian Spencer (39:13 cf 38:21)	13	Janet Robertson
53	Andy Garnett (40:04 cf 41:19)
57	Brad Ehlen		43 ladies, 7 Striders
61	Andy Gaskell (41:09 cf 39:30)		(20 ladies last year)
70	Graham Driver (41:53)
74	Ian Pudge (42:18 cf 40:16)		110 men, 19 Striders
77	Alan Brady (42:30)		(73 men last year)
90	Geoff Read (44:59 cf 46:34)
92	Dave Thompson (45:29)
102	Paul Lynch (47:50)
109	Alan Jenkins (53:24)
31	Jim Dawson

Team results for this race

Men		Ladies
Club	Score	Club	Score
Liverpool RC	44	Skelmersdale BH/Parbold Pink Panthers	13
Liverpool Running Bugs/Roby/Picton	94	Warrington RR/Helsby RC/Lymm	17
Spectrum Striders	125	Liverpool RC	26
Penny Lane Striders	132	Spectrum Striders	36
Warrington RR/Helsby RC/Lymm	166	Penny Lane Striders	39
Skelmersdale BH/Parbold Pink Panthers	365	Warrington RR/Helsby RC/Lymm	74
Birkenhead AC /Pensby RC	366	Birkenhead AC/Pensby RC	incomplete
Newburgh Nomads	426

Final league standings

Best 5 of 6 races to count.

Men		Ladies
Club	Score	Club	Score
Liverpool RC	39	Warrington RR/Helsby RC/Lymm	37
Liverpool Running Bugs/Roby/Picton	37	Skelmersdale BH/Parbold Pink Panthers	37
Spectrum Striders	30	Spectrum Striders	31
Penny Lane Striders	27	Liverpool RC	26
Warrington RR/Helsby RC/Lymm	18	Penny Lane Striders	25
Birkenhead AC/Pensby	13	Birkenhead AC/Pensby RC	16
Skelmersdale BH/Parbold Pink Panthers	11	Liverpool Running Bugs/Roby/Picton	13
Newburgh Nomads	11

Results for this years and previous years x/c races in this league are available on Steve Saunders' web site.  Steve's web site also has race information sheets for most of the races in the league.

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Sunday 6-Mar-2011 at 10am, kids race at 9:15am

Overall league results

Congratulations to Spectrum Ladies who once again have won all 6 races and of course won the league.  Well done to all Spectrum Ladies who have raced this season:

• 5 races:  Liz Whitfield (won the first 5 races), Claire Andrew (second in the first 5 races), Karon Forster (3rd Spectrum counter in 4 races, 1st counter in another)
• 4 races:  Steph Charman
• 3 races:  Alison Draper, Donna Hinsley, Debbie Read, Anne Hewitt
• 2 races:  Pauline Welsby, Beth Shortt, Emma Johnston
• 1 race:  Caroline Hemming

Well done to the men who won 2 races this year and finished a close 2nd to Liverpool RC.

Last but not least, Liz Whitfield & Graham Houghton were individual winners overall.

2011 race results

Many thanks to all of the marshals & helpers for putting on the race.  The distance increased a little this year to 5.16 miles (going up and down the start hill 4 times...).

Liz Whitfield & Claire Andrew missed the race to concentrate on the previous days Inter-counties x/c but the ladies team still continued their winning streak.

The men again finished a strong second.

Photos are now available from Brian Tuohey and from Jack Millington.

Individual results

Pos	Runner	Pos	Runners
1	Graham Houghton (33:25)	2	Karon Forster (41:35)
10	Chris Millington (36:11)	5	Alison Draper (42:19)
14	Neil Garnett (36:33)	6	Caroline Hemming (44:21)
15	Mike Welsby (36:47)	Total	13
16	Stephen Pilditch (36:55)	10	Donna Hinsley (46:42)
24	Steve Martin (37:59)	17	Debbie Read (53:03)
Total	44
25	Albert de Jong (38:11)
26	Julian Spencer (38:21)		5 ladies ran in a field of 20
27	Jim Dawson (WRR, 38:33)		(19 last year)
31	Andy Gaskell (39:30)
33	Alex Farmer (40:04)		16 men ran in a field of 73
35	Daniel Chadwick (40:16)		(81 last year)
41	Andy Garnett (41:19)
56	Neville Griffiths (45:14)
61	Geoff Read (46:34)
63	Brian Griffiths (47:25)
68	Alan Peers (49:50)

Team results for this race

Men		Ladies
Club	Score	Club	Score
Liverpool RC	33	Spectrum Striders	13
Spectrum Striders	90	Liverpool RC	15
Penny Lane Striders	175	Skem/Parbold	23
Newburgh  Nomads	226	Helsby RC	49
Warrington RR	267	Penny Lane Striders	61
Helsby RC	302 (4 ran)	Warrington RR	75
Skem/Parbold	439 (5 ran)	Birkenhead/Pensby	79
Birkenhead/Pensby	327 (4 ran)	Ford/Roby/Picton	No ladies
Ford/Roby/Picton	380 (4 ran)	Newburgh Nomads	No ladies

Final league standings

Best 5 of 6 races to count.

Men		Ladies
Club	Score	Club	Score
Liverpool RC	43	Spectrum Striders	45
Spectrum Striders	42	Skem/Parbold	38
Penny Lane Striders	35	Penny Lane Striders	33
Newburgh Nomads	30	Liverpool RC	33
Birkenhead/Pensby	21	Warrington RR	26
Skem/Parbold	21	Helsby RC	20
Warrington RR	21	Birkenhead/Pensby	19
Ford/Roby/Picton	12	Ford/Roby/Picton	18
Helsby RC	9	Newburgh Nomads	No Score

Results for this years and previous years x/c races in this league are available on Steve Saunders' web site.  Steve's web site also has race information sheets for most of the races in the league.

Race information

This Birchwood Forest Park x/c is the 6th and final race in the winter North West Sunday Cross Country League.

We used the same 4 lap course (with minor variations) that we have used since 2008.   It was 5.16 miles (8.3k) in 2011 as measured by a GPS.