Captain

On a glorious day a large contingent of NOR members (17) made their way west to Rushmere Country Park for the 2017 East Anglian Championships hosted by SMOC. Rushmere is an excellent area with many varied types of terrain ranging from runnable forest, to heath and parkland and lots of contour detail.

Congratulations to our winners, in particular James & Katerina who were East Anglian Champions for the first time.

James Price (M14)
Katerina Skarkova (W18)
Ella Gilbert (W21 / Open)
Mick Liston (M65)
Sue Vine (W75)
Barbara George (W80)
Peter Levrington (M80)

Our winners appear to be at both ends of the age spectrum. Let’s hope for some from the middle in future years!

Our thanks go to SMOC for hosting an excellent event. Results can be found here

Eleven Norwich School pupils travelled to Bagworth Heath in Leicestershire on Saturday for the British Schools Score championships. All age-groups had 45 minutes to find a maximum of 31 controls. The headline result was a silver medal for William Blyth-Bartram in year 8. William got 28 controls, which was the joint highest score, but arrived back 16 seconds late, thus incurring 5 penalty points, which meant he finished in 2nd place. William only took up the sport 12 months ago, but has already started training with the East Anglian Junior Squad, and was named Newcomer of the Year at the NOR awards in June. Now he has his first national medal!
Other impressive results came in year 9 – Josh Kohler 5th, Monty Platt 9th and James Price 10th, while in year 11 Steven Denby was 10th, James Thistlewood 15th, Tom Blythe-Bartram 16th and Katja Ruda 18th.

Congratulations to our Club Captain Glen Richardson who won the Veteran’s class in the London City Race at Rotherhithe last weekend.   In a time of 42:18 for the 7k course, he took 1st place with a winning margin of 57 seconds in a large field of 112  competitors.

It’s been a busy summer for some. The following is a summary of events that I know NOR have been represented at in July and August, along with some of the best results. Please let me know if there is more success to report

Manchester City Race – Nick Pullen 4th on Mens open

Welsh 5-days – Day 4 may have been NOR’s best ever day at a major event, with Steven Denby (M16A), John Ward (M45S), Alan Coddington (M80S) and Ella Gilbert (W18A) all winning their class. Congratulations to all! The best overall results were Alan Coddington 1st M80S, Ella Gilbert 2nd W18, Barbara George 3rd W80.

World Vets Champs in Estonia – Helen Lloyd qualified for the A final in the W55 sprint.

Lincoln City Race – Ella Gilbert 2nd on W open.

White Rose – Keziah Bailey 3rd W10

Nick Pullen also leads the UK Urban league, with the season finale in Norwich not far away now.

Glen Richardson