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Glen Richardson reports……..The star of the weekend was undoubtedly Ella Gilbert. On Saturday, Ella secured 6th place on the W18E course at the individual champs. This must be the best NOR result on an elite course for many a year, and Ella still has another year in the age group. Then on Sunday, Ella teamed up with dad Jonathan and Stephen Searle to claim 5th place in the mixed relay. Again, this must be our best relay result for a long time. As if all this was not enough, Ella was confirmed as outright winner of the NOR league as a result of events at Ken Hill.

Other notable results from the British Champs were 12th place for our W50 relay team of Kim Eden, Helen Lloyd and Fiona Coventry. Kim also followed up her JK win with 2nd place on W55S. On the long courses, Helen was an impressive 13th on W55, while the top man was Rob Frost with 21st on M45.

Meanwhile, back in Norfolk, Mick Liston must have flown round the green course at Ken Hill. The Chairman annihilated the opposition to secure the win he needed to snatch 3rd place in the league from Ian Renfrew, and in so doing ensure that Barbara George couldn’t join Ella on the maximum 500. Rob Frost also produced a great run to win the brown and move into the top 5 in the league. All the more impressive considering he’d run a 90 minute course in the Forest of Dean the day before! Here are the final Final League results.

The East Anglian championships took place at Croxton on Sunday. Bad weather meant the presentation was postponed, but 7 NOR members can look forward to getting their hands on some silverware. The role of honour is as follows……

W18 Ella Gilbert

M18 Sam Nicholls

W35 Leanne Bailey

M45 John Ward

W55 Kim Eden

M55 Jonathan Gilbert

M75 John Harvey

I always like to see wins for NOR members. It is a bit more special to win something for the first time, and a narrow winning margin makes it all the more exciting. So Jonathan Gilbert is my man of the day, winning his first East Anglian title by 11 seconds.

In the NOR Colour Coded League 2014_15 CC League Table  Ella Gilbert has established a big lead, Ian Renfrew looks comfortable in second, but there is a close battle for third.

The next action is this coming Sunday, at Cockley Cley.Looking further ahead, if you would like to run in the compassport cup, entries are now open on Fabian4.

And even further ahead, are you going to the JK or British Long Champs? If so, would you like to run in NOR relay team? So far seven people have expressed interest, and it looks like we’ll have male and female veteran teams, possibly plus another team. Entry deadline in Feb 15th, so let me know in the next few days if you are interested.

Glen Richardson