Saturday’s Cross Country race was the 3^rd and final East league meeting held in Broxburn. The weather was drizzly to start but that didn’t faze our first runners out. The U11 girls continued their fantastic form with Jenny Gillanders 1^st over the line, followed by Jennifer Brydon 12^th, Kaley Gostick 13^th, Skye Marshall 14^th , Emily Kerr 18^th, Eilish Deswarte 28^th and Abby Chisholm 37^th. The U11 girls team won the league overall – well done to all the girls taking part over the three meetings – fantastic effort.

The next race U11 boys also produced some great results with Lewis Blair 5^th, Euan Johnston 7^th, Campbell Dowie 8^th and Conor Gourley 18^th. The boys finished 3^rd overall for the season which was tremendous considering they suffered 100 penalty points in the first race as we did not field a full team.

In the U13 girls race we had further strong performances with Zoe Nicholson first home in 8^th position, followed by Jemma Jamieson 18^th and Tegan Gostick 35^th. A special mention to Iona Crawford who was in contention, but had an unfortunate fall and was unable to complete the course. Luckily no injury sustained so looking forward to seeing Iona in action again at the Nationals in February. The girls finished in a great 4^th overall for the season.

The U13 boys also fared well with Alex Johnston finishing strongly in 5^th backed up by Liam Murray 39^th, Arran Robertson 44^th and Liam Gillan 51^st.

The U15 girls had an impressive 6 runners and produced some great results with Leah Davie 3^rd, Emily Nicholson 5^th, Sophie Nethery 12^th, Sophie Telfer 17^th, Evie Coyle 23^rd and Alice Pearson 25^th. The U15 girls team finished in a fantastic 2^nd position overall.

The U15 boys also had a good race with Tyler White 15^th, James Adam 22^rd, Ben Grant 32^nd and Andrew McNair 35^th. The team finished in a well placed 3rd overall.

The U17 men were represented by Evan Ross and Corey Smith finishing well in 16^th and 22^nd respectively, overall the team finishing 5th.

Finally in the senior races Rebecca Burns finished in a fantastic 4^th position for the women,  Ben Potrykus 24th and Neil McLachlan 161^st for the men.

Congratulations to everyone who took part this season, we had great success combined with great team spirit…looking forward to seeing all the hard work paying off on the track.

If anyone is interested in competing in the National XC in Falkirk on 22^nd February please let me know by Wednesday 29^th January. This event is open to U13’s and upwards and we would like to have teams in all age groups if possible..another date to watch out for is the National Junior Road Race Championships on Sunday 16^th March – open to U13’s and upwards to U20. I’ll be taking names for this during February.

Sandra

Written by Sandra Davie