PECO Round 3 Middleton Woods – Hyde Park Harriers

January 3rd saw the 3rd round of the PECO Cross Country Championship taking place at Middleton Woods. After lots of rain over Christmas which saw large parts of Leeds flooded this was always going to be another mudfest. Even after Christmas and New Year excess we still had an excellent turnout of 26 men and 24 ladies and what a performance it turned out to be.

A strong performance by David Driver saw him leading home the Hyde Park Harriers men in 12th, with Stan Karanasios next in 26th and Oliver Leonard in 36th. Philip Goose was only 5 seconds behind and also scoring for the A team were Anthony Aimon, Mike Gallagher, James Booth and Tom Pollard.

It was a strong performance all round and produced a final position of 3rd in the Premier division. This leaves the men 4th out of 7 teams after 3 rounds but only 1 point behind 3rd. The mens vets team aren’t scoring to highly but the B team were a strong 3rd and we also we had a C team score in 13th out of 15 teams.

The mens result was good but the ladies teams performance was excellent and saw them win the 1st division. Rachel Bourne was first home in 17th, Rebecca Rogers 22nd, Monica Padilla 26th, Robin Culshaw 38th and Caroline Young in 55th. This leaves the ladies 5th in the 1st division out of 7 but only 1.5 points behind 2nd. The ladies B team were strong in 3rd, and a C and D team scored.

There was strong performances through out the field with the usually sprint finishes but the competition for who was the muddiest was easy to decide with Jaz taking the honours.

The next round is on the 24th at Golden Acre and hopefully we can have another excellent turnout.

Thanks to Phil Hammond for the pics.

Peco 3 Men	Pos	Time		Peco 3 Ladies	Pos	Time

David Driver	12th	31.12	A	Rachel Bourne	17th	39.24	A
Stan Karanasios	26th	32.35	A	Rebecca Rogers	22nd	40.17	A
Oliver Leonard	36th	33.11	A	Monica Padilla	26th	40.30	A
Philip Goose	39th	33.16	A	Robin Culshaw	38th	41.22	A
Anthony Aimon	60th	34.24	A	Caroline Young	55th	42.43	A
Mike Gallagher	65th	34.31	A	Helen Close	62nd	43.15
James Booth	81st	35.17	A	Lucy Rider	92nd	45.57
Tom Pollard	97th	35.47	A	Nicola Shenton	93rd	45.59
Colin Tranter	106th	36.04		Laura Cummings	103rd	46.47
George Bilsby	122nd	36.47		Dote Stone	112th	47.29
Charlie Jackett	126th	36.56		Vicky Houghton	121st	48.10
Tom Eales	162nd	38.20		Lois Gardner	134th	49.10
Jimmy Sheldon	170th	38.32		Clare Evans	145th	49.41
Chris Taylor	174th	38.45		Joanne Kavanagh	151st	50.15
Tom Mason	190th	39.25		Caroline Sanders	166th	51.24
David Womersley	192nd	39.27		Nicola Forwood	215th	56.04
Paul Sawyer	203rd	39.49		Laura Edwards	232nd	57.53
Ken Fox	225th	40.32		Catherine Hayward	233rd	57.54
Rick Pullan	292nd	44.51		Sarah Baker	256th	1.00.40
John Blatherwick	310th	46.07		Claire Hougham	258th	1.00.46
Daniel Waas	316th	46.34		Kay Jefferies	274th	1.03.48
Stuart Smith	347th	50.15		Liz Jones	282nd	1.07.40
Richard Edwards	350th	50.30		Clare Mason	286th	1.11.01
Rodrigo Piers Dos Santos	362nd	52.31		Jasbir Bangerh	287th	1.11.01
Michael Mason	380th	55.40
Ben Hartley	DNF

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