Final Off Road Weekend

January 9th and 10th saw the final chance to score points in the club Off Road Championship.  After the Post Hill challenge was moved from its original date a decision was taken to add in a replacement round.  It was just at the time that the new Temple Newsam 10 mile race was announced and sounded perfect.  We then realised that it was the same weekend as the Yorkshire Cross Country Championships that we were putting a team together for.  The best answer was to offer points from both, but you could only score at one.

Saturday saw the Yorkshire’s and a great performance by the Hyde Park Harriers.  We had 8 runners in the senior men’s race and Rachel Bourne in the senior women’s race.  It was a challenging multi lap course at Light Water Valley Theme Park.

Rachel was a creditable 47th out of 138, while Matthew Pinnock was first of the Harrier men home in 87th out of 269.  The rest of the team all produced a great performance with Anthony Aimon, Tom Pollard, James Booth, Tom Eales, Tom Mason, Scott Henderson and Ken Fox all representing Hyde Park Harriers.

   

Sunday was the first running of the Temple Newsam 10 miler.  A good mix of a route, plenty of mud of course and an excellent turnout of 16 men and 15 ladies.  We were presented with a trophy for the best supported club.

David Driver was first Harrier home in an excellent 2nd place, with Stan Karanasios not far behind in 4th and Colin Tranter in 17th.

 

 

Rachel did the double and was first Harrier lady home in 69th, Rebecca Rogers came in 106th and Monica Padilla 129th.

 

 

YXC	Men				Ladies
Position	Name	Time	Division		Position	Name	Time	Division
87th	Matthew Pinnock	44.19	1st		47th	Rachel Bourne	39.26	1st
127th	Anthony Aimon	46.37	1st
178th	Tom Pollard	49.45	2nd
185th	James Booth	50.12	Prem
190th	Tom Eales	50.45	1st
195th	Tom Mason	51.16	2nd
197th	Scott Henderson	51.18	Prem
241st	Ken Fox	56.43	Prem
TNT
2nd	David Driver	1.02.37	1st		69th	Rachel Bourne	1.15.39	1st
4th	Stan Karanasios	1.04.17	Prem		106th	Rebecca Rogers	1.19.13	Prem
17th	Colin Tranter	1.08.48	1st		129th	Monica Padilla	1.21.14	Prem
37th	Chris Smith	1.12.15	Prem		265th	Hannah Marshall	1.29.15	2nd
40th	Matt Jackson	1.12.21	Prem		282nd	Clare Evans	1.30.34	2nd
42nd	Charlie Jackett	1.12.31	Prem		329th	Dote Stone	1.33.26	2nd
44th	Tom Pollard	1.12.46	2nd		364th	Jennifer Gridley	1.35.35	2nd
88th	Aron Hinds	1.17.23	2nd		384th	Lois Gardner	1.37.20	2nd
90th	Paul Sawyer	1.17.45	2nd		425th	Heather Fulton	1.39.15	2nd
100th	David Womersley	1.18.58	Prem		453rd	Caroline Sanders	1.40.42	2nd
218th	Scott Watson	1.26.17	2nd		462nd	Vicky Houghton	1.41.21	Prem
344th	John Blatherwick	1.34.35	2nd		470th	Sarah Farnell	1.42.03	1st
411th	Bartosz Lewandowski	1.39.19	2nd		520th	Nicola Forwood	1.47.58	Prem
496th	Richard Edwards	1.45.02	Prem		605th	Claire Hougham	1.59.04	1st
601st	Daniel Waas	1.57.41	Prem		634th	Sara Scholes	2.05.10	2nd
643rd	Paul Jones	2.06.40	2nd		DNF	Tee-Jay Jones

So how did all this leave the championship……..

Men’s Premier – This went to the wire, James Booth lead going into the final weekend and took a maximum score at the Yorkshire’s, but thanks to a second place points at Temple Newsam and James having to drop scores Chris Smith takes the honours by 7 points.  Stan scored his first points of the year with a maximum score which all 20 men in the premier division scored points.  Daniel Waas was the only person to score on all 7 rounds.

Men’s 1st – David Driver scored maximum points at TNT his 3rd max score from 4 events he entered.  This was enough to finish runner up, but it was Tom Eales who takes the honours after a strong season.  12 men scored points in the 1st division.

Men’s 2nd –  Tom Pollard was the only man to do the double and was strong taking top spot at both events.  Even though he was under the weather Champion Scott Watson still turned out but didn’t need to after a strong 5 scored all ready giving him top spot.  Paul Sawyer finished the year strong and claimed runner up spot.  22 men scored.

Ladies Premier – Rebecca Rogers was already champion with a maximum score but continued her excellent year claiming another top score.  Vicky Houghton had a strong year finishing runner up with Monica Padilla 3rd.  9 ladies scored in the Premier league.

Ladies 1st – Rachel Bourne did 4 rounds taking maximum scores at all 4 to be champion.  Sarah Farnell missed the first 3 rounds but a strong second half of the year saw here finish runner up with Claire Hougham 3rd.  11 ladies scored in the 1st division.

Ladies 2nd – Lucy Rider had to miss this round but 4 wins and a 3rd was good enough to claim top spot 6 points clear of Dote Stone.  Dote had a great battle with Clare Evans who finished 1 point behind in 3rd.  22 ladies scored points.

Promotion and relegation – At the start of the year we say 3 up, 3 down.  If more don’t score than more will be promoted.  As it stands 3 men will be relegated from the premier, with 3 going up.  7 men didn’t score in the 1st division and will all be relegated, 8 will be promoted from the 2nd division as we all ready had one space.

For the ladies rather than 20 in the division we had 15.  9 scored in the premier, meaning 6 down and 6 up from the 1st.  11 scored in the 1st division meaning 4 down and 4 up from the 2nd.  We may look to make the divisions up to 20 but will discuss this at a later date.  Hope you all enjoyed your Off Road Championship Year.

 

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