NEHL XC – Race 4 – Thornley Farm – 8/1/22
Women’s race: The women got the JJs off first round the toughest or best race of the NEHL, depending on your point of view, at Thornley Farm. Bring a working farm the ground was perfect for a XC. The women set off and were met with the new hurdle after the second hill, with the option of hurdling or jumping it, all the women got round safely. Laura Chapman had a storming run to finish 11th out of the medium pack but has now moved up to the fast pack for the final race. Megan Rowland, Liz Heard and Emily Green packed well to bring home the scoring four in 8th pace out of 10 teams in Division 1. As ever in the team race, all others help to push down other runners in our division. It was great to see Emily Green and Martha Radley making their XC debuts for the club. It’s great to have you racing for us. Good to see Jo King back out racing this year.
Being in Division 1 is a great achievement for a club our size and it will be great to have a good turnout for the last League race at a much easier Alnwick Castle venue. Well Done Ladies a great performance from all in very tough conditions.
11th Laura Chapman 34:06:00 31:46:00
70th Megan Rowland 36:39:00 36:39:00
81st Liz Heard 36:48:00 36:48:00
90th Emily Green 37:13:00 37:13:00
106th Lottie Rhodes 37:40:00 37:40:00
135th Jo King 38:35:00 36:15:00
143rd Kate Black 39:01:00 39:01:00
166th Kate Robson 39:51:00 37:31:00
177th Gerry Rowland 40:15:00 40:15:00
189th Martha Radley 40:41:00 40:41:00
211th Victoria Thompson 41:57:00 41:57:00
Team placings
8th JJs A 132 7-Chapman 38-Rowland 41-Heard 46-Green
12th JJs B 264 52-Rhodes 64-King 69-Black 79-Robson
JJs C Incomplete 84-Rowland 88-Radley 95-Thompson
Men’s Race: A race of attrition and a mud fest were some of the ways to describe the fourth race of the 2021/22 NEHL at Thornley Farm. The toughest or the best race of the season depending on how you look at it. The JJs men looked on it as the best race with them coming first team in Division 2 on the day beating much larger clubs and almost certainly keeping themselves in Division 2 next season with one race to go. An amazing performance from all the JJs men on a tough course with Joel Birks making his club debut to finish in 2nd place overall and receiving the JJs second ever medal at the NEHL, the second this season after Laura Chapman’s medal at Durridge Bay last October. Joel also ran our fastest time of the day. Along side Joel, Joe Inns, and Toby Routledge got promoted to the medium pack for the last race at Alnwick Castle. Everyone racing contributed to a great team performance, and it really shows the strength in depth we have at the club, possibly the strongest it has ever been. Well done lads a great performance from all in very tough conditions.
2nd Joel Birks 39:25:00 39:25:00
24th Joe Inns 43:26:00 43:26:00
32nd Toby Routledge 44:08:00 44:08:00
50th Alistair Maxwell 44:51:00 39:51:00
52nd Jonny Law 44:56:00 42:26:00
69th Tom Dowling 45:16:00 45:16:00
90th Jake Archer 5:56:00 45:56:00
143rd Dan Perry 47:38:00 47:38:00
216th Mark Adamson 50:05:00 50:05:00
249th Angus Miller 52:00:00 52:00:00
275th Cliff Veitch 53:49:00 53:49:00
300th Phillip Carr 55:34:00 55:34:00
309th Simon Wells 56:14:00 56:14:00
312th Chris Lawrence 56:37:00 56:37:00
323rd Tim Cook 57:30:00 57:30:00
358th Rob Dooley 62:58:00 62:58:00
368th Alex Dyter 64:42:00 64:42:00
Team placings
1st JJs A 61 1-Birks 5-Inns 7-Routledge 13-Maxwell 14-Law 21-Dowling
14th JJs B 456 32-Archer 50-Perry 75-Adamson 90-Miller 101-Veitch 108-Carr
JJs C Incomplete 115-Wells 116-Lawrence 121-Cook 129-Dooley 133-Dyter