Midland Champs - 24 Jan 2009
Marley leads men to 6th place, whilst ladies finish 10th
At the end of a long days competition Nigel Marley led the Senior Men home to claim an excellent 34th place when he covered the 4 lap and 11km course in 39 mins 58 secs. Liam Ratcliffe also produced a good performance to record 41.21 in 54th spot. Jamie Sewell was the next man over the line in 95th position with 43.26 and Mark Armstrong sneaked into the top 100 (100th in 43.44 ).Veteran Brendan Moen continued his consistent form to record 44.22 in 112th and completing the team was Steve Milner in 123rd with 44.54. The team finished in 6th place. Also running but not scoring were 138th Vince Carroll 45.48 139th Rob McDougall 45.50 172nd Nigel Roberts 47.52 185th John Saw 48.45 229th Adrian White 52.00
County runner -up Alison Cooper was the first Senior Lady for the club in 56th place with 34 mins 37 secs, but she had to hold off British Masters Champion Angela Copson who was just one place and eight seconds behind. Madeleine Smith recorded 36.15, which put her in 72nd spot and Annette Carlin finished in 90th with 37.53 to put the team in 10th place. The squad was completed by Kate Lundy 38.23 110th Ann Rollings 40.34 115th Sharon Fearn 41.02
Hannah Jones had a good solid run to claim 11th spot (21.26) in the under 20 Womens race.
