Georgia
Atkins - Selected for World Schools in Doha - 20/11/09
England
are taking just 6 of their best male and female athletes to this major world games in
December. Georgia has been selected to race in the 100m hurdles and
relay. Already this year Georgia has seen competed in Tallinn, as a
representative of her school and Tampere, as a member of the GB youth team. So
the very best of luck in your first World games. website http://www.gymnasiade.com/
Indoor
& Winter Fixture Lists Updated - 14/11/09
The
second round of the Essex League took place at a wet and windy Hylands Park on
Saturday 14th November.
The
organisers had set up the course on Friday only to find much of it blown away
by the strong winds that arrived Friday evening and Saturday morning.
Athletes
from Chelmsford Athletic club provided four individual winners as well as
three team victories to show that the club is one of the strongest in
Essex
across all age groups.
The
U13 Girls got proceedings off to a fine start by comfortably winning the team
race with Katie Solis 2nd, Rosa Prideaux 3rd, Jodie Judd 4th and Natasha Fisher
7th. Chris Waltham won the U13 Boys individual race. Jessica Judd easily won the
U15 Girls event and led
Chelmsford
to team victory. An England International, Jessica had been suffering from a
virus for the two weeks preceding this race. "I wanted a confidence booster
before the South of England Inter Counties cross country next weekend, I am
happy with my performance and should get back to full strength over the
next few days."
Stephen
Woodford and Sam Robinson were a fine 2nd and 3rd in the U15 Boys event and led
their team mates to another win. Alex Short ran one of the best races of the day
to win the U17 Boys race; he was always in the leading group and made his move
into the wind on the second lap to pull strongly away for a fine
victory. Katie Tuttlebury was 3rd in the U20 women’s race while Havering AC's
Harriet Scott made light work of the strong wind and heavy rain to easily win
the Senior Women’s race. Harriet commented "It was so windy out there at
times it was difficult not to end up being blown backwards. I wanted to race
here as
Hylands
Park
is like a home course for me and I enjoy racing here." The
final race of the day saw a terrific tussle with two
Chelmsford
athletes featuring prominently in the lead group of four until the final
stages. Lee Pickering had been at or near the front on the first lap although
towards the end only Ed Messer and Ryan Prout were still in contact with the
leaders. Messer made a strong effort with 400metres to go and no one was able to
go with him, Prout was 4th and with Messer only 2nd claim for Chelmsford these
days the team was 3rd, hopefully with some athletes to come back from illness
and injury and others hoping to progress into good form, the Chelmsford men can
go on to do very well this winter.
This
weekend several
Chelmsford
athletes are representing Essex in the South of
England
Inter Counties cross country at Hampstead Heath (21st November).
Essex
is a strong county at cross country running and hopefully will have
considerable success. Some
Chelmsford
athletes will be in the hunt for individual honours whilst for others it will
be a great learning experience.
Indoor
& Winter Fixture Lists Updated - 13/11/09
The
latest dates for indoor competitions have been added. Note that you will
need to access the links and enter yourself independently.
National
Road Relays
Sutton
Park
near
Birmingham
was the venue for the annual National Road Relays.
Chelmsford
had an U13 Girls and U15 Girls team running, unfortunately there were no other
age groups entered this year.
The
teams will gain great experience from running this tough and high standard
event.
In
the Under 13 Girls race on Sunday Millie Smith produced a strong
performance on first leg finishing in 11th position. She was the fastest of
the team although Christy Dailly moved them up to 8th which was held by Rosa
Prideaux on the final leg. Both Millie and Rosa have another year in this age
group.
The
Under 15 Girls race was always going to be quite a close race. Chelmsford were
up against 40 teams including the reigning champions Aldershot AC, also Bedford
AC coached by Alex Stanton who guided Paula Radcliff to the top, and Bracknell
AC, another strong club. Sophie Riches went on first leg for
Chelmsford
and continuing her current top form she came in 10 seconds clear in what was to
be the 2nd fastest run of the race. Sophie Croft took over on the second leg.
Her year has been interrupted by problems but she is returning to full fitness,
despite running strongly for the first 2k of the 3.8k race Sophie found the
hills towards the end quite tough and came in 9th. Jessica Judd attacked the
last leg in her usual dominant way and passed every team apart from
Aldershot
who were still 27 seconds clear at the end. Jessica ran the fastest time of the
race. To put into perspective this
achievement, Aldershot AC won every female race from U13 to Senior Women.
The
y have performed at this level for nearly 10 years, so the
Chelmsford
girls can be extremely pleased with their debuts in this event.
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