Our masters athletes brought home the silverware across two contrasting events, defeating the worst that both Storm Austen and Boelo could throw at them!
In the British Masters Cross Country Relays at Horspath in Oxford, our M65-74 team won bronze 🥉.
Glynn Argust got the team off to a strong start, running the 3k leg in 14:08, which was the third quickest leg of the whole race!
Rick Cudworth clocked 14:32, Andy Nock ran 15:51 with John Hill bringing Halesowen home.in 18:29.
The M55-64 team of Mark Hadley, Barry Gardner, Bill Nock, Alex Morgan and Graham Gill placed fifth with Barry running the fastest ‘Owen leg of the day in 13:11.
Full results can be found here.
Here are some photos from the event.
On Sunday, Midland Masters medals were up for grabs at the Presidents 5k race walk, held on the grounds of the University of Warwick Science Park.
Experienced walker Julie Bellfield took W55 silver 🥈 finishing tenth overall in 33:39 and newcomer Jamie Sircom won M50 silver🥈in fourteenth in 36:11.
Two further Winter League race walking fixtures are planned which are open to all abilities of race walkers.
These are on Sunday 22nd November at Stourport Sports Club and on Sunday 6th December back at the University of Warwick.
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