English National Cross-Country Championships

 

The English National Cross-Country Championships were held at Woolaton Park, Nottingham on Saturday 22nd February.

Settle Harriers had 2 representatives who did the club proud !

Congratulations to Seb Segger-Staveley who built on his excellent run in the Northerns a couple of weeks earlier and produced his best ever cross-country performance, finishing 19th in the Under 17 boys championships in a field of 286 runners.  In a very competitive field, Seb finished only 40 seconds outside the top 3.

Congratulations also to Dougie Segger-Stavelely who finished in an excellent 117th place out of 364 runners in the Under 15 boys championship.

Conditions were very muddy as you will see from the photos of Seb and Dougie below. 

Both Seb and Dougie have qualified to represent North Yorkshire Schools in the English Schools CCC coming up next month and Seb will also be representing Yorkshire in the Inter-Counties Championships.  Good luck to both of them !

 

 

 

 

 

Half-Term Update

 
This is just to let you know of junior events going on over half-term (for those that are not going away) and to pass on some other news that you/your child  might be interested in.
 
As you will see below, there will be junior training on Tuesday 18th Feb for those that can make it.
 
So coming up next week…….
 
 
Sun 16th Feb is the next KWL fixture at Barbondale  – a VERY steep one this – be warned !  Your child needs to be comfortable with steep climbs and steep descents !
 
Tue 18th Feb – Junior training at Eshtons as usual. Registration from 6.30pm (session starts at 6.40pm, finishes at 6.45pm)
 
Sun 23rd Feb is the Sedbergh School KWL fixture which is a counter for our Junior Club Championships (race 4) – an excellent one for all our juniors (over 8).  The race is held over the school’s tough and varied cross-country course.
 
 
(KWL information can be found at  http://www.helmhill.co.uk/ )
 
 
Other News
 
Social Run.

At junior training sessions on Tuesday evenings, we offer a social run for juniors of secondary-school age.  This is in addition (or an alternative) to the more intensive session for Years 7 to 13 aimed at the those wishing to prepare for competition.  The social run distance is usually around 5k and is led by Rachel, assisted by others from our coaching team. Rachel has now published a schedule of the social run routes along with a map showing each of the 4 current routes.  These can be viewed on our website here, social-run-routes.

Recent results

Our juniors continue to do great things in schools cross-country events.  Really well done to all the following………

Jack Sanderson:  representing North Yorkshire Schools, Jack finished 17th in the Northern Schools Inter-Counties CCC (minor boys) at Penrith on the 8th Feb.

Dougie Segger-Staveley : in the same event , representing North Yorkshire, Dougie finished 10th in the junior boys race.

Joseph Greenhalgh : Joseph qualified through 2 rounds to reach the Cumbria Primary Schools CC finals at Penrith on the 12th Feb where he finished 23rd.

Annabel Hinds : Annabel also qualified for the Cumbria Primary Schools CC finals where she finished in an excellent 6th place and gained selection for Cumbria Schools

Social Run Routes

At Settle Harriers junior training sessions on Tuesday evenings, we offer a social run for juniors of secondary-school age (school years 7 to 13).  This is in addition (or an alternative) to the Y7-12 session aimed at the those wishing to prepare for competition.  The distance is usually around 5k and the run is led by Rachel along with another from our coaching team.

A map showing the social running routes can be viewed below.  

Please remember that you must bring a headtorch to these sessions.

The schedule of runs for Feb and March is as follows

4th Feb- Route A
11th Feb- Route B
25th Feb- Route C
3rd March- Route D
10th March- Route A
17th March- Route B
24th March- Route C
31st March- Route D
 
Runners are coming up with their own imaginative route names so we can add these instead of calling them route A,B C D  once they have decided.
After Easter we will be able to do more off road as the light will be much better by then so will do some new routes for after Easter.
Hope to see lots of social runners out over the next few weeks !