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British Long Distance and Relay Championships Report
News from the British Championships last weekend including a silver medal in the relays ...
Thanks to Lorna Eades for this report.
A small group of around 15 Interlopers made the journey down to Newbury and Henley for the 2023 British Long distance and British Relay championships last weekend. Thankfully most of us had relatively straightforward journeys down compared to other travellers (Poor weather for driving and Friday evening flight cancellations from Edinburgh causing others major problems).
Long Distance Championships
The Long Distance Championships were held on Cold Ash, an area of mixed forest with myriad paths and rides, although it was often faster to run in the forest as many of the paths grew progressively muddier as the day wore on. Poor compass work was often punished as it was very easy to drift off onto similar looking features. Sadly there were no individual medals for the club this year but still some commendable results
- W14 Lucy Ward 8th
- W20E Fiona Eades (EUOC) 6th
- W21E Claire Ward 7th
- W21E Louise Adams 12th
- W21E Mairi Eades (EUOC) 11th
- W55L Lorna Eades 11th
- W60L Mo McIntyre Rtd
- M16 Laurence Ward 5th
- M21E James Ackland (CUOC) 15th
- M21E Ben Stevens Rtd
- M55L Colin Eades 12th
- M50L Ben Hartman 18th
- M60L Rob Lee 20th
- M65L Graham McIntyre 37th
Relay Championships
The next day we headed further east to Hambleden near Henley on Thames. The terrain was very runnable, mostly white mixed forest, but quite hilly. Added novelty wildlife that was spotted included wild boar, deer and the area's resident wallaby.
Interlopers had two teams entered, Mixed Ad Hoc (Lucy, Laurence and Colin) and a Women's short (Louise Lorna and Claire). The Ad Hoc team all had superb runs to deliver a silver medal. The women's short team finished a commendable 4th in a very close fought last leg.
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