News: January 2025

Cassiobury Park really is a testing course, and it is great to see it as a regular fixture again in the Chiltern League. The grasslands for the younger years make way for predominately gravel paths and woodland tracks for the older age groups, so as ever footwear choice is really tricky. It was even more challenging as the sun had melted the ice on the top, but the ground underneath was absolutely rock solid.

Of course, nothing gets in the way of our athletes, and although unfortunately there was a lot of illness about, we still had good numbers out. Their good spirit and efforts never fail to impress, and it was so pleasing to see that some were really happy with their runs – so they should be! As you will see from the results, there were some really great performances (and remember that some of our runners are a year down in their age-groups too!). But all of our athletes should be proud of what they did and getting round!

Oxford next, the last match of the season, on February the 8th. Hopefully all the coughs and colds will be long gone, and the injuries will have all healed up by then….and there will be a coach! It might even be less muddy than last time (surely it has to be!)?

A small team of SNHAC athletes made the journey down to Trent Park on Saturday to take part in the county cross country championships. Top performer was Sarena So who took bronze in the U15 girls race. Also competing in the same race were Neve Sayers (7th), Hannah Cook (8th) and Indiya Quinlan 9th. U17 woman Esme Searle was 4th in her race, with U17 man Aubrey Murray 7th. In the U13 races Haysan So was 9th in the girls' race and James Cook 13th for the boys. Under 11 boy Matthew Cook was 11th and finally Senior Man Adam Searle came 41st.

Full results can be found on the county website at http://www.hertscaaa.org.uk/2020results.html