HAVOC compete at the EAOA Compass Sport Trophy qualifying heat
HAVOC competed in the Compass Sport Trophy qualifying heat at Brandon Country Park, on 22nd February.
Results didn't go totally our way, and we failed to qualify for the final. However, we had some excellent runs:
Hugo Maule-Lidbury - 100 points in class 10M
Andrew Welsh - 97 points in class 6
Gillian Edgar - 97 points in class 7
Barbara Beckett - 96 points in class 8
Amelie Maule-Lidbury - 96 points in class 10W
We showed some remarkable club spirit. We had people running injured (or recovering from injuries). We had people running who hadn't run for ages but still gave their all for the club. We had people running harder courses than they should have to, just to ensure we got scorers on all courses needed for the trophy.
We are a small club, and so every runner who can't make it due to injury, or other commitments, makes it more difficult for the team to score well, as we have to have runners running up, and therefore are against people younger than them who are more suited to the courses they are running. And, of course we lose that person from scoring well on the course they are supposed to run!
Despite this, despite the fact that we had the smallest team of all the competing clubs, despite the fact that we were facing higher ranked runners in all cases, we held our own. We were 57 points off qualifying for the final. Sounds a lot, but that is less than 5 places for each of our top 13. When you look at times, that is only around 5 mins in a lot of cases.
Thanks to all runners who had to run up a class or two - Paul, Jenny, Guy, Mike, Zbig, Colin.
And, finally, thanks to ALL who ran for the club.