The cross country season is well under way with the Trotters entered into two leagues. There is the saturday afternoon Essex l'gue and the sunday morning South Essex l'gue. In the saturday l'gue there are seperate races for the men (8k approx) and women (6-7k approx). The sunday l'gue is a combined race over (7-8k approx). All abilities welcome in both events. Please wear club colours.

There is also the opportunity to enter championship races as well ie Essex, Essex vets, Southerns, Nationals. As with the l'gues more in depth info about these events will be available when we receive it. Click the icon below to see the fixture list

ROUND 4 SOUTH ESSEX CROSS COUNTRY L'GUE ( SOUTH WEALD COUNTRY PARK) 

There was a fantastic turnout by the TGT (with some new faces on the scene) on a cold misty morning at South Weald . Surprisingly, we finished in 5th and last position in div 1, despite a respectable score of 260, beaten narrowly (1 point) by East Essex Tri. Ryan Prout was leading at half way, then  unfortunately took a wrong turn and was caught by the chasing duo of Rob Warner and eventual winner Crispian Bloomfield. Alan Butler was another unfortunate, picking up a knee injury during the race, but struggled on to the finish in probably his lowest position ever (36th),' hope it's not too serious Alan'. Tracey Alexandrou made a welcome return to the green vest finishing 14th woman and was ably backed up by 10 Trotter ladies which must be our best representation of the season. Well done to everyone.

The table below shows that we are only 2 points off relegation. There is one fixture left on february 19th at Gloucester Park (Basildon), so we need one last big effort to stay in div 1

4th round positions  div 1    1st   Billericay 140 points   2nd Benfleet   3rd Tri Sport Epping 224   4th East Essex Tri  259  5th TGT 260

Overall  positions     div 1   1st Benfleet 18 points  2nd Billericay 17   3rd TGT 9  4th East Essex Tri  9   5th Tri sport Epping 7

Trotter individual results

Men  3rd Ryan Prout   18th Nelson wandasiewicz  22nd Nick Knight   31st Barney MCCarthy  36th Alan Butler  44th Peter Barrett  54th Richard Thomas   58th Phil Cooper  62nd Mike Stagg  67th Richard Booth  94th Kevin Hinns  112th David Wiles   127th George Smith  137th Tom Walker  144th Stuart Mackintosh   152nd Shaun Sullivan  158th Steve Ward  159th Richard Harmer  164th Steve Birkett  180th David Porter  182nd Nick Stoddard

Women  14th Tracey Alexandrou  18th Lindsey Barker  20th Corina Holmes  22nd Jayne Pinner  32nd Loretta Carr  64th Alison Morton 66th Nicola Marks  67th Janet Abrams Heather Abrams  68th Heather Eltham  69th Kathleen Sullivan  71st Sylvia Clare

Full results at www.benfleetrunningclub.com

Cross Country Fixtures

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 I'll endeavour to uncover as many Trotter results as possible every weekend and mid week races too. This will mainly be in the Essex area, but if I get info ie word of mouth, through the forum or e-mail  of other events going on involving Trotters, British or world wide then they will be included.

 Thanks   John Barker

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