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Scottish Champs
Congratulations to all our FVO people who came away from this weekend's Scottish Championships with trophies and medals!
In the individual championships then FVO's Scottish Champions were Roger Goddard in M35L, Beccy Osborn in W35L, Steve Nicholson in M40L and Gareth Bryan-Jones in M60L (running up an age class!). There were many other silver and bronze medals, including a clean sweep of the medals on M35L, and top FVO runners on the elite courses were Ross McLennan in 8th on M21E and Becky Carlyle in 4th on W21E.
In the relay our men's team of Ross McLennan, Steve Nicholson and Roger Goddard was in the fight for the medals all through the race and ended up in 4th place, with our women's team of Hazel Dean, Kirsty Bryan-Jones and Becky Carlyle overcoming a minor 'where's my e-card' loss of ten minutes to take excellent silver medals. In the junior relay our leading team of Grace Molloy, Daniel Stansfield and Frances Brown finished a good seventh, with Daniel repeating his JK relay performance by running fastest on his leg.
Pride of place on relay day went to our handicap teams - Louise Longhurst was first back on leg one in the handicap race, running for our Handicap 18 team, only for the Handicap 9 team of Martin Dean, Brian Bullen and Steve Barrett to take the lead on leg two and hold that lead to take victory at the finish. They are clearly an ever-youthful team as for some reason they were given the junior relay trophy in error at the prizegiving!
Six Day Mountain Biking
On the "rest day" at the Six Day, why not try out Janine's mountain biking event. Entries at Fabian 4, though if you are not already a member you will have to join the Trail Cyclist Association first (its FREE)
JK Success
Great news from the JK in Northumberland this week - not just that the sun shone, but also that FVO people were in the prizes once again!
Individual highlight of the weekend must be the individual win for Gareth Bryan-Jones in M65L, where only one person could get within eight minutes of Gareth on the second day as he stormed through to win!
Relay day saw another highlight as the FVO Men120+ team took on perennial champions and favourites South Yorkshire - and ran a faster time than their rivals on each of the three legs to record a clear victory! Great work by Roger Goddard saw the team take a narrow lead on leg one, Martin Dean ran the fastest time for leg two to extend the lead, and Jason Inman sped round leg three to complete the win - congratulations!
In the individual races, as well as Gareth's win, FVO's other medallists were Roger Goddard and Jason Inman with 2nd and 3rd in M35L and Steve Barrett with 2nd in M45L - hard earned medals on long tough courses,
In addition there were a number of very near misses for the podium. Martin Dean in M50L, Rona Molloy in W40L, Beccy Osborn in W35L (Beccy also took FVO's only medal at Friday's sprint race, with bronze in W35) and Frances Brown in W14A were all fourth and Daniel Stansfield in M12A was 5th. There was also a first JK win for Grace Molloy in W10B, plus other FVO prizewinners with Victoria Longhurst winning W20L, Becky Carlyle W21L, and Gary Longhurst 2nd in M50S.
Relay day saw many other fine runs but no other medals although the fifth-placed M165+ team of Gareth, Brian Bullen and Dave Coustick came within tantalising seconds of third place. Our leading Men's Open team finished in 11th place, hampered by injury striking Will Hensman on last leg when he was lying in an excellent 6th place. This allowed our Women's Open team to finish higher than the men, congratulations to them on their 9th place!
And it was great also to see FVO field a team in the mini-relay for the first time for a few years - the team of Grace Molloy, Clare Stansfield and Daniel Stansfield ran really well and finished well up the field - Daniel on the final leg came flying through the field to 7th place with the fastest leg time of the day by over a minute, a brilliant effort by him.
British Age Class Sprint Championships
Results are now available - take a look at the Results page! You'll also find links to WinSplits there. RouteGadget to follow (honest!)
FVO wins the Scottish heat of the CompassSport Trophy competition
Congratulations to everyone who turned out for FVO on Sunday and helped us through to yet another Compass Sport Trophy Final - a great effort!
It was particularly noticeable how the junior courses contributed to our score on Sunday. On the Light Green it was Jack Barrett and Morven Dean (good to see Jack back running and winning, and great work by Morven to score over 90 points on a course that is usually dominated by the M16s and M18s). Meanwhile on the Orange our point scorers were Frances Brown in second building on her strong start to the season, and M12 Daniel Stansfield scoring Compass Sport Trophy points for FVO for the first time and beating all the other M12s and M14s.
Welcome also to new member Becky Carlyle who marked her first CST run for FVO with second in the women's race. Everyone contributed strongly - it was very noticeable how many people over and above the 13 counters scored a high number of points and forced down the scores of runners from other clubs - this can be vital so well done and thank you to everyone!
New Club Tops
FVO have a new club top which is laser printed with our own unique design and incorporates the colours and style of our current top. It will be produced in a coolmax polyester fabric, with a zip neck.
Tops are available in unisex sizes xxs, xs, s, m, l, xl and xxl (which roughly translates to chest sizes 32”, 35”, 38”, 40”, 42”, 44” and 46”). The tops are made of stretch fabric and designed to be worn “fitted” so if you prefer a more “roomy” fit you may wish to buy a larger size. If you would like the fit to be similar to the current FVO Trimtex top I would suggest buying one size larger.
If you would like to order a top, please contact Louise Longhurst by Friday 23rd January
2008 Club Champions
Will Hensman and Janine Inman flew around Barr Wood to record clear victories in the Senior Mens and Womens club champs on November 22nd. It was a crisp morning, so running fast certainly helped you to keep warm! Steve Barratt planned some excellent courses to test everyone's concentration; few had entirely clean runs.
Steve Nicholson also posted a clear win in the Veteran Mens' race, but the Veteran Ladies' competition was a much closer affair; Rona Molloy and Cathy Tilbrook had to share the victory after recording exactly the same time! Frances Brown won the Senior Girls; Junior Girls and Junior Boys champs were Morvern Dean and Daniel Stansfield respectively. Congratulations to all! And thanks to Steve for such enjoyable and challenging courses.
Results here.
Compass Sport - Winners
In a very close final, FVO came out winners at the Compass Sport Trophy final at Sutton Park to retain our title. Some great runs by FVO members across all the courses were just enough for FVO to beat SARUM into second place by just 10 points.
Particular mention to Abi Longhurst, Steve Barrett, Gareth Bryan-Jones and Stuart Thomson for their excellent runs to be the winners of their courses, and there were also fine top three places for Marcus Pinker, Craig Thomson and Jamie Stevenson (Stuart and Jamie completing an FVO 1-2 whitewash on the U18 course).
Other scoring runners for FVO were Jason Inman, Jon Cross, Gary Longhurst, Ted Finch, Janine Inman and Frances Brown - but that is only part of the story, it is very much a competition for the whole team and everyone present plays their part in affecting the scores of the other clubs - so many thanks and congratulations to everyone who ran for us for their contribution to our success!
