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SOL2 at Touch a great success
FVO put on a second superb event at the weekend; with many brilliant comments coming back to the club about the events, the courses, the planning and the organisation by email and on Nopesport. Also, a few wee wins. Congrats to all our class winners. M40L - Steve Nicholson
- M45L - Steve Barrett
- M50L - Martin Dean
- JW5L - Tori Longhurst (who denied rumours she drove round!)
- W35L - Beccy Osborn
- W40L - Cathy Tillbrook
- W60S - Maureen Brown
- W65S - Lucille Macleod
- White - Grace Molloy
FVO's Double Champion
FVO's Jamie Stevenson - already British Champion for his age class - became the Scottish Under 16 Fell Running Champion on at Ben Lomond on Saturday. Despite the poor forecast, the 2008 Ben Lomond race ran in perfect conditions, sunny but not too hot. Jamie then rushed back to take part in our sprints at Stirling (where we were not quite so lucky with the weather).
The first girl in the U19 category was Catriona Buchanan. Well done to both of you.
Scottish Sprint Championships
An exciting afternoon, with a fantastic finish as the seeded runners came in towards the end of the afternoon, with a "photo finish" failing to split FVO's Ross McLennan and Douglas Tullie from EUOC who both finished in just 18.31; the Womens Open champion, also representing EUOC, was Becky Carlyle.
Good results all round for FVO. Congratulations to all who excelled themselves at the Scottish Sprint Champs on Saturday:
- M18- Stuart Thomson – Gold! Jack Barrett – Bronze
- M40+ Martin Dean – Silver
- W18- Abi Longhurst – Silver
- W Open – Janine Inman – Bronze
- M Open – Rosco – GOLD!!!!!
British Championships at Culbin
Huge congratulations to the FVO runners crowned as new British Champions after the superb races this weekend in a successful return to Culbin forest. Leading the charge for FVO were Jamie Stevenson in M16A, Martin Dean in M50L, Gareth Bryan-Jones in M65L and Victoria 'should have run elite' Longhurst in W20L - fantastic to see them all on top of the podium!
The successful championships relied on the huge contribution played by individual day planner Steve Nicholson, to day organisers organisers Fraser Purves and Mark Grant, to Brian Bullen as relay controller and to all the other FVO people who played roles in the event organisation.
There were other great individual performances as well, with podium places for Jack Barrett (3rd M16A), Jason Inman (2nd M35L) and Becy Osborn (3rd W35L). Well done too to all the elite runners from FVO - top finishers were Ewan McCarthy 6th on M21E and Janine Inman 13th on W21E.
Sunday's relays saw a number of good team performances. Closest to a win and our only top three finishers were the Women's Short team of Abi Longhurst, Victoria Longhurst and Beccy Osborn. Second place and only a minute down. Well done to all three of them. Honourable mentions also to the M18 and M40 teams (both fourth), the W40 team (fifth) and the M14 team (sixth). Particular mention to this latter team as it actually contained two W14s and only one M14 - a great effort from Frances Brown, Craig Thomson and Morven Dean. Finally here, many thanks to Jon Cross for planning and replanning the relay teams as various people entered and dropped out of competition.
British Middle Distance Champion
Congratulations to Jon Cross. On the 5th April at Hopwas Woods, Tamworth - Jon won the M40 class in the British Elite Middle Distance Championships. Full results at here
JK Results
Congratulations to lots of FVO people for some excellent performances over the weekend......
At the JK individual (snowstorms at every day!), Abi Longhurst and Jamie Stevenson both made the podium with great 3rd places on W16A and M16A, - both days were selection races for the summer tours so this puts them both in a strong position for a nice foreign trip later in the year! Well done also to Amy Barrettt for 2nd place on W18S. Jamie was also 2nd in the sprint race on the Friday, so a very successful weekend for him.
Also in the individual there were also top 10 results from Craig Thomson (7th M14A), Jason Inman (6th M35L), Jon Cross (10th M40L) and Gary Longhurst (4th M45S) - Gary winning the second day by 2 minutes.
There was FVO success also in the relay, where a fantastic run from Jason Inman brought the Mens 120+ team (Jon X, Steve Barrett, Jason) from 5th to 2nd on the final leg. It was all very close as the teams in positions 6th to 11th all set off on the final leg within a minute of Jason, but a great no-mistakes run and a crucial finishing sprint (all those winter intervals!) secured the podium place.
Meanwhile at the 'alternative JK' over Easter weekend - the Spanish Championships in Murcia - there was an FVO triumph as Beccy Osborn took victory in D35A. Congratulations to her on winning both days by small margins to take the overall title and the prize of a speciality of the region - not some wine but instead some rice!
Well done to everyone on some great results - four weeks now to "the best race of 2008", the British Championships at Culbin Forest in Morayshire, planned by our own Steve Nicholson. Keep up the training and let's see lots more individual and relay podiums there!
Compass Sport Cup
A good result for FVO, again coming first in the CST qualifier with a total of 1274 points; coming well ahead of Clyde in second place on 1170 points. FVO scoring results below:
| Brown | Men | Blue | Women | |||
| Will | 3rd | 98 | Hazel | 1st | 100 | |
| Roger | 4th | 97 | Janine | 3rd | 96 | |
| Fraser | 5th | 96 | ||||
| Blue | Men | Green | Women | |||
| Martin | 1st | 100 | Abi | 1st | 100 | |
| Steve | 2nd | 99 | Tori | 4th | 94 | |
| Green | Men | Green | Vets | |||
| Dave | 2nd | 98 | Maureen | 2nd | 98 | |
| Light | Green | |||||
| Jack | 1st | 100 | ||||
| Jamie | 2nd | 99 |
FVO AGM
At the AGM on Friday 25th January, the following members were elected onto the club committee
| President | Gary Longhurst |
| Vice President | Brad Connor |
| Secretary | David Nicol |
| Treasurer | Roger Goddard |
| Committee | Hazel Dean |
| Committee | Kyle Heron |
| Committee | Steve Barrett |
Draft minutes of the meeting are available here. The following (non-committee) post holders were noted
| Team Captain | Jon Cross |
| Wednesday Evening Co-ordinator | Beccy Osborn |
| Newsletter | Editor of the month |
| Membership Secretary | Susan Hensman |
| Web | David Nicol |
| Permissions | Hazel Dean |
| Head Coach | Jason Inman |
| Electronic Equipment | Brad Connor |
| Equipment Store | Maureen Brown |
| Child Protection Officer | Hazel Dean |
