Shugborough Relays

We (the family) arrived early and pitched the clubs new tent and as our runners arrived one came out with “crikey we’ve been booked into the O2 Arena” it will come in very handy at our club events.  Thanks to YOUNG CONTRACTING CO for donating that vital piece of equipment especially on some of our cold and wet winter events. We assembled for the team photo along with our new mascot Benson. I think our rivals are jealous a new tent and a gorgeous mascot. Check out the Gallery for additional photos.

Ok we did not win any trophies this year but the Shugborough relays were a resounding success for Chase Harriers once again. We again sent 9 teams and for the 1st time ever we did not have to get any of our men to run in more than one team. No such luck with our ladies with so many of our usual girls injured we had 2 of our girls run in 2 different teams. A big thank you to Caryn Shirley and Chrissy Bishop for that it’s always nice to finish our declared number of teams.

The one trophy  (men’s super vets)we thought we had a chance of didn’t happen as one of regular fast runners (Steve Loundes) ran with a nasty Achilles injury which he really shouldn’t have although he has promised to get it sorted before the cross country. Now that is what I call dedication. He was more than 2 minutes down on is usual pace.

Kevin was our fastest runner once again he did the 2 miles in 10 minutes 31 seconds. Our fastest lady (not sure of her exact time yet) was Chrissy Bishop I was surprised to hear her saying how nervous she was and Dave Rowlands reply was "yes I was last year but don’t worry it’s a great race just do your best" which is what she did.

Thanks again Harriers everyone seemed to enjoy themselves even Richard Soltysik who I never thought would do a race. Perhaps there’s a slight Chance of cross country Richard? I will put a link to results when we have them.