Results_

Not an easy course with a mile-long hill early on and fierce headwinds for much of the race. Cold too. Well done to Darryl for another excellent performance. The race was won by James Baker in 1:14:18 and there were 1135 finishers.

5th Darryl Hards 1:18:46
111th Andrew Haig 1:34:54
187th Terry Avey 1:39:33

Phil Hampshire pulled out at nine miles with calf strain, mindfull of his run in the New York Half Marathon in two weeks time.

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• Frosty (800m / 10km) Aquathlon Results

1 Hopkins, Tom (00:12:16/00:34:24) 00:46:40

10 Hughes, Malcolm (00:13:02/00:39:12) 00:52:14

13 Herron, Nigel (00:15:22/00:39:23)00:54:45

16 Sievewright, Andrew (00:12:55/00:42:55)00:55:50

18 Martin, Erica (00:15:30/00:41:38)00:57:08 2^nd FS

19 Woodman, tim (00:14:30/00:42:54)00:57:24

22 Harrington, Roland (00:14:13/00:43:32)00:57:45

34 Woodward, Richard (00:16:12/00:47:48)01:04:00

42 Evers, deborah (00:16:33/00:51:48)01:08:21 1stFSV

56 Mello-Costa, Ananda (00:21:50/01:01:11)01:23:01

58 Thomas, Paul (00:21:20/01:15:24)01:36:44

• Frostbite (400m / 5km) Aquathlon Results

4. Wes Mechen 27:16 (7:12/20:04)
16. Carla Price 35:05 (9:01/26:04)
21. George Browne 37:45 (9:29/28:16)

In the team race Phoenix Phast (Erica, Andrew, Tom and Malcolm) took the title.

Great performances by Phoenix (and well done to Paul and the marshalls too). Quite a few pbs – Bruce Warren, jim Whitelegg and Paul Thomas knocked huge chunks off their previous times.

2nd 1:08:30 Ian Leitch
8th 1:12:58 Dave Carter
14th 1:15:22 Daryll Hards
29th 1:18:50 Bruce Warren
34th 1:20:05 Bruce Faulkner
41st 1:20:52 Mike Townley
52nd 1:21:37 Mike Whyte
80th 1:24:18 Joe Francis
105th 1:25:24 John Marinko
129th 1:26:20 Jim Whitelegg
176th 1:27:54 Phil Hampshire
194th 1:28:24 Brian Friend
243rd 1:29:23 Andrew Neighbour
471st 1:34:15 Jon Mitchell
506th 1:35:04 Terry Avey (1st M60)
636th 1:36:58 Phillip Stevens
670th 1:37:48 Tom Sanderson
751st 1:38:54 Jonathan Lamb
826th 1:38:32 Stuart Batchelor
1331st 1:45:49 Stephen Fewings
1561st 1:47:22 Carol Webb
2146th 1:52:03 Peter Hards
2641st 1:57:14 Rik Taub
5496th 3:05:29 Paul Thomas

Great turnout for the junior races as well with Isaac Wright, Max Winter and Archie Davis in great form.

8–11 year olds
1st Isaac Wright 5:02
2nd Max Winter 5:05
Then well done to the rest of the Phoenix 'team' who finished in this order: Almaz Nerurkar, Charlotte Matthews, Louisa Sanders, Harry Swindells, Mia Whittaker-Jones, Adam Willard, Annie Tree, Lukas Nerurkar, Tallulah Jackson-Marrot, Daisy Reuby, Joshua White, Miles Jamie, Marie Belcher, Constance Pope, Alice Chapman, Laura Bird, Eve Hull, Alice Jeffrey, Laura Hewlett, Isabelle Curd, Madelaine Marinko Meacher.

12–16 year olds
2nd Archie Davis 4:40
25th Chay Reuby 6:07

Full results

At the last cross-country league race at Lancing on the 12th February, the Under 13 boys team who have been excellent all season took first place on the day and claimed silver team medal for the season.

With seven athletes in the team all performing well, the lads really showed the rest of us how its done. Team manager Quenton Davis puts it this way: 'I think a combination of up-and-coming talent & and our commitment to attendance in numbers saw us through'

Archie Davis was first home in third place just 23 seconds off the lead. Archie was unlucky to miss out on the individual medals by a whisker. Then we had Matt Berridge 7th, Reuben Hoyte 9th, Isaac Wright 12th, Will Russell 32nd and Josh White 40th. Joe Lillie was unlucky to have to withdraw with an injury.

U15 boys featured two ever-reliable athletes Sam Kitchen 9th and Luke Reynolds 21st and place sixth for the year.

There was no U17 boys team featuring at all in the results.

Charlotte Matthews ran well again for the U13s but without support the team was just 11th for the season. Jody Mann 6th, and Amber Muir 14th ran well for the under 15 girls but without a full team had to settle for 6th overall.

The senior women fielded just two runners, Liz Durman 15th and Megan Lillie (U17) 42nd. After poor representation all season they languish 5th in the second division.

The senior men again featured just two runners (James Miles an excellent 9th and Andrew Neighbour 69th) and had to depend on the vets for their scoring including 60+ runner Malcolm Kemp. They were inevitably well short of the medals in 5th place. The vet men have been reasonably represented during the season but were without their strongest team at Lancing. They held on to fifth place. Nigel Herron ran a terrific 34th and Malcolm Hughes 55th and Lance Bellers 67th were the other scorers.

We need to decide whether we want to succeed across the board in this competition next season and, if so, what can we learn from the U13 boys team?

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It's tough at this level, so some good performances here, especially by Archie in the U13 boys race. Figures in brackets give size of field/winning time.

U13 boys Archie Davis 32nd 12:29 (224/11:19)
Sen women Liz Durman 83rd 35:23 Erica Martin 90th 35:46 Sonal Chaudhary
331st 46:11 (381/29.47)
Sen men Dave Carter 106th 55:31 Andrew Neighbour 521st 1:08:04 (885/48:23)

Next year this fixture will be at Stanmer Park. Maybe we can look forward to a better turnout and, who knows, some teams!

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