Essex Cross Country League 2024 R2 GLOUCESTER PARK

The good points first – Adam Hickey won the Senior Mens and we continue to keep Havering at bay as we have won both matches.

Congratulations to Hayden Potton and Lewis Jopling who will represent Essex at the Inter Counties in December.

Well done to Elliot Potton – 10th place in his first Cross Country in the U11s.  He is only a year 5 and you can bet most of those are in Year 6!!  Also he was the only Southend representative.

Now the down side – we failed to field full teams in U13B (none at all), U13G, U15B, U15G, U17M and U17W.

I know in most cases there is a good reason for non attendance.

Therefore a special shout out for Olivia Atkinson and Leo Smith who were Southend’s sole representatives – well done for flying the the flag.

Not forgetting Harry Fairbrass, Chloe Fotherby and Sophie Dixon who were also in short teams!!

Carmen Jones was the only finisher in her race – unfortunately Florence Wallace collide wih a tree – she must be ok now as she was 1st Female in the LOSS 5K

Combined Results

All photos can be found at

Gloucester Park Photos

LOSS 10K SPOOKTACULAR

Our club continues dominance of this race with some outstanding performances with Adam Hickey leading the pack closely followed in 3rd place by Hugo Jones in 3rd place with a PB of 35:26 and the gong for U20.

There were some significant uphill stretches

Also note that a significant number of participants had also run in the Cross Country the day before!!

Full Results 

Pictures

Before the Race

The Start

10K Race

After the Race

LOSS 5K SPOOKTACULAR

Not content with winning the 10K the club won 1st place in both the male and female categories – Lewis Jopling – overall winner and Chloe Fotherby and Florence Wallace joint female winners

Parkrun

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Hyrox Madrid

WOW – Lindsey Colman
 
Women’s Open – first singles Hyrox event
🥇 AG 40-44
🥇 Overall winner
Qualified for Hyrox World Champs 2025 
 
Lindsey’s words
 
When we booked this event/half term break away at the beginning of the year, it was just for fun at the end of my triathlon season. Unfortunately, my triathlon season ended short with an accident After not being able to exercise for 5 weeks, I then made Hyrox Madrid start line my one and only goal. For the last 8 and half weeks I’ve done everything in my power to recover, speed up the healing process and get some fitness back. I would love to say it has been easy and pain free, but it really hasn’t, I’m still rehabbing my physical injuries.
 
I had zero expectations for this race, I just wanted to get to the finish line, do my family proud and pick up my finishing patch So when I found myself in the lead after the sled pull, I just pushed on and gave it everything I had. I definitely faded a little towards the end, I haven’t worked that hard in ages!!!
 
What excites me most about this, is I know with some consistent training, building my running back up and working on the Hyrox station movements I can improve
I big shout out to my family and friends for your support over the last few months