AIRE places 5th in CompassSport Cup Final
Thanks to everybody who represented AIRE in the final at Tankersley, Hesley and Parkin Woods on Sunday. We had a really good turnout of 59 runners on the day with representation across all the age classes from the 12s to the 80s. The team gamely tackled courses in the wooded post-industrial landscape; some with great aplomb, some with exasperation in places (more the latter for me!).
In a field of 10 very competitive clubs we finished 5th, just 4 points off 4th position. Full results are:
SYO | South Yorkshire | 2397 |
FVO | Forth Valley | 2368 |
WCOC | West Cumberland | 2245 |
OD | Octavian Droobers (Coventry) | 2183 |
AIRE | You know who | 2179 |
SLOW | South London | 2100 |
DVO | Derwent Valley | 2049 |
LEI | Leicester | 1549 |
BOK | Bristol | 1460 |
ESOC | Edinburgh Southern | 825 |
I’ve shown the full names of our rivals as some newer members may not know from the abbreviated club names. You can see it was a truly national event, and congratulations to SYO on an impressive win on home ground. Their total represents just under 96 points for each scorer: remarkable.
Our top 25 points scorers are as follows:
Brown
Ben Stevens 91
Andrew Stemp 90
Tim Patterson 87
Ian Furlong 79
Short Brown
David Alcock 90
Matthew Hall 87
Adrian Hall 86
David Bowman 81
Blue Women
Alice Leake 99
Fay Walsh 92
Jo Buckley 82
Anne Murgatroyd 79
Blue Men
Al Powell 91
Neil Conway 89
Green Women
Natasha Conway 86
Green Men
Peter Haines 100
Rob King 82
Simon Froude 80
Short Green Veterans
Tony Thornley 99
Ken Patterson 84
Chris Burden 77
Green Junior Men
Jake Powell 80
Short Green Junior Women
Emily Gibbins 90
Orange Girls
Katie Buckley 82
Orange Boys
Henry Stitson 96
Great performance by Pete to secure maximum points and Alice and Tony only just missed out on bagging 100 as well. Also really encouraging to see the juniors scoring good points for us, so congratulations to Jake, Emily, Katie and Henry. I should mention that we did have another course winner as Bethan was fastest on the string course and won the Golden String Trophy which I was proud to collect for her on the day!
I have some maps left over from the event: Brown, Blue Women, 2 No. Blue Men, Green Men, Vets Short Green. I you want to reclaim yours I’ll bring them to the next AIRE events or else I’m happy to post them to you. Lindsey has the junior course maps.
Finally many thanks to the Committee for paying the entry fees for all AIRE competitors. Next year we aim for the podium.
Steve Webb