HEREFORDSHIRE & BORDERS CROSS COUNTRY LEAGUE (SUMMER)

The dates for the Hereford & Borders Summer Off-Road League sponsored by Kate Green Soft Tissue Therapist & Promarine Finance have been announced.

We are looking forward to the league starting next month, with majority of the venues confirmed.

πŸ“† Race 1, 14th June

πŸ“Rotherwas, hosted by Hereford Triathlon Club

Summer Offroad League is back! Congratulations to everyone who took part in tonights first of the Summer XC League at Rotherwas!

Our A team took 5th place in a competitive race! Our B & C teams finished 1st B & C teams! πŸ™ŒπŸ™Œ

We had category wins for both Stephen Snead & Martin Carter 😎A huge thank you to Hereford Triathlon Club for organising tonight race πŸ‘πŸ‘Next up,

Newton Court in 2 weeks.

πŸ“† Race 2, 28th June

πŸ“Newton Court, hosted by Hereford Couriers Running Club

Race 2 of the summer off-road league done βœ…οΈ

A huge thank you to everyone who made tonight’s Herefordshire Athletics Association Herefordshire & Borders Summer Off-Road League Race possible.

We would like to thank Paul, his family, and the team at Newton Court for being fantastic hosts.

With this being a new cross-country venue for the Couriers , Newton Court couldn’t have done enough for us πŸ‘πŸ»

A big shout out to our marshalls for supporting before and during the race. You were awesome (sorry about the rain) ❀️

Well done to our super runners. It was a 5th and 6th place finish for the red – we will digest the individual results tomorrow. Top job tonight – Thank you everyone πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈπŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸ™Œ

πŸ“† Race 3, 12th July

πŸ“ Ross- on- Wye, hosted by Forest of Dean AC.

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the 3rd race of the Summer XC League in Ross tonight. A huge thanks to Forest of Dean Athletic Club for hosting a great race.

It was another competitive fixture with our first team coming in 4th place πŸ‘ with Charmaine Porter taking victory in the females race πŸƒβ€β™€οΈ

Well done reds 😎The full results can be found here: https://www.readysetgotiming.co.uk/2023-results

πŸ“† Race 4, 26th July

πŸ“Westons Cider, hosted by Ledbury Harriers

All races will start at 7:30pm.

Full details for each race will be shared with Club Captains soon.

SUMMER 2022

Last night was the final race of the Herefordshire & Borders Summer Off-road League, in the overall series the Couriers β€˜A Team’ finished 4th in the club standings just behind Ludlow Runners in 3rd, our β€˜B team’ finished in 6th and our β€˜C team’ in 11th.

We celebrated plenty of age category awards, we saw wins for Matt James, Dave Williams and Steve Herrington. Scott Kennedy & Ellie Smithers picked age category Silvers with Christina Plant, Clare Mallender, Dan Spear and Martin Carter bagging some well deserved bronzes!

In the Couriers cup’s Ryan Knight had a great run of races to win the David Preece Cup ahead of Ryan Lawrence & Will Morris in 2nd and 3rd.

The Alison Cooke Cup went right down to the last race with Ellie Smithers taking victory by one point in the last race over Christina Plant, Laura Hands completed a strong set of races to finish 3rd.

Well done to all of our winners and to those who got involved, on we go to the winter league!