By Rob | February 9, 2014
Sphinx AC men gave it everything they had at the last race in this season’s Birmingham League XC fixtures but the task of rising out of the relegation zone was just too much.
A very special “congratulations” goes to Ben Orme, who celebrated his 80th consecutive XC event.
Sphinx, Northbrook and Masseys were all jostling for positions to avoid relegation, but sadly (and quite surprisingly, it has to be said), all three Coventry teams have been relagated to division three. Fear not, division two, we will return!
Official results are here (PDF):
http://www.birminghamccleague.co.uk/images/stories/bdccl/articlepdfs/XC_League_Archive/2013-14/2014-02-08-M2.pdf
Pos Time Name 18 41:16 Ashley Miles 80 45:15 Ian Wilkinson 84 45:30 Andrew Lovelock 86 45:44 Andy Wilkinson111 46:56 Adam Barnes136 48:23 Mike Wall141 48:50 Nick Gilkes167 50:12 Pete Hall169 50:26 Ben Orme185 51:26 Colin Piper214 54:26 Kevin Naughton219 54:44 Paul Slatford233 55:58 Wayne Broadbent236 56:51 Steve Court258 64:20 Paul Bergin
A team: 13th: 18, 80, 84, 86, 111, 136 = 515B team: 11th: 141, 167, 169, 185, 214, 219 = 1095
A team: 18th: 708, 537, 574, 515 = 2334B team: 8th: 1163, 1144, 1003, 1095 = 4405
We’ve got oodles of photos that show the somewhat grim conditions that our runners had to endure!
- https://picasaweb.google.com/101685643019440301850/20140208CoundonXcSet1BernardBlundell
- https://picasaweb.google.com/101685643019440301850/20140208CoundonXcSet2PhillipWilkinson
- https://picasaweb.google.com/117120894400785241747/XCRace4CoundonPark080214
- https://plus.google.com/photos/115820135440202230482/albums/5978098647879496497