By Rob | January 13, 2014
Twenty-two Sphinx AC men fought the brave fight at our home XC event at Wyken Croft. Despite some excellent individual performances, the other teams in the relegation zone fielded some very strong teams and Sphinx finished last on the day and are currently bottom of the division. Barring a mass disqualification, zombie attack or plague outbreak, it’s now almost certain that Sphinx will be relegated to division three at the end of this season.
Conditions were OK to start with, but the shortened course meant that we had to run four laps – and the ground got sloppier and sloppier by the minute. As always, Sphinx provided a strong team of marshals and the post-event refreshments were truly superb – many thanks to everybody that helped out.
Official results are here (PDF):
http://www.birminghamccleague.co.uk/…/2014-01-11-Men-Div2-Ver1.pdf
15 172 34:10 Ashley Miles SenM 15 75 178 37:11 Andy Wilkinson SenM 75 88 177 37:45 Ian Wilkinson SenM 88121 404 39:18 Andrew Lovelock SenM 121136 435 39:57 Grahame Flanagan SenM 136139 179 40:07 Mike Wall SenM 139148 194 40:24 Paul Slatford SenM 148153 174 40:41 Nick Gilkes SenM 153158 173 41:04 Pete Hall SenM 158172 171 41:45 Ben Orme SenM 172177 183 42:16 Rob Wheatley SenM 177195 190 43:07 Colin Piper SenM 195203 409 43:36 Alex Bartlett SenM 203205 184 43:46 Wayne Broadbent SenM 205225 182 45:05 Steve Court SenM 225231 410 45:36 Kevin Naughton SenM 231247 436 47:36 Nigel Bassnett SenM 247259 186 49:32 Bernard Blundell SenM 259260 192 49:57 Mark Moran SenM 260265 400 50:25 Steve Osmond SenM 265267 405 50:49 Dave Kelly SenM 267272 195 52:20 Chris Abbey SenM 272
"A" team: 18/18 15, 75, 88, 121, 136, 139 = 574"B" team: 9/12 148, 153, 158, 172, 177, 195 = 1003
"A" team: 18/18 708, 537, 574 = 1819
"B" team: 9/14 1163, 1144, 1003 = 3310
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