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Liz is 2nd Senior at Surrey Champs

Liz Kipling had another great run to pick up her first individual medal at these championships. Lloyd Park provided a good challenge with many undulations and some wet sections.

Liz with her Silver medal

Sophie Morris won the race and was at the front from the start. Behind, Liz was having a good battle with Karen Ellison of Herne Hill. Liz finished two minutes behind her at the Southerns 4 weeks ago (10th compared to 28th) and 30 seconds back two weeks ago in the Surrey League so it was vital that she hung on in the early stages. Hung on she did and towards the end of the first lap she started to open up a gap on third place. On the 2nd lap that gap grew to 12 seconds before Ellison and the 4th placed Belgrave runner closed slightly in the last km. Liz had enough in reserve and dug in for silver. A great run and reward for a lot of hard work this winter. Congratulations!

STOP PRESS - Liz lead her Ranelagh team to surprise team gold medals.

After the early comings and goings Maddie had a good but lonely run in her race, spending the large amount of the race with a big gap back to 6th and an annoyingly big gap to 4th - just too large to bridge. Hopefully 5th will be enough to join Liz on the Surrey team for the inter counties.

Maddie on her way to 5th

Ollie was 11th in the u15 boys, up there as one of his best runs of the winter. I was pleased to see him committ early on and give himself a track. Time to brush off those track spikes now!

Ross was ill on Friday so didn't run.

Results HERE