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11Jun/100

Surrey Schools, London Schools, Southern U20/Seniors

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A busy weekend with people in action all over and Twitter providing updates. Highlights were a Southern Silver for Liz and 6th in a pb for Ross. Continue reading

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8May/100

County champs – 9 Gold, 5 Silver, 7 Bronze

Far from ideal conditions this weekend, but lots of pbs and medals none the less. Great to see lots of people supporting the event. Continue reading

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9Apr/100

County Track Championships – LAST CHANCE TO ENTER!!

All athletes in the squad need to enter these races taking place on Saturday/Sunday 8th/9th May. Read on for details of which ones to enter…. Continue reading

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21Mar/101

English Schools XC – Results

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A large contingent of smrackers competed in the English Schools Champs with a mixture of fortunes. Continue reading | 1 Comment

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13Mar/100

UK Inter Counties Championships – Birmingham

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A pretty good day was had by those that went up to Birmingham to represent their counties. It was an undulating course, not quite Parliament Hill, but tough enough to test! Continue reading

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17Feb/104

Liz is 2nd Senior at Surrey Champs

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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. Continue reading | 4 Comments

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7Feb/100

Liz Kipling in fine form

Liz had another great run at the weekend, finishing 4th in the Surrey League.  This followed on from her 28th place at the Southern Championships at Parliament Hill – a course she had never finished in the top 100 on.

Since joining the squad last year Liz has set track pbs at 800 and 1500 and had her most consistent XC season to date.

Her 1st… Continue reading

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7Feb/100

Inter County Gold for Maddie

Running for Surrey Maddie picked up a team gold medal in Saturday’s South Eastern Inter County match.  Maddie was 8th of the 64 finishers and 4th Surrey scorer.  Such was Surrey’s domination of the event, Maddie finished before any other county had two runners home.  I hope this run will have secured her place on the Surrey team at the English Schools XC for the first time.  Once you’re on… Continue reading

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23Jan/100

Surrey Schools XC Results

Well done to Maddie and Ollie who had good runs in the Surrey Schools today.

Maddie finished 7th in the Senior Girls race,  a year after finishing 13th in the Inter Girls race.  This is good progress which will hopefully see her selected for her first English Schools Championships.

Ollie also moved up an age group and finished in 18th which was good enough to earn selection  for… Continue reading

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16Jan/102

Ollie wins his 8th Countdown

U15 Oliver Garner has been impressing everyone this week on Countdown.  A string of 8 and 9 letter words have often bettered the efforts of dictionary corner and have seen him notch up the maximum allowed run of 8 wins.  The final contest saw Ollie trailing throughout but he clinched victory on the conundrum (sp?!) which he correctlly unjumbled in 2seconds!

The rest of the squad has been enjoying… Continue reading | 2 Comments

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