The Northern 12 Stage Road Relays take place on Sunday 21st March 2010 at Wythenshawe Park, Manchester (11.30 am start).

Stages 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 are approximately 4.9 miles

Stages 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 are approximately 2.8 miles

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Derby were out in full force at the annual Ed Prickett/ Notts Uni Relays on Saturday. Derby fielded 3 teams (3rd, 18th and 3rd team incomplete), with the A team finishing a creditable 3rd, amongst a host of University Old Boy teams. Rich Weir and Dave Westbury hit the top 10 times of the day, with 3rd and 8th respectively.

3rd  Derby Ac A                            39:55

T LAWRENCE       (13) 10:22

R WEIR           (7)  9:35

J WILDRIANNE     (6) 10:17

D WESTBURY       (3)  9:41

18  Derby Ac B                            43:32

M BOOTH          (11) 10:10

T OFFORD         (16) 11:06

I STEVENS        (16) 11:06

R WILSON         (18) 11:10

Incomplete  Derby Ac C                         15:17:43

J FLETCHER       (27) 11:18

P HARRIS         (29) 13:29

K PETCH          (31) 14:49

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The 2010 UK Inter Counties Cross Country Championships, will be held at Cofton Park, Birmingham on Saturday 13th March 2010.  As in previous years chip timing will be used.

Each County/District is invited to enter up to 12 athletes per event with 8 to run and 4 only to score for team awards, with the exception of the Senior Men and Senior Women’s races, which shall be 15 to enter, with 9 to run and 6 to score for the team.

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Course Map

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Luke Gunn and Tom Bishop had a great day's racing, with both finishing in the top 10 in the country, in the Senior and Junior Men's races respectively. Gunn has come back into great racing shape after racing sparsely due to an achilles niggle, which has now cleared up. He now looks forward to the Inter Counties in Birmingham and  the North of England 12 Stage team, before a stint of altitude training in Mammoth Lakes, California. The Senior Men's team failed to score, disappointing given the strength of the 12 stage team. A few members were not able to run due to the after effects of food poisoning whilst warm weather training in Malaga the week before the National. Ian Stevens continued his racing consistency, having ran all of the North Midlands, counties, national xc relays and 6 stage relays this season!

(Gunn finished 8th in Senior Men and Bishop 9th in Junior Men)

Tom Bishop, currently studying and training at Leeds University with elite triathletes seems to be benefiting from his new setup, as he ran an aggressive race to finish 9th in the Junior Men's race. Josh Bull hit the top 50 in the U17 men's race, valiant given that he was one of the casualties from food poisoning. There were also top 100 placings for Alex Pilcher (38th) in the Senior Men's race, Niall Maguire (99th) in the U17 Men, Hugo Milner (99th) in the U13 Boys and Veleska Wills (70th) in the U15 girls.

Senior Men

8; Luke Gunn 39:26

38; Alex Pilcher 40:39

345; Ian Stevens 46:48

110x; Phil Harries 60:01

1307; Karl Petch 63:50

Junior Men

9; Tom Bishop 34:21

Under 17 Men

47; Josh Bull 21:34

99; Niall Maguire 22:23

270; Matthew Hayes 25:22

Under 15 Boys

260; Llwyd Griffiths 16:52

277; Jack Bridle 17:04

278; Jordan Townsend 17:04

353; Jonathon Owen 18:18

(35th team)

Under 13 Boys

99; Hugo Milner 12:55

227; Matthew Ward 13:47

274; Taylor Lawrence 14:13

291; Samuel Grief 14:24

374; Sam Rose 20:19

lt;strong>(24th team)

Under 15 Girls

70; Veleska Wills 15:55

126; Kirsty Shipman 16:32

137; Rebecca Miller 16:38

247; Lauren Bingley 17:49

264; Agnes Milner 18:07

307; Tayo Rose 18:54

365; Holly Grief 21:13

(20th team)

Under 13 Girls

253; Lara Wisdish 15:00

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A Strength and Conditioning workshop with Nathan Morgan will take place on Wednesday March 3rd and Wednesday March 24th, arrive at 7.30 for an 8pm start. The workshop will take place at Moorways Sportshall opposite the track.

For more details contact Keith Bullock or Daniel Caines ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )