It’s Gold!

23 March 2025 - By Will Radley

Witham RC secured a triumphant gold in both our men’s and our women’s teams today. Historic. And everyone played their part.

I love cross country—this season especially. It’s honest, relentless, gritty, and humbling. No matter where you placed or how you placed, we’re united in the grind—equal in effort, bonded by pain. Be proud of it. You’re part of a club that leaves no one behind.

Before the results, I want to thank Sian, Theresa and Mark for scoring and cheering us on right to the end. It was a huge help to me, and thank you to the Halstead team too who put on a great event.

Here are the results:

POS	Runner
3	Sally Hoyle
5	Vicky Hunt
12	Liz Prior
17	Anne Radovic
20	Liz Stuckey
24	Claudia Baba
30	Clarice Sanderson
40	Karen Flowers
41	Celine Elson
45	Irina Ashdown

POS	Runner
1	Will Radley
7	Heydon Mizon
11	Henry Crates
15	Richard Joisce
16	Jamie Davidson
17	Owen Dare
25	Harry Soloman
38	Pete Riley
47	Louis Kitchener
48	Stuart Mills
54	Dean Whittaker
62	Adam Regan
64	Andy Watson
69	Michael Conroy
73	Terry Alabaster
74	Glenn Waller
75	Youssef Oucouc
84	Simon Creswell
89	Oliver Radley
92	Steven Alder
94	Damien Walsh
97	James Cooch
100	David Jobling
103	Dave Holdich
106	James Montgomery
113	Colin Short

TEAM RESULTS

Honestly, we didn’t think that our fabulous club could top our 3rd place finish last season, but this year we finish SECOND in the league!!! The icing on the cake of another excellent season.

Team results for today are below:

CROSS COUNTRY TROPHIES

The Peter Whittaker and Brian Wiley Trophies are awarded for the first male and female at the Halstead race in the NESS League. Will Radley and Sally Hoyle took those home today, coming in 1st and 3rd in their categories!

We also award Cross Country Championship trophies for the Male and Female runner who attend the most NESS cross countries fixtures and accumulate the least number of points.

We had 7 runners who attended all 4 NESS XC events this season:

• Owen Dare
• Celine Elson
• Karen Flowers
• David Jobling
• Will Radley
• Colin Short
• Dean Whittaker

Most of you can probably therefore work out that the male winner of the Cross Country Trophy is Will Radley!

It was a much tighter run competition for the female trophy, with Celine being victorious on this occasion!

Well done all!

A massive thanks to all of our photograph takers, scorers, cheerers, and bakers this season as well – particularly those that stepped up to help in Jodee’s absence today. As always, it has been fabulous to see the black and gold lining the finishing straight.

Hang those spikes up until next season, but keep running those hills and practice running with your elbows out – there were only 2 points between us and the Harriers….

WR and JM