NESS Race 2 – 26/01/2025 – Harwich – Results

26 January 2025 - By Jodee Mayer

A windy day in Wix today – but as some of you will have seen, an excellent day of cross country for Witham.

A huge thanks to Angela and Andrew for supporting today and for the photos.

Team photo missing a few people – and the usual sea of black and gold vests as it was just too cold!!

A slight change to the course had everyone cursing “the last field” today, but an incredible effort by all to finish what is a deceptively tricky course given its lack of hills!

A shout out to Will Radley who came home in first, and Sally Hoyle who was 1st WRC lady over the line in her lucky number position of 5.  Also I am reliably informed that Rachel Sharp stopped her own race to help people over the ditches – great community spirit.

The results are below – we are awaiting the official individual place results but I will cross reference once they are published.

Men’s Team results:

2nd place for WRC!

POS POOL A – MEN TEAM SCORE
1 Colchester Harriers 91
2 Witham 195
3 Ipswich Jaffa 255
4 Great Bentley 397
5 Springfield 599*
6 Halstead 588*

I think there is an error here and will update in due course.

Women’s Team results:

3rd place for WRC!

POS POOL A – WOMEN TEAM SCORE
1 Great Bentley 40
2 Colchester Harriers 47
3 Witham 67
4 Springfield 125
5 Ipswich Jaffa 196
6 Halstead 222

Overall results:

A 2nd place finish for the team today puts us in 2nd place overall – as Heydon has said, seriously punching!

LEAGUE POSITIONS
POOL A PTS
1 Colchester Harriers 12
2 Witham 9
3= Ipswich Jaffa 7
3- Great Bentley 7
5 Springfield 5
6 Halstead 2

Individual results:

Men

Runner Cat. Club Position
William Radley OPEN Witham 1
Heydon Mizon V50 Witham 15
Richard Joisce OPEN Witham 17
Stephen Wherrett OPEN Witham 26
Owen Dare V60 Witham 29
Henry Crates OPEN Witham 34
Harry Solomon OPEN Witham 36
Matt Rees V40 Witham 37
Dean Whittaker V45 Witham 68
Simon Scott V55 Witham 93
Glen Waller V40 Witham 98
Shane Jones OPEN Witham 106
David Jobling V65 Witham 111
Andy White V50 Witham 118
Colin  Short V75 Witham 132
Ross Silverton V75 Witham 133

Women

Runner CAT. Club Position
Sally Hoyle OPEN Witham 5
Claudia Baba V40 Witham 12
Amy Eyo OPEN Witham 19
Clarice Sanderson OPEN Witham 31
Annalise Etherington OPEN Witham 36
Liz Stuckey V50 Witham 50
Celine Elson V50 Witham 56
Christine Israel-Jones OPEN Witham 60
Karen Flowers V55 Witham 63
Rachel Sharp V45 Witham 68
Dawn Shilling V40 Witham 69

Work to do for the second half of the season to maintain our position and we look forward to seeing you at Hilly Fields, hosted by Gt Bentley, on 09 March!

JM

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