NESS XC R5 2026 – Results

16 February 2026 - By Jodee Mayer

Well, I don’t think a single person who rocked up at Gosfield School yesterday was not questioning their life choices… The field to get to the start was water logged and had turned to pure mud before the race even began, and as the sleet/snow started to come down I for one certainly wondered what I was doing…

Thanks to Colesy for being my token collector yesterday – after I let him go and huddle in the gazebo my frozen fingers dropped my clipboard twice so I certainly couldn’t have done it without him!

Also thanks to everyone that stayed to take the gazebo and table down and carry it to my car – I won’t list you all as I will forget someone but you know who you are (and to Wally and Andrew R for carrying it to the field… the gazebo has wheels, Andrew…) – I wouldn’t have been able to do it without you. It is all currently drying out in my garage but no guarantees it will be mud free before next week’s XC (see post for details).

Right, now onto the good stuff.

Team results

Well, we had an excellent turnout despite the abysmal conditions, and I expect that has contributed to our incredible results this week, with our men coming in 1st and our women coming in 2nd!

Just to give you an idea, there are 11 teams in the league and this week Witham runners were 20 out of 107 male finishers and 8 out of 56 female finishers. Even if you didn’t score for us, turning up and running may have meant you pushed another team’s runner(s) further down the results which means their score would have been higher. So thank you all for coming out.

This put us 1st overall this week, and 3rd in the league – just 1 point behind Ispwich and 3 clear for Springfield so all to play for in the last race of the season (did I mention to look out for the post).

POS	POOL A – MEN	TEAM SCORE
1	Witham	187
2	Colchester Harriers	228
3	Springfield	415
4	Ipswich Jaffa	438
5	Great Bentley	506
6	CATS	598

 

POS	POOL A – WOMEN	TEAM SCORE
1	Ipswich Jaffa	20
2	Witham	73
3	Springfield	96
4	CATS	126
5	Colchester Harriers	96
6	Great Bentley	114

Gosfield combined results

POS	POOL A	M/F COMB	PTS
1	Witham	3	6
2	Ipswich Jaffa	5	5
3	Springfield	6	4
4	Colchester Harriers	7	3
5	Great Bentley	11	2
6	CATS	10	1

 

	LEAGUE POSITIONS
	POOL A	PTS
1	Colchester Harriers	25
2	Ipswich Jaffa	21
3	Witham	20
4	Springfield	17
5	Great Bentley	14
6	CATS	8

Individual results

Excellent performances all round, but this week my mentions go to DJ who cut his hand on his spikes and still ran, Jamie Light who not only turned up very much on time but finished the race covered head to toe in mud after a fall with a smile on his face, and Sally who not only came 3rd woman, but do so with a black eye full of mud.

Just to say if you do not appear below and were about finisher position 67 please let me know – my fingers were too cold and my face too distorted for my phone to recognise them and so I couldn’t take my usual photo of our results sheets, and token 67 was unclaimed. Apologies if this was you, and do let me know so I can update Halstead.

Men

Name	Position
William Radley	3
Richard Joisce	7
Harry Solomon	10
Andrew Notley	24
Tyler Hodges	27
Andrew Lager	30
Ian Cuthbert	40
Thomas Moysey	45
Andrew Smith	46
Jamie Light	52
Daniel Griffiths	54
Simon Scott	61
Dean Whittaker	63
Mark Austin	64
Glen  Waller	79
James Montgomery	83
David  Jobling	92
Andrew Read	97
Dave  Andrews	102
Ross Silverton	106

Women

Name	Position
Sally Hoyle	3
Vicki Riley	10
Amy Eyo	19
Lisa Leader	41
Clare Boston	44
Dawn Shilling	51
Karen Flowers	53
Angela Read	54

We are straight back at it next week for the last XC of the season – post to follow soon.

JM