Essex League Cross Country Results

Please see below the results from the Essex Cross country at Writtle on January 13^th.We had another great turn out across senior and juniors with 32 runners representing Benfleet.

In the men’s we came 4^th out of 12 teams in our division and 24 teams overall, and in veterans we were the 2^nd team. There were 207 runners and 1^st home for Benfleet was James Caldon in 8^th followed by Lee Baynton in an 27^th and George Watts in 28^th.

This puts us 6 after 4 races with one race remaining and 4^th in the vets.

In the women’s we came 7^th out of 11 teams in our division and 21 teams overall, and in veterans we were the 4th team only 3 points behind 3rd. There were 124 runners and 1^st home for Benfleet was Nicola Bredin coming home in a fantastic 13^th followed by Charmaine Sterling in 22^nd and Jacqui Watson in 23^rd  

This puts us 7 after 4 races with one remaining and 4^th in the vets.

Full Benfleet senior results below

In the under 20’s Women Sinead Clark continued her impressive running with a 4^th place, Archie Connors came 14^th in the under 15 boys. We had 3 runners in each of the under 13’s categories, in the boys 1^st home was Ronan Longman-Young in 17^th followed by Kai Yeldham in 21^st and in 40^th Benedict Heath. In the girls 1^st home was Erin Vernon in 27^th followed by Lucia De Cristofano in 30th and in 39^thLeah Hampson-Long