The U11 Girls started proceedings and were fourth. The scorers were Ezrayah Latham in sixth, Martha Stanley ninth, and Jemima Barnes 20th. Ida Goldman made a good debut to be 23rd. The U11 Boys were also in good form and had their largest team for some time. Kit Reynolds was eighth, Evan Atkinson 11th and Oliver Dixon 18th to score and finish a strong second. Also running well were Freddy Higgins (20th), Ethan Brown (30th), Oliver VandenBrekel (32nd), and Oliver Ingham (39th).
 
The U13 Girls had a much improved result to be second. Chloe Willson scored another Division 1 win and was backed up in the scoring by Sunaya Nanda (eighth), Lottie Monnington (ninth), and Amelia Hanstein (31st). Emilia Ingham was 43rd. The U13 Boys also ran well to be fourth. The scoring quartet were William Clasby (12th), Jack Dalton (14th), Barnaby Williams (19th), and Jack Dixon (24th). Completing the team were Jonathan Kalibbala (34th), James Woodgate (36th), Toby Moore (66th) and Charlie Yeoh (67th).
 
Also featuring a larger and stronger team than match 1 were the U15 Girls. Maya Davis had another good run to be fifth and Juliette MacDougall was sixth. Annie-Rose Quantrill in 12th and Nia Clarke in 17th completed the scoring. Also running well were Holly Knott (19th), Mala Bahia (34th), and Aiyla Haigh (35th). The girls were second.
 
Chiltern have a big U15 Boys squad this year and thirteen lads toed the line at Oxford. The scoring team that came fourth were Harrison Lawrence (16th), John Rooney (18TH), Isaac Taylor (21st), and Isaac McCall (25th). Completing the team were Jack Rogers (29th), Jacob McCall (32nd), Josh Woodward (37th), Isaac Brown (39th), Kit Dixon (42nd), Oli Atkinson (43rd), Toby Reynolds (44th), Hector Gamblen (53rd), and Alex VandenBrekel (62nd).
 
The momentum kept going in the U17 races. The U17/U20 women are well supported this year and the scoring three of Evelyn Wildman (fifth), Alex Whitfield (seventh), and Roxie Jones (16th) were second. Also featuring were Jocelyn Davies (17th), Issy Robinson (19th), Megan Lockwood (21st), Lara Milburn (37th), Izzy McFetrich (40th) and Lydia Cross (44th). Roxie and Jocelyn were fourth and fifth U20s.
 
The U17 men completed a second team win and Tom Ford a second individual win. Backing up Tom in the scoring were Edward Johnson (fourth), Thomas Reynolds (eighth), and James Henderson (13th).  Also well up were Charlie Quantrill (16th), Eddie O’Brien (18th), Ben Reeder (23rd), James Malin (27th) and Charlie De Sousa (37th).
 
The Senior Women were second and saw excellent runs from Bev Whitfield (fifth) and Soraya Lockwood (seventh), with good support from Katie Royals (19th), Charlotte Docwra (29th), Jess Orr (35th), and Jenny Bizley. Completing the huge team of 19 were Abi Askey (43rd), Lauren Mayot (45th), Cathy Holloway (50th), Tessa Passey (82nd), Sue Slade (92nd), Rebecca Lawson (99th), Heidi Folkard (104th), Helen Hinde (122nd), Miriam Kempson (123rd), Caroline Stevens (132nd), Tamsin Finch (141st), Tyra Bishop (146th), and Fiona Calder (155th). The Veteran quartet of Bev, Jenny, Abi, and Lauren were second. Bev was first Vet 45.
 
There was also good support for the Senior Men who came a strong second. The scoring ten featured Alex Aldred (fifth), Harry Cox (sixth), Aran Davidson (19th), Daire Stack (22nd), Tim Lawrence (26th), Cameron Reid (35th), Nick Hughes (40th), James Turner (50th), Alex Johnson (53rd) and Jack Turner (56th).  Completing the fine turnout were Daniel Munn (69th), Jonny Slade (77th), Rory Hilton (83rd), Russell VandenBrekel (133rd), Alan Crozier (145th), Ian Lawson (167th), Jon Taylor (174th), Duncan Passey (194th), Glen Martin (203rd), Mark Johnson (209th), Ed Wright (212th), Frank Gaymond (215th), and Stuart Henderson (222nd).
 
The vet foursome of Tim, Nick, James and Russell were second. Tim was second Vet 40 and Nick first Vet 50. The U20 trio of Jack, Daniel and Rory were fourth and lie third after two matches.
 
Match 3 is on December 3rd at Campbell Park, Milton Keynes where the club will hope to continue this good start.

​Thirty-four Chiltern school-age athletes were competing in school colours at the ESAA Schools Cross Country Cup Regional Round at Cokethorpe School Oxfordshire on Tuesday Nov 4th.
There were several good runs, and five teams from the local area are progressing to the National Final at Princethorpe College near Rugby on December 6th.

​Junior Girls
Sunaya Nanda had a storming run to be second on a two lap 3k circuit. Lottie Monnington ran well for fifth. Their DCHS team were third and through to the final. Aura Lue Fong was 22nd but her Wycombe Abbey team were sixth so don’t progress.
 
Junior Boys
The DCGS team contain several Chiltern runners and Barnaby Williams (15th), Jack Dixon (27th) and Thomas Cooper (41st) contributed to the team finishing third and also through to the final.
 
Inter Girls
The Inter Girls ran the same course as both junior teams, and Maya Davis ran a superbly judged race to take the win for DCHS and lead her team into the final. Annie-Rose Quantrill also ran well for 12th, and Aiyla Haigh was fourth scorer in 24th. Amelia Qasam was 45th. The DCHS Inters took a narrow win and also go to Princethorpe next month.
Also running very well for their schools were Nell Frost (in second place for Wycombe Abbey) and Juliette MacDougall (fourth for Wycombe High). The Wycombe High team also featured good efforts from Bethan Lloyd in 30th, and Bronwen Harman in 44th. Neither of the Wycombe schools made it through however.
 
Inter Boys
Solid packing from the DCGS boys led to second place on a long (short lap, large lap) course of 5k. Harrison Lawrence was first home in tenth with Isaac McCall in good form for 16th, Isaac Taylor 20th and Oli Atkinson 38th. So another team through to the final.
 
Senior Girls
Both Senior races featured a good quality fields. In the girls race Evelyn Wildman (DCHS) ran well on the 3.5k large lap route to be fourth. Also competing well for Chesham Grammar, who qualified in third, were Issy Robinson (13th), Alice Peckham (17th), and Megan Lockwood (23rd). Lydia Cross (33rd) and Rebecca Lawson (52nd) completed the DCHS team, and Lara Milburn was 31st  for Borlase. Neither Borlase nor DCHS will progress.
 
Senior Boys
A ruthless pace meant that Edward Johnson (Aylesbury Grammar) logged 16.15 for the 5k route, but that was only enough for eighth place in a high-quality affair. Zach Cleary also ran well for AGS to run 17.59 – only enough for 29th. Callum Powell was the leading Chesham Grammar finisher in 11th. Meanwhile, a Chiltern-heavy DCGS team battled hard but ended up fourth so won’t progress. Thomas Reynolds was 15th, Aidan Suleyman 18th, Daniel Munn 24th, Charlie Quantrill 25th, Eddie O’Brien 28th and Felix Danielli 53rd.  

Several Chiltern athletes were running for their universities at the Manchester University Relays on October 25th.
 
This fast, fun but high standard event takes place over a grassy 3k circuit in Wythenshawe. The men’s teams and mixed teams run six legs, women’s teams three.
 
Alex Johnson took over the lead in the men’s race for Manchester University and did well to run 9.59 to keep in touch. Isaac Jessop-Tranter ran 9.51 on leg 1 for one of the many University of Birmingham teams and came back to run leg 3 in an impressive 10.25 for one of the other ones. Euan Pinder ran 9.47 on leg 5 of the Durham University B team, faster than several of the A team. Alex Aldred ran a storming 9.22 on leg 3 for University of Brighton Arts and Crafts Club (Alex is a Bristol alumnus?).
 
On the female side Alice Brown ran 12.40 for one of the several University of Birmingham teams which also featured Liv Brown from our neighbour club Wycombe Phoenix. And Alex Johnson came back to run leg 5 in 10.16 for the Manchester Uni mixed B team.

There was just one Chiltern Harriers team taking part in the National Cross Country Relays at Berry Hill Park, Mansfield on Saturday.
 
The Senior Men had just the A team competing and had a great race, finishing 15th from 141 complete teams. This is the club’s best position in the Senior Men’s event, and a big improvement on 32nd last year.

See video of the whole race by Mark Hooksway  ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7SsuGliLmo

​Richard Slade led off on the modified 5k course around the park, which includes undulating grassland and twisty sections through woodland. Richard had a great first leg, coming in second place in an excellent 14.43, the fifth fastest leg of the whole competition. The remaining three runners all worked hard to avoid losing too many places and Simon Bossi (16.03 on leg 2), Alex Aldred (16.25 on leg three), and Harry Cox (16.11 on leg four) all did a great job to keep the team in the top 20.
 
Last year the quartet of Simon, Richard, Aran Davidson and Harry logged 1.05.41 as the aggregate time for 32nd place – this year the lads completed the course in 1.03.24 (Simon, Richard and Harry all substantially quicker than last year).

Good Evening Race Report fans. I hope that you all came through Halloween unscathed and welcome to November. May there be less ‘November Rain’ and lots of ‘November Run’.
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Kicking off Halloween in style Jonny Slade and Lauren Mayot (an unstoppable racing machine) were in action in Serpentine’s last Friday of the Month 5k. Jonny clocked a time of 17.42, Lauren - 22.20.

Good Evening, Race Report fans!

We’ll have to kick things off with the World 24-hour Championships in Albi, France on 18 October. Our own Ali Young was there, once again, representing GB and running round and round and round a track (of all the mad things to do!) This time, I think it’s fair to say, it was all about the team. And what a team they were! It was Gold for Team GB in the women’s competition, including first race and an overall world record for Sarah Webster (278.62 km). Ali clocked a sickening 213.36 km, pacing the team’s third runner home. Not only was it team gold, but a world record distance was achieved by the top three scorers and five GB female athletes went further than 213km - a first for a championship. All that said, all we know is we are well proud of our girl. Well done, Ali! You deserved that bottle of fizz on the flight home xx

The first race was the U17/U20 Women’s race where two races are combined and results separated at the end. The U17 Women featured two Chiltern teams and there was a solo run from Roxie Jones as an U20 in the same race. Issy Robinson led off for the U17 A team and had a good run of 10.36 over the 2.9k route to bring the team home in 10th overall but sixth in the U17 race. Evelyn Wildman made up several places with a leg of 9.56 to finish in fourth overall and fourth U17 team. Alex Whitfield ran a mature run of 10.47 to overtake the U17 team ahead but lose a place to an U20 team. So bronze medals won. There were also good runs from the U17 B team – Megan Lockwood (11.27), Marlie Nkoane (12.30) and Lydia Cross (11.52). Roxie Jones ran 11.02 on the first leg of the U20s.
 
Next up were the U17 and U20 Men who also shared the same race. The U17 A team ran well for 11th place – Edward Johnson finishing second on leg 1 in 8.36 and James Henderson (9.29) and Eddie O’Brien (9.33) completing the team. There were good runs from the incomplete B team – Zach Cleary (9.27) and Henry Keen (10.00). The U20 trio of Callum Powell (9.11), Jack Turner (9.53) and Rory Hilton (10.07) were sixth.
 
The U13 Girls had an incomplete team but Chloe Willson (7.30) and Lottie Monnington (8.07) both ran well on the shorter 2K circuit. The U13 Boys were 19th courtesy of Barnaby Williams (7.37), Jack Dalton (7.44) and Thomas Cooper (7.53).
 
The U15 Girls were also incomplete but Maya Davis (7.25) and Juliette MacDougall (7.21) both ran strongly and finished leg 2 in fifth. The U15 Boys had two teams out. The A team came 22nd thanks to John Rooney (7.05), Josh Woodward (7.46) and Isaac Taylor (7.00). The B team were not far behind in 26th – Hector Gamblen (7.29), Isaac Brown (7.27) and Kit Dixon (7.33).
 
There had been medals for the Chiltern Senior Men in several of the last few championships and a good Green Arrows quartet kept the tradition going on a two lap 4.2k route. Simon Bossi finished third on leg 1 in an impressive 12.44. Harry Cox kept that position with 13.08 and Aran Davidson (13.38) lost a place. In-form Alex Aldred ran a strong second lap to bring the team home for bronze with 13.12. The B team of Daire Stack (13.28), Tom Dixon (14.50), Cameron Reid (13.48) and Jonny Slade (14.51) ran very well to finish 11th and third B team from thirty complete teams.
 
There will be Chiltern Senior Men’s and Senior Women’s teams at the National Cross Country Relay Championships at Mansfield on November 1st.

Several young Chiltern Harriers ran in the Bucks County round of the English Schools Cross Country Cup on Tuesday.
 
There were some excellent runs across the age groups and several local schools have progressed to the Regional Final at Cokethorpe School in Oxfordshire on November 4th.
 
The courses were fairly flat round playing fields and tended to be on the short side, especially the junior races.
 
Junior Girls
Lottie Monnington (DCHS) ran very well for second place with Aura Lue Fong (Wycombe Abbey) fifth. Amelia Hanstein (Chesham) was 18th.
 
Junior Boys
There was some good packing from the DCGS runners in this one – Barnaby Williams seventh, Jack Dixon eighth, and Thomas Cooper tenth.
 
Inter Girls
It was close at the front of the Inter Girls race with Nell Frost (Wycombe Abbey) third, Juliette MacDougall (Wycombe High) fourth, Maya Davis (DCHS) fifth, and Nia Clarke (Chesham) eighth. Aiyla Haigh was 15th and Amelia Qasam 29th for DCHS.
 
Inter Boys
Logan Gaskell (Thorpe House) was second, Harrison Lawrence (DCGS) fourth, Isaac McCall (DCGA) eighth, Isaac Taylor (DCGS) ninth, and Colin Miles (Borlase) tenth. Toby Reynolds (Thorpe House) was 16th.
 
Senior Girls
Evelyn Wildman ran well to win the Senior Girls race, with Issy Robinson (Chesham) sixth. Alice Peckham (Chesham) was ninth, Megan Lockwood (Chesham) 12th, Lara Milburn (Borlase) 16th, Ffion Harman (Wycombe High) 17th, Lydia Cross (DCHS) 18th, Abi Masters (Wycombe High) 24th and Rebecca Lawson (DCHS) 25th.
 
Senior Boys
There was a good Chiltern presence at the front of this race with Edward Johnson (Aylesbury) taking the win. Aidan Suleyman (DCGS) was second, Thomas Reynolds (DCGS) sixth, Daniel Munn (DCGS) eighth, Charlie Quantrill (DCGS) ninth, Eddie O’Brien (DCGS) tenth, and Zach Cleary (Aylesbury) 11th. Felix Danielli (DCGS) was 18th.
 
The Regional Round on November 4th sees most of those athletes compete again for their schools against stiffer competition from Bedfordshire, Northants, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.

More photos from Mark Easton    https://markeaston.zenfolio.com/f495732361
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The U11s had their best turnout for several years and the girls kicked things off with the Chiltern team a promising third. Ezrayah Latham made a great debut to be sixth and was joined in the scorers by Martha Stanley (14th) and Marni Ison-Stierer (23rd). Also contributing was Jemima Barnes in 24th. On the boys side the Chiltern team were fourth with Freddy Higgins (11th), Kit Reynolds (12th) and Ollie Dixon (22nd) scoring.  A good-sized team was competed by Evan Atkinson (34th), Ethan Brown (43rd), Oliver Ingham (47th) and Joseph Holdsworth (56th). It was encouraging to see increased overall race numbers in both of the U11s races.
 
In the U13 Girls race Chloe Willson made an impressive debut, second overall and first in Division 1. The Chiltern foursome was completed by Lottie Monnington (13th), Amelia Hanstein (33rd) and Emilia Ingham (40th). The team was fifth. The boys were sixth, newcomer William Clasby leading the team home in ninth. Also scoring were Barnaby Williams (19th), Jack Dalton (22nd) and Thomas Cooper (26th), and completing the team were Jack Dixon (31st), Jonathan Kalibbala (41st), and Charlie Yeoh (69th).
 
The small U15 girls team that came fourth was led in by Maya Davis in sixth. Nia Clarke had a great run to be 11th and Mala Bahia (33rd) and Aiyla Haigh (37th) completed the scoring. The U15 Boys had a much bigger turnout and were also fourth. The scoring quartet were Harrison Lawrence (13th), John Rooney (25th), Isaac McCall (26th) and Colin Miles (28th). Also running well were Jack Rogers (30th), Isaac Taylor (31st), Jacob McCall (35th), Josh Woodward (41st), Hector Gamblen (43rd), Toby Reynolds (44th), Oliver Atkinson (46th), and Kit Dixon (61st).
 
A very good U17/U20 women’s team tackled a tough course featuring two hilly loops. Evelyn Wildman was fourth, Issy Robinson 11th and Alex Whitfield 14th to score in the team that was narrowly third. Also contributing were Roxie Jones (21st), Megan Lockwood (26th), Lara Milburn (43rd), Lydia Cross (45th) and Izzy McFetrich (52nd). Roxie was fourth U20.
 
The most successful team of the day were the U17 Men. In a big race of 70, Tom Ford and Edward Johnson made it a Chiltern 1-2 at the head of the field and the team took a good win. Aidan Suleyman (9th) and James Holdsworth (12th) completed the scoring. Good efforts also came from Thomas Reynolds (17th), James Henderson (22nd), Eddie O’Brien (23rd), Zach Cleary (25th), Felix Danielli (47th) and Charlie De Sousa (51st).
 
Chiltern had a strong Senior Women’s team out who ran well for third. The scoring six were Bev Whitfield (9th), Maddie Hughes (12th), Katie Royals (22nd), Ellie Bates (30th), Camilla East (41st), and Jenny Bizley (44th). Cathy Holloway was 58th, Lindsey Turner 76th, Sue Slade 100th, Heidi Folkard 111th, Miriam Kempson 120th, Caroline Stephens 128th, Helen Hinde 129th, Tamsin Finch 140th, Tyra Bishop 155th, and Fiona Calder 168th. Bev was second Vet 45, and the Veteran’s foursome that was third were Bev, Ellie, Jenny, and Cathy.
 
The Senior Men’s team was the strongest for a while and all ten scorers were in the top sixty. The Green Arrows were second and were led home by Alex Aldred in tenth, who was backed up by Aran Davidson (15th), Nick Hughes (19th), Tim Lawrence (25th), Daire Stack (29th), James Turner (33rd), Daniel Munn (49th), Jack Turner (53rd), Tom Dixon (57th) and Jonny Slade (60th). Completing a big team were Thomas Flechon (78th), Alan Crozier (130th), Ben Hannen (145th), Tom Pinkham (146th), Tom Robinson (155th), Jon Taylor (184th), Glen Martin (206th), David De Sousa (208th), Mark Johnson (225th), Stuart Henderson (227th), and Dominic Shulte (229th).
 
Nick, Tim, James and Tom Dixon were winners of the vets competition, and the U20 duo, Daniel and Jack, scored enough points to be third U20 team. Nick was first Vet 50, Tim was fourth Vet 40, James seventh Vet 40.
 
Chiltern scored 4188 points to St Albans 4161 and there are only 100 points between the top four clubs. So all to play for at the next match at Oxford Horspath on Saturday November 15th.

Good Evening, Race Report fans. I hope as the evenings draw in, Race Report will help you to feel snuggly and warm this Sunday evening. It was great to see many of you at the first Chiltern League match of the season yesterday, in sunny St Albans. Keep your eyes peeled on the website for Steve P’s usual report.
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First of all, a look back to last weekend. On 5 October our brilliant Mairead O’Rourke was pacing round the streets of the Chester Marathon. Mairead finished a very respectable 4th in her age category in 3.25.52.