Medals in the mud.

The weekend's winners. Georgie Campbell collects her first Midlands XC title and Phil Brennan picked up gold in his age group in the Midland Masters XC Championships It has been another busy weekend for the club with the return, after a 12 month's absence, of the iconic Not the Roman Nine race. Apart from being a major part of the local road running scene, this event also generates a large amount of money for the club. Please read Sarah Bland's note of thanks below. It was also the Midland XC Championships at the weekend, on an extremely muddy course at Prestwold Hall near Loughborough. Club runners, across the whole age range, continued the success they have enjoyed all season. From Paul Hawkins report below you will read that we had 2 outright winners on the day in Georgie Campbell and Phil Brennan and a 2nd place finisher in Alex Adams, despite him being one of the youngest competing in his race. Our other top 10 finisher was Charly Marshall, who continued her successful season. We have been having some issues with our newsletter subscriber base, so some of you maybe receiving this newsletter for the first time, despite having been members for some time, for which I apologise. If this is the case and you would like to read some back issues of the newsletter, they are available in the News section on the club's website, where they are posted every week. stratfordac.co.uk Best Wishes David Jones Alex Adams picks up another trophy to add to his growing collection Our mens' senior XC team. Left to right : Malcolm Bowyer, Tim Hutchinson, David Smyth, James Deacon and John Raby. The ladies team left to right : Cadie Hibberd, Sophie Dobedoe, Vicky Sharpe, Liuba Pasa and Emma Bexson. View this email in your browser Midlands Cross Country Championships Prestwold Hall, Loughborough 25th January 2020 Campbell wins Midlands Cross Country Championships Report written by Paul Hawkins The Midlands Cross Country Championships represents a step up in both distance and class for Stratford’s athletes from their normal league fixtures and is a natural progression from the County Championships held at the start of January where Stratford had been so successful. There were successes for two of Stratford’s winners from the Counties and under 13 champion Niamh Hillard was pleased with her run after being injured for the last two weeks and only deciding to race this event in the morning. Phil Brennan was Stratford’s other winner in the Masters race. The course at Prestwold Hall was changed from previous events but was still a true test with plenty of mud for the athletes. The highlight for Stratford was Georgie Campbell, who continued her good form in the Under 17 women’s race held over a 5k lap. A group of three soon opened up a lead at the front with Georgie featuring along with regular rival Ella Semple of Birchfield and Kaitlyn Sheppard from Cheltenham. Semple dropped back after 1500m leaving Sheppard and Campbell…