North York Moors AC - Cross-Country section

Cross-Country Section (mud & guts)

NYSD 2011/12 Cross Country dates

NYSD 1 - 9th October 2011	Acklam Grange School, M/Bro
NYSD 2 - 23rd October 2011	Jacobs Mount, Scarborough
NYSD 3 - 14th November 2011	Summerhill, Hartlepool
NYSD 4 - 4th December 2011	Croft, Darlington
NYSD 5 - 15th January 2011	Flatts Lane, Middlesbrough
NYSD Relay - 5th February 2011	Caedmon, Whitby

To all NYMAC members,

The 2011-12 cross country season is fast approaching, and all paid up
members are very welcome to come out and run at any of the races for the
club.

The NYSD League is the local league made up of 5 races plus a relay. Positions in each
race (in age group category) will contribute to your own personal league
score and also towards the club / team score for each race and the overall
league.

The club will cover the meagre entry fees for any club members who race. There
will be no pre-issuing of numbers. All you need to do is pick up
a number from the tent at the finish line at your first race, sign your name
against your allocated number, and run. You will then use the same number
for the whole series.

There are also 3 championship races we can race in too:

Northeastern Championships Sat 11th December - TBC
Northern Championships Sat 29th January - TBC
National (ECCA) Champs Sat 19th February - TBC

For these events, teams will need to be entered in advance, and everyone
wanting to run must be first claim to NYMAC with a current EA registration
number. As well as individual placings, it would be good to get full men's
and women's teams in each of the 3 races. Mens teams have 6 runners and
womens teams have 4 runners. You can get in touch with me any time
between now and the closing dates (which I will send out as soon as I know
them) to request an entry for these events, and you will need to send me
your date of birth and EA registration number.

Just like all the other club disciplines (road, fell and women's), there
will be cross country awards to be presented at awards night at the end of
the year. I will be watching results in the 2011-12 races to make awards at the end of
2011. Awards will be made as follows:

NYSD:
Best placed male and female within age class at the end of the series (to
get a good position you need to do 3 or 4 out of 5 races)

Championship Races:
Male and female prize for the most outstanding performance in any one of the
3 races (breaking club records; imporving previous personal best etc.)

If anyone has any questions, they can get in touch with me by email.

I hope to see you out at a race somewhere over the next few months.

Best wishes,
Andy Pearson
NYMAC Cross Country Manager

Cross-Country Running Shorts

Northern X/C Champs
26th Jan 2007

Kendra White was our first lady home in the Northern X/C Champs at Roundhay Park, Leeds. Kendra finished 94th overall in 33:16 (equalling her best position in the 2005 champs). Not far behind was Karen Heppenstall in 139th in 34;54. Our men's team was decimated (including yours truly) by either work commitments or man-flu (there's nothing worse). Our sole representative was Tom Gibbons in 287th place. (full results).

NE VETS X/C Champs
19th Jan 2007

Congrats to Joe Blackett who finished 1st M40 in the NE Vets Cross-Country Champs at Acklam Grange School, Middlesbrough. Also competing for NYM were Jeff Belt (4th M35), Ian Glover (6th M45) and Peter Whewell (3rd M60) (full results).

Minutes of Cross Country Planning Meeting

Wednesday 21st July 2010

Cross Country Planning Meeting Minutes

Croft NYSD
11th Oct 2009

The first race of the season took place at Croft on 11th October, and we had a team of 7 men and 3 women competing. Despite being one person short of a full team, the women (Marie, Karen and Helen) did very well to take 3rd place overall in the team competition, placed 2nd, 8th and 18th respectively. The men's team placed 6th overall, with the 6 counters being Dez (12th), David (14th), Kev (28th), Mark (42nd), Trevor (63rd) and Vince (70th). Mike was the 7th runner, finishing in 88th. Full results are attached.

59 photos from NYSD Croft X/C

NYSD Results (link)

X/C Latest

The next NYSD race is this Sunday, 25th October at Scarborough. Details are available on the New Marske Harriers webpage, and are also attached. I won't be there myself, but race numbers for the season are available in the registration tent. All you need to do is sign your name on the list and take a number to keep for the rest of the season. Rob, Vince, Kev and Mike know the drill and can help you out.

I have also received entry forms for the NE Championships, which this year are taking place on 12th December at Branksome School, Darlington. The Men's race is at 13:00, and there are 6 counters towards a team. The Women's race will follow at 13:55, and we need 3 counters for a team. Entries close on 13th November so if you would like to be entered please let me know by email by then. The club will cover the cost of entries to NE, Northern and National Champs. After that I will see what is left of my budget and decide whether I will need to charge you for NYSD.

I look forward to seeing most of you sometime over the season.

Karen Poole
NYMAC Cross Country Manager 2009-10

Karen@nym.ac

North York Moors AC - 2009/10 Cross Country Update

Calling all Cross Country runners,

At last the Cross Country season is upon us. The first NYSD fixture is in early October, and the calendar is looking as busy as ever this year.

Details of all the fixtures is available here

As usual, our fixtures centre around the NYSD series, but with NE Championships in Darlington and National Championships in Leeds, we have a great opportunity to race against the best in our back yard.

It would be great to see enough people out racing to make up at least one men's team and a women's team at each of the NYSD series races, plus the 3 Championship races (North Easterns, Northerns and Nationals).

If you want to race you need to be entered through the club, so if you are interested in doing any of the races, please drop me an email to karen@nym.ac

I will arrange an entry for you and for the NYSD series deliver a number to you.

I look forward to hearing from you, hardened cross country devotees and newbies alike!

Best wishes,

Karen Poole
NYMAC Cross Country Manager 2009-10

NYSD X/C Presentation Night
April 2009

The overall NYSD X/C series standings have been finalised (thanks to Graham Hall) and our best placed members were Rob Pollard (1st M50), Mike Shaw (4th M60) and Vince Rutland (6th M50) .

NYSD X/C 2008-9 Final standings

Photo courtes y of Pete Best shows Rob being presented with his trophy from living legend Brian Rushworth.

Racecourse Finale
15th Mar 2009

Start of the Senior Men's race. Photo by Jill Sexton

The disused Richmond Racecourse was the venue for the final race of the NYSD Cross-Country series attracting the cream of local runners. On a fine spring like day the Senior men's race was won by Tom Bean (York) ahead of Gary Dunn (T&S) and Richard Hunt (R&Z). Carolyn Summersgill (M&C) was a comfortable winner of the senior ladies race ahead of Angharad Owen (Loftus & Whitby) and Helena Scofield (Scarborough).

North York Moors AC had four representatives in the senior men's race namely Rob Pollard (25th) , Lee Baines (69th), Mike Shaw (74th) and Jeff Belf (DNF).

Richmond X/C Provisional Results (link)

Grange Hills
7th Dec 2008

The 4th race in the NYSD Cross-Country Series (hosted by M&C) took place at Acklam Grange School where competitors faced icy conditions under foot. Alec Duffield (No. 63 above, Loftus & Whitby) was an impressive winner of the Senior Men's race ahead of Gary Dunn (T&S) and Lewis Gamble Thompson (NMH, No. 467) while Carolyn Summersgill (M&C) ran away with the Senior Ladies race ahead of Tracey Waller (HBR) and Angharad Owen ( Loftus & Whitby). The various age and gender races offered excellent competition ( and value for money :-) with many top local runners taking part. Where else would you get track, road and fell runners competing in the same race?

Full results (link)

51 photos from Acklam Grange X/C

Cross-Country Fixtures

Rob Pollard

Whitby Waddlers
18th Jan 2009

Against the odds we managed to field a full team in the 5th NYSD Cross-Country meeting at Caedmon School, Whitby. In the Senior Men's race Andrew Pearson was our first counter in 17th place overall with Rob Pollard and Richard Clark hot on his heels. Loftus & Whitby's Alec Duffield was once again an easy winner in the senior men's race over a minute ahead of guest runner Robert Cole. In the Senior Women's race our Kendra White finished a respectable 9th overall behind race winner Carolyn Summersgill.

Cross-country may not be everyone's cup of tea but hey there's a credit crunch on, so why pay