Northern Ireland Mountain Running Association
www.nimra.org.uk

 

Best Wishes To:

Fri 5 October 2007 - Ian Taylor

Juniors, travelling to South Wales for Br & Irish Junior Championship

Under 18 Male team

Noel Collins, Conor Moore, Andrew Fisher & Jason Wilson     

 

Under 16 Male team

James Speight, Sean Knight, Michael Stephens                         

 

Under 14 individuals

Male:

Robby Rankin, Barry Kelly, Mark Stephens

 

Female:

Aine McCann

Team Managers
Jim Hayes, Tish McCann, Barry Rankin

The event is being held over Suger Loaf, north of Abergavanny with the competition including participants from Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales.

Seniors, travelling to Yorkshire for the final Br Championship event

This race, over Whernside in the Yorkshire Dales is the last opportunity for athletes to improve their standing in the 2007 Br Championship.  As it is also an English Championship counter there are likely to be 400+ athletes in competition for places.

Fiona Maxwell is one of our representatives and has already claimed the Ladies vet40 title.  However she is also in third place in the Open category, one point behind Anna Bartlett.   However Janet McIver in fourth place has only three results counting so far - a win for her would move her into first place and Fiona back to fourth.  Hence to be in a medal position Fiona needs to overtake Anna by finishing Whernside in fourth or higher place, with Anna sixth or less.

Alwynne Shannon also has put in some excellent performances.  As well as being 14th in the open category she is in bronze medal position in the vet40 age group, one point behind Sally Newman.  However the latter and the fourth place athletes both have one race to add so Alwynnes position looks vulnerable.

Des Woods is in 19th place in the Open category and 8th in the vet40 one.  However Des has only three races counting so far, so a good place this weekend would move him considerably up the rankings, potentially to third place in the vet 40 group.

Best wishes to all our athletes.  The rest of us will just have to start some winter training to put us in a better position for 2008.