Team Results
Individual Results
The Shaw Baton is probably my favourite cross-country
race. It has everything – grass, single
track, gravel road, hurdles, water obstacle, uphill, downhill and a flat run in
a for a fast finish. It is also a relay which makes racing that much more exciting.
It is also the place where typically you can get to see the new
talent clubs have managed to recruit and speculate how this might impact on the
rest of the season.
And yes that was Liam Back breathing down the neck of Hamish Carson at the pond on lap 1 in the last race of the day.
This year the only major difference from previous years was
the reduction of laps from 5 to 4 for the last race which includes the senior men,
master’s men and men U20.
Not only does the race become shorter in terms of
time but it makes it much more competitive.
It increases the chances that wins in this
grade might be shared across different clubs and not be dominated by a single
club.
And theoretically a club can put
together more teams with less numbers required to make a team.
The place to be for spectators is always at the pond.
I shoot there because the light is good and
because there is a better chance of getting a greater variety of action shots.
And yes sometimes people fall over and get a dunking. But that is nothing I incite – you can blame
this on the local “tricoteuses”, who taking a leaf out of their French Revolution
counterparts were the people (mostly women) who sat in front of the guillotine and
jeered and cheered as the executions took place.
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| Trainee pond hecklers |
To pass the time between each execution they
knitted.
And a couple of observations from the day:
The forecast rain stayed away until the end
Is Maria Williams the first blind person to run a local or even a national cross country race?
How the numbers of members for the Victoria University Club continue to grow. Is that your doing Dan Hunt?
Looks like Alec McNab at Whanganui Collegiate School loaned Don Dalgliesh two of his star runners (Liam Back and George Lambert) for the Scottish Men's Under 20 A team.
Race 2 Photos (Kids Run for Fun)
Race 3 Photos
Race 4 Photos (some photos could not be processed because if a faulty CF card)
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