A great weekend for Amelia

Amelia Chrispin

A great weekend's racing for Amelia.

On Saturday Amelia represented Worksop College in the Midland and Northern IAPS School Championships 2017. She was competing in the open age girls (up to age 18), with the Colt boys (up to age 16) running in the same race.  The course was a muddy, testing 4.2km. Amelia, the youngest by far, was the first Worksop girl over the line and came a fantastic 8th in the overall category!

On Sunday Amelia was back to racing in her own age group, representing Newark AC,  in the final race of the Nottinghamshire  County Mini League XC.  This was the 5th race  in the highly competitive series, with the 1st race having taken place in September. Prior to the start, Amelia was ranked equal 1st with 2 other athletes.  However, any 5 athletes were in a position to take any of the top 3 places of the series.

The course was to be a 2 lap 2.6km.  The race started at a good pace and on entering the woods, for the first time, Amelia was in lying in 7th place.  She came out of the woods in 2nd place and quickly took the lead at the 900m point. She pushed the pace and left the rest of the field behind, dominating the rest of the race. 

She comfortably jogged across the line in 1st place around 150m ahead of the next nearest athlete. Shortly afterwards Amelia was awarded the 1st place gold medal, for being series winner, by the Notts AAA President.  A great achievement. for her first year in the U13G age group.