SILVER SUCCESS AT CHARTERHOUSE

The XC team travelled to picturesque Godalming on Saturday for the much anticipated Charterhouse Meet. This famous private school always offers a great welcome and a challenging course, including the infamous 'Charterhouse Hill' - 128 metres of pain that rises 85 ft.  Once tried - never forgotten! The course was proper cross-country with forest, path, grass, roots and mud to contend with

The Inters and Seniors have to run the course - plus the hill - twice!

Anyhow, the Junior Team performed very well on the 2 mile course finishing in 2nd place overall!

Position School Points 1 RGS A 31 2 John Fisher A 54 3 RGS B 75 4 Tiffin 86 5 Judd 102 6 RGS C 110 7 John Fisher B 141

The Competition was hard but it was fantastic to see Harry finish 4th - that was with an injured ankle that needed medical help from the on-site physio. Jude Watson was also on course for a good finish but also twisted his ankle and quite rightly had to retire from the race

Position	School	Surname	Firstname	Time
4	John Fisher	Smith	Harry	15:01
14	John Fisher	Smith	Alfie	16:05
17	John Fisher	Georgiou	Freddie	16:43
19	John Fisher	Gerges	Luca	16:51
21	John Fisher	Edwards	Peter	17:00
37	John Fisher	Biju	Galvin	19:05
41	John Fisher	Roberts	Joseph	20:00
42	John Fisher	Parker	James	20:04
43	John Fisher	Romanowski	Alex	20:07
44	John Fisher	Bekit	Jonas	20:43

The following photos were taken of the Juniors just after 'the Hill'

 

 

The Inters also ran really well - at this meet Years 10-11 constitute Inters. They finished 2nd overall also having run 2 laps of the course - a tough 4-miles!

Position School Points 1 Sevenoaks 39 2 John Fisher 46 3 Harrow 50 4 RGS 69 5 Judd 74 6 Brighton College 76 7 Charterhouse 117

As you can see below the top 4 finishers ran superbly, with Ricky shining once more, and the Galvin's living up to their XC Legends billing. Jacob Jones ran as usual with grit and determination to finish as the 4th scorer. With a couple of absences from the normal team 1st place was just out of reach this time around

Position	Number	School	Surname	Firstname	Age Group	Time
2	117	John Fisher	Lutakome	Ricky	I	25:26
8	116	John Fisher	Galvin	Ryan	I	28:02
13	115	John Fisher	Galvin	Alex	I	28:41
23	119	John Fisher	Jones	Jacob	I	31:19
34	118	John Fisher	Hodgson	Dan	I	35:43

No photos from the course for the Inters I am afraid as I was in the Medical Unit with the two walking wounded from the earlier Juniors Race, however here is Ricky picking up his medal for finishing 2nd

The Seniors could not turn out the 4 runners needed for a team, but the Halfacre twins wanted to run and all credit to them. They both ran well as seen below

Position	School	Surname	Firstname	Time
40	John Fisher	Halfacre	Oscar	34:49
46	John Fisher	Halfacre	Joe	36:13

                                          

Great commitment!

Here is the entire team after the refreshments provided were eagerly consumed (as well as some of the food for parents)

                                

And finally here is Alfie helping his big brother get to the food following his injury!