ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL DAY ON THE COMMON

Wednesday 5th October saw the Senior Squad travel to Wimbledon Common for the prestigious Kings Trophy.

This is an extremely prestigious event which draws all of the big guns of school XC, including the 2 top schools in the country St.Albans and Judd.

A 5th place finish last year was fantastic, but Ricky Lutakome also found himself mis-directed along with several other front-runners by an errant steward and so was denied the chance to compete for the medals. He was keen for revenge!

The weather was perfect, if the parking of the minibus was not, and unusually we arrived in plenty of time for the start.

The course is a 4.5 miles mixed terrain with woodland and open field, it included a water feature around half way around, and the added danger of flying golf balls!

Alfie Smith, currently a Year 8 had been picked to see how he did over the longer distance, he would as it turns out have a fantastic race.

The results are below with the 2015 times in brackets

 

    2 Lutakome  25.04

     35 Ercolano  28.45 (2015 - 31.06)

     39 Wells  29.02

     47 Galvin A  29.22 (29.33)

     52 Jones  29.51 (31.11)

     55 Smith A  30.03

     92 Daburn  32.07

    105 McAllister  33.09 (33.42)

    107 Halfacre O  33.13

    114 Halfacre J  34.17 (35.42)

    138 Hodgson  38.42

    144 Galvin R  inj

                            155 runners              

                         21 teams

Team Result:

   6^th   A Team

   17^th  B Team   (4^th B team)   

 

Some fantastic performances put in by all the runners

 

Well done Ricky on finishing 2nd, close to being the first JFS student to win this race since 1985 - next year maybe!

 

Gianluca showed his summer practice has paid off by storming into the 2nd Fisher finisher

 

Alfie Smith defied all pre-race expectations to finish in the top 6 JFS finishers and thus A Team with a great time (he is 5 years younger than some of the runners!)

 

Unfortunately Ryan was running a strong race before injury got the better of him

 

Below are some photos of the day!

Skipper McAllister rallies the troops

Last few seconds before the start

Ricky eyeing up the competition 

A large field

Here are some action shots of the runners!

Alex Galvin

Dan Hodgson

Finley Wells

Jacob Jones closely followed by Alfie Smith

Joe Halfacre

Oscar Halfacre

Ricky Lutakome (and Mr Fell's shadow)

Ryan Galvin (pre-injury) and Gianluca Ercolano

Skipper Sean McAllister