GOATER CUP at HABS, Elstree 25th January

This is the first relay competition of the Easter term and is somewhat different in that teams are made up of runners from different year groups. The race is always exciting with ever-changing positions as it progresses, as schools can run their teams in any age order, so year 7s’ may find themselves running with Sixth Form. The result is rarely obvious until the last of each team has run. One lap of the reservoir means that it is a fairly good spectator course, however, this year the fog meant that there was little warning of incoming runners.The increasingly slippy changeover zone provided for some spectacular finishes to some legs! A running order for JFS of youngest to oldest meant that we moved up the order gradually as the race progressed finally finishing in a very creditable 5^th A team with the B team 17^th out of 29 teams, both an improvement on last year.

Good performances from Alfie (6^th fastest yr 8) and particularly Freddy who ran his best race to date (2^nd fastest yr 8). Well done to Ebuka and Matthew running this race for the first time. Ricky picked up the fastest leg for the second year running, satisfyingly beating his very keen rivals by just 1 and 2 seconds.

Nkamuo 11.19

Conway 11.23

A Smith  10.30  6^th fastest yr8      (10.41 – 2016)

Georgiou  10.07 2^nd fastest yr8   (11.22)

Charnock 11.37     

H Smith  10.01

Logue 10.29

Jones  9.47      (10.28)

Lutakome  8.20 fastest leg overall in race

Wells  9.36

A Galvin  9.44   (9.51)

R Galvin  9.42