National Schools

Huge congratulations to Ricky Lutakome, Ryan Galvin and Finley Wells who all ran in this weekends National Schools Final.

A tough, wet 7.2km course saw the boys - all of whom are a year young - finish well and help Sutton to finish 14th out of 39 counties represented.

Ricky (22nd), Ryan (236th) and Finley (239th) all ran really well, and to have 3 JFS runners competing at this level is a real honour and they are great ambassadors for our school.

Hopefully our younger runners can gain extra motivation seeing the level these three have got to!

Season Ends at St Teddies

Tuesday 14^th March 2017

St Edwards ReLay, Oxford

     

A Galvin  9.57 

Wells  9.43

Lutakome  8.39  FASTEST LAP OVERALL

R Galvin   9.34 

4th team                         32  teams

Ercolano   9.49

Smith H  9.56

Jones  9.55

Georgiou  10.40

12th team                                    4th B team

Daburn   10.51

Logue  10.30

Edwards  11.24

Brant  10.56

23rd team                                    3rd C team

The season ended with a very positive trip to St Edwards College Oxford for a squad containing a mixture of age groups. This was the first time we have ran at this event, and hopes were high for a medal. After the customary pit stop at Oxford Services - where we have reserved seating - we arrived in good time to see a course expertly marked, mostly flat, with a few mini hills to deal with.

With 3 teams entered the anticipation rose as the first legs began to get ready. A large field was in attendance and looked to be of a good quality.

As you can see from the results above the boys all ran with great heart and pace, but the 2 winning teams were way ahead of all the others, and despite gaining at least 5 places on his last leg, Ricky was just too far from the 3rd place team to bring home a medal. He did however secure a tied fastest leg medal.

Gianluca finally managed to beat Jacob for the first time since Christmas - Jacob was not amused - and special mention to Joe Logue who impressed. Freddy - a Year 8 - was not overawed at all. Special mention to Peter Edwards who was reserve on the day but bought his kit to school and wa required following injury to Alfie Smith.

Following a pasta lunch, the squad travelled back to JFS pleased that for another season we retain the title of Best Cross-Country Comprehensive in the Country for another year!

Medalfest at SLH!

Saturday afternoon saw our local running club, South London Harriers, put on their schools’ race competition. For many of the JFS runners, particularly the younger ones, this is the last race of a very busy season. Held on Farthing Downs the courses are challenging, especially the uphill part for the first mile. Despite missing a few key runners who were attending the Croydon mini marathon trials put on at the same time, we had a good attendance by juniors and seniors which ensured that we could be competitive in what was a high quality and larger than usual field.

Our junior team running against mainly year 9s did well to finish in 3^rd team place. Freddy continued to show his improvement this year and the year 7s got round in good times.

The senior team continued their outstanding season finishing runners up to a strong Judd team. Ricky ran a well-judged race to finish a fairly easy winner. He was then able to watch his team mates run in in fine style to claim yet more medals this term. Next week a final relay fixture for them at St Edwards Oxford finishes this successful school season. Good luck to those running in county fixtures and the English Schools in Norwich in the coming weeks as well as the London mini marathon for Sutton or Croydon. More about that as we find out for sure which boys have qualified, however, at this stage we believe that it is a record number from JFS.

Finally, our best wishes go to Joe Halfacre and Sean McAllister as their final A Level exams approach rapidly. We hope that they will be able to achieve their university aspirations. They have been a valuable part of the cross country squad for 7 years. Most impressive is that they have given their all over some of the toughest courses used at schoolboy level and still come back smiling. Try to continue your running lads, between visits to the student union bar, the pool tables and even possibly the library!

South London Harriers Schools Races

                                                                                                                                                                                                  

JUNIORS

  6  Georgiou  12.33                                    

26  Edwards  13.33           3^rd team

32  Nkamuo 

42  Conway

46  Anoop 

53  Hewitt             7^th   (2^nd B team)

54  Hilario

62  Miles                                  65 runners    

INTERS

18 Logue  17.42                      42 runners

SENIORS

WINNER  Lutakome   20.05

  9  R Galvin   21.27                     RUNNERS UP

12  Jones   22.17

15  A Galvin  23.13

37  Daburn

53  J Halfacre

Missing times added when available