Nationals Sees Another Strong Performance

Coventry National Relays

A Team

Position: 13^th

Leg	Runner	Time
1	Gianluca Ercolano	00:12:51
2	Freddy Georgiou	00:13:19
3	Ricky Lutakome	00:11:10
4	Jacob Jones	00:13:31
5	Alfie Smith	00:13:40
6	Ryan Galvin	00:13:17

John Fisher 'B'  

Leg	Runner	Time
1	Joe Conroy	00:14:35
2	Ebuka Nkamuo	00:14:47
3	Malachi Messette	00:14:46
4	Matthew Conway	00:15:17

Ricky ran the fastest leg in an amazing time, beating the times run by of all people Seb Coe and Alistair Brownlee!

The team ran quicker than last year, and yet could not gain entry into the top 10 but a fantastic performance by all!

FURTHER SUCCESS AT NATIONALS!

NATIONAL U19 RELAY AT HENRY VIII SCHOOL, COVENTRY

1^st February

The annual pilgrimage to Coventry is always eagerly anticipated by the Senior team despite the lengthy journey. A stop at Oxford services to fill up with food is welcomed with Subway seemingly the nutrition of choice this year!

This race draws the best 50 teams in the country. Our ambitious target was to break the top 10 places for the first time ever. Last year we were the 11^th A team. Careful leg order consideration is vital and with 9 of the 12 runners having run last year the 2 mile course was familiar to them.

The first leg is tough as most schools put their fastest runner on it, however, Alex and Harry battled through to put us in a fair position meaning that, certainly for the A team, they could hope to start moving up gradually through the field. The main breakthrough came on the 4^th leg when Ricky moved up from 25^th place to 10^th – a fantastic run. It was left to Jacob and Ryan to hang on to it. Despite a valiant effort we dropped to 13^th place. Ryan, in particular, was unfortunate to be running on the same leg as the Olympic youth triathlon champion running for Loughborough College, who made the 2 miles look like a walk in the park, as well as other known very fast runners.

Both teams beat their overall times from last year and should be proud to know that they are still the best comprehensive school at this event. Well done to all of the squad.

Lutakome  11.57       

Galvin R   13.18        

Galvin A   13.28 

Daburn   14.41

Smith H  14.11

Wells  13.12   

Ercolano  13.37    (2016 - 14.11)

Halfacre J  15.54

Jones   13.28     (14.19)

Hodgson  14.47   (15.40)  

Brant  14.38

Smith A  14.13

    RESULTS     A team  13^th 

                    B team  41^st

Ricky – 8^th fastest lap.                     

        

            51 UK teams                              

              306 runners