Greater Manchester Cross Country Championships 2018

Grace, Mary, Libby, Daniel, Jonah, Harvey, Ella, Josie, Harry, Sam & Luke all competed in their County Cross Country Championships on Saturday. As a multi-event group to have 11 athletes out there competing in this gruelling, demanding, character building event gives me great pleasure and hope for the future. The attitude, understanding, commitment and maturity of the group, in general, is excellent. Technically & Tactically we can always improve but I can always see a lot of learning taking place and that is what is so important with young, developing athletes. From a performance perspective, all things considered (multi-eventing focus, training ages, training frequency, illness, injuries ......etc etc) I think those who achieved top 20 results have to be very pleased with themselves. They are competing in an event where early specialisation is very apparent and as such the pace is of a very high intensity throughout.

Extremely well done to you all! Looking forward to the Northerns in Leeds.