National Cross Country Championships Results

Dear fellow members,

There has been some comment recently on the blog about the performance of the senior men’s team at the National Cross Country Championships.

For your interest I looked up the team results for the last 29 years. I picked that number because that is the number of times I have run the men’s championships and I was interested in researching my own finishing positions over the years.

2012	31	2004	15	1996	7	1988	12
2011	21	2003	6	1995	18	1987	13
2010	23	2002	18	1994	13	1986	unknown
2009	20	2001	12	1993	14	1985	Disq.
2008	27	2000	21	1992	18	1984	unknown
2007	27	1999	20	1991	17
2006	18	1998	7	1990	8
2005	12	1997	DNF	1989	12

As you can see from the results above, 4 times in 29 years we have finished in the top ten (although 2 years are not published). In addition we were disqualified in 1985 for using a “ringer”.

Interestingly, our highest finish was the year that we provided the winner. Graeme Reid is the only individual who has medalled in that time and indeed only one other, Ian Murphy, has finished in the top twenty in 29 years. (Ian finished 20^th).

One other interesting point I noted from the results was the consistent lack of young athletes competing in the National Championships, considering the numbers we have had as members during these years.

Peter Rudzinski