On Saturday gone, an “elite” group of Orion vet 40s, the rather good looking bunch of blokes pictured below, went to the SEAA Masters XC champs at Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, where a gritty performance saw Team Orion home in 4th place.
At a fantastic championship course next to the Biggleswade aerodrome and with winds of up to 40mph, Kent AC showed their class to get their 3 scorers in the top 11.
Back in the race for the silver team medal there was a stupendous battle going on between the Essex gold winning Orion vets, Herne Hill and Brighton AC. Despite some strong and gutsy performances by Nick Shasha (9th), Barny Foot (17th) and Mark Dillon (20th) – backed up by Adam Baker , Giles Hopkinson and returning from injury Orion legend Richard Kingsnorth – we missed out on the silver by just 6 places.
Although we didn’t quite get the result this time around it was a brilliant day and the team spirit was there for all to see.
Posted on behalf of Captain Stu
Dave, don’t forget to set a featured image when creating a post – that way the image will appear on the blog timeline- Cheers!
Hope to see the Captain self-blogging soon! :;-)
The Captain needs to work out how to use the new system 🙂
Got it – cheers Bob