This week saw another strong turnout for Striders at the Luton leg of the Chiltern Cross Country League. With 80 participants across the male/female age categories, it was no surprise to see some high placements.

There were top 10 places for Archie Marshall (4^th Sen M; 32:13), Isaac Gibson-Dunt (7^th U15 M; 14:25), John McNaught (4^th U13 M; 10:27), Connor Treloar (6^th U13 M; 10:37), Guy Russell-Jones (7^th U13 M; 10:40), Keira Stern (5^th Sen F; 21:30), Hannah Burkhardt (9^th Sen F; 22:32), Paloma Theobalds (U15 F; 16:55), Emma Treloar (U15 F; 17:07), Phoebe Crudgington (U13 F;11:05), Elodie Smith (U13 F; 11:44).

It's certainly great to see the emerging talent coming through the groups, to give Striders 3^rd place overall (5^th Male Team and 1^st Female Team), and 4^th place in the league after 3 fixtures.

Farther afield there were amazing performances for Carole-Anne Upton at the Singapore Marathon, finishing 5^th in her age category (1:51:20); plus Patrick Hayes dug deep at the Valecia Marathon to get a PB of 2:48:22.

Could there be more strong results and PBs before the end of the year??