Ben Robinson dominates Gloucester League in Cheltenham

Canicross specialist excels as we deliver you our newest cross-country round-up from throughout Britain.

GLOUCESTER LEAGUE, Cheltenham, February 14

Ben Robinson gained general for Western Tempo by nicely over a minute because the orange vested Midland champions additionally got here out on prime within the group stakes at Pittville Park.

Again in November, Robinson gained the British & Irish Masters Worldwide M40 title. He’s additionally a canicross specialist and has gained European and world titles and has a finest 5km time of 11:56 with considered one of his canines, Zuma.

It was the same story within the girls’s race the place Isabel Brinsden led CLC Striders to the ladies’s group plaudits. This virtually precisely six years after successful the Surrey Women League and two Surrey cross-country titles.

Males: 1 B Robinson (W Tempo) 30:50; 2 R Monti (Bathtub U, U20) 32:06; 3 S Davies (T Bathtub, U20) 32:24; 4 B Pearce (T Bathtub) 32:30; 5 R Fairley (Avon Tempo) 33:07; 6 A Daniel (T Bathtub) 33:13

M40: 1 R Inexperienced (CLC) 33:27

M50: 1 M Fallows (W Tempo) 35:36

M55: 1 C Sentence (Tewk) 36:19

M60: 1 A Hope (Sev) 39:35

U20: 3 J Mathews (Bathtub U) 33:36

Males TEAM: 1 Western Tempo

U17: 1 T Loughlin (T Bathtub) 22:04; 2 B Clarke (Glouc) 23:00; 3 C Houghton (T Bathtub) 23:18

TEAM: 1 Workforce Bathtub 12

U15: 1 G Davies (T Bathtub) 16:47; 2 D Necrews (Swin) 16:58; 3 B Conway (Swin) 17:09

TEAM: 1 Swindon 15

U13: 1 O Davenport-Jones (Chelt) 9:41; 2 N Sutton (Glouc) 9:42; 3 T Brooks (Glouc) 10:02

TEAM: 1 Cheltenham 11

Girls: 1 I Brinsden (CLC) 24:20; 2 F Spruit (T Bathtub) 24:50; 3 A Tredgett (Sev) 25:36

W40: 1 Okay Newcombe (Stroud) 26:14

W45: 1 H Knight (CLC) 27:20

W50: 1 Okay Fairburn (Chelt) 28:04

W55: 1 Okay Heyrman (CLC) 27:52

U20: 1 R Brook (Glouc) 25:17

U17: 1 P Swarbrook (T Bathtub) 26:21

Girls TEAM: 1 CLC Striders

U15: 1 I Wightman (Chelt) 18:28; 2 L Leon-Hodgson (Glouc) 18:35; 3 L Simpson (B&W) 18:50

TEAM: 1 Cheltenham 10

U13: 1 L Leach (Stroud) 10:15; 2 O Lynch (T Bathtub) 10:36; 3 J Bailey (helt) 10:55

TEAM: 1 Cheltenham 15

SUSSEX LEAGUE, Match 4, Glyndebourne, East Sussex, February 14

Regardless of the well-known opera venue getting used as a backdrop for the ultimate league match of the season, there was no singing and dancing nevertheless it was 17-year-old Finlay Goodman, the Sussex junior champion, who gained his first senior league race.

Goodman moved up from second within the earlier spherical at Ardingly, the Sussex showground to win by 41 seconds from Josh Burgess.

The ladies’s occasion once more additionally included the under-17 girls nevertheless it was Sussex senior champion Milly Dickinson who was fifth within the South of England championships, who got here out forward. This was from Eastbourne Rovers’ under-17 Freda Pearce to keep up seniority.

Males: 1 F Goodman (B&H, U20) 31:39; 2 J Burgess (Lewes) 32:20; 3 S Heath (Phoe) 33:14

M45: 1 J Baker (Chich R) 33:45

M50: 1 H Bristow (B&H) 35:14

M55: 1 CJ Neville (Burg HR) 36:04

M60: 1 M Usher (Lewes) 39:56

M65: 1 T Hicks (Hay H) 47:40

U20: 2 T Wooden (Horsh BS) 35:59

TEAM Div 1 (6 to attain): 1 Lewes 71; 2 B&H 118; 3 Phoenix 196

M35 TEAM: 1 Worthing 17; 2 Lewes 28; 3 Phoenix 31

M50 TEAM: 1 B&H 18

U17: 1 A Roberts (B&H) 20:42; 2 D Airey (Craw) 21:06; 3F Boniface (Horsh) 21:17

TEAM: 1 B&H 18; 2 Crawley 18; 3 Lewes 24