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14th December 2011 Juveniles Off the Pace in Kildare....Bogle Wins in Cookstown

The City of Derry Spartans juveniles found it tough at the uneven age group championships in Kildare and despite giving it their all in the four races contested came home without any silverware. The boys and girls U17 squads produced the best efforts on a day of red hot competition, Shane McGowan 14th and Matthew Folland 25th in the boys race and Amy Jackson 20th in the girls event. They will now re focus and turn out at the Juvenile races this Saturday in Gransha before cranking up the training or the Schools and clubs races in the New Year.

Allan Bogle meanwhile had an easy win at the Sperrin Harriers Winter Trail Series race in Drum Manor, Cookstown last Saturday clocking just over 35mins for the testing 10K forest path circuit. A timely outing for the Spartan as he gets ready for the NI/Ulster senior cross country championships next month in Antrim, where he should be a major asset to the red vests challange for team honours.


NW Cross Country To Attract Big Numbers
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This Saturdays annual NW Cross Country meeting in the Gransha Grounds is set to attract a big entry across all our races on the programme which caters or U13,s;U15,s;U17,s;U 20,s; Seniors and Masters.

The Open 6K or the U20,s; Seniors and Masters has been kindly sponsored by Eamonn Gee o the Foyle Valley Wine Club and will ofer a generous and extesive prize list across all the usual categories,including male and female team races---men 6 to score, female 4 to score. It is also a scoring race in both the NI Masters and Athletics NI Winter Leagues and this will ensure additional interest from way beyond the usual NW entry base.

The Open race has a 12 20pm start time and will be preceeded by the under age races, starting at 11 30am by the U13 1.1K. This is followed at 11 40am by the U15,s who race over 2K and then at 11 55am its the U17,s who take on a 3.1K test. A real feast of cross country action is on the cards at the City of Derry Spartans promotion.

Online entries for the Open 6K only can be made at fudgelarge@gmail.com Simply send the following details: Name/ Gender/ Date of Birth/ Club before 5pm on Friday 16th December. Your race pack can then be picked up on Saturday morning from 11am at the race HQ in the U3A Foyle building in the Gransha Grounds.

On the day entries for all the races will be taken at the same location from 10 30am.Entry fees for all the Juvenile races are £1/E2 and £5 for the Open race. Ribboned medals will be awarded to all finishers in the Juvenile races and the usual post race refreshments will be on offer at the Open race awards presentation in the U3A Foyle premisses.