Men

Woodford's senior men sit third in the Met League table after a fifth-placed finish in a high-quality field at Welwyn Garden City. The new coalition of team managers feel this was a solid start to their tenure and will look to address the mainly safety-pin related teething problems before the next fixture. Several long-established members put in good runs, and the future looks bright with two under-20s in our scoring 12 but we also had two Vet-60s closing the team out. With Highgate taking the league by the scruff of its neck with their victory in this fixture, the race is on for 2nd place, and Woodford will need to improve to rival VPH for this spot.

Provisional results

John Stow writes:

When I arrived at the course just after 9am the sun was shining and the course quite good apart from the entrance to the woods, where a mass of water made for a tricky 20/30 metres in ankle-deep water.

By the time the first race started at 10.45am the forecast heavy rain had arrived along with strong winds, and the temperature plummeted. This made for very difficult running conditions but our runners never let all this get the better of them. Some excellent racing from our athletes yielded three top 16 finishes plus another two teams in the thirties. The starting fields in the young athlete races were in excess of 100 teams.

Provisional results

Under 13 Girls