Cross Country round-up

Written by Minna Williams & Natasha Bennett

On 7th October NHEHS cross country runners took part in the Ealing Cross Country Championships The course ran over three muddy fields, with quite long grass and one small hill I had known the course from doing it in the junior school, but had never run the senior route before, which was around 2 kilometres for the Juniors and 3km for the Intermediate runners

I raced with another Year 8 and a team of Year 7s When we set off, there was a sprint, but I made my way into 1st place, and managed to hold the position all throughout the race! Both the junior and intermediate teams performed excellently with lots of top ten finishers!

Every year, the NHEHS cross country running team enters the English School Athletic Association (ESSA) cup competition

This year, a team of Year 7 & 8 (the junior team) and Year 9 & 10 (the intermediate team) entered with 5-6 runners in each category The first round of the cup was at Harrow on the 30th September, which was a strong performance from both categories: the Junior team came 3rd overall with 1 person in the top 10 and the Intermediate team won their round with 3 people in the top ten Both teams qualified for the Regional round which was in St Albans on November 13th