The National Cross Country Relays took place in Cumbernauld on Saturday.
The weather was dry, however there was a strong wind and sections of the course were quite muddy from rain earlier in the week. Lasswade had four complete teams competing, one young female, two young male and one complete men’s team (we also had an incomplete men’s team of three).
The first race was the young females and Lauren Dickson had a very good run to finish 18th out of the 65 starters. On our second leg it was Sophie Miller who ran well to hand over in 22nd to Amy Smith. Amy ran a steady race to come home in 18th position.
Next it was the young males race where we had two teams competing. Matthew Smith and Thomas Snodgrass led the teams off with both boys running well to finish 24th and 32nd respectively out of the 74 starters. On our second leg Jamie Cousin took over from Matthew and Callum Graham took over from Thomas. Jamie and Callum ran well with Jamie in 16th place when handing over to Ross Henderson for the final leg and Callum in 48th when handing over to Callum Clark. Ross ran a solid race to finish 22nd and Callum also ran well having just started training again after having been out injured for a few months.
The next race for us was the mens race. There were 128 teams starting, although only 99 complete teams finished the race. Martin Gore and Paul Elliott led the Lasswade men off and ran well to hand over in 56th and 69th respectively. Niall Sheehan took over from Martin and produced the Lasswade performance of the day pulling back a massive 34 places to hand over in 22nd place. On the same leg Ross Finlayson took over from Paul Elliott and pulled back a couple of places to hand over to Kirk Smith in 67th. Paul Benham took over from Niall and despite suffering from cramp in his calf handed over in 24th place. On the final leg Ben Mitchell was the anchor man taking over from Paul and he ran a solid leg to finish in 28th place. Well done to everyone who took part.
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