Senior and Junior Women win at Uxbridge Met League

Metropolitan Cross Country League, Uxbridge Saturday 4^th December

We had a great turnout for the women’s and girl’s races for the third Met League fixture at the Hillingdon House Farm course in Uxbridge with both the senior and junior womens TVH teams runaway winners.

The women’s team finished with 4 of the top 8 and final scorer in 17^th with 182 women finishing the race. Verity Hopkins finished in 4^th place 6 secs ahead of Alex Mundell in 5^th,  and in 7^th place Emily Todd was 6 secs ahead of new member Yvie Lock in 8th.  With Chloe Baker in 12^th and Lisa da Silva in 17^th TVH finished well clear in the team event. Rosie Vallance was next home just outside the top 50, followed by Jess Dring-Morris, Joy Giorgi and Nadia Whittaker.  

In the earlier junior (U15 & U17) race Adela Svihalkova won for the third weekend in a row, again being confident enough to stay in the lead group and sprint clear at the finish of the 4km course.

Adela has been nominated for an ISA Schools Athlete of the Term award by her school with the winner to be decided by Twitter votes / retweets, please see link below to add your support, the vote closes at 10am on Friday 10^th December. 

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Next home for TVH in the junior race was Skye Bishop with another impressive run in 9^th place, just ahead of Maya Sutaria in 10^th with Charli Edge in 15^th making up the scoring team. With 10 TVH athletes in the race the ‘B’ team of Anna Kelly, Kyra Gulamhuseinwala, Katerina Simakova and Orla Grist finished 5^th with Ava Levy and Natasha Bennett finishing just behind Orla. TVH are now leading the team competition after three fixtures.

A competitive U11 Boys team is taking shape this season and a new team finished 2^nd.  Luis da Silva has run well at all of the cross country league fixtures and finished 8^th of 39 runners (3rd  9 year old), Bernie Pela 10^th in his second race for TVH, the youngest member of the team Thor Ceric 18^th also in his second race and Elijah Nielsen 25^th in his debut race.  In the U13 Boys race Felix la Trobe Weston finished 24^th 5 secs ahead of Zachary Moore in 38^th with Sunny Jabbar in 39^th. In the Junior men’s race (U17 / U15) Luca Zorzi in his second race for the club finished 24^th out of 79 athletes with Louis Moore in 30^th (8^th U15).

The TVH men’s team wasn’t as strong as the previous fixture with some travel disruption on the day but were still able to field a competitive team. Hugo Cayssials was first home in 12^th just ahead of Conor Kissane-Wood in 15^th  .  Calum Nicol had his best run of the season in 30^th, Jake Hooley returned with a good run in 38^th, Daniel Benton finished 6^th U20 in 46^th and Ryan Keane was our sixth scorer in 62^nd.   Saif Saleh, Victor Steinwand, Matthew McDonnell, Manuel da Silva getting the better of Gordon Low and Steve Norris made up the 12 score team from a total of 23 TVH men in the race.   

River Pinn crossing – Adela, Charli, Skye, Maya, Orla, Ava and Natasha

NW London Young Athletes Cross Country League

Wintery conditions arrived for the third NW London Young Athletes Cross Country League fixture at Trent Park on Saturday  27^th November with a biting wind, rain and mud.  In the U15 competition 45 boys and 32 girls finished the 4.5km hilly course with TVH athletes winning both races. Cameron McConnon was a runaway winner at the previous fixture but struggled for grip in the mud and left it to the final climb to pull clear. Reggie Rock had his best race of the season moving through the field to finish 6^th with Louis Moore also running strongly in 10^th place. 

Adela Svihalkova started the race with just Cameron and one other boy ahead of her but settled for finishing with the 4^th & 5^th placed boys 30 secs clear of the 2^nd girl.  The fast starting Skye Bishop had another solid race in 6^th place staying well clear of Maya Sutaria in 9^th and Anna Kelly in 11^th.  Orla Grist, Ava Levy and Natasha Bennett were all inside the top 20, Cecilia Weber ran well in her first race for the club.

Two TVH athletes braved the conditions in the U11 race, Luis da Silva and another athlete in his first cross country race for TVH, Thor Ceric.  They both ran well, Luis finishing in 8^th place out of 57 finishers with Thor not far behind in 13^th place. We just had one athlete in the U13 Race but Zachary Moore is improving with each race and finished midway in 26^th place. In the U17 race Morris Rock and Luca Zorzi ran together with Morris just the stronger at the finish with both athletes given the same time in 12^th and 13^th places and Charli Edge had a competitive run in 8^th place in the women’s race.