Page 33 - BBHAC Winter 2015-16 Gazette

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“I like hillier courses and prefer it was the first lady home and
when they are wetter too.”
Not all cross country is, as
the armchair critics claim is
soft and yielding, but then she
has experienced the kind of
mud which in its own way is
potentially hazardous.
Of all the races she was asked
to rate she had two which
stuck out as her favourites.
On the one hand there was
the Richmond Mob Match
against Ranelagh, often
considered by many to be a
fast relatively flat course. She
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second place ensured that she
consolidated her position to
clinch the cup by a slender
margin of 2 points. It was, as
she remarked, all good fun.
Finally the success in winning
the Bennett Cup has been
the icing on the cake for
what has been for Sarah a
distinguished athletic winter.
Her achievement this past
season have included getting a
Kent vest and running in the
inter counties championships
for the first time. As she
approaches another winter
of competition she hopes
to be selected again for the
inter counties. Onwards and
upwards.
Wilf Orton
it gave her the satisfaction of
keeping fairly close to Steve
Pairman, her closest rival in
the cup. “It was the first race
in which I could see him at
the end… so close I was to
see him that I knew I’d done
really well”. On the other
hand there was the closing 5
where she “ran as hard as I
could”. In this scenario where
she had a specific target she
knew that she had to go all
out and she did, and knowing
that she had to pass so many
people to get the points her