A BUSY TIME AHEAD FOR NORTH NORFOLK’S YOUNG CROSS-COUNTRY ATHLETES

North Norfolk’s young endurance athletes were tested in the first major domestic cross country event of the winter, the Southern Counties Championships held in Beckenham on Saturday.

As expected Holt-based Hattie Reynolds made her mark in the Under 20 Ladies 6km race finishing runner up and helping her first claim club the City of Norwich AC to a comfortable team victory.

The icing on the cake came for Hattie when informed on the day she has been selected to compete for England in Italy on February 12, her second international vest.

Max Parsley also turning out for the City club finished a pleasing 18th in the Under 15 Boys 4500m race in which 205 athletes completed.

The team just missed out on a spot on the podium when placed a close order fifth in the rankings.

North Norfolk Harrier Rosie Dickety from a field of 200 plus competitors in the Under 15 Girls 4km race battled her way to a hard-fought 15th place finish.

Abington Park, Northampton at the weekend is the venue for the next top-flight competition.

The event, the Anglian Schools Cross Country Championships, which Hattie, Max and Rosie together with ten other North Norfolk-based athletes representing Norfolk will be competing.

Their aim is to qualify to represent the County in the English Schools Cross Country Championships scheduled to take place in Nottingham mid-March.