It doesn’t seem long since the last National Road Relays, oh it isn’t due to weather they were run some 6 months ago, not a year ago. But irrelevant to timings and weather predicaments from last season, this years went ahead on time and as smoothly as can be expected. The rain may not have caused a cancellation this year, but it certainly showed it’s face a wet and muddy site had some parental taxi services concerned that they may not be able to leave the car park by the end of the day.
On a personal note…
Robbie had an excellent run, picking up the rains from Jake Cvetkovic, who completed the first leg in 9th place with an excellent time of 12:57, he pushed forward to complete the second leg in 13:14 seconds pulling AFD up in to 5th position, the last leg was run in the awesome time of 12:21 by Jack Boswell, this being the second fastest individual leg by an U15 boy on the day. Despite the excellent performances of all three runners it was not quite enough to get in to the medal standings, the team managing 4th place. Still 4th place in the National Road Relays is an excellent result in anyone’s book, and at an individual level the boys all had outstanding performances.
The last hill before the finishing straight, with Robbie working hard and chasing down the 4th place runner.
A complete breakdown of AFD performances.
A good showing, in numbers, for AFD with all groups entering multiple teams.
U13 Girls entered  3 complete teams and placed 12th, 32nd & 42nd. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by Daisy Corbett in 15:02. (15th Individual)
U13 Boys entered 3 complete teams and placed 12th, 19th and 23rd. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by Marcus Shantry in 14:00. (5th Individual)
U15 Girls entered 3 complete teams and placed 5th, 19th and 32nd. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by Niamh Brown in 13:57. (6th Individual)
U15 Boys entered 2 complete teams and 1 incomplete team, they placed 4th, 30th. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by Jack Boswell in 12:21. (2nd Individual)
U17 Women entered 3 complete teams and placed 4th, 19th and 28th. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by Eloise Milbourn in 14:08. (13th Individual)
U17 Men entered 1 complete team which placed 2nd (our only team medal of the event) and an incomplete team. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by Jack Crabtree in 11:38. (2nd Individual)