Club Race Reports Season 1970-1971
Liverpool & District XC Union
Championships - Arrowe Park - 09/01/1971 - Seniors
In the Liverpool & District Cross-Country Championships at Arrowe Park, Wallasey Athletic Club team finished fifth.
Winners were Wirral A.C. from the two Liverpool clubs, Liverpool Pembroke and Liverpool Harriers, with Sutton Harriers fourth.
With eight runners to count towards the team total it was especially vital that the final
counters should be well placed, Wallasey's final two runners, Pete Lewis and Dave Hughes waged a furious battle, pulling each other through the field to respectable mid-field positions.
Of the other Wallasey runners only Dave Lindsey, John Wright and Mike Teahan can be satisfied with their performances.
Dave ran particularly well, not quite staying with the leading group, but finishing 12th, just three places in front of John Wright who must have been well satisfied with his position after being unable to train hard all week due to a slight injury.
Mike Teahan continued to move up the field, finishing 36th; his improvement being due to a greater emphasis on quality in training rather than quantity, a point some of his colleagues should remember.
In the youths' race, Wallasey had only two runners, Bob Brimage and Bob Warburton. The former, Bob having a particularly bad run, being left from the start and finishing ninth, just behind Bob Warburton.
