Valley Striders juniors made up 15 of the 29 teams in the Golden Acre Junior Relays on 16 July.
Striders won 2 of the 6 team category prizes that were available and Rafferty Mirfin was the fastest of all the 87 runners who competed.
The teams included 6 trialists and also 3 who had joined in the last 2 months.
1 V S Boys 20:42 Older Boys (1) 06:49 Rafferty Mirfin (B6) 06:56 Leon Jones (B7) 06:57 Theo Rosenberg (B7)
5 V S Year 5 23:12 Older Boys (4) 07:21 Ben Shenderey (B5) 08:16 Dex Rosenberg (B5) 07:35 Luke Mackreth (B5)
8 V S Collingham 23:38 Older Boys (5) 08:28 Josh Lowe (B6) 08:09 Gus Cawcutt (B6) 07:01 Felix Linley (B6)
9 V S JMG 24:40 Older Boys (6) 08:38 James Khan (B6) 08:30 Matt Sedgley (B7) 07:32 Griff Lippiatt (B7)
11 V S Boys 24:54 Younger Boys (2) 08:21 Seth Bolton (B3) 08:17 Frankie Riley (B4) 08:16 Edward Nabozny (B3)
13 V S Whitecki 25:37 Older Boys (7) 09:22 Sammy Whitehouse (B2) 07:53 Oliver Lubiecki (B5) 08:22 Joseph Whitehouse (B5)
16 V S Fotherbolt 26:17 Older Boys (8) 08:35 Daniel Fotherby (B6) 09:57 Josh Holt (B4) 07:45 Michael Fotherby (B4)
17 V S Girls 26:29 Younger Girls (2) 08:41 Alice Bonner (G4) 08:58 Natalie Ward (G4) 08:50 Jess Guthrie (G4)
18 V S Mixed 27:04 Older Mixed (4) 11:22 Lucy Adcock (G3) 08:00 Theo Marshall-Brown (B5) 07:42 Toby Walker (B6)
19 V S Belling 27:35 Younger Mixed (1) 09:12 Mary Venning (G3) 09:43 Florence Bell (G3) 08:40 Bertie Bell (B2)
21 V S Girls 30:03 Older Girls (3) 11:25 Grace Fishburn (G3) 08:42 Keira Sykes (G5) 09:56 Ella Lim (G6)
22 V S Kahaba 30:05 Younger Mixed (2) 10:49 Annabel Khan (G4) 10:49 Caitlyn Hartley (G3) 08:27 William Barton (B4)
23 V S Dosson 30:25 Younger Girls (3) 09:30 Liz Dossett (G3) 10:57 Sarah Dennison (G3) 09:58 Millie Leadbeater (G3)
24 V S McShea 30:37 Younger Girls (4) 11:22 Millie McLaren (G3) 10:30 Elsie O’Shea (G3) 08:45 Sophia Leadbeater (G3)
25 V S Helvellyn 31:13 Younger Mixed (3) 11:28 Eve Rothera (G2) 11:01 Junior Barclay (B2) 08:44 Ewan Reid (B2)
Full results at https://www.abbeyrunners.co.uk/golden-acre-relay/
Many thanks to Sarah Diamond who organised the teams on the evening and to Tally Diamond who led the warm-up (pictured)
There were also 2 teams of juniors taking part in the “adult” Relays who both finished runner-up in their categories
27 V S Junior Mixed 52:38 Junior “Boys” (2) 18:15 Tally Diamond 17:14 Jamie Walker 17:09 Alfie Jones
96 V S Junior Girls 65:54 Junior Girls (2) 22:34 Annabel Lim 21:49 Josie Pawley 21:31 Sofia Robottom