View from the medal rostrum - Halifax and District X-C Championships Low Moor, Bradford 20th February 1993

Just a week before the National Cross Country Championships, the be all and end all of the club cross country season, Spenborough turned out five members of the by now established squad and promptly came away with team Bronze medals in this annually held Championships, which although not too meaningful is a good warm up for ‘The National’.

The 7.5 mile course was very dry but the three large laps, which crossed the open hillside, were exposed to blasting winds, made the running slow and hard. Individual star of the day for Spenborough was Lee Warburton, who gave his mounting confidence another boost by adding the individual Bronze medal to his team Bronze by finishing 20 seconds behind winner John Taylor of Holmfirth (41.38) in a time of 41.58.

With teams requiring five scorers the rest of the squad packed into the top 30 (out of over 70 finishers) and all ran to recent form with Alf Wolfenden (13th in 44.49), Dave Baskerville (17th in 45.49), Dave Sunderland (20th in 46.09) and your ‘scoop’ (Myles Chandler - 30th in 47.32) taking the almost worthless, sorry I mean priceless team medals.

Also placing highly for Spenborough were Keith Miller (32nd in 48.03) coming back from injury well and the ‘ageless’ Frank Reddington (36th in 48.38), the cross country team manager who has sadly been forced to leave himself out of the National team.