Daniel Bateson nets age group success in East Yorkshire Cross Country League at Bishop Wilton

The first four for Scarborough AC are, from left, Glyn Hewitt ,Ian Spence, Matt Jones, and Daniel Bateson

Due to some treacherous conditions underfoot on parts of the traditional course due to the wintry weather, which is one of the toughest of the six races, rather than abandon the fixture, the Bishop Wilton course was amended, but otherwise retained most of testing nature of the course, which included the steep downhill to the finish, writes Mick Thompson.

Scarborough’s Daniel Bateson, who has been most successful at Fell Races this year, achieved his best result this season when finishing third overall of 245 and was first Over-40.

He was followed by new club member Matt Jones who made both a successful club and league debut when finishing 13th overall and second Over-45.

Dan Bateson excelled for Scarborough AC at Bishop Wilton

The experienced Glyn Hewitt and Ian Spence in his second ever league race, made a significant impact on the team score, with Glyn finishing 20th and second Over-50 and Ian 22nd.

The team which was placed seventh and is now seventh overall, was completed by Steve Garlick in 99th and most notably by Neil Scruton who was first Over-75 and inside the top half overall in 117th.

The team was backed up by Mark May in 120th and Andrew Chidwick who made a good league debut in 140th.

The club’s two females scored sufficient points to be awarded a team result under the league rules when Sue Haslam was 21st female overall and first Over-65 and Gail Barnard was 60th and fourth Over-55.

Scarborough’s Gail Barnard competed in the annual Percy Pub 10-kilometre road race in Sheffield.

The race which had a Christmas flavour is a most popular event with many of the runners wearing seasonal fancy dress.

Gail completed the race inside the top half overall of 2,876 in a time of 52 minutes 2 seconds.

The weekly five-kilometre Parkrun events were greatly affected by the snowy and icy conditions on the courses.

Just four club members took part in the North Yorkshire Water Park Parkrun, and their fortitude resulted in achieving some good results overall and in their age groups.

Hester Butterworth was second female overall of 24 and first Over-40.

Harry Whitehouse was first Over-70, Mike Padgham first Over-65 and Suzanne Villiers third Over-60.

Dave Shipley was the only club member at the Sewerby Parkrun, he finished in 29th overall of 91 and was first Over-65.