Women's Surrey Cross Country League Race 3, Farthing Downs, Coulsdon

Catherine bounces back

What a joy to record that Catherine Bryson, far from being taken out of the new year sequence of races by her twisted ankle the previous week, bounced back for a fine individual win. She stretched away from South London's international Natalie Harvey over the latter stages of the race and we now look forward to seeing what she can do in the "Southern".

Sarah Murphy never seems to have a bad run and again she claimed a forward placing, 5th, with Zoë Vail also well up in 11th. Anne Hegvold fought for every point, overtaking South London's Pippa Major at the approach to the funnel, and Tilly Heaton closed in the Belgrave "five" in 30. But South London on their home territory were not going to give away an inch of their league lead if they could help it - and ran out winners again.

1 C Bryson (Belgrave H) 22:30; 2 N Harvey South London H) 22:38; 3 G Bruinvels (South London H) 22:54; ... 5 S Murphy 23:48; 11 Z Vail 25:22; 26 A Hegvold W45 25:58; 30 M Heaton 26:04; 48 V Goodwin 27:10; 67 H Smethurst W40 28:13; 97 C Eastham 29:46; 130 J Beecroft 32:09.

Teams: 1 South London H 68; 2 Belgrave H 73; 3 Ranelagh H 91; 4 Dorking & Mole V 157; 5 Herne Hill H 157; 6 Reigate Priory 160; 7 Wimbledon Windmilers 181; 8 Woking 214; 9 West4 H 217; 10 The Stragglers 226; 23 Belgrave H 'B' 522; 37 teams closed in.

Overall: 1 South London H 242; 2 Belgrave H 327; 3 Ranelagh H 353; 4 Herne Hill H 414; 5 Reigate Priory 506; 6 Woking 561.

Restored from the club's earlier website, belgraveharriers.com, and published here as originally written.