Three Bicester AC athletes took part in the recent Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (BBO) Cross Country Championships held at Englefield House, Reading. This is a long established event and all three Bicester athletes made their mark. Two Bicester athletes contested the under 15 boy’s race run over a 4.45km course. Leo Blyton, who was crowned English School’s Cross Country champion earlier in the year added another cross country title. Blyton beat 37 other athletes winning in a time of 15mins 15secs which gave him a five second margin over the 2nd placed athlete. Bicester’s Alex Collins is in his maiden cross country season and he performed well finishing in 8th in 16mins 01sec.
The under 20 men’s race was incorporated within the senior men’s event and 64 runners in total toed the starting line over a course measuring 8.1km. Bicester AC’s Owen Stocker performed very well against older athletes to finish 4th clocking 28mins 45secs. Significantly he was first under 20 men’s finisher winning by one second in taking his first BBO cross country title.