Met League: End of Season Report
Gavin LauThe 2023/2024 Met league season is over, finishing with two and a half laps of the muddy banks of Trent Park. The club has had a fantastic season with the men’s A team grabbing their highest ever number of points, and the women’s team finishing in second place to London Heathside by a mere 48 points over the five races. This meant that we just missed out on the Howard-Williams trophy once again in a tie-breaker with London Heathside, with it coming down to the narrow margin of total number of overall team wins.
The overall trophy may have slipped from our grasp for another year but the support and spirit of VPH&THAC was greater than ever with our cheering being heard until the last runners crossed the line.
Words by Lydia Briggs
The season has seen us display the highest turnout over any other club in the league, with members old and new showing inspirational levels of commitment and energy to battle it against the other teams over the hills and mud of Greater London. Huge congratulations to the 153 club members who raced in the season, with an extra thank you to the 10 women and 25 men who raced at least 4 out of the 5 races.
VPH&THAC has seen some outstanding performances throughout the season:
- Senior Men’s A team 2nd place
- Senior Women’s A team 2nd place
- Senior Men’s B team 1st place (and now promoted to division 1!)
- Senior Men’s C team 1st place (and now promoted to division 2!)
- Women’s vets A team 1st place
- Men’s vets A team 1st place
- Men’s vets B team 1st place division 2 (and promoted to division 1!)
- Men’s vets C team 3rd place division 3 (and promoted to division 2!)
Some noteworthy individual results:
Senior Women:
- Jade Dos Santos 4th
- Lydia Briggs 9th
- Kelly Clark 15th
- Lily Zechmann 17th
Senior Men:
- Alex Lawrence 5th
- James Hotham 7th
- Paul Martelletti 13th
- Julien Lepertre 19th
- Nat Rowland 30th
Vet Women:
- Kelly Clark 1st
- Joyce Berry 22nd
- Victoria Fabbri 24th
- Erica Brown 28th
Vet Men:
- Paul Martelleti 1st
- David Jones 6th
- Alex Douglas 9th
- Neil Cook 10th
- Steve Hobbs 12th
- Simeon Bennett 28th
With only eight months to go until the kick-off of the 2024/2025 season, we hope to see even more people don their spikes or trail shoes to build on this years’ success. Thank you for an incredible season, we hope to see you in October!
#vph4eva
