There's no new-year hangover for Chichester athletes

By The Newsroom
Published 8th Jan 2016, 13:05 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 06:59 BST
Some of the runners who gathered for the Hangover 5Some of the runners who gathered for the Hangover 5
Some of the runners who gathered for the Hangover 5

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The New Year started in familiar fashion for Chichester Runners with the opening fixture in the West Sussex Fun Run league, the Hangover 5 at Hill Barn, Worthing.

A massive field of 504 finishers including more than 200 women is testament to the popularity of the league and the field were not put off by recent rain, which had made parts of the Downland course even more slippery and treacherous than usual.

The Chichester squad totalled 82 points out of the maximum 85 on offer including a near-perfect bonus score of 59 from their top six athletes.

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A total of 23 from Chichester lined up and were led off by evergreen James Baker, who will be joining the veteran ranks at the end of 2016.

For once in this league Baker did not have things his own way and was joined at the front of the field by Crawley athlete Paul Navesey and Cambridge University under-23 Patrick Roddy.

Such was the dominance of the trio that they quickly pulled well clear of the rest of the field to finish nearly two minutes clear at the end of the tough five-mile course.

Navesey repeated his win over Baker in the Sussex League race at Lancing Manor in December while Roddy followed him for second place leaving Baker in third but gaining the maximum ten point bonus towards the league standings.

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