The last week has been all about cross country. The hard work, the early morning trainings, the dedicated coaches and the determined runners came together nicely with many representatives running personal bests in the race.

The UWCE Invitational Competition was held at Bedok Reservoir on Wednesday 20 September. In the 16U boys race, Jeremiah Neoh placed 10th, Harry Myung placed 20th, Sean Fan placed 21st, Grewal Singh placed 30th, Guru Nayak placed 31st and Ansh Nair placed 35th. With commendable results, our 16U boys placed 3rd out of 11 schools participating. In the 19U boys race, Mark Abbott placed 10th and Mandal Pradyut placed 27th to give CIS an overall team placing of 5th and in the 19U girls race, Anna Stewart placed 6th, Risa Machida placed 8th, Emilia Norwood placed 11th and Clancy MacDonald placed 14th with an overall team position of 3rd out of 5 schools.

Coaches are very proud of everyone’s results. Almost everybody ran 3 - 5 minutes faster in this race than they did in the time trials, which is huge, especially considering our training didn’t provide a hilly workout! This is a vindication of the hard work you have been doing in training and should give you confidence over the next 5 weeks as you prepare for the ACSIS championship race.