03/10/2026
An incredibly successful start to October for the Beagles with our U14 girls becoming National Road Relay champions in Sutton Park.
A beautiful day in Birmingham saw the best teams from all over England travel to the National Road relays in Sutton Park. With the junior teams running 3.88k per leg, our U14 girls started the event in style. Lianne Esterhuysen had a very strong run of 13:27 to position the team amongst the lead runners. Jess Davidson took over and started to build a gap to the other teams - running 14:45 - before handing over to Sophia Davies who extended the gap to pick up the fastest lap of the all U14 girls - 13:18 - and to push the team to a 96 second lead over second place. An amazing result to become inaugural U14 champions!
Our U16 girls battled strongly during their race, demonstrating brilliant team work and progress throughout the event. Amalie Twydell held her own off a very combative start line to run 15:00, Haysan So had the run of her life, sprinting at the finish to run 14:49, whilst Sophie Bickerstaff pushed the team to 9th with a strong run of 13:48.
Our U18 women weren’t quite a full team but our two runners relished the opportunity to take on the course and test themselves. Sarena So ran the first leg and did a great job, running hard to finish in 15:11, whilst Isabel Forrest also looked strong with a run of 16:32.
Finally, Olivia Forrest ran the first leg of the seniors women’s relay which takes on the longer distance of 5.47km. Happy to be back on one of her favourite courses, Olivia ran well finishing in 20:14.
A huge well done all - doing us proud as always! Thank you to , Leo and Daniel for photos.