After 5 races, Mandy Mackereth and David Williams are looking unassailable in the Winter Evening Event league standings. The final event of the series takes place at Arrow Valley on 26th February. Photo credit: Adrian Bailey
A thirteen strong HOC contingent decided to spend last Saturday evening running around in the dark in Egypt Wood, Slough for the 2026 British Night Championships, hosted by Happy Herts. Congratulations are due to Seb Blackmore, for getting onto the podium in his first year as an M16 with an excellent 3rd place. Other standout results were bagged by Peter Langmaid (1st M55S), Andy Hemsted (4th M75L), Kerstin Mitchell (4th W60L) and Steve Blackmore (4th M45L). All the detail is…
HOC’s Sam Hudson will be heading to Northern France with the England team to compete in Interland, the annual six-way event featuring teams from France, Wallonia and Flanders regions of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. This year’s race takes place on March 16th. Sam’s strong performances late last year at the Midland Championships, the JIRCS 2025 event in the Lakes, and the Interland qualification race at Crabtree Hill in November secured his selection. Congratulations Sam! Photo : Wendy Carlyle
“The winter SMApp series has just passed its half way mark with 20 runners braving the cold and sheeting rain to explore some very complex parts of Droitwich in the sixth event of the series. So far we seem to have had the wettest weather of any night series that I can remember so the tenacity of those who have taken part so far is impressive. I certainly hope that you’re all enjoying the experience- it was definitely Type 2…
After the fourth event at a somewhat soggy Castlemorton Common, Mandy Mackereth heads up the women’s table while David Williams, the league co-ordinator, leads the men’s standings.
HOC have won the West Midlands League for the first time since 2006. The season ended with another strong performance at Octavian Droobers’ Brandon Wood event last Sunday. All of the detail is available on the league’s own page. With seven of our runners making a maximum scoring contribution of 600 points to the club total, tie-break rules were needed to decide the winner of the club’s own HOC Galoppen Trophy for the highest scorer. Jake Fox will receive the…