This years Northern Road Relays were held around Man City's ground with lots of the North's top clubs turning out.

Trafford got off to a great start with another brilliant run from the improving Adrian White who pulled away from the group on leg one of the U13 boys to win first leg and record the second fastest time of the day.  Thomas Aron who is a year younger then held onto 3^rd place with a good run, but the team didn't have a third leg runner.  This shouldn't happen for the rest of the winter as races move from Sunday to Saturday.

The U13 girls team (Megan Boyer, Anna Thomas and Ava Evans) packed well finishing in 21^st.

In the U15 Boys race Pio Aron once again got the team of to a good start with the clubs fastest time of the day, he was backed up by Tim Ye and Jay Hutchinson who kept the team in 7^th place overall.  Trafford's B Team (Reuben Harrison Adams, Jake Royle and Fin Dobson Emmas) were third B Team and 19^th overall, only 37 seconds off 1^st  B Team medals.  Showing the strength in depth Trafford have in this age group Trafford's C Team (Oscar Gascoine, Evan Lewis and Atticus Jones) were 3^rd C Team.

The U15 girls A Team (Martha McCormack, Sophie Bowman and Ursula Bailey) finished 19^th overall but showing good strength in depth for the girls as well as the boys in this age group Trafford’s B Team (Isobel Thomas, Rachel Bowden, Ava Bygrave) were 5^th B Team.

The fields were a bit smaller in the U17 age groups but the standard was high. Joe Deighton led Trafford U17 mens A Team but picked up a hip injury on the twisty, tight course, but still managed to get to the finish.  Freddie Meredith then ran a solo time trial still recording the 12^th fastest time of the day and Luke Carrington finished off the A Team.  The B Team (James Walton, Joe Daly and Josh Watson) finished a close 4^th B team.

Trafford's U17 women's team are looking very strong this winter.  Sara and Ava Clough got the team off to a great start coming home in 3^rd place and recording times in the top 10 overall.  Rosa Morrello stepped into the team at short notice and had her best ever race keeping the team in the top 5 overall.

In the Senior Men's race Trafford had a mixture of youngsters and experienced seniors in 3 teams.  It was James Knockton the youngest in the team who got the A Team off to a great start finishing 10^th on first leg and 16^th fastest time of the day.  Jay Ferns, Cynog Williams, Simon O'Meara, Jeff Prest and David Bowers all ran solid legs keeping the team in 17^th place out of the 108 complete teams that finished.  There were also some good runs from Trafford's B Team (Naeem Stevens, Stephen Lunn, Matt Sutton, Darren Russell, Ryan Stevenson and Jack Cooper) who were 11^th B Team.

In the women's race Trafford's A Team (Zoe Storr, Mel Monks, Amy Cauley and Liz Ellyard) finished in 50^th place with Liz anchoring the team and getting the clubs fastest time of the day.

Full results can be found here...

https://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2022/n64rel22r.php