A host of Britain’s top senior cross-country runners were present in the men’s race at the Cross Challenge opener
THE major focus on the domestic cross-country scene shifted from the Mansfield English National Relays to the start of the British Athletics Cross Challenge series in Milton Keynes last Saturday.
Staged two weeks out from the European Cross Country Championships trials in Liverpool, the race on a rain-saturated course around Teardrop Lakes allowed some of Britain’s biggest hitters on the mud to size one another up ahead of the crunch race at Sefton Park.