MATHEW Ashton looks set to represent Oxfordshire in this year's Inter-Counties Cross Country Championships at Cofton Park in Birmingham.
Witney Roadrunner Ashton (pictured), whose first-claim club is Aldershot, Farnham & District, will spearhead a strong Oxon team at the event, which will be televised live on Sky Sports on Saturday, March 13.
Ashton, 25, who now works as a duty manager and athletics coach at Abingdon School, has only just resumed training after suffering from two bouts of tonsilitis, but should be among the front-runners in the senior men’s race.
Oxon’s men’s team will include Oxford Mail Cross Country League leader Darrell Bellinger and former White Horse Harrier Owain Bristow, who now runs for Edinburgh.
Frances Briscoe (Coventry Godiva) fronts the senior women’s challenge.
The first event will be the under 20 men’s, which starts at 11.05am.
- FORMER Radley athlete Hatti Dean, who last week won the senior women’s race at the North of England Cross Country Championships, is expected to turn out for Yorkshire in Birmingham.
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