Guernsey athletes to take on Britain's best
GUERNSEY'S endurance athletes may not have the traditional end of season cross-country inter-insular to look forward to, but they have much bigger fish to fry with their invitation to this weekend's Home Counties Championships held at Antrim this weekend.
GUERNSEY'S endurance athletes may not have the traditional end of season cross-country inter-insular to look forward to, but they have much bigger fish to fry with their invitation to this weekend's Home Counties Championships held at Antrim this weekend.
In recent years Guernsey have a near perfect record at inter-insular level and have won all individual and individual and team titles since 2009 with the one exception being Elliott Dorey's impressive individual win at Les Quennevais last year.
Without detracting from Dorey's abilities he did not have to face Lee Merrien (injury) and Mike Wilesmith (recovering for the Barcelona Marathon) but two of Guernsey's finest ever athletes will be in the line up at Antrim with Merrien having just returned from altititude training at Iten in Kenya and Wilesmith fresh from a road 10k personal best of 31-55 at Trafford last weekend.
Full story in Friday's Guernsey Press
