Join the London Metropolitan Cross Country League
Mud is fun
September 30, 2024
It’s that time of year again - Cross Country Season! GoodGym’s Race team would like to welcome new runners to compete in the London Metropolitan Cross Country League.
Each year GoodGymmers from the London area compete in five Men’s and Ladies races throughout the London metropolitan area. The league consists of one fixture a month from October to February and races are always held on a Saturday afternoon. Locations are all accessible by TfL underground and public transport. The courses are approximately 7-8km for both men and women. They are undulating, with plenty of mud, and sometimes, if we’re lucky, a stream crossing! We recommend either cross country spikes or trail shoes to run in.
The London Met League was formed in 1966, more information is available here: https://metleague.run/.
No matter what their finishing time or position, everyone that races scores points for their team. Team points are calculated after each fixture and the league results are totalled up after the final fixture.
To join, please follow these steps:
- Become an England Athletics member: https://www.englandathletics.org/take-part/athlete-registration/
- Join the GoodGym Race Team: https://www.goodgym.org/race-team
- Pay your share of the team registration fee, which works out to a very reasonable £20 per person for all five races! To do this, get in touch with either Graham or myself: Alison Davidson: alison@goodgym.org Graham Atkins: grahamtatkins@gmail.com
- Sign up to the race listings on GoodGym. These will go up once the provisional dates have been confirmed.
These are the provisional dates for the forthcoming season:
- Saturday, 12th October 2024 at Claybury
- Saturday, 9th November 2024 at Horsenden Hill
- Saturday, 30th November 2024 at Uxbridge
- Saturday, 11th January 2025 at Welwyn Garden City
- Saturday, 8th February 2025 at Trent Park
The start times for each race are:
- 13:00 - Women
- 13:45 - Men
You don’t need to be able to compete in every single race. Once you have joined and paid, we will add you to our WhatsApp group, and then all you need to do is sign up for each race on GoodGym so that we have an idea of numbers.
If you’re not London-based (as most of you won’t be), but are interested in cross country races in your area, then there are plenty of other Cross Country Leagues throughout the UK. GoodGym race team is registered with England and Welsh Athletics, so if you have enough interest in your local GoodGym, then it should be straightforward to put together a team.
England Athletics lists cross country competitions on their website here: https://www.englandathletics.org/competitions-and-events/licensed-competitions/
Welsh Athletics lists Welsh Leagues on their website here: https://www.welshathletics.org/en/competition/current/discipline/cross-country
