Croydon Harriers' road runners enjoyed their most successful outing in three years at the Surrey relay championships on Saturday, writes Matthew Kiernan.
The Harriers finished 14th in the six stage relay at Wimbledon and showed encouraging signs ahead of the upcoming cross country season.
Andrew Del Nevo (18.34 minutes, 18th) got Croydon off to a solid start, while George Thatcher starred on the second leg, moving up three places with the club’s fastest time of the day of 16.13 minutes.
David Brown (17.27), Julian Dillow (18.13) and Keith Brown (18.35) maintained Croydon in 15th, before Colin Oxlade (17.50) anchored the team home to pip Striders of Croydon by just three seconds to place 14th out of the 21 teams who finished.
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