Three Hercules Wimbledon youngsters competed for Kent, London and Surrey in the annual English Schools cross country championships which were staged at Temple Newsam Park, Leeds, over the weekend.

Best of the bunch was Alex Bruce-Littlewood who was Kent's second finisher in the senior boys championship.

He finished 44th out of more than 300 runners, covering the 6.65km course in 23 minutes 24 seconds less than two minutes behind the race winner.

Liam White was also the second finisher for the London team in the junior boys 3.65 kilometres championship. He was 104th out of more than 330 runners just over a minute behind the race winner.

The third Hercules Wimbledon runner in action at Leeds was Luke Jones who improved on his sixth place in the county schools championships at Reigate last month when he finished 150th and fifth Surrey scorer in the senior boys race in 24:49, more than a minute behind clubmate Bruce-Littlewood.

There is still time to enter Hercules Wimbledon's prestigious annual young athletes open meeting which is being staged for the 26th time at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre on Sunday, April 15. Many previous winners of events in previous years have gone on to represent Britain at international level and quite a few of those competing in this year's meeting will have their sights on competing at the London 2012 Olympics.

Details of the events, including an entry form, can be found on the Hercules Wimbledon website herculeswimbledonac.org.uk.

Hercules Wimbledon's former marathon international Steve Badgery produced the best age graded performance in the weekly Bushy Park five kilometres time trial on Saturday. Badgery, 59 finished 27th out of almost 300 runners in 19:23.

First Hercules Wimbledon runner over the line was veteran Peter Lee, who was 12th and second over 40 runner in 18:10, a 24 second improvement on his previous best time for the course. Down the field, another Hercules Wimbledon veteran, Barry King, was 66th in 21:10.