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| Credits: Tony Bates, Rikko2photo, UK Athletics, New Forest Junior AC, Brian Smith, Sean Deoni | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal Bests:
2002 In her first cross-country season Charlotte was 20th at the Hampshire Schools Cross-Country Championships at Lords Wandsworth College in Basingstoke. She went on to finish 40th in the South of England Schools race at Portswood Hill in Havant. On the track, she improved her 800m PB over 5 seconds. 2002 - 2003 season Charlotte was 3rd at the New Forest Schools Cross-country championships at Gang Warily, Fawley. She then managed 13th at Hampshire schools, and went on to finish 54th in Junior Girls' race on her home course at the Southern Districts Cross-Country at Gang Warily, Fawley to narrowly miss out on an English Schools place. 2003 On the track, Charlotte took up the 1500m, improving by 21 seconds over the season. In the few 800m races she competed in, she managed to dismantle her PB by over 10 seconds. She took her first New Forest track title in Bournemouth in May, and ran a PB to finish 8th over the distance at Hampshire Schools. At the Wessex Plate Final, she took her first 800m victory in the U15 girls race. Meanwhile, on the road she proved herself over her preferred longer distances, finishing second to Emily Pidgeon in the Gloucester Race for Life 5km at Plock Court. 2003 - 2004 season Charlotte's improved form showed throughout the first half of the cross-country season, but she suffered in the New Forest Schools Cross-country, finishing in 5th place. She had a disappointing run in the Victory 5 miles race in Portsmouth, finishing 47th woman. She improved vastly on previous performances to take 12th place at the Hampshire cross-country championships on her home course at Dibden Enclosure, but struggled with the flat course at the Hampshire Schools Championships, missing out on county selection in 21st place. 2004 Charlotte ran her first 3000m in Crawley in late March, finishing 3rd to Crawley AC's Danielle Christmas and Hannah Brooks in a short-lived New Forest Junior club record. After a massive start of season dip which saw her form completely collapse as she recorded her worst-ever run over 1500m, her track season saw her develop quickly as she took to the new event, and she flattened her personal best throughout the season, taking 16 seconds off the initial 3000m time, and record 5th and 3rd place performances in the Hampshire Championships and Hampshire Schools Championships respectively. Over 1500m her times also fell. She retained her New Forest title in May, and took 5th at the Hampshire Schools Championships, her second event of the day. She finished the season recording a massive personal best of 5:09.1 to win the combined Wessex Under 15 and Under 17 Cup and Plate title, and help New Forest Juniors to a Plate win. On the road she was second woman in the National Sport Relief mile race in Southampton. 2004 - 2005 season Charlotte started the road season at the Southern Road Relays in Aldershot, in a disappointing run that was unreflective of her form. Charlotte smashed the women's course record to win the women's race the Alton Downland Challenge 5km at the start of October, in a sprint-finish over training partner Laura Pankhurst. The week ended in disaster, however, as she suffered knee pain during a training run, an injury which took her out of the whole of the first half of the cross-country season. Despite this, she limped around the course to finish a comfortable second at the New Forest Schools Championships at the start of December, securing her a place on the New Forest team. In her first run back from injury she placed second woman in the Somerly 5km.
She was disappointed with her run at the Hampshire Schools Championships in Alton, where she finished 7th Inter girl, again suffering from the flat course. She finished 25th at the Southern Schools Championships in Basildon, securing her a place on the English Schools team for the first time.
At the Inter-counties Charlotte revelled on the hilly course, having her best run to date to place 84th overall and 5th Hampshire runner in the under 17 women's race. At English Schools Charlotte also exceeded expectations, finishing 4th Hampshire runner in 121st place, despite the flat course and a mid-race fall. 2005 track season Improved confidence on the track was instrumental in turning Charlotte into a real competitor in local races. She won almost all of her early-season runs over both 1500m and 3000m, dismantling her 2004 times and taking a under 17 plate 1500m and 800m double in the combined under 15 and under 17 races at the Wessex League opener.
At Hampshire Schools she finished 3rd in the 3000m in another personal best time behind the soon-to-become National Schools Champion Rebecca Gough, and club mate Hayley Pointer. She again finished 3rd Inter Girl in the soaring temperatures at the Southern Schools Championships in Sutton, behind Pointer and Buckinghamshire's Tanya Taylor, although ran one of her worst ever times. Competing for Hampshire in the Southern Inter-counties in August, Charlotte took a narrow 3rd place, finishing in an identical time to the second placed athlete in a personal best of 11:02.3. Much to her own frustration she didn't manage to improve to sub 11 minutes in the closing stages of the season, but did finish first woman by over half a minute in the Havant Mile Open, and take a comfortable Wessex Plate middle distance double in the season closing match at Bournemouth.
2005-2006 season At the Southern Road Relays Charlotte was amazed to finish 18th fastest overall, as she stormed through the field on the 3rd leg, overtaking 10 other teams in the process to elevate New Forest Juniors from 30th to 20th place overall. She returned to the Alton Downland Challenge 5km on her 17th birthday, smashing her own women's course record and winning the race outright in a comfortable victory on the overgrown course.
Meanwhile, she recorded a surprising 6th place at the BMC Cross-country classic in Bristol, while was disappointed with 6th at the Southern Colleges Cross-country in Chichester. She was uncomfortable over the predominantly flat course at the Southern Inter-Counties Cross-country in Thetford, where she finished a disappointing 16th, but still helped the Hampshire team to the silver medal overall. She did not manage to recover sufficiently from this, and struggled in the Wessex League race in Newbury the following day to finish 4th.
2006-2007 season
2007 season Charlotte finished 2nd woman in the Lymington Lifeboat 10km, her first competitive race over this distance in extremely windy conditions. She then opened the 2007 season in the Aqua Pura Women's 1500m steeplechase event in Southampton, her first steeplechase event, finishing 5th in a race where 2 athletes (Gloucester's Sarah Hopkinson and Southampton's Louise webb) broke Jo Ankier's UK record time and another (Woodford Green's Jessica Sparke) ran under Bryony Frost's UK Junior time .
2008
Suffering a number of injuries in the latter part of the cross-country season, Charlotte managed surprisingly good runs at the Southerns and BUSAs. However, seriously hampered by illness at the Nationals, the after-effects of which carried through to the Inter-Counties, this season will remain a disappointing one for her.
Having started out the season steeplechasing, Charlotte switched back to the flat after an accident involving a water jump and the Iffley Road ducks two days before the Hampshire Championships, from which she developed an instinctive fear of water jumps which severely precluded her running a good time on her second run out over the barriers at Portsmouth, and led to her turning down the event at the Varsity and Senior Inter-Counties matches in May. However, she still turned out over the 400mH for Oxford, surprising everyone by taking an unexpected second for the Millipedes in her first attempt at the event in the opening event of the 2008 Varsity Match. However, her real intentions for the rest of the match, and indeed the season, lay over 3000m and 5000m. And she may even steeplechase again before the end of the summer...!
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She started her
season properly with the Hampshire Championships in January, where she finished
a surprise 8th, gaining her selection for the Inter-counties in Nottingham for
the first time. The under 17 women's New Forest Juniors team achieved their
first Championships medal, with bronze overall.
