KATY Wood will be hoping to prove an even higher-stepping teenager as she enters the cross-country season in the footsteps of a Great North Run success.
The 13-year-old City of York Athletics Club member is now in training for the cross-country campaign which begins later this month. She will go into the new season in fine fettle after a sparkling debut in the Great North Run.
The Osbaldwick-based teenager won the 12-16 girls’ category in which she bested several hundred competitors in the three-mile race.
“It was the first time I had entered the Great North Run and I was thrilled to come home first,” said the Archbishop Holgate’s pupil, who first went into the sport of athletics three years ago when she and her now 11-year-old brother Thomas accompanied their mum Karen to a City of York Athletics Club training session.
Said her mum: “Since then Katy has really taken to running.”
Besides her Great North Run conquest, the teenager holds the Under-15 girls’ 3,000 metres record.
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