March 17th was the day of the CompassSport Cup Matches round the country. All were National Events. Club teams can be of any size and involve individual runners tackling their own one of 12 age group courses ( or "running up"). The highest scoring runners from a club count for the team score: 25 in the case of the Cup (for larger club teams) and 13 in the case of the Trophy (for smaller club teams.)

As less than a third of a team's counting runners can be in the open classes (and for successful teams it is typically fewer) there is no particular focus on these. But it is a big weekend for the clubs and they like to have their top runners joining the team. So here's a table of who won the open class races around the country.

Meanwhile, Chris Smithard was coming second (behind Yannick Michiels) and Peter Hodkinson fourth in a multi-day sprint competition - the Mediteranean Open Championships in Malta. Murray Strain was eighth. Kirstin Maxwell was tenth in the women's competition, which was won by Natalia Gemperle. MOC - Overall Results

Charlotte Ward was running a 10-miler on the roads at Thirsk - Instagram picture.