In the absence of the title-holders Derek Hawkins and Freya Murray-Ross, who are both preparing for the London Marathon, two new champions emerged in the sunshine to great applause from the sizeable crowd at the Scottish National Cross Country Championships at Callendar Park, Falkirk.
But while the women's winner, 21-year-old Loughborough University student Beth Potter (Victoria Park, Glasgow), has virtually been weaned on the Central venue, winning five previous age group titles there, Wegene Tafese, an Ethiopian competing in the event for the first time and wearing the colours of Ron Hill Cambuslang Harriers, certainly broke new ground.
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