League

Home Page

About

Fixtures

Results

Picture Gallery

Runner Profiles

Course Profiles

Venues

Awards and Prizes

Annual Reports

AGM

Force Contacts

PSUK

Cross Country

Other topics

Related Features

Training Advice

Links

Midlands Police XC League

PSUK Athletics

Police Sport UK

Welcome to the Northern Police Cross Country League   The league started in the late 1970's and for over 40 years has attracted runners from most of the police forces across the north of England.   The league now stages 12 fixtures each season that starts in late September through to late March. Each fixture attracts between 40 and 80 runners.   In recent years the league has gone from strength to strength, despite the pressures of securing time-off from police duties. We have recently added an 11th and 12th fixture that add a better chance to attend the six required fixtures!   All information about the league, past and present is contained in this website.   For further information contact the League Secretary:  Steve Broadbent   New Season Has Started!! 2018/2019 Fixtures All fixtures 1.30pm Start - Provisional - Dates now fixed  Venues to be confirmed - 11 League Fixtures + Nationals Fixture 1 - Friday 28 September 2018 - 2pm - Bodenwyddan Castle,  North Wales - Completed Fixture 2 - Wednesday 17 October 2018 - Lancashire Completed   Fixture 3 - Wednesday 7 November 2018  - Cheshire Completed Fixture 4 - Wednesday 21 November 2018 - Witton Park, Blackburn Completed Fixture 5 - Wednesday 5 December 2018 -Darley Park, Derbyshire - N. v. Midlands Completed Fixture 6 - Wednesday 9 January 2019 - Dioncaster, South Yorkshire Completed  Fixture 7 - Wednesday 23 January 2019 - West Yorkshire Completed Fixture 8 - Wednesday 6 February 2019 - Cleveland  Completed Fixture 9 - Wednesday 20 February 2019 - Merseyside Completed   Fixture 10 - Wednesday 6 March 2019 - Humberside Completed Fixture 11 - Wednesday 20 March 2019 - GMP Completed Nationals - Wednesday 10 April 2019 - PSUK Nationals - Lancaster - Lancashire Confirmed - Entries Still Open Fixture List and Venue Information North v. Midlands - 13 December 2017   West Yorkshire - 24 January 2018 Midlands Police Cross Country League   Click Here Male and Female Individual Winners 2017/2018 Season Lyndsay Chamberlain and Rob Grantham Both from Cheshire A Second Season Triumph!! Well done to both of you!!	Current Participating Forces   Cheshire Cleveland Cumbria Durham GMP Humberside Lancashire Merseyside North Yorkshire North Wales Northumbria South Yorkshire West Yorkshire    Do you wish to run in the League? Contact your Force Secretary   If you wish to participate in the League please contact your Force representative who will liaise with you over transport and directions to attend each fixture. There is no need to enter each fixture directly and there is no individual entry fee. You simply turn up and run! It could not be easier!   Your Force Contact? - Click Here Latest News........ Next Fixture - PSUK Nationals Wednesday 10 April 2019 - 1.00pm Entries still open - Go to: www.policesport.org NPCCL is now on Facebook! Click on FB Logo and join us!     Latest Results   'Results Snapshots'    Click here to view quick snapshots of all fixtures Click here to download full League Tables on Excel News Latest Another Fantastic Season draws almost to a close with the Nationals to finish! This has been the 4th best supported season in 21 years! 448 NPCCL competitors a further 90 Midlands/Services Individually - 156 male and 65 Women Competitors Latest Results From GMP - 20 March 2019 Fixture 11 - GMP -  NPCCL 18B 18M 18F First Surname Force M/F GMP 1 1   Rob Grantham Cheshire M 28.21 2 2   Malcolm Fowler Cheshire M 28.31 3 3   Geoff Wynn North Yorks M 28.43 4 4   Simon Fricke North Yorks M 28.51 5 5   Jack Pilkington Cheshire M 31.47 6 6   Scott Patterson Merseyside M 32.19 7   1 Lindsay Dixon Cheshire F 32.43 8 7   Craig Morgan GMP M 32.48 9   2 Janine Fallon Lancashire F 33.56 10 8   Bryan Lawton GMP M 34.09 11 9   Jim Pearson North Yorks M 34.27 12 10   D. Gilkes Merseyside M 35.23 13 11   Phil Slingsby North Yorks M 36.09 14 12   Paul Johnson Lancashire M 36.29 15 13   Mark Mulryan Lancashire M 37.56 16 14   Jack Downes Cheshire M 38.06 17 15   Kevin Chippendale West Yorks M 38.12 18 16   Neil Murphy Cheshire M 38.24 19 17   Simon Hignett Cheshire M 38.37 20 18   Andrew Brown West Yorks M 38.55 21 19   Dave Wilkinson Lancashire M 39.10 22   3 Kendra Wedgewood North Yorks F 39.11 23 20   Stuart Kane Lancashire M 39.27 24   4 Rochelle Evans GMP F 39.38 25 21   Chris Gill North Yorks M 40.28 26 22   Phil Levens Lancashire M 40.46 27   5 Emma Moorhouse West Yorks F 41.50 28 23   R. Smith Merseyside M 46.08 29   6 Heather Mitchell West Yorks F 46.15 30   7 Kate Aspey North Yorks F 46.39 31   8 Clate Taylor Merseyside F 47.22 32 24   Steve Broadbent Lancashire M 47.51 33   9 Sue Harrison Lancashire F 65,35    End of Season Team Results 6 fixtures to score - Best four male/female count in team Position Total FORCE 1 298 North Yorkshire 2 294 Cheshire 3 292 G.M.P. 4 290 Merseyside 5 289 West Yorkshire 6 289 Lancashire 7 270 South Yorkshire 8 94 Humberside 9 48 North Wales 10 46 Cleveland End of Season Individual Results See Table to the right for prize winners! 6 fixtures to count with up to 100 points a fixture 18B 18M 18F First Surname Force M/F V40 TOTAL 1 1   Rob Grantham Cheshire M V40 600 2   1 Lindsay Dixon Cheshire F V45 599 3   2 Janine Fallon Lancashire F V40 594 4 2   Malcolm Fowler Cheshire M V55 592 5   3 Laura Lawler Lancashire F V50 591 6 3   Geoff Wynn North Yorks M   591 7   4 Kendra Wedgewood North Yorks F V35 587 8 4   Simon Fricke North Yorks M   585 9   5 Jane Brown GMP F V50 575 10   6 Anna Sykes West Yorks F V40 570 11   7 Heather Mitchell West Yorks F V65 563 12   8 Sue Harrison Lancashire F V60 558 13 5   Craig Morgan GMP M V40 558 14 6   Gary Corns GMP M V40 554 15 7   Paul Johnson Lancashire M V60 543 16 8   Bryan Lawton GMP M V50 541 17 9   Phil Slingsby North Yorks M   538 18 10   Mark Mulryan Lancashire M V50 520 19 11   Kevin Chippendale West Yorks M V60 509 20 12   Andrew Brown West Yorks M V65 504 21 13   Chris Gill North Yorks M V45 493 22 14   Steve Broadbent Lancashire M V55 492 23 15   Dave Needham South Yorks M V70 492 24 16   Phil Corris Lancashire M V60 487 25 17   Matthew Oldham GMP M V40 486 26 18   Dave Wilkinson Lancashire M V55 392 27 19   Mark Porter Lancashire M V55 389 28 20   Kev Elliott GMP M V40 371 29 21   Gary Kilshaw Merseyside M V40 354 30   9 Carmen Wright Merseyside F   293 31 22   Jack Pilkington Cheshire M   288 32   10 Angela Richardson North Yorks F V40 282 33 23   Ronnie Neilson GMP M   278 34 24   Tom Allen West Yorks M   276 35   11 Kate Aspey North Yorks F V45 275 36 25   Mark Smith Merseyside M V45 274 37 26   Jim Pearson North Yorks M V40 270 38 27   Craig Whittaker Merseyside M   261 39 28   Jason Ennis Merseyside M V45 255 40 29   Simon Hignett Cheshire M V45 245 41 30   Keith Swift Merseyside M V40 244 42 31   Paul Levitt Merseyside M V40 221 43   12 Natalie Iddon Lancashire F   198 44 32   William Barr Merseyside M   198 45   13 Caroline Glover North Yorks F V50 197 46 33   Tom Henders Merseyside M   195 47 34   Simon Newton West Yorks M   194 48   14 Rochelle Evans GMP F V40 193 49   15 Emma Moorehouse West Yorks F   192 50 35   Andy Lakeland South Yorks M V45 191	Our Mission Statement "The aim of the Northern Police Cross Country League is to promote the ethos of team work while improving the health, fitness and wellbeing of police officers and police staff in the forces of the Northern Region, and to provide participating forces with the vehicle to encourage and promote participation of members in their own forces’ Cross Country Championship"  "By each individual Force concentrating on achieving maximum attendance at their own fixture, the league as a whole will benefit"   More......   Police Sport UK Athletics Section Web Site     Details of all Police Sport UK Athletics Events throughout the year   www.policesport.org Cumbria Fixture - 29/12/2017   More Pictures Click Here Hall of Fame for 2018/2019 Season   Prizes 2018/2019 Season           ORDER Place Class WINNER Force 1 4th Men's Open Simon Fricke North Yorkshire 2 3rd Men's Open Geoff Winn North Yorkshire 3 2nd Men's Open Malcolm Fowler Cheshire 4 1st Men's Open Rob Grantham Cheshire 5 3rd Women's Open Laura Lawler Lancashire 6 2nd Women's Open Janine Fallon Lancashire 7 1st Women's Open Lindsey Dixon Cheshire 8 3rd Men's Veteran 40+ Mark Mulryan Lancashire 9 2nd Men's Veteran 40+ Gary Corns GMP 10 1st Men's Veteran 40+ Craig Morgan GMP 11 1st Men's Veteran 45+ Chris Gill North Yorkshire 12 1st Men's Veteran 50+ Bryan Lawton GMP 13 1st Steve Broadbent 55+ Steve Broadbent Lancashire 14 1st Men's Veteran 60+ Paul Johnson Lancashire 15 1st Men's Veteran 65+ Andy Brown West Yorks 16 1st Men's Veteran 70+ Dave Needham South Yorks 17 1st Women's Veteran 35+ Kendra Wedgewood North Yorkshire 18 1st Women's Veteran 45+ Anna Sykes West Yorkshire 19 1st Women's Veteran 50+ Jane Brown GMP 20 1st Women's Veteran 60+ Sue Harrison Lancashire 21 1st Women's Veteran 65+ Heather Mitchell West Yorkshire 22 3rd Mixed Team   GMP 23 3rd Mixed Team   GMP 24 3rd Mixed Team   GMP 25 3rd Mixed Team   GMP 26 2nd Mixed Team   Cheshire 27 2nd Mixed Team   Cheshire 28 2nd Mixed Team   Cheshire 29 2nd Mixed Team   Cheshire 30 1st Mixed Team   North Yorkshire 31 1st Mixed Team   North Yorkshire 32 1st Mixed Team   North Yorkshire 33 1st Mixed Team   North Yorkshire 34 1st Best Attendance   West Yorkshire 35 1st Best Attendee Steve Broadbent Lancashire       PSUK Nationals - Lancaster University Go to: www.policesport.org
Training Advice on Running   I don't profess to be an expert but I run fairly high mileage each year and have competed in many ultra distance events.   I have put together a short feature giving advice to anyone who may want to take up running including cross country or improve their performance.     Gadgets Feature   Find out more about GPS running devices	PSUK Cross Country Nationals   Kilmarnock     March 2018   Results Click here	British Police Fell Race    May 2018   Results   Click Here
Course profiles   View each league course on a GPS map and elevation profile as well as a brief report on each fixture     Past Seasons 1999 - 2018   Final Results Excel Tables           Please support as many as you can?? After all, it gets you out of the house, office or off the streets on a Wednesday!   Runner profiles       Dave Needham	Who are the NPCCL 'Stalwarts'?   Malcolm Fowler (Cheshire) Dave Wood (GMP) Steve Broadbent (Lancashire) Heather Mitchell (West Yorkshire)   Since 1995 they have competed in all 23 seasons!!   Dave Needham (South Yorkshire) has competed almost every season since 1980!   Did You Know......?   Since 1995 we have had over 1100 individual men and women compete in the League!   Men = 818 Women = 328   Figures at October 2014 Men   Women Count of Force     Count of Force   Force Total   Force Total West Yorks 261   Lancashire 94 Lancashire 151   West Yorks 78 South Yorks 88   South Yorks 40 GMP 80   GMP 32 Cheshire 50   Cheshire 21 Humberside 43   Cumbria 19 Cumbria 38   Cleveland 12 North Wales 38   Humberside 12 Cleveland 37   North Wales 11 North Yorks 18   North Yorks 6 Merseyside 8   Merseyside 2 Durham 3   Durham 1 AEP 2   Grand Total 328 Northumbria 1       Grand Total 818   Comb Total 1146	NPCCL Fixture - Leeds - 21 January 2015 Six inches of snow but no stopping the 30 strong team of competitors of a very cold, winters day!!