Brittany cross country in Carhaix, Sunday
While before the pandemic, the Brittany cross country championships were the event not to be missed for the Bretons, this weekend in Carhaix, there will be many absent.
“I’m going there to win,” says Donovan Christien a few days before going to Carhaix where he will take part in the short cross country championships in Brittany. The message is clear. The Bannalécois is motivated and should win on a circuit whose layout has been hardened. More difficult than that of 2008, the last year in which Kérampuilh and its legendary course hosted the regional championships.
A well-defined program
Who can prevent the athlete from Bannalec Pays de Quimperlé Athlétisme from winning the ermines jersey on Sunday? Probably no one. Reading the entry list, one can think that Rennais Pierre Couzinier will be his No. 1 opponent. “I take this cross as a session in a training block rather than a competition. Having two peaks of form between the two upcoming Brittany championships, that of Sunday then that of the beginning of the year 2022 seems difficult to me to imagine ”, continues the one who is coached by Kévin Le Clec’h. And the best runner of the moment from Bannalec to add. “I will participate in the France cross country in Montauban then. Afterwards, I will compete in Taulé-Morlaix and high level road races. I will not compete in the Finistère cross court championships organized by my club on December 12th. No more the cross of Quimper-Athletics a week later ”.
To note absences among the Southerners: Sandra Lévénez (Carhaix-outgoing Brittany cross short champion), Karine Pasquier and Anne-Sophie Marcadet (Quimper-gold and silver medalists at the Brittany long cross championships in January 2020 ). But it’s hard to imagine the Quimpérois Loan Brélivet absent from the junior podium this Sunday.
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