Aldershot, Farnham & District AC won four races and had the fastest runner in four of the events in the national cross-country relay championships at Mansfield on Saturday.
The pace-setters were Chris Thompson (senior men), Laurence Cox (U/15 boys), Hannah Jones (U/15 girls) and Abigail Salter (U/13 girls).
The club provided both the gold and silver medal winning sides in the U/15 girls' race. On the opening stage, India Lee, for the 'A' team, just managed to hold off clubmate Stephanie Twell when finishing five seconds behind Emily Collinge who gave the host club an early advantage.
The performance of Hannah Jones gave her a 13-second lead over Stacey Preston who also passed Mansfield's Gemma Curley to put AFD 'B' into the silver medal position.
The golds looked a formality with national champion Charlotte Browning on the anchor. Running only one second slower than Jones, she added nine to the margin of victory as Emma Pallant chased with the sixth fastest time of the race.
In the preceding contest for U/15 boys, Stephen Blake took over from Ben Wilson in seventh and stormed into a lead of two seconds for AFD before Laurence Cox ran six seconds quicker than anyone else for a 16-second margin of victory.
The club's other athlete to feature in a winning team (U/13 girls) while clocking the quickest time was Abigail Salter. Running the second leg, she took over from Nicola Baddeley in 17th and, in moving up to second, reduced the gap to the leader from 35 to 10 seconds.
This still presented a tall order for Sarah Burgin, AFD's anchor, with less than eight minutes of running for the top performers on the 2k circuit. These included Paris Duffy, promoted to Bedford's 'A' team after recording a top-10 time at the South of England road relay championship, but she was being chased by the number one at Rushmoor Arena, and Burgin came home with four seconds to spare.
Chris Welch was equal third fastest when anchoring AFD to their triumph in the U/13 boys' competition after Josh Arnold and Chris Bounds had both handed over in third place.
Third was where the senior men finished, but this represented their first major honour since the club's heyday in the 1980s. Ed Jackson opened for the side in 13th before improvements by Brian Stopher and Nick Anderson set Chris Thompson off in fifth.
Thompson was also fastest at the national road relays a fortnight earlier and his standing in the senior ranks is beginning to match that of his junior days.
His club's current U/20s took second at Berry Hill Park. Phil Banks gained 10 places on the second leg, having taken over from Ali Smith, and Steve Ablitt gained one more on the anchor.
In the U/20 women's event, AFD's Ava Hutchinson, Emily Adams and Sarah Pickett took bronzes, as did their U/17 women with Laura Tanner, Kiri Nowak and Leonie Smith.
A trio of bottom-year U/17 men, Chris Friend, Martin Mashford, and Andrew Friend, came seventh.