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FORMER double British Universities 10,000m track champion Alyson Dixon hopes to celebrate her first England international vest by leading Chester-le-Street to a medal-winning performance in today's National Six Stage Road Relay Championships at Sutton Coldfield.

The 29-year-old Wearsider has been selected to represent England in the prestigious Marseilles 10K next Thursday - the reward for clocking one of the fastest times as Chester-le-Street won the Northern Six Stage title at Catterick Garrison earlier this month, Dixon's delight makes up for the disappointment of having to drop out of last month's Inter Counties Championships, losing the chance of winning a place in the Great Britain World Cross Country Championships team.

"I've been on cloud nine since hearing the news and hopefully this will be the first of more representative honours to come."

Dixon plans to mix road racing with track work this summer before making her half marathon debut in Glasgow in September.

Chester-le-Street, who won the Northern title for a third time in a row at Catterick with only three of the team which triumphed last year, finishing over two minutes ahead of Wakefield, have strength in depth and will be looking to improve on their third placing last year.

One of their latest recruits, Angela Hibbs, runner-up in last year's Edinburgh Marathon, won this week's Spring Coastal 5K road race at New Marske in a time of 17 mins 40 seconds, beating clubmate Angela Hunter by 50 seconds.

9:53am Saturday 26th April 2008

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