The muddy conditions were certainly to Millar’s liking as he skipped clear of his clubmates Felix McGrath and Max Davis and Cheltenham’s in-form Dom James to win by 27 seconds.
“I enjoyed it,” said Millar.
“I liked the course as it is quite heavy-going in places and lots of changes in tempo. It was nice to do the double and lead the club to the team title as well.”
The clean sweep gave Bristol & West AC the perfect start and with Owain Jones 11th and Andrew Watt 19th the club retained their title by a whopping 84 points from Gloucestershire club Western Tempo with Cornwall AC third.
Leading local runner in the senior women’s race was Team Bath’s Tri-Counties champion Amber Gascoigne as the 43-year-old dug in to finish a splendid third.
“It was obviously miserable conditions, quite horrible and we suffered a heavy downpour as we stood on the start line,” said Gascoigne.
“But I’m pleased to finish third as I had had a pretty manic 24 hours and wasn’t even sure I was going to race. In hindsight I’m glad I did!”
B&W’s Katrina Entwistle finished eighth but the squad of Jessie Sanzo (16th and 3rd W35), Catie O’Donoghue (33rd) and Kat Baldwyn (58th) had to settle for fifth.
The Westbury Harriers quartet of Tilly Spinney, who ran impressively to make the top ten in ninth and was second junior overall, Rhiannon Paton (12th), Stephanie Cummins (40th) and Tamsin Chick (43rd) finished one place ahead in fourth.
Of the other individual medallists B&W’s Ewan Sparey, who is part of the Ali Hurford coaching group, performed impressively to finish runner-up in the under 13 boys race.
He also a second silver in the club team competition with the squad of Freddie Barnes (8th), Callum Skidmore (38th), Elijah Buscemi (41st), were beaten by just three points by Wells City Harriers.
North Somerset AC’s Edward Stoate was third in the under 11 boys’ race and clubmate Samuel Holloway finished third in the under 17 men’s age group behind Team Bath’s Harry Maxwell.
South West Cross Country Championships, RNAS Merryfield, Ilton
Senior women: 1 Megan Marchant (G); 26:04; 2 Kirsteen Welch (D) 26:09; 3 Amber Gascoigne (W); 26:19.
U20 women: 1 Fern Kimber (Poole); 2 Tilly Spinney (WH); 3 Hannah Blundy (Wells).
W35: 1 Gascoigne; 2 Naomi Eaton (WT); 3 Sanzo.
W45: 1 Jackie Rockliffe (WT); 2 Victoria Ratcliffe (Somer); 3 Emma Stepto (CAC).
W50: 1 Jo Thompson (TB); 2 Catherine Dale (TB); 3 Marilyn Blair (Torr).
Teams – clubs: 1 Wells City Harriers 46; 2 Team Bath AC 50 (3 Gascoigne; 14 Freya Spruit; 18 Annabelle Wallace 22 Isabel Davis); 2 Western Tempo 95; 4 Westbury Harriers 96; 5 Bristol & West AC 106 (8 Katrina Entwistle; 16 Jessie Sanzo W35 3rd; 33 Catie O’Donoghue; 58 Kat Baldwyn); 6 Cornwall AC 113.
Counties: 1 Cornwall 74; 2 Avon 105; 3 Wiltshire 121; 4
U20s: 1 Wiltshire 39; 2 Devon 68.
U17 women: 1 Innes Fitzgerald (Ex) 17:33; 2 Sophie Nicholls (Wells) 19:27; 3 Erin Wells (Poole) 19:53.
Teams – clubs: 1 City of Plymouth AC 40; 2 Westbury Harriers 86.
Counties: 1 Devon 29; 2 Cornwall 44; 3 Avon 46.
Westbury: 11 Elen Ruck.
B&W: 12 Molly Thomas;
U15 girls: 1 Sophie Wood (Sals) 13:04; 2 Olivia Steer (Ex) 13:13; 3 Daisy Abernethy (Wells) 13:22.
Teams – clubs: 1 Wells City Harriers 33; 2 Salisbury 78; 3 Newquay & Par 80.
Counties: 1 Devon 20; 2 Dorset 38; 3 Somerset 53.
NSAC: 8 Felicity Lowe.
U13 girls: 1 Ellie Birchall (Ex) 11:21; 2 Olivia Paul (TB) 11:21; 3 Sophie Maxwell (TB) 11:24.
Teams – clubs: 1 Wells 54; 2 Bournemouth 67; 3 Cornwall 117 4 Westbury 123.
Counties: 1 Devon 34; 2 Wiltshire 38; 3 Gloucestershire 50.
U11 girls: 1 Charissa Griffiths-Clack (Swin) 8:38; 2 Kimberley Hodgkinson (Chelt) 8:42; 3 Isla May (Bmth) 8:44.
B&W: 14 Isabelle Spencer.
Senior men: 1 Jack Millar (B&W) 22:01; 2 Felix McGrath (B&W) 22:28; 3 Max Davis (B&W) 22:37; 4 Dom James (WT) 22:46; 5 Simon Byrne (Swin) 22:47; 6 Chris McMillan (Weston) 23:05.
Teams – clubs: 1 Bristol & West AC 35 (Millar; McGrath; Davis; 11 Owain Jones M40 3rd; 19 Andrew Watt); 2 Western Tempo 119; 3 Cornwall AC 149.
6 Team Bath AC 280 (31 Aidan Daniel; 53 Dan Jones; 58 Chris Else; 63 Alex Tanner; 85 Stephen Rose M50; 92 Guy Landon; 98 Mike Dooley; 102 Patrick Cobb; 113 Malcolm Treby M40; 115 Ben Holding M40;
B&W: 47 Graham Breen; 55 Rhys Goddard; 61 Chris Neilson; 72 Alex Hobley; 81 Aled Anderson; 82 Rufus Thomas U20; 105 Tariq Kurd M40; 119 Jonathan Goodland M60;
Counties: 1 Avon 35; 2 Devon 100; 3 Wiltshire 143.
M40: 1 Ronnie Richmond (Bid); 2 Phil Wylie (WT); 3 Owain Jones.
M50: 1 Jon James (Wells); 2 Stephen Rose (TB); 3 Guy Landon (TB).
M60: 1 Jerry Musselwhite (WH); 2 Jonathan Goodland (B&W); 3 Jimmy Joy (Exm).
U17 men: 1 William Rabjohns (Poole) 16:36; 2 Harry Maxwell (TB) 16:55; 3 Samuel Holloway (NSAC) 17:28; 4 Fletcher Hart (Swin) 17:35; 5 Joshua Maxwell (TB) 17:41.
Teams – clubs: 1 Exeter Harriers 45; 2 Taunton AC 54; 3 Team Bath AC 55 (2 H Maxwell; 5 J Maxwell; 16 Benjamin Wagstaff; 34 Alex Hearn). Also: 40 Ned Blackman.
Counties: 1 Somerset 39; 2 Devon 43; 3 Wiltshire 61.
B&W: 20 Nicholas Pestell.
U15 boys: 1 Will Birchall (Ex) 11:42; 2 Martin Falle (Ex) 11:51; 3 Tom Webb (Wells) 12:03; 4 Toby Loughlin (TB) 12:04.
Teams – clubs: 1 Wells City Harriers 33; 2 North Somerset AC 68; 3 Team Bath AC 85 (4 Loughlin; 13 Charlie Haines; 30 Archie Enstone; 38 Finlay Landon).
Counties: 1 Devon 19; 2 Avon 43; 3 Wiltshire 68.
U13 boys: 1 Patrick Paul (Chelt) 10:39; 2 Ewan Sparey (B&W) 10:47; 3 Thomas Hennessey (Tavi) 10:51.
Teams – clubs: 1 Wells 86; 2 Bristol & West AC 89 (2 Sparey; 8 Freddie Barnes; 38 Callum Skidmore; 41 Elijah Buscemi. Also: 50 Joshua Jennings); 3 Swindon Harriers 95 (13 Reuben Linscott; 21 Alex Leak; 27 Finley Kuklinski; 34 Dylan Necrews).
Counties: 1 Devon 30; 2 Avon 50; 3 Somerset 56.
U11 boys: 1 Edward Salter (Taunton) 7:46; 2 Louis Robinett (Poole R) 7:47; 3 Edward Stoate (NSAC) 8:01.
B&W: 17 George Paske; 20 Harry Gaisford; 29 Toby Jennings;
TBAC: 10 Alex Stokes.