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—North of England Women’s 6 & Men’s 12 Stage Road Relay Championships – Redcar.
An excellent day out, despite Redcar being rather cold and grey. Knavesmire had the biggest team representation on the day, 3 ladies and almost two complete men’s teams, 41 runners in all.
There were some stellar performances , and we now have the opportunity to send a male and female team to the National Championships.
Great to see such a wide variety of abilities and ages representing the club and supporting each other, giving their all for the club and their team-mates, and enabling everyone to take part in such a great event.
Legs were either 5km or 9.5km in length (highlighted in bold).
-Women’s 6 Stage.
9th York Knavesmire Harriers ‘A’ 2:28:24
Becky Penty (3) 33:11
Hazel Hall (4) 19:43
Melanie Ellwood (10) 21:03
Emily Baines (10) 36:00
Claire Jones (10) 19:05
Nik Tarrega (9) 19:22
25th York Knavesmire Harriers ‘B’ 2:50:49
Becky Mason (26) 40:29
Lauren Dimmack (28) 22:10
Maeve Saunders (28) 22:25
Barbora Kolariko (28) 41:18
Cassie Read (27) 22:25
Bethany Benger (27) 22:02
32nd York Knavesmire Harriers ‘C’ 3:11:09
Vivianne Fraser (37) 46:08
Rebekah Thomas (34) 21:50
Edwina Wilcox (36) 30:35
Hannah Strange (36) 44:12
Jane Morby (36) 25:41
Kathryn Dickinso (34) 22:43
-Men’s 12 Stage.
20th York Knavesmire Harriers ‘A’ 4:34:28
Jake Shannon (25) 31:25
Tom Ratcliffe (30) 18:24
Tom Pavis (25) 32:55
Glynn Ellwood (26) 18:05
Jasper Baker (24) 33:02
Matthew Lunn (23) 17:40
David Smithers (23) 34:05
Sandeep Bokhoree (23) 17:59
Oliver Noble (23) 18:15
Patrick Good (23) 18:06
Edmund Roberts (23) 17:59
David Morrison (20) 16:33
York Knavesmire Harriers ‘B’ ( 1 short of a full team , so no final position)
Rory Henderson (46) 38:29
Richard Tarrega (45) 21:20
Richard Purser (44) 36:08
Jack Rank (42) 19:29
Edward Dunn (41) 39:04
Luke Osborn (41) 19:16
Giles Hawking (42) 38:15
Paddy Wordsworth (41) 18:20
Gordon Walmsley (39) 18:44
Dave Freeman (39) 19:44
Robert Ward (39) 19:58
—York Spring 10k.
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| 2. | Cormac Malone | M | SEN | 10 | 0:38:20 | 0:38:22 | |||||
| 3. | Richard Walker | M | V55 | 10 | 0:38:53 | 0:38:55 | |||||
| 29. | Andrew Clark | M | V40 | 10 | 0:51:48 | 0:51:53 | |||||
| 56. | Rebecca Wahl | F | V40 | 10 | 1:02:22 | 1:02:30 | |||||
| 71. | Lucy Buykx | F | V55 | 10 | 1:08:49 | 1:09:01 | |||||
| 72. | Julie Rookes | F | V45 | 10 | 1:09:46 | 1:09:55 | |||||
| 79. | Duncan Chambers | M | V60 | 10 | 1:17:07 | 1:17:16 | |||||
| 84. | Paul Adams | M | V70 | 10 | 1:27:15 | 1:27:26 | |||||
—Pendle Fell Race.
20th (1st Lady) Rose Mather 37:02
—Bramham Trail Half Marathon.
| Pos | Name | Time | Net Time | Category | Cat Pos | Gender | Gen Pos | ||||
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8 | Darren Hendley | 01:37:41 | 01:37:40 | 5059 | 1 | Male | 7 | |||
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105 | Alison Cockerill | 02:37:13 | 02:37:01 | 4049 | 12 | Female | 44 | |||
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108 | Edwina Wilcox | 02:51:28 | 02:51:09 | 5059 | 16 | Female | 46 | |||
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—Bramham Trail 10k.
| Pos | Name | Time | Net Time | Category | Cat Pos | Gender | Gen Pos | ||||
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3 | Ben Pickering | 00:40:59 | 00:40:56 | 3039 | 2 | Male | 3 | |||
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5 | Rob Woodward | 00:44:51 | 00:44:23 | 3039 | 3 | Male | 5 | |||
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10 | William Orpin | 00:46:31 | 00:46:26 | 2029 | 1 | Male | 9 |
—Blakey Blitz Fell Race.
10 mile race from the Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge.
6th Ewan Sewell 84:14
31st Richard Purser 96:03
36th Oli Reed 97:56
43rd Graham Gill 102:03
49th Barry Atkinson 103:24 2nd M60
66th Victoria Sewell 109:05 4th Lady
69th Giles Hawking 110:41
102nd Andrew Johnson 125:21
123rd Andrea Lancaster 137:51
132nd Kelly Temple 141:59
—Ultra Tour of Arran.
Report by Andrew Barker.
The first year this was very wet and slippery, but this year it was dry so could easily maintain my pace. It was a pretty standard run after that passing through Whiting Bay and Kildonan. But then we reached Loch Garbad and the world famous bogs.
There will hopefully be pictures, but to quickly describe it I ended up sinking into the bogs knee deep at least 10 times and waist deep (in front of the photographer) Lots of ‘fun’ but hard going as it was about 1km of sinking in! After having left the bogs it was a nice run back up to Lamlash for the final aid station. After taking on some food and water it was just the matter of around 9km and a 200m high hill with a photographer strategically placed to get you at your worst. From here it was an easy-ish jog down back to Brodick and Day 1 was complete.
it was time for day 2. The start is in the same position on Brodick beach, so pretty much sea level. Again from previous experience I wanted to get ahead of the pack before Glen Rosa as the path is narrow and set off at pace with the first 10 or so runners. I kept ahead for the first 9 km all the way up the glen until we hit the first climb. Here again I dropped some places.
The first climb takes you to about 560m above sea level. From here you go over a ridge line that leads to a climb up to about 850m at Caisteal Abhail. What goes up must come down and the next job is to run down glen to Lochranza. Even in the dry this Glen was damp and boggy. Once again I was knee deep in bog and also bent one of my running poles as the bog tried to swallow me whole. After much swearing about bogs, I made it down to checkpoint 1 at the Lochranza distillery. Here a very kind marshal promised to take my poles back to the start with him as in their bent state they were less than useless. After taking on water, cake and a paracetamol I was off again.
The next stage looks easy on paper but it’s far from it! Around a 10km ‘flat’ stretch along the coastline is littered with boulder sections and more bogs! After what feels like an eternity you finally make it to checkpoint 2 at Sannox. Here I took on as much food and water as I could knowing what laid ahead. From the aid station there is a short drop down to the Sannox Burn where the only way through is to get your feet wet! (Thank god for Gore-tex shoes) from here it’s on to Glen sannox before mounting an ascent on the beast that is Goatfell North.
Having previously made the first climb up the saddle (just) through the storm on my first race I was very apprehensive about this section and took my time up the glen. Luckily it was much easier this year and I made the technical scramble in no time at all. From here it was a short climb up to the goatfell north technical scramble. This bit had really put me off having a failed attempt whilst here on holiday, but with the easiest path marked out and some good people around me, I was up the rock face like a rat up a drainpipe and soon at the Goatfell Trig point taking in the views. From here it was a walk in the park.
A short technical section followed by a gravel path leading back down to Brodick. Here waiting was the last challenge. About 800m of sandy beach to run along, reminiscent of the travelator from gladiators (probably showing my age here). After thankfully getting off the sand it was about 1km to go and looking at my watch I had about 7 mins until hitting 11 hrs, so I gave it everything I had left and sprinted to the finish. Job done!
2009 meters elevation
Definitely worth giving this one a go if a trail ultra interests you, but beware. Out of a field of about 180, there were at least 13 DNF’s. It’s not one for the feint hearted!
No York area parkrun PB’s