Results 18/5/25

19 May 2025 - By Natalie Lilley

A real spread of events through the weekend, and thanks as always to those who submitted, as I might not have been aware of some otherwise.

 

Dunton Test Track 10

The first of 2 10 mile races this weekend (plus a 10k option), WRC representation at this was in the form of pacers. Helpfully (jk) the folks at Dunton didn’t include any of our pacers in their official results, so I’m afraid the following is a manual/Strava round up of those I know entered.

10 mile

Name	Time (Strava)	Comments
Youssef Oucouc	1:20:12	Pacing 1:20
Mick Conroy	1:45:12	Pacing 1:40
Annalise Etherington	1:49:59	Pacing 1:50
Jodee Mayer	1:59:26	Pacing 2 hours

 

10k

Name	Time (Strava)	Comments
Ian Cuthbert	50:01	Pacing 50 mins
Chrissy Israel Jones	59:36	Pacing 60 mins
Craig Vernon	1:09:33	Pacing 1:10

 

Pier to Pier Race

Ian Lucas was at this Sunderland Strollers hosted event – 7 miles from South Shields pier to Sunderland pier. He completed this in 1:03:13

 

Hackney Half

Gus Maby was on the marshes for this busy London half with over 20,000 finishers. Gus finished in a PB of 1:33:32 – well done!

 

Castle Trail

Another ETE trail event this weekend, with the WRC contingent all opting for the HM distance.

Terry Alabaster finished in 8^th place, in a time of 1:59:41

Steven Alder, Clarice Sanderson and Andrew Read crossed the finish line (I assume hand-in-hand) in 3:11:42. Well done all!

 

Colchester Stampede 10k

Runners get to charge through Colchester Zoo for the first 1k of this popular 10k event, with the remaining course on closed roads. The beady-eyed among us will have spotted Dawn Shilling coming out of retirement 😉

Pos	Name	Time	Comments
11	Damien Walsh	0:37:39
35	Christopher Pennell	0:41:34
58	Bradley Felstead	0:43:13	PB
90	Dean Whittaker	0:44:58	Course PB
99	Jamie Marlow	0:45:20	PB
125	Luke Tanner	0:47:33
895	Dawn Shilling	1:00:13

 

Bluebell 5 mile

Lysia Jiggins was ready to prance through the bluebells of Little Haven Nature Reserve, at this Pitsea Runners event. She finished the course in 1:05:28, although sadly there were no bluebells to be seen.

 

Baddow 10 mile

A popular, but hilly, course and a Club Champs race this year. We had a good turnout and some great results. Hello, and hats off, to brand new member Stephen Boxall in his first ever race – we expect great things to come!

Pos	Name	Time	Comments
4	Sean Darney	00:58:05	PB
13	Stephen Boxall	1:03:27	PB/1st race
53	Stamatios Katsimis	1:14:37
90	Gerry Greenwold	01:20:42	19
163	Jamie Light	01:28:26	29
172	Annalise Etherington	01:28:46	10
261	Megan Wilson	01:41:45	PB

 

Well done to everyone who raced this week 💪🏻👏🏻

I’ll finish on the somewhat boring note of results submissions:  Thank you to everyone that submitted this weekend – quite a lot more than average, but still a large number of you regularly don’t submit. I do always try to pick up Witham entries from well-known/local events, but as this weekend shows, results pages aren’t always reliable – some large races don’t always display club details, and (for some reason) pacers often get left out of results publication.

It’s really easy to submit via the results link: Result Submission – Running – Witham Running Club  and reminders are posted on FB and Whatsapp on a regular basis. If you would genuinely prefer NOT to appear in results posts, then please do let me know. However, we assume that most of you would like your achievements recorded, and it’s great publicity for the club, as Colsey uses the result posts for his press submissions.

Thank you for indulging my small rant. I do love you all, just not on Monday mornings 🥰