Weekend Races Results

16 September 2018 - By Steve Hennings

Thursday

Salomon Mamores Vertical Kilometer – somewhere in Scotland

James Farren rounded out his 1000 days of running in a row, to complete the VK before taking part in Saturday’s Ring of Steall Skyrace (more on that shortly). The VK ascends 1000m in just over 5km of distance, and is a hands and knees type affair, for those interested. James completed this little warm up in 1:05:29

Saturday

Ring of Steall Skyrace

At roughly 30k, and bagging 4 munro’s apparently, this is a beast of a mountain run. James finished in 6:09:26 and you can read his full write up elsewhere on Facebook

Crathes Half Marathon

Also in Scotland, David Stevens completed the Crathes Half in 1:25:31 coming home in 8th place

Red, Wight and Blue Carnival Trail

Terry Alabaster was out for his first race over at Dunmow in the Red, White and Blue Carnival Trail 10k finishing in 0:57:53 (after adding a couple of extra fields in for good measure)

Sunday

Help For Heroes 10 Mile Trail

Next up for Terry was this little number. He did experience a few little direction challenges, which he soon figured out when he looked on the top three lines of directions he’d folded over by accident, finishing in 1:37:36 for a well deserved pint

Dedham 10k

This hilly race always seems to clash with something in the club champs table, so we had only 3 club members running today

Name	Time
Mark Lynch	00:48:25
Geoffrey Reddin	00:54:40
Sylvia Bullen-Bell	00:56:59

Pleshey and Essex Half Marathon

With the Ladies reigning champ and team in Witham RC, along with Mark Austin’s MV60 to defend, it was always going to be a great day of racing. Not quite as hot as last year, but still pretty challenging all the same.

Rachel Sweatt and Mark Austin retained their titles with Rachel coming home in a Club Record & PB of 1:21:12 and Mark finishing in 1:35:38. Whilst not able to retain last year’s team gold, the ladies still bought home the Bronze Team award (Rachel, Hayley & Tanya).

There were also a flurry of PB’s, and a smattering of performances that some people were disappointed in but it was a great turnout from the Black & Gold as ever.

First Name	Last Name	Time	Comment
Rachel	Sweatt	01:21:12	1st Lady & Club Record
Sean	Darney	01:21:25	PB
Scott	Darney	01:22:27	PB
Pete	Riley	01:23:04
David	Hunt	01:24:00
Leo	Cole	01:25:15
Owen	Dare	01:26:44
Simon	Cresswell	01:31:16
Simon	Scott	01:34:00
Steven	Watson	01:34:34
Giles	Sowerby	01:34:43
Gavin	Moore	01:34:50	PB
Mark	Austin	01:35:38	1st MV60
Hayley	Ellen	01:37:24	PB
Kevin	Harper	01:39:12
Bill	Smythe	01:43:41
Tanya	Cregan	01:48:09
Elizabeth	Stuckey	01:48:12
Graham	Eyre	01:49:38
Lee	Blake	01:51:35
Rebecca	Booty	01:54:23
David	Grainger	01:59:37
Carina	Taylor	02:02:27
Ben	Miller	02:04:17	PB
Anita	Grainger	02:07:06
Sasha	Rush	02:13:40
Susan	Shippey	02:20:17
Karen	Flowers	02:22:57
Joanne	Smythe	02:33:40
Natalie	Lilley	02:38:00