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Mark's
Column - 07/09/08
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Chris Marshall ran one of, if not THE best race of his running career in the Manchester Trafford 10k on Sunday 7th. Coming home 38th in a top quality field like Trafford is no easy task but the best was yet to come. Posting a time of 36:47 and knocking half a minute of his previous best, Chris will be all guns blazing for the forth coming multi terrain series and Saturdays Inter Club Cheshire Relays. Following Chris was Alison Hughes who's now using shorter faster races as speed work. Coming home 104th in a time of 41:32, shows she's getting that base speed needed for a sub 1:30 half marathon. The men's race was won in 31:09 by Ben Fish of Blackburn Harriers with the ladies race won by Tessa Walker of Salford in a superb 35:50. |
Wolverhampton Half Marathon
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Mark Dodd made the 150 mile round trip to Wolverhampton for the popular half and full marathons on the 7th September. Luckily for Mark he chose the half and after faltering badly at the 4 mile Mark was counting his lucky stars he did. Running a disappointing 1:38:02 Mark will have to up the quality for this Saturdays Cheshire relays if he doesn't want to let the team down |
Wirral Multi Terrain Series
Tuesday 2nd September saw the running of the 1st race of the annual Wirral Multi Terrain 4 race series. Based at Roydon Park in Frankby, the first race is approximately 4.5 mile off road. Putting up a fantastic club turn out, Ellesmere Port Runners didn't let the town down. In order of places for the men's event; 27th Chris Marshall 30:12, 28th Graeme Earlam 30:15, 42nd Jason Bennett Ellesmere 31:55, 45th Danny Legg 32:08, 52nd Matt Whitfield Ellesmere 32:32, 57th Mike Burns 32:41, 101st Alan Durston 35:58.
As a team event EPRC's "A" team were 6th overall with the "B" team 27th.
In the ladies event, 9th Nicky Bird 34:59, 11th Alison Hughes 35:43, 19th Alison MacDonald 37:23 with the ladies team outgunning the men's team to finish 5th overall.