Simon Jeffs Breaks The 80min Barrier- Four Village’s Half Marathon
Seventeen club members made the trip down the road to Helsby for one of the highlights of the regional running calendar, the four village’s half marathon. This has become. With good weather conditions, the club members set about the task of completing this challenging course. First, home for the club and reaping full rewards for all his hard training was Simon Jeffs in 36th place, with a time of 01:19:12. This smashes his personal best by over a minute. When you consider this course is not renowned for its PB potential, and with much faster races in the next couple of months, his new PB will surely not last too long.
Next home for the club and showing some great form was Keith Jones 01:24:44, followed by Paul Robertson 01:25:53, Michael Burns 01:27:05, Mark Dodd 01:27:45, Matthew Whitfield 01:29:55, David Nalder 01:30:38, Brian Griffiths 01:32:47, Danny Legg 01:35:58, Jon Hawker 01:37:00. First lady for the club Alison McDonald 01:38:07, closely perused by Alison Hughes 01:39:52 who is making great progress after recent injury problems. Completing the lineup for the club was Alan Durston 01:43:45, Kevin Curtis 01:47:11, Chris Bennion 01:49:16, Madeleine Bird 01:51:19 and Nigel Crierie 01:59:04.
In a closely fought contest, the winner by 3 sec was Salford Harriers runner Tomas Abyu with a time of 01:05:21. Local runner Nicky Archer from Vale Royal AC won the women’s race with a time of 01:16:02.
Brass Monkey York Half Marathon
Steve Laker was lucky enough to manage to secure a place in this incredible popular and potentially fast half marathon. While Steve had high hopes of securing a Pb this was not to be achieved on this day. However, Steve still managed to complete the course in a very competitive time of 01:19:15 in 35th place. Steve is already planning a return trip but with the race selling out in 3 day this year, when that will exactly be is uncertain.
Stephen Hepples from Newham & Essex Beagles RC won the men’s race with a time of 01:08:13. Kilbarchan Harriers member Hayley Haining won the women’s race in a time of 01:11:46.
