Latest Results 24/12/10 – Mike Gullis

RUNNING

Sadly, the second major storm in 2 weeks, Darragh, reaped havoc on a host of sporting events across the country including Parkrun & other events.

Parkrun Junior 2K
No results to report.

Parkrun 5K
With the numerous cancellations, including Huntingdon, there were a total of just 22 BRJ’ers in action at a Parkrun. There were returns to Abbey Park (Course Best for Jim Greenley), Coventry, Downham Market Academy, East Coast (Singapore), Ferry Meadows (Course Best for Kate Ruddock), Northala Fields & Preston Park (Brighton). At Thetford, Colin Reeve achieved a 2 Min 22 Sec Club PB (#3 of 2024) compared to Huntingdon #523 of 30 November.

Alice Edwards & Noyes made a Club Venue Debut at East Grinstead.

MK Winter 1/2 Marathon
3 BRJ’ers were among the 2,138 finishers who braved the heavy rain & strong gusty winds to complete this local 1/2 Marathon. Simon Pascoe led home our squad followed by Fiona Green who was making her Club 1/2 Marathon Debut. The squad was completed by Yvonne Homewood who has returned to Running with the BRJ after a short(ish) break. Their full set of results are:

Hurtwood Ultra Trail 50K
The race started at Surrey’s Dorking Sports Centre & followed the Surrey Hills Greensand Way. The course route is “lollipop” shaped & essentially “Out & Back” with a 5 mile loop that re-joins the Greensand Way. The 31 mile course included 4,192 feet of ascent & had a 10 hour time limit. Participants are required to self navigate the course via a number of checkpoints located at local landmarks such as Leith, Holmbury & Pitch Hills.

Despite the very challenging weather conditions, the hilly course & a couple of navigation errors, Slawomir Dziarmaga completed the race in position 193 from the 408 finishers in a time of 6:32:09 & well outside of his current 50K PB.

Frostbite Friendly League Race 3 (Hosted by March AC)
Race 3 of 6, scheduled for 8th December at March, was another casualty of the storm. The very good news is that March AC have re-scheduled the League fixture for 1 week later i.e. on Sunday 15th December.

St Neots Junior 3K *RESULTS UPDATE*
4 BRJ Juniors participated in the St Neots Junior race that took place on 17th November. This event was advertised on the website as being over a distance of 3K. Given that the winning Junior completed the course in a finish time that represented a speed of 12.6 MPH & a equivalent Full Marathon time of 2:04:51, the race distance was unlikely to have been 3K. Having queried this with the race organisers it was recently confirmed that the distance was NOT as advertised, but only 2.4K.

The Race Results & associated Club Records have been duly revised to reflect the change which are: