It was good to see so many juniors out racing in this event.  Not only that, but there were some great performances from Bella McCredie, Lucille Pickles and Jacob Reeday who all took first places.  A great performance too from Jack Villiers who is always at the front of the race, on this occasion coming home in second place.

U9
6 Bella McCredie 3:40 (1st girl)
7 Harry Driver 3:41
17 Oscar Clayton 4:10
20 Summer Fitzpatrick 4:16 (8th girl)

U11
5 Lucille Pickles F11 5:29 (1st girl)
8 Garth Duffy 5:35
9 George Fitzpatrick 5:36
20 Alfie Muller M11 6:13
25 Annabelle Hoyle 6:23 (10th girl)
26 Taylor Edwards 6:25
28 Chloe Boothman 6:32 (11th girl)
30 Michael Rigg Moya 6:43
38 Max Villiers 7:08
40 Lily-Grace Clayton 7:13 (19th girl)
41 Holly Milligan 7:31 (20th girl)

U13
1 Jacob Reeday 14:46
11 Logan McCredie17:04
13 Harley Treitl 17:24
39 Jody Whitfield 24:19 (18th girl)

U15
2 Jack Villiers 19:44
31 Ciara Duffy 27:46 (13th girl)
34 Aaron Slater 28:24
36 Connor Fitzpatrick 29:12

U17
8 Alex Mason 27:16

On the face of it, Ian Livesey had a cracking race to finish 1st MV35 and 13th overall and most people would be happy with that.  But Ian being Ian thinks that he can do better.  At 14 miles, he was dead, but the stamina was there and he came back for a great finish.  

This was the first marathon for Emma Bailey and as always with Emma, she trained seriously for it.  Not only that, but as her first marathon, she picked this race as her charity money raising race for this year.  For her first marathon, she had a target time of less than 3 hrs 20 mins and she beat that, proving that she had not just turned up to make up the numbers.  It was an eventful day for Emma.  She was on the way to the race when her car broke down, leaving her to complete the journey to the start by taxi.  Not the best possible preparation for the day   Then, after ten miles, she developed a blister.   After about eighteen miles, she then developed a stitch, which knocked the rhythm out of her.  At that point, in her own mind, it was a case of merely getting to the finish line.  As her stitch started to ease, the 3 hrs 15 mins pacer went past her.  She tried to keep up, but she had lost her rhythm and her head was in the wrong place.  She tried to keep up, but he sadly pulled away.   However, Emma is a fighter and she kept him in her sights and finished with what can only be described as a brilliant time for her first marathon. 

This was a great effort by Emma and you can support her money raising effort by donating on line at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/emma-bailey55  No amount is too small and every little will help this great cause. 

13 Ian LIVESEY 2:33:52 (1st MV35 )
156 Virgil BARTON 2:51:25 (18th MV45)
1091 Emma BAILEY 3:15:57 (11th FV40
1737 John BOOTHMAN 3:27:33  (52nd MV55)

20,378 runners.

5 David Mirfield 33:12
8 Jimmy Craig 34:40
12 Nick Treitl 36:44
19  Andy Berry 38:08
35 Chris Snell 40:27
49 James Austin 42:17
64 Scott McCredie 43:53
77 Zac Kaye 45:32
92 Paula Cullen 7:51
119 Danny Butterworth 51:09
137 Hannah Newbold 53:20
147 Cloey Mason 56:14
156 Richard Treitl 57:52

Another terrific performance by Jack Villiers saw him take the under fifteen race in an exciting finish, just beating Jackson McKay of Clayton by one second!  Garth Duffy also had a good race finishing 3rd in the under eleven race.

U9
9 Oscar Calyton 5:14

U11
3 Garth Duffy 12:02
16 Lily Grace Clayton 15:58 (6th girl)

U15
1 Jack Villiers 14:31
22 Ciara Duffy 20:14 (11th girl)