Although they are already Division Two Champions, the ladies put out ten runners. and on the day came up against a terrific Blackpool team who were easily the first ladies team, having three runners in the top four. However, there was no pressure on our girls to be outright winners at this event, but the V35s had to do well as did the B team. The Vet 35s were first team and B team were second. The vets are now sure of being the V35 Champions. Our B team are are still joint top of Division Three and it will be down the the last race of the season to see if they get promoted and replace our A team in Division two.
Senior Women
8 Lorraine Slater 25:10
10 Rachel Villiers 25:37
18 Leanne Dinsdale 26:38
45 Hannah Newbold 29:41
48 Karen Naylor 29:55
77 Vicky Holgate 32:42
93 Nicola Muller 34:10
100 Natalie Edwards 35:07
106 Sally Scothern 35:59
116 Donna Milligan 37:07
Senior Men
There was tough competition at the front of this race. The leaders all set off at a hot pace and Tom Corrigan matched them and was in second place as the came along side the sea wall for the first time..Having said that, there was little to chose between the first seven runners. And so this intense competition continued for the remainder of the race with positions amongst these leading runners chopping and changing. Tom was there right at the very end, but did not quite have enough left in the tank to beat Ben Johnson of Southport Waterloo who ran out the winner by six seconds. However, he did have enough to hold off a strong challenge from Tim Raynes of Blackburn who was just behind Tom in third place. It was a great race between these three athletes.
Mark Holgate had a good run to lead home our Vets. Such a performance was needed as not having scored any points in the first two races of this season, our vets are in danger of losing their First Division status. This will almost certainly go down to the last race of the season.
2 Tom Corrigan 34:27
10 Raymond Edgar 36:11
24 Mark Holgate 37:51
40 Andy Collins 39:52
49 Lucas Payne 40:19
107 Gary Bradley 44:49
122 Scott Boardman 45:48
126 John Boothman 46:16
192 Darren Holdsworth 55:50
Junior results are on our Junior Page