What an amazing weekend of running that was!
Packed full of achievement and excellence. It’s pretty fabulous that our wee club has some real strength in depth now: TWENTY at Grangemouth including 3 medallists, THREE at Manchester, and TWO at BOSTON (and probably more who have been inadvertently omitted).
Let’s recap for posterity…
Grangemouth 10K
Sunday was ‘round the houses’ at Grangemouth, incorporating the SA (East District) Masters 10k competition.
Apologies if anyone is missing from this list (compiled from the official results, using a filter on the club name).
Special mention to Sarah Little, Christine Mulholland and John Redding who all finished high up in their respective age groups.
John also placed FIRST in the East District 10k competition!
Sarah was 2nd in the V45 category in a time of 42:41 gun (42:25 chip)
Christine was 3rd in the V50 category in a time of 41:23 gun (41:11 chip)
John was 5th in the V40 category (First in East District) in a time of 33:49 gun (33:48 chip)
Suspect it’s gun times that matter for these medals? …so we can expect to see Sarah and Christine sharpening their elbows next time around?
Our 20 superstars - what a great turnout:
John REDDING
Martin HAWKSEY
Christine MULHOLLAND
Darren DICK
Sarah LITTLE
Paul DUDCHENKO
Paul EMERY
Scott CUMMING
Malcolm HUGHES
Innes CHALMERS
Ian FYFE
Geoff PENDRILL
Claire RICE
Jane MARSHALL
Tracy CURLE
David MUMFORD
Alex WOOD
Jennifer DOIG
Yvonne MCHUGH
Melanie SPENCER
An aside from Sunday… Alastair Walker from Teviotdale Harriers finished 28th overall, in a time of 34:05 (34:04 chip). This is in the male over-65 age category, and takes a whopping 13 seconds off his own WORLD RECORD.
Manchester Marathon
Sunday was also the Manchester Marathon, and the club had three participants: Salma Windle (3:43) Roisin Murray (3:52) and Rebekah Smith (3:58). Superb running from all three!
Boston Marathon
Who stages a marathon on a Monday? Huh?
Boston does - because this is Patriots’ Day in the USA (especially noteworthy in New England) and is always the 3rd monday in April. Also known as ‘Marathon Monday’.
(thanks Wikipedia).
Anyhoo, we had Kathryn Holm and Martin Maginnis taking part in the legendary race, the marathoner’s marathon, the home of Heartbreak Hill.
Let’s start with Kathryn - she only went and got a phenomenal PB of 3:21!
WHAT
A
RESULT
And Martin - he totally smashed it too - in a ridiculously fast time of 3:05 (which isn’t even a PB! Whaa??)
Apologies to anyone I’ve missed
