Off Track Distance Races
Senior teams from the club took part in the National Road Relays which took place last Saturday at Sutton Park in Birmingham in an event that brings together the country’s top clubs.
The women’s team built on their fine performance in the Northern Championships to finish in 20th place. Katy Wood again led the team off by coming 23rd on the 1st leg covering the 4.33k leg in 14.59. Emma Ballantyne (17.03) and Isabel O’Brien (16.29) ran the middle legs consolidating the club’s position in the mid 20s before a great anchor leg from Charlotte Mason (14.55) took the club into the top 20.
The men came 49th with Angus McMillan having a good run on the extremely competitive first leg. McMillan’s time of 17.14 for the 5.85k which turned out to be the 19th fastest time of the day. The club sent their better runners out on the opening legs and slowly dropped back through the field to eventually finish just inside the top 50. The times for the remaining legs were Joe O’Brien 18.36, Alex Dickinson 19.33, Tommy Shaw 19.33, Ben Thompson 21.55 and Steve Asquith 20.08.
Tim Stratton ran the Manchester Half Marathon in a time of 1.14.58. Dave Lancaster was the first vet 60 in the Richmond Castle 10k in a time of 45.33.
Six of our members did parkrun this weekend with William Keens 17.50 at Easingwold and Anna Cuthbertson 23.40 at Heslington running the fastest times.