Fantastic performances home and away2 April 2023 (by D.Cartwright) |
Two Radcliffe Athletic Club members clocked up the airmiles as well as the miles on their feet!
Germany and the Balearics were the destinations for Simon Foulkes and Mark Taylor in a busy week of racing for the club, which also included two championship races.
Foulkes ran 3:44:24 in the Ibiza Marathon while Taylor clocked 1:38:09 in the Berlin Half Marathon, a day after warming up by running 22:40 in the city’s Hasenheide parkrun.
Back in the UK, Adam Willis smashed his personal best with a time of 1:39:28 in the London Landmarks Half Marathon.
Closer to home, points were up for grabs when members had a choice of two club championship races at the weekend.
Four were in action at Saturday’s Five Trigs Fell Race, an 18.5-mile course with 2,900ft of ascent on the hills above Saddleworth.
Part of the club’s fell championship, Craig Norman was ninth and third MV40 in 2:45:28. He was two places ahead of John Gibbs who ran 2:47:55 to come fourth MV40, while Ian Swan was third MV45 in 3:12:46 and Donna Cartwright was fourth FV45 in 3:15:34.
Swan and Cartwright also completed the 4.3-mile Liver Hill Fell Race in Rawtenstall earlier in the week. Described as a “complete bog from start to finish”, Swan was 33rd and Donna was the fifth woman.
Away from the hills, seven took part in the inaugural Nantwich 10k which is part of the club’s road and trail championship. There were great performances all round as Ethan Malone finished in 51:12, knocking a massive three minutes off his pb. There were also new pbs of 52:21 for Karen Doherty and 56:58 for Charlotte Holden. Also running were Tracy Wroe was was second V60 in 59:07, Caroline Malone (59:28), Stephen Crowe (1:00:17) and Helen Kay (1:03:22).
Members were also on their travels as they took part in a range of Saturday morning 5k parkruns.
Bev Quinton enjoyed the atmosphere at Nobles parkrun on the Isle of Man, running 41:39. Peter Hunter was eighth in 23:10 at Kew Woods in Southport, Stephen Crowe clocked 33:09 at Marple and Katherine Biddle finished in 26:38 at Roberts Park, West Yorkshire.
Closer to home, Rob Shiels was 19th in 19:09 at Heaton parkrun followed by Marc Taylor (19:26), junior Robbie Parkinson (23:48), Alison Howarth (26:28), Emma Wolstencroft (28:55) and Helen Kay (30:22). Andy Wheeler ran 41:10 at Bolton while Tracy Wroe clocked 33:04 at Worsley Woods.
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