It’s all about the 10k for Radcliffe Athletes this week5 August 2024 (by D.Cartwright) |
Radcliffe Athletics Club members were across the North of England this week running a range of 10k races, with the odd exception of course.
There were a trio of Radcliffe runners at the York 10k, a popular route which takes in some of the highlights of the historic northern city. Helen Kay was first over the line first in a time of 1:02:59, followed by Deborah Warrington and Beverley Quinton who both ran 1:22:01.
Louise Shield took on the Pennine Trails Gisburn Forest 10k. Louise made her way around the “enchanting forests, bewitching trails and captivatingly immense woodland horizons” in a time of 1:18:40.
Elsewhere, Mark Taylor finished 5th at the It’s Grim Up North Marsden 10k midweek, with a time of 48:17, and Ryan Hallworth completed the Southport 10k in 38:19.
An exception to the 10k rule was Mark Garner, who ran the half marathon at Workington Festival of Running in a time of 1:47:03.
Another exception to the rule was of course the impressionable Ian Swan. Never afraid to take things a little too far, Ian ran the brutal Borrowdale Horseshoe Fell Race in a time of 5 hours, 14 mins, 8 secs. Including more than 2000 meters of climbing and the ascent of England’s highest point of Scafell Pike, before coming all the way down again to summit its neighbour Great Gable and seven other fells along the route, Borrowdale Horseshoe is certainly not for the faint hearted.
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