Wirksworth Incline
There were ten runners from the club in the annual Wirksworth Incline Race. Nine ran in the Senior Race over 4.32 miles while Sam Horton ran in the Junior Race over 2 miles. Sam had his best day so far, of his running career, finishing second in a time of 16mins 57secs. Twelve years old Sam picked up the trophy for first under 14 years old boy to finish. An excellent result Sam and well done.
In the main race there were 107 runners with the Harriers putting in strong performances.
The following are the times of our runners.
10th Saul Taylor 27mins 19secs 15th Simon Edwards 28mins 10secs 16th Krishna Mahadevan 28mins 11secs
32nd David Horton 30mins 41secs 40th Steph Ilsey 31mins 41secs Ron Ilsey 31mins 53secs
49th Scott Macdonald 32mins 45secs 74th Dan Clark 36mins 54secs 90th Rachel Clark 39mins 06secs
Well done to all the Harriers and it is important that we support the races in our local area. This race has been going for many years now and does a great job to encourage youngsters into running. There was even a half mile race for the very young runners, with Dan and Rachel’s son, six years old William coming 11th out of 40 other youngsters.
Underwood 10k
Rob Pearce and Rosemary Arris travelled a little bit further, just over the border into Nottinghamshire to run in the village 10k race. It is organised by the local primary school and the race started out many years ago as a third of a marathon. The course more undulating than many races saw Rob finish in 47mins 6secs while Rosemary recorded 53mins 44sec.
Bungay Marathon
This one nearly slipped through without us noticing it. There was a tremendous run from Sarah Holme in her first marathon. Sarah finished in 110th position, in a time of 3hrs 52mins. Well done Sarah you must be really pleased.
London Marathon Success
Our contingent of five Harriers in this years London Marathon can now put their feet up and take a well earned rest. The race saw Simon Merwood and Mark Riches both run under three hours while Amy Robinson, Andy Dakin both in their first marathon and Georgina Bestwick can all be well pleased after all the hard work they have put in.
Times for the Harriers:
Georgina Bestwick 5hrs 8mins 53secs
Amy Robinson 4hrs 42mins 44secs
Andy Dakin 5hrs 14secs
Simon Merwood 2hrs 56mins 17secs
Mark Riches 2hrs 56mins 57secs