Atlantic College 10K - 21st March 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 4:02PM The race was well organised by Ruth Pickvance, a member of the club. 42 members of the club took part and there were notable forformances by several athletes.
Three members of the club were in the top 20 finishers with Nicky Dukes leading the club home in a PB time of 33:53 and inflicting a rare defeat on Stuart Crees who recorded 34:06. Three women runners, Cath Tailby, Helen Jessop and Liz (Buster) Merrifield were among the top ten lady finishers. Helen Jessop also recorded a PB in 43:45. Other athletes performing well were Matt Hurford (36:41) and Sandy Johnson who was first over 60 in a time of 38:39. Several runners including Dave Headon (38:06) had run the previous day in the 20 miles Round the Lakes race (I cant spell Ryadyr).
By the way, the race was won by Richard Gardiner (CAAC) in 31:10 while Anne-Marie Hutchison won the ladies race in 36:51 after running 7 miles prior to the race. Mick was happy with her performance because he hopes to be able to run fast enough to pace her in London.
Derek
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Well done everyone. Is Nick looking for a repeat in London??? I think Mick will be lucky to hang onto Anne-Marie in London
Atlantic Collage 10K 2009 - Stuart Crees. 34.06
Atlantic Collage 10K 2010 - Stuart Crees 34.06
Mick alway told me consistancy is the key!!
I think I was supposed to improve though...ummmm...
I expect the results will be on the Atlantic College website tomorrow, but these were the Croups results:
8. Nick Dukes 33:53; 10. Stuart Crees 34:06; 13. Phil George 34:56; 21. Martin Williams 36:18; 26. Matt Hurford 36:41; 29. Mick McGeoch 37:02; 33. Stuart McIlroy 37:41; 38. Dave Headon 38:06; 39. Ben Farag 38:18; 40. Gareth Lynch 38:23; 43. Paul Coker 38:37; 44. Sandy Johnston 38:39; 47. Rob Scott 38:49; 49. Scott Hemmens 39:00; 54. Gerry Crispie 39:13; 58. Alun Jones 39:39; 60. John O'Shea 39:46; 64. John Diffey 39:59; 77. Andrew Russell 41:15; 88. Andrew Blair 42:18; 90. Mike Murphy 42:26; 99. Howard Kent 43:09; 104. Dave Williams 43:16; 108. Catherine Tailby 43:38; 109. Helen Jessop 43:45; 112. Alan Mason 44:04; 113. John Magee 44:04; 116. Andrew Sedgmond 44:46; 123. Graeme Donnan 45:30; 127. Michael Dix 45:44; 131. Liz Merrifield 46:00: 138. Frank Williams 46:49; 142. Judi Rhys 47:06; 178. Gareth John 49:58; 210. Simon James 52:58; 220. Clare Johnson 53:33; 241. Nicola Poole 55:05; 253. David Williams 55:38; 263. Michael James 56:38; 291. Joanne Gamba 59:01; 294. Hannah Davies 59:20. 306. Gill Murphy 60:26; 407 athletes finished. Many thanks to Ruth Pickvance and everyone who helped - a great race in lovely weather on a beautiful scenic course (not far from Barry).
You're quite right, Phil - I will be lucky to hang on to Ann Marie in London - but what I hope I can do (given that I can find her, which won't be easy given that we're on different starts) is make sure she runs slow enough early on to ensure she gets a sizeable PB. She's a huge talent, is Ann Marie, but the nicest thing is that she's so modest and doesn't realise how good she is.