Race Round Up 12th September to 18th September 2022

Saturday 17^th September 2022

Darlington Harriers South Park 20 miler

Scott, Steve and I took on this popular 20x1mile laps of Darlington South Park on Saturday morning as they step up their prep for the New York Marathon (Scott), London Marathon (Steve) and goodness knows what marathon for myself as its looking like I can’t make it down to London due to family commitments. Both Scott and Steve will take huge confidence from this run which sets up them well for their upcoming marathons, they have both worked really hard over the past few months and fully deserve the times they are both achieving, well done gentlemen.

I on the back of a poor a few weeks of training due to a busy social life and family holidays somehow managed sub 3hr marathon pace (6.51 avg pace) for the duration of the 20 mile run. I started well and hung in with a pack consisting of 5 runners including Tracey Millmore and Steve Robertson, however fell off the back at 9 miles. In true style I held it together on my own and finished strong with a time of 2.14.30.

Here are the thoughts of Scott Brady:

Enjoyable day out in Darlington, which I would highly recommend to anyone marathon training. Well organised race, friendly volunteers and nice park, which is relatively flat helps the boredom of doing 20 laps. Now just to try and hold it for another 6 miles in a few weeks.

Field size 35

5^th Scott Brady 2.08.13

8^th Steven Robertson 2.11.49

9^th Richard Houghton 2.14.31

2022-Results-SouthPark20.pdf – Google Drive

Saturday 17^th September 2022

NEMAA Open Pentathlon Championships,

Monkton Stadium

Eric Lewis total points 2584 and 2^nd V60 male, Long jump 3.96m 497 points, Javelin 27.55m 427 points, Discus 30.83m 549 points, 1500m 5.51 686 points

https://www.nemaa.co.uk/masters-men-pentathlon-2022.html

10,000m

Field size 7

3^rd Simon Allen 41.01 and 1^st V55 male

Simon wrote: There aren’t many opportunities to run a 10,000 metre race, and as I’d enjoyed the one we’d held at Blaydon in 2021, I was keen to give this a go too. Lining up at the start was quite daunting, usually it’s just a few laps of the track, but facing 25 times round is quite an experience in itself. However, watching the remaining laps counter go down, concentrating on regulating my pace and monitoring how my legs, knees, and lungs were holding up kept me busy.

Add to that the commentary from the announcer’s box and the encouragement from the people in the stand, especially the shouts from Louise and Eric, the time seemed to be compressed. As always in NEMAA events I was running against a group mixed ages groups and abilities, so I was keen to do as well as possible against my peers. I couldn’t keep up with the two guys 10 or more years my junior, but I did manage to maintain 3rd position from lap 1 all the way to the finish line, coming in 1 minute and 50 seconds ahead of the next runner.

A category gold medal is something I’m proud to have achieved, especially wearing the Elswick Harriers vest.

http://harrierleague.com/TANDF/NEMAA5K10KTRACKCHAMPS2022/meeting1/results1.htm

Sunday 18^th September 2022

Matfen 10k hosted by Run Nation

This popular 10k course runs through the beautiful country roads in Matfen Village, before looping around the outskirts and finishing near Matfen Hall. On a very undulating course Imogen was 1^st lady over the line which was the hilliest road race she has taken part into date, well done Imogen on a fantastic run. She was joined on the start line by Rob Lambert who claimed 2^nd V55 male, David Hodgson and Jeff Emmerson who claimed 3^rd V70 male.

Field size 102

7^th Imogen Bungay 37.37 and 1^st lady

23^rd Rob Lambert 44.11 and 2 V55 male

74^th David Hodgson 57.42

93^rd Jeff Emmerson 1.08.22 and 3^rd V70 male

https://www.racetecresults.com/results.aspx?CId=16685&RId=373