Hi all
Results are now available for the 30 mile, 7000ft long distance trail counter that four from Helsby attempted on a marvellous Saturday just over a week ago.
http://www.ldwa.org.uk/Merseystride/W/2093/open-to-offas-2012.html
With all four Helsby runners in the top ten a great result for the club, and a 1, 2, 3 from Adair, Ian and Andy showed the effort put in on the day. Outstanding views on the run, so much so that Jackie went to revisit an area she enjoyed after the King John’s Castle fell counter on Saturday, aptly named Pothole Crags (which is essentially the highest part of the Trail up the Beast race). Interestingly the Open to Offas route also takes in part of The Druid , The Lletty, the Llangynhafal Loop and The Beast Races. We’ll probably do some recce’s of the route next year if anyone fancies it.
1st Adair Broughton 5hrs 04mins
2nd Ian Landucci 5hrs 47mins
3rd Andy Robinson 5hrs 59mins
Joint 8th Jackie Keasley 7hrs 15min
Running for 7 hours (and on Monday for a few hours too I believe) didn’t stop Jackie having a pop at the 3rd Wirral Multi-Terrain beach race nr Wallasey last Tuesday night. Jackie was joined by 12 other Helsby runners. It was a mixed night with the weather, as those on a long warm-up got completely drenched whereas sensible people sought shelter in the pub! Interesting route choice early on also determined a good run or not with two distinct groups starting out at the beach either heading left or right. (Note for the future, take the route to the right!) Both Jackie and Jayne were 3rd in their respective categories but stealing the show that night was Carol Shaw coming in 1st for her category. Current standings after three races can be found in the full results on RO’s website below but Helsby positions and times extrapolated
http://www.stevesaunders.co.uk/
14th Adair Broughton 25.30
68th Colin Thompson 29.04
84th Roy Gaskill 29.59
100th Adrian Jackson 31.12
112th Albert Berry 32.15
119th Geoff Shaw 32.41
137th Tom DeJong 33.42
148th Chris Hatton 36.01
5th Jayne Joy 28.57 (3rd)
26th Janet Robertson 33.09
31st Carol Shaw 33.38(1st)
42nd Jackie Keasley 35.52 (3rd)
58th Janet Shaw 39.36
The race series finishes this Tuesday night at Arrowe Park (Cherry Orchard car park), it’s a 6.30pm start, no registration but race costs £1. Prize giving should follow shortly afterwards for those eligible for a prize. Remember it’s the best 3 of your 4 races so worth checking where you stand currently and be aware of the people you might need to beat! Might be worth having some shoes with grip too if the recent rain is anything to go by.
Thursday night John Thompson was out at the Ron Hill birthday 5k nr Rochdale. Superb run for John on a hilly 5k. Full results here
http://www.ukresults.net/2012/ronhill.html
103rd John Thompson 23.17
Saturday was the Great Langdale Half marathon, a run that Dave and Lesley have done over the last few years and saw them well up in a field of nearly 400 with PB’s for both, great work.
http://www.ukresults.net/2012/langhalf.html
86th David Feakes 1.47.17
133rd Lesley Feakes 1.53.35
How different the weather was for Saturday and the King John’s Castle Inter Club and Fell Counter at the Raven Inn. Brilliant blue skies welcomed runners and enabled a nice beer in the front of the pub for prizegiving afterwards. The Raven Inn made everyone welcome even providing soup and tea and coffee as part of race entry, another fell bargain at £4. Thanks go to Martin Contrviend and John Linley for organising this race. John had also made some age category winner t-shirts unique for the event.
So how did it go……………
It’s not as tough in terms of climb as some of the other fell races, but was tricky in navigation in parts, and made you work hard in places, so the results don’t tell the full story as some runners will have lost time in parts. There was a stile very early on which was used this year as the farmer would not allow a gate opened but apart from that it’s a good race and thankfully we had Joe and Bill marshalling out on the course where it crossed a road, and supporting in fine voice as always. General feedback was good.
Provisional results are already done by Julian who copied them down on the day.
It makes interesting reading for those that like stats. Helsby were 2nd on the day and 2nd overall in the series, which is a fair result I think and probably as expected if we go by club size. I think the Druid showed when we have a full compliment of runners we are very strong. Saturday we missed some of our good runners and it may have made things a little closer by the end but overall I hope everyone enjoyed the series and will continue to support the races next year. Of note we only had 9 runners out compared to Spectrums 14. We’ll make sure the races are all suitable to get to this time too! Pat on the back for everyone who did one or all of the races and if you do have any comments on the series please let me know.
Full results should appear in time on the Welsh fell runners website www.wfra.org.uk but Helsby positions as below (times will be updated on the blog once received)
2nd Adair Broughton 35.10
6th Jim O’Hara 36.52
12th Ian Landucci 38.30
22nd Andy Robinson 42.39
33rd Steve Riley 43.52
44th Janet Robertson 45.18
54th Andy Smith 48.06
60th John Thompson 49.58
65th Jackie Keasley 51.58
And we still have more races to go……..
Sunday was the Southport 10k legacy event, have found a website but no results yet, will keep an eye out though and 4 Helsby ran, definitely Roy, Adrian and Helen and have been informed one othe, which gave Roy a 1st v45 and Adrian a 2nd v40, well done guys.
http://www.legacyevent.org/index.php/events/dw-fitness-southport-10k-legacy-event/
I’ll add results to the blog once published.
As always if anyone wants to write a brief report about their race then it’l be great to receive them and add a different perspective to the blog.
Adair