Helsby weekly round-up 17th-23rd September 2013

Hi all

Last Tuesday 17^th September was the third Wirral Multi-terrain Race, the Harrison Drive Beach run near Wallasey. With less wind than previous years and the sand behaving itself it was a good night for running. Numbers are still down on Helsby participants for this event compared to previous years but we still had five green vests out making the most of the last midweek races before winter.

Many thanks to Mario for sorting the numbers at the finish and to Joe and Mario for the big shouts throughout the race, which always helpful, especially on that tough beach run-in at the end.

21^st                   Adair Broughton            25.33
98^th                   Geoff Shaw                  31.42
102^nd                 Stephen Wiggins           31.56

32^nd                   Louise McEvely             33.23
47^th                   Janet Shaw                   38.16

Our mens team were 22^nd on the night and our ladies team were 16^th

Please note the final race of the season is this Tuesday night 24^th September. It’s a 6.30pm start at Arrowe Park, the venue for our Northwest Cross Country (park at the Cherry Orchard pub car park). Free Buffet and prizes follow. Just £1 to enter and no registration required, just the Helsby vest to be worn.

Full results and current standings are available at Steve’s website here www.stevesaunders.co.uk

Saturday morning saw the 29th Delamere Park Run 5k with first in for Helsby and 2^nd overall Colin Bishop in 17.55 and first Helsby lady Louise McEveley in 57^th in 24.00 for a new PB. Well done also to Kevin Smallwood for his for his PB.

 

2	Colin BISHOP	17:55	VM50-54	84.37 %	M	2	Helsby RC	PB stays at 00:17:47	14
30	Stephen WIGGINS	22:22	SM20-24	58.27 %	M	29	Helsby RC	PB stays at 00:22:14	9
57	Louise MCEVELEY	24:00	VW45-49	67.50 %	F	5	Helsby RC	New PB!	9
62	Kevin SMALLWOOD	24:28	VM40-44	56.61 %	M	57	Helsby RC	New PB!	3
86	Ian HILDITCH	25:24	VM70-74	71.19 %	M	76	Helsby RC	PB stays at 00:25:21	15
93	Alison MEAKIN	25:53	VW55-59	72.89 %	F	13	Helsby RC	PB stays at 00:25:34	12
149	Jane ASHBROOK	36:23	VW35-39	41.59 %	F	41	Helsby RC	PB stays at 00:21:53	13

For full results please see here

http://www.parkrun.org.uk/delamere/results/latestresults/

 Saturday morning also saw our tenth fell counter of the season, the King John’s Castle Hill Race and with all still to play for in the Men’s Championship. It’s a shame Chris Baynham-Hughes couldn’t make it but respect should be given to Chris for helping out a friend instead in Snowdonia which is a very unselfish act. There are still two fell counters remaining so all still to play for. Jim O’Hara and Adair had a tough and close battle all the way round with the lead changing during the race to make it interesting on the day. Jayne Joy had a superb run for 1^st lady overall. Adair was 2^nd and Jim O’ Hara 3^rd overall. Steve Riley and Paul Foster also had good runs.

The course was reversed from previous years and a hill has been added so it’s now a really good race to try. I hope the numbers are up next year because it deserves a good turnout.

Many thanks to Joe and to Mario for marshalling and for support.

Full results  on www.wfra.org.uk .

2nd	Adair Broughton	40.53
3rd	Jim O’Hara	41.14
5th	Jayne Joy	43.21
20th	Steve Riley	50.16
22nd	Paul Foster	52.00

Sunday was the Aintree 10k which saw Roy Gaskill 16^th overall and a brilliant 2^nd in his category. Roy came in feeling strong in 41.41. Also running was Tom De Jong.

16^th                   Roy Gaskill                   41.39 (2^nd in age cat)
123^rd                 Tom DeJong                 48.47

More information on the Aintree 10k here http://www.sportstoursinternational.co.uk/running/the-grand-10k-run-at-aintree

But for full results please see chiptimes as below

www.chiptimes.biz

It was the Natterjack Seaside 10k in Southport yesterday, with two Helsby runners out making the most of the nice weather and both under the 40 minutes. It was a new PB for Colin by nearly a minute and only another minute off the winner so a fabulous run by Colin, be sure to congratulate him.

Results and link below:

6th                    Colin Thompson            36.46
28th                  Derek Morris                 39.41

www.natterjackseaside10k.com

Last week we also had two runners in the Great North Run. Mo hasn’t decided to join Helsby (yet) but Donna Geer chose this as her first half marathon and secured a time of 2.12.50. Well done to Donna and now her training can begin in earnest for the four villages. Also out on course was Helen Tudor battling through the crowds to secure a time of 2hrs and 24secons.

Alistair Tye, photographer for many of the fell races has been taken ill, and for those that know Alistair you can pass on your best wishes via Eryri’s website here

http://www.eryriharriers.org.uk/al-tye/

Keep on running

Adair

Helsby weekly round-up & inter-club fell results

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.

1^st                   Adair Broughton          5hrs 04mins
2^nd                 Ian Landucci                  5hrs 47mins
3^rd                  Andy Robinson             5hrs 59mins
Joint 8^th     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 3^rd 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 3^rd in their respective categories but stealing the show that night was Carol Shaw coming in 1^st 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/

14^th               Adair Broughton          25.30
68^th               Colin Thompson           29.04
84^th               Roy Gaskill                    29.59
100^th            Adrian Jackson              31.12
112^th            Albert Berry                    32.15
119^th            Geoff Shaw                      32.41
137^th            Tom DeJong                    33.42
148^th            Chris Hatton                   36.01

5^th                  Jayne Joy                          28.57 (3^rd)
26^th               Janet Robertson          33.09
31^st                Carol Shaw                       33.38(1^st)
42^nd              Jackie Keasley               35.52 (3^rd)
58^th               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

103^rd            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

86^th               David Feakes                  1.47.17
133^rd            Lesley Feakes                 1.53.35

Lesley and Dave at the Great Langdale Half 2012

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.

http://www.spectrumstriders.org.uk/club-championship/team-competitions/inter-club-fell-competition/race-3-king-johns-castle

It makes interesting reading for those that like stats. Helsby were 2^nd on the day and 2^nd 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)

2^nd                 Adair Broughton          35.10
6^th                  Jim O’Hara                   36.52
12^th               Ian Landucci                   38.30
22^nd              Andy Robinson              42.39
33^rd               Steve Riley                      43.52
44^th               Janet Robertson          45.18
54^th               Andy Smith                      48.06
60^th               John Thompson            49.58
65^th               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

King John’s castle – new fell race 24th sept 2011

New Fell Race 4.6 miles, 865ft ascent at 11am on 24th September 2011

King John’s Castle Fell Race

From

The Raven Inn (http://www.raveninn.co.uk/)
Llanarmon yn Ial (Map ref 190562) nr Mold

The course is suitable for all abilities
& marked for the whole distance

£4 entry fee payable on the day

For further details contact
John Linley
01352 771543

Directions: The village sits on the B5431 road, near the junction with the B5430, six miles south of the market town of Mold. In the centre of the village can be found a small, traditional village shop and the Raven Inn public house, the last of the many drovers’ inns that were once found in the village. Llanarmon is 2 miles from the A494, a main north–south trunk route, and 3 miles from the A525 and the A5104 roads.

The Raven Inn
Ffordd Rhiw Ial
Llanarmon-yn-Ial
Denbighshire
CH7 4QE

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