Northern Road Relays Report

A great turnout this year for the Northern Road Relays with us having two Men’s teams and a Ladies team taking part.

The men’s race started with the usual crazy fast start with myself on the first leg for the A team. I tried my best to keep up but failed miserably with the fast first mile causing me to suffer for the rest of the 6k. I handed over to Simon Collins in 78th place. Simon, Lindsay Toulson, Neil Stabbs and George Bilsby managed to bring us up to 62nd place over the next 4 legs with solid runs before handing over to Barry Atkinson. Barry finished with a strong run in a tough last leg, with many teams fielding their faster runners, to bring the team home in 65th place overall out of 117 teams. Despite having a much stronger team this year we actually finished 8 places lower overall than last year.

Chris Roberts – 21:44
Simon Collins – 22:01
Lindsay Toulson – 22:25
Neil Stabbs – 22:18
George Bilsby – 22:57
Barry Atkinson – 22:18

Our B team were led out by Darren Hendley who handed over to David Leese who ran a great leg. Stef Durkin, Stephen Robson, Rory Henderson and Nick Griffin made up the rest of the team. The team finished 89th out of 117.

Darren Hendley – 23:22
David Leese – 22:58
Stef Durkin – 24:44
Stephen Robson – 24:01
Rory Henderson – 23:51
Nick Griffin – 24:37

Our Ladies team was led out by Cassie Holmes who also suffered from the mad dash over the first mile but hung on well to finish in 43rd place. She handed over to our Ladies Captain Nik Vogan and then Caroline Warrington who made up 14 places between themselves before Anwen Darlinton took over for the anchor leg. Anwen ran a great last leg to make up 10 places to bring the team home 19th out of 62 teams.

Cassie Holmes – 25:24
Nik Vogan – 25:37
Caroline Warrington – 26:05
Anwen Darlington – 24:23

It was great to have a lot of us there supporting each other around the course and taking in the atmosphere. I would highly recommend giving it a go next year.

Mens Results

Ladies Results