Racing Round Up – w.e 16th Oct – Yorkshire Marathon / 10mile, British Fell Relay Champs..

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—FRA British Fell Relay Championships – Broughton, Scottish Borders.

This year the relays were held in the beautiful Scottish Borders and Knavesmire were able to field two mixed teams of six runners, quite an organisational achievement (well done Tom & Aoife).

The relay consisted of four legs, all marked except the navigation leg 3 which would not be marked and competitors would only receive their map and route on the start line.

1: Solo 7.8km with 550m of climb
2: Pairs 11.2km 890m of climb
3: Pairs Navigation
4: Solo 7.8km with 520m of climb

Leg 1.

Despite a high-speed downhill tumble due to a confusing course competitor crossing, Gareth Green brought YKH team  2 in first with a time of 44:58 for 60th place, less experienced fell runner Emily Baines had shoe lace troubles but still ran an awesome leg to get YKH team 1 home in 49:43 for 95th place.

Leg 2.

We were now set up for a ‘YKH Royal Rumble’, would YKH Team 2’s fell veterans Barry Atkinson and Giles Hawking be able to keep ahead of the Team 1 ‘young guns’ Glynn Ellwood and Ewan Sewell.
Some dogged and determined running by all involved over a gruelling leg meant in the end it was pretty close, Team 2 kept ahead of Team 1 but their 4 minute lead had been reduced to a minute and a half.

Team 2 (Giles and Barry) 01:30:13 Leg 91st  Team 2 now 80th.
Team 1 (Glynn and Ewan) 01:26:59 Leg 82nd Team 1 now 82nd.

It’s no fun being the ‘slower’ partner in a fell relay pairs leg, Baz keeled over on the finish line and an ‘under the weather’ Glynn was not his usual exuberant self for quite some time, no lasting damage though.

Leg 3- Navigation.

It went a bit pair shaped on leg 3 for YKH Team 1, Tom lost his footing in a hole hidden by the deep tussocky grass and badly twisted his ankle. He still had most of the route yet to complete and despite the agonising pain he soldiered on ably assisted by Jessica Slater, a valiant effort.
They got round in 2:12:51 (171st fastest) to now place Team 1 in 142nd place.
Team 2 had a less eventful Leg 3, Simon Collins and Louise Stringer completing the leg in 02:05:43, 166th fastest on the leg and team 2 now 125th overall.

Leg 4.

It was still all to play for on leg 4, due to our positions down the field our teams would be in the mass start.
A Knavesmire Drag Race to the finish it would be, could Team 1’s fell running debutante Rebekah Thomas make up the 9-minute deficit on Team 2’s super sub Andy Chapman Gibbs.

In the end it was much closer than anyone could have predicted, Rebekah (51:16 / 101st) ran a belting leg, hauling in the deficit to bring Team 1 home in 133rd place overall (5:20:49), with Team 2 less than a minute behind (5:21:29) and in 135th place overall.
Andy 01:00:35 / 156th on leg 4.

In the Mixed Team Category we were 19th and 20th.

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—Yorkshire Marathon.

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—Yorkshire 10 Mile Road Race.

Laurence and Rose narrowly missed out on podium spots, both still doing excellently well with 4th places.

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—Yorkshire Coast 10k.

POS		GENDER	NAME		CAT	CAT POS	CHIP TIME	FINISH TIME
73		Male	Luke Osborn		SNR	36/214	00:41:59	00:42:02
737		Female	Karen Wealleans		V50	27/114	00:55:29	01:01:44
793		Female	Alison Cockerill		V40	50/107	01:00:03	01:03:27
932		Female	Kate Osborn		SNR	93/196	01:00:04	01:06:17
1077		Female	Pam Anderson		V60	24/58	01:03:10	01:10:07
1484		Male	Richard Anderson		V65	33/33	01:23:29	01:30:54

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—Helvellyn Trail Race.

488th Stephen Robson 1:16:56

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—St Aiden’s Trail Half Marathon.

24th Beth Benger 1:43:44    2nd FV40

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