Racing Round Up – Yorkshire Marathon/10 Mile, Red Rock, Vets 5k Champs

In the night pic you can see the runners zigzagging back to finish with their head torches under The Plough!

—Melbourne(AUS) Marathon.
Report by Lucy Buykx.

I booked to run Melbourne marathon in 2020 but covid, so this year was time to deal with unfinished business. The weather had been shocking all week with gales and heavy showers, jet lag has been awful, and it was a 07:00 start, so I was starting to wonder if I had made the right decision 😀

The course ran from just outside the CBD, around the wide lake of Albert Park (scene of the previous day’s obligatory tourism parkrun) and then down to the bay for a long run along the beach before we turned back up towards the city’s and finished at the MCG (some of your readers may be familiar with this place!) It was absolutely amazing to run into the arena and hear the sound of so many cheering supporters, even better when I saw the clock and realised I could go under 5 hours!

I’d started with the 5-hour pacers but wasn’t confident at the start that I would keep up (garmin predicted about 5:07 and garmin is god right?!?) but those pacers were absolutely wonderful and in the last few km I felt happy to push on and I finished with an amazing PB of 4:55:48. That’s about 50mins faster than earlier this year and 3:30 faster than my previous PB set in 2019. Very very happy.

And well done to all harriers who did the York marathon and 10miles – a few weeks rest and recovery for all of us 😀

Bryan Drew, Ruth Robson and Ste Robson ( & the Sewells) headed to Ullswater for the 10:30am Lakeland Trails Ullswater 14km. The race is unusual in that you meet in Glenridding, but are then boarded onto the Ullswater Steamer and sailed to Howtown where the race begins. You then follow the trails all the way back to Glenridding.

– Trail Challenge 14k Results:

Ste Robson – 1:49:37 – 80th place, walked the whole thing due to injury, much to the annoyance of the people I overtook