Yet another weekend of great running from Knavesmire Harriers club members, with a great variety of events entered and some great results.
-Knavesmire’s Ladies got the weekend off to a great start in Huddersfield with possibly their best ever result in the West Yorkshire Cross Country League. The Ladies fielded a strong team and all ran supremely well , contributing to achieving second placed team of thirteen that took part .
Scout Adkin had a great race to finish third and was followed by :
Nik Vogan 12th
Andrea Lancaster 16th
Cassie Holmes 25th
Sarah Attwood 26th
Caroline Warrington 40th
Qin Zhou 67th
The Men were 7th of 12 teams .
Running for Knavesmire were :
Harry Holmes 27th
Chris Roberts 42nd
Barry Atkinson 65th
Rory Henderson 66th
Darren Hendley 67th
Simon Collins 71st
Stuart Creasey 97th
Stef Durkin 106th
Ian Bithell 143rd
-The Guy Fawkes 10 was as popular as ever with our runners this year attracting 40 club members.
Too many to mention results are here : http://www.ukresults.net/2015/fawkes.html
-Sunday saw a number of Harriers taking to the Moors for an exhilarating 12.5 miles of fell running action in the Guisborough Moors race, taking in the sights of Captain Cooks Monument and Roseberry Topping
Yet again we had a team victory in the North Yorkshire Moors series, we were also rewarded with a reprieve from the fog that had enveloped York, up on the Moors it was clear skies and warm sunshine.
Running for YKH were :
6th Chris Roberts 1.33.47
7th Harry Holmes 1.34.14
15th Neil Stabbs 1.37.38
27th Giles Hawking 1.43.19
31st Andrew Pattison 1.47.10
99th Andy Chapman Gibbs 2.11.57
105th Andy Smith 2.15.21
120th Petra Chapman Gibbs 2.27.01
The Next race up on the Moors is the beautiful Levisham Saltersgate 6 mile race on the 15th November . Details
-York Parkrun was Halloween themed and saw a record attendance with over 500 taking part, 35 of whom were from Knavwesmire.
Parkrun PB’s were attained by:
James Sampford (first timer)
Andrew Lowson
-In New York the famous Marathon was run by Julie Rooks , Michelle Atkins , Jayne Fligg and Stephen Maddison, he lead the way with a time of 2:57.