YKH Weekend Round Up – Week Ending 16th October.

—Bridlington Half Marathon.

Fourteen members of YKH received a good drenching in far from favouable conditions at the Brid’ Half.

Taking age category prizes were Sarah Attwood ( 2nd Snr Lady & 7th Lady) , Liz Piper ( 3rd V60 ) and Liz Matthews ( 3rd V55) .

Results

KNV POS	BIB	GENDER	NAME	CLUB	CAT	CAT POS	CHIP TIME	FINISH TIME
1	248	Male	Pete Downes	York Knavesmire Harriers	V50	5/49	01:34:52	01:34:59
2	474	Female	Sarah Attwood	York Knavesmire Harriers	SNR	2/43	01:34:59	01:35:09
3	346	Male	Andy Smith	York Knavesmire Harriers	V35	21/47	01:42:40	01:42:59
4	152	Male	David Darton	York Knavesmire Harriers	V55	14/35	01:44:19	01:44:39
5	262	Male	Marc Thomas	York Knavesmire Harriers	V40	32/55	01:46:24	01:46:40
6	513	Male	David Bygrave	York Knavesmire Harriers	V55	22/35	01:50:59	01:51:42
7	636	Female	Liz Piper	York Knavesmire Harriers	V60	3/8	01:56:50	01:57:13
8	197	Female	Anna Marshall	York Knavesmire Harriers	V35	13/34	01:58:22	01:58:46
9	393	Female	Vivianne Fraser	York Knavesmire Harriers	V50	9/22	01:59:10	01:59:34
10	125	Female	Liz Matthews	York Knavesmire Harriers	V55	3/12	02:00:28	02:00:36
11	153	Male	Colin Lea	York Knavesmire Harriers	V50	41/49	02:07:23	02:07:42
12	175	Female	Pam Anderson	York Knavesmire Harriers	V55	6/12	02:12:05	02:12:31
13	407	Male	Paul Adams	York Knavesmire Harriers	V65	14/14	02:43:17	02:43:44
14	408	Female	Susan Adams	York Knavesmire Harriers	V60	7/8	02:48:33	02:49:01

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—British Fell Relay Championships.

Knavesmire fielded a team of six of our hardiest ‘mountain goats’ for one of the biggest events in the Fell Running Calendar.

This year the relays were held North of the border at Luss on the banks of Loch Lomond and would be run upon the challenging Trossoch Mountains .

Leg 1 will be a solo leg of 5.9 km with an ascent of 427m (navigational experience and skills will be required). Leg 2 is a pairs’ leg of 13 km with 1096m of ascent (and a nice sting in the tail) (navigational experience and skills will be required). Leg 3 is the pairs’ navigation leg and will provide all that is expected from a competition championship nav leg, with good route choice over some beautiful running terrain (navigational experience and skills will be required). Leg 4 is a solo leg of 8.3 km with 653 m of ascent.

Knavesmire’s Nik Zizzler ran leg one and gave the team a great chance finishing well, placing 22nd out of over 100 teams entered.

Leg two was undertaken by Harry Holmes and Chris Roberts , both strong runners who pushed the team up to the heady heights of 14th position .

Unfortunately things went a little bit wrong on leg three, the conditions in the mountains were rain and low cloud, which made the navigation leg very tricky , especially for those club pairings not familiar with the area and now having to attempt to find their way around it at speed with little visibility . By the end of this leg our wandering pair of Neil Stabbs and Simon Collins had sunk the team back to 53rd place.
The challenge of the nav leg can be appreciated by viewing the ‘ spaghetti’ of various routes shown in this STRAVA comparison

Sam Allin was 15th fastest on the final leg , making back some of the places lost , for a final team position of 46th.

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—Aldi Manchester Half Marathon.

Stef Durkin ran this half in 1:41, heavy rain up to mile 8 bit the sun was out by the time he crossed the finish line at Lancashire Cricket Ground.

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—Amsterdam Half Marathon.
It was an unseasonably warm, beautiful day in a beautiful city. Chris Harrrison enjoyed running the half & battled to a time of 2.25.11 Onto Leicester next weekend…

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—Melbourne Marathon 10k.Now living down under but still proudly flying the YKH colours was Samantha Fluer at this 10k .

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—York Parkrun.

38 members of YKH took part.

Parkrun PB’s for:

Paul Walton 26:22

James Ollerenshaw 21:36