YKH Weekly Racing Round Up – Kirkbymoorside 10k, Pock’ 10k, Gribdale Growler & more…

—Pocklington 10k – York & District Road Race League Race #1. ( Tuesday 30th April)

: 1st Lady Victoria Sewell

: YKH runners at the finish

There were two first-time winners as the York and District Road Race League got under way in warm and sunny conditions at Pocklington.

Chris Poulton (York Acorn) took the men’s spoils after finishing second four times in 2018, while Victoria Sewell (York Knavesmire Harriers) was the first woman home.

The pair shone as 434 runners completed a revised 10km course, which saw new start and finish locations and an extra section in Millington village.

Poulton held off the challenge of George Cook to win by 18 seconds in a time of 34mins 34secs, with Cook’s City of York teammate Jack Eggington third in 35.07.

York Postal Harriers’ Ian Ellwood (35.10), Knavesmire’s Jon Pinder (35.13) and Acorn’s Robin Stacey (35.18) completed a competitive top six.

Sewell, who finished third in 2018 series, took the lead from defending champion Emma Ballantyne (City of York) around halfway through the women’s race.

And she had a 20-second advantage by the time she crossed the line for her maiden victory in 38.50.

Jessica Troy, the 2018 series runner-up, passed her clubmate Ballantyne for second in the final kilometre, clocking 39.10 to the latter’s 39.17.

Knavesmire’s Emily Baines (39.40) finished fourth, ahead of clubmate Lucy Pinder (41.48) and Easingwold’s Samantha Davies (41.52).

In the veterans’ categories, Acorn’s Paul Whitaker (36.00) was seventh overall and first vet 40 man, followed by Knavesmire’s Robert Ward (37.01) and Selby Striders’ Ian Robertson (37.22).

Pocklington Runners’ Graham Justice (38.45) held off York Triathlon’s Ian Martin by two seconds to win the men’s vet 50 category, with Easingwold’s Colin Fletcher third in 39.25.

Acorn’s Stephen Boynton (39.38) was a comfortable winner in men’s vet 60 age group, ahead of clubmate David Lancaster (41.18) and Postal’s Bill Shively (41.30).

Pickering’s Michael Hetherton (47.17) took the vet 70 honours, followed by Knavesmire’s David l’Anson (53.25) and Acorn’s Mike Tasker (56.36).

Pinder claimed the vet 35 women’s spoils, with Davies second and Knavesmire’s Natalie Greaves (42.01) third in the category.

Anna Blackwell (42.33) was the first vet 45 woman home, ahead of Knavesmire clubmate Katharine Jeffreys (45.08) and Acorn’s Sharon Lynn (45.24).

Knavesmire’s Jet Jon Shepherd (46.31) was first vet 55 woman, ahead of Acorn’s Gillian Boynton (46.59), with whom she shared the title last year. Easingwold’s Jane Cowley (52.47) was third.

Mary Farmery (54.57) began the defence of her vet 65 crown with victory, ahead of Pocklington’s Kathy Taylor (58.30) and Knavesmire clubmate Susan Adams (1.16.46).

Report thanks to Ed Mezzetti

—Kirkbymoorside 10k. ( Club Run )

Pos	Race No	Name	Time	Category	Cat Pos
6	409	David Smithers	00:36:13	Male 40+	1

9	53	James Browne	00:36:38	Male 40+	3

12	318	Luke Osborn	00:37:24	Male	6

17	54	Luke Bryant	00:38:17	Male	9

21	202	Toby Hone	00:38:52	Male	10

32	79	Stephen Clarke	00:40:39	Male 50+	4

54	112	Pete Downes	00:42:39	Male 50+	8

58	56	Chad Bullivant	00:42:50	Male	28

59	32	John Bevan	00:42:52	Male 50+	9

64	312	Jason Newman	00:43:11	Male 40+	19

69	210	Simon Howson	00:43:31	Male 40+	22

72	83	Ewan Cochrane	00:43:52	Male	30

73	113	Simon Drew	00:43:52	Male 40+	24

78	359	Luke Richardson	00:44:06	Male	33

82	72	Andrew Clark	00:44:27	Male 40+	26

84	247	Chris Lancaster	00:44:37	Male 40+	28

94	485	Alan Wilkinson	00:45:06	Male	39

100	116	Stefan Durkin	00:45:20	Male 50+	16

107	320	Ellie Page	00:45:37	Female	1

111	219	John Iredale	00:45:46	Male 60+	4

128	177	Julian Harrison	00:46:45	Male 40+	41

129	387	Jet Jon Shepherd	00:46:48	Female 55+	2

135	317	Kate Osborn	00:47:11	Female	3

164	294	John Middleton	00:49:06	Male 60+	9

171	497	Qin Zhou	00:49:18	Female 45+	8

196	423	Richard Tarren	00:50:57	Male 60+	13

207	265	Peter Lyth	00:51:39	Male 60+	14

216	451	Gabriel Uttley	00:52:11	Male 60+	15

225	179	Andy Hazelwood	00:52:59	Male 60+	16

244	73	Caitlin Clark	00:54:34	Female	19

254	301	Jane Morby	00:55:01	Female 55+	6

277	419	Hannah Strange	00:56:05	Female	23

285	214	Dick Hunter	00:56:58	Male 60+	23

287	59	David Bygrave	00:57:02	Male 50+	38

299	49	Simon Brockless	00:57:28	Male 40+	72

301	130	Mark Fennell	00:57:31	Male 40+	73

334	175	Christopher Harrison	01:00:25	Male	73

344	6	Richard Anderson	01:01:04	Male 60+	29

351	266	Samantha Lyth	01:01:51	Female 45+	40

387	253	Darren Leaf	01:06:59	Male 40+	83

404	470	Sarah Wear	01:09:00	Female 45+	52

—Gribdale Growler. ( Wednesday 1st May ).

: Christian 2nd

: Team YKH

First race in the Lets Run/ Dave Parry North Yorkshire Moors Summers Series of Fell Races.

The 9 km race involved a blast along the Cleveland Way , a quick diversion to the top of Roseberry Topping, a return to the Cleveland Way via Little Roseberry, and then some speedy running on gravel tracks before the pace picked up even more for the rolling grassy descent to the finish.

: Giles

: Andrew

: Christian

: Tom

: Cassie

: Giles

2nd Christian Garvey 39.35 MO/1
13th Thomas Ratcliffe 42.56 MO/6
19th Giles Hawking 44.25 M45/4
53rd Cassie Read 51.32 FO/4
69th Andrew Johnson 53.56 M60/3

—Thames Path 100.

Dan Chan took distance running to the next level completing the 100 miles !! in 25:22:06 to finish 155th.
The TP100 is a 100 mile continuous trail race along the Thames Path from London to Oxford. TOTAL CLIMB: 1900 FEET.

The 100 mile course is a marked point to point race which takes runners from Richmond in South West London to the centre of Oxford. The course follows the meandering route of the Thames against it’s flow and is flat and fast with the majority on groomed paths/ trails and paved pathway. There are some truly stunning sections of the route showing off the best of English riverside scenery and life on the Thames.

—Keswick Half Marathon.

19th Philip Graves 01:24:45

A tremendously scenic Lakeland Half Marathon, the route visits the Newlands Valley before looping around beautiful Derwent Water .
The Derwentwater 10 in early November is highly recommended .

—York parkrun.

550 participants, 45 from YKH ( 8.2 % of total).

No York parkrun PB’s.

—Heslington parkrun.

376 participants, 18 from YKH ( 4.8 % ).

Heslington parkrun PB for :

Stuart Ambler 22:22

—New Earswick parkrun.

103 participants, 6 from YKH ( 5.8 % ).

New Earswick parkrun PB for :

Daniel Sturgeon 21:20