YKH Weekly Racing Round Up – w.e 23rd Feb – National XC Champ’s, Snake Lane, Heartbeat Hobble & more…

Please email any race reports/photos or info to :   ykhracereports@gmail.com

––English National Cross Country Championships – Wollaton Hall, Nottingham – Saturday.

Running clubs from all over the country headed to Nottingham for the pinnacle of amateur athletic competition. Somehow  we evaded the worst of the weather and everyone had a great day at this historic and epic event, with runners thundering around the parkland, hurdling  logs placed across the course and ploughing through the mud and water features.

-Senior Ladies.

The Knavesmire Ladies Team ( 1st 4 to count ) were 29th out of 94 competing teams, with a few of our speediest runners out of action we still managed to assemble a great squad and obtained another fantastic result.
The Ladies  ran a  8km 3 lap  course,  giving  it their all for the club to see were we and they ranked on the National stage.
It was great to see  several  club members  running this event for the first time, Emily’s rise into the top 100 runners in the country and  Lucy making great improvements on last year. After the race they were all adamant it was great fun.

81st Emily Baines 38:19
172nd Lucy Pinder  41:13
288th Clare Rowntree 44:09
352nd Kate Osborn 45:39

368th Grace Kelleher 43:02
382nd Sarah Thorne 46:24
522nd Kerry Archer 49:19
586th Toni Jenkinson 50:56
730th Hannah Strange 55:53

-Senior Men.

In the first six to count team competition we were 76th of 115 clubs able to assemble enough runners. A further 200+ clubs were represented at the event but did not field the necessary 6 runners to count.
The dedicated  10 YKH runners who embarked upon the 12km, 4 lap  course  gave it their all for the club , eager and proud to represent YKH on the big stage.

629th Gareth Green 56:43
718th Toby Hone 58:09
802nd Giles Hawking 59:26
940th Dan Chan 01:01:31
1018th Richard Tarrega 01:02:43
1040th Rory Henderson 01:03:08

1061st Darren Hendley 01:03:27
1230th Pete Downes 01:06:28
1386th Ian Jenkinson 01:10:03
1634th Calum Cogan 01:21:05

https://www.facebook.com/alistair.mcqueen.9/videos/10162957512680177/

https://www.facebook.com/carolineb21/videos/10101780721833207/

https://www.facebook.com/runix.fr/videos/196458985046999/

—Snake Lane Ten – Pocklington – Sunday.

https://www.facebook.com/pockrunners/videos/212674153261266/

Well done to Kathryn Dickinson who was first in her age group, also to those who got PB’s , especially those who had run at the cross country the day before such as Callum.

—Heartbeat Hobble Fell Race – Goathland – Sunday.

Knavesmire’s Men won the team prize to keep us first in the overall North Yorkshire Moors Winter Series with two races remaining, Maybeck 3 Crosses and Blakey Blitz. We were only one point ahead of Pickering, this lead to an error on the day of the race and Pickering were initially announced as team prize winners . They took home the beers but in the end we got the vital victory, it was probably karma as the reverse of this  situation occurred at an earlier race.

2nd Christian Garvey  47.43
6th Glynn Ellwood  49.19
8th  Peter Walker  50.03
14th Tom Ratcliffe  51.48
18th Richard Purser K 53.00

27th Oli Read  55.06
28th Giles Hawking  55.22
33rd Nick Griffin  56.45
34th Robert Ward  57.11
42nd Graham Gill  59.00
44th Ewan Kirk  59.07
66th Orna O’Toole  66.25    1st F45
70th Grace Kelleher  68.14
73rd Louise Venables  68.34
80th Melanie Ellwood  69.42
103rd Holly James-Maddocks  75.21
104th Christopher Gregory  75.23

—High Cup Nick Fell Race – North Pennines – Saturday.

High Cup Nick has been called the Grand Canyon of the Pennines and northern England’s most glorious landscape feature.
Very wintry conditions for this one, due to the gale strength winds  the waterfall at the head of the valley was being blown upwards and the lashings of hail and sub zero temps resulted in several runners requiring medical attention at the finish.

Matthew Page reports that “Conditions were somewhat challenging for the 2020 High Cup Nick Fell Race from Dufton in the North Pennines. High winds were forecast and duly materialised, but the snow was a bit of a surprise. The biggest challenge came at the half way point, where after scrambling up the Nick, runners had to turn into wind and fight their way along the edge of the valley in a blizzard. Legs were cold on the way down, but all four Harriers made it back to the village to claim their complementary soup and roll. A grand day out!

All credit to the marshalls, assisted by Kirby Stephen Mountain Rescue, who were stuck out in atrocious conditions for much of the day and especially the one who was helping runners ford the river – up to his thighs in freezing water.”

https://www.facebook.com/mike.ayers.3950/videos/2864719783566152/

110th Simon Collins 1:26:42
166th Barry Atkinson 1:34:48
286th Andrew Johnson 1:49:34
302nd Matthew Page 1:51:48

https://www.facebook.com/mike.ayers.3950/videos/2864716826899781/
(Simon Collins in red waterproof)

—Huddersfield 10k – Sunday.

265th Andy Hazlewood 55:19

—Settle Half Marathon – Sunday.

100th Stef Durkin 2:01:09

—Endurancelife Northumberland 10k – Saturday.

19th/188 Mark Harney 1st M55       Testing conditions with sleet, rain and 50mph winds resulting in sand rash !.

—BHF Harewood House 10k. 

40th/399 Mark Harney 49:55
Mark was a pacer so had to battle against the strong winds with his pacer flag !.

—York parkrun.

461 participants,  40 from YKH ( 8.7 % ).

No PB’s.

—Heslington parkrun.

330 participants,  24 from YKH ( 7.3 % ).

No PB’s.

—Castle Howard parkrun.

174 participants, 6 from YKH ( 3.4 % ).

Castle Howard parkrun PB for :

Anna Marshall 24:55

—On the 22nd February members of YKH also participated in the following parkruns:

Woodhouse Moor
Gorleston Cliffs
Wakefield Thornes
Albert Park, Melbourne
Carlisle
Roundhay
Gdańsk
Melton Mowbray
Horton
Tooting Common
Wepre
Middleton Woods
Keppel
Armley
East Brighton

100 YKH members participated in 18 different parkruns this week.