YKH Round Up w.e 5th March – Medals won @ Yorkshire Vet’s XC Champs & more..

—Yorkshire Vets Cross Country Championships.

Loads of medals won at the YVAA XC at Doncaster on Saturday. 18 Harriers pitted themselves against a great, fast cross-country course at the Northern Racing College in Rossington. It was an interesting course with a variety of terrain – fast, flat downhill, twisting woodland paths, a short, grassy climb and a stream crossing. It wouldn’t be cross-country without some mud, but this was largely limited to the start/finish straight and the going was good to firm on the rest of the course.

Simon Fricke

The medalists were :-

Individual :-

2nd MV35 – Simon Fricke

3rd MV40 – Neil Stabbs

3rd MV55 – Barry Atkinson

2nd FV35 – Caroline Warrington

3rd FV55 – Jane Nodder

Neil Stabbs

Neil Strange

Team :-

1st MV50 (All to count) – Barry Atkinson, Neil Strange, Mark Dye, Pete Downes, Adrian Thear, Duncan Chambers, Graham Walton

2nd FV55 (3 to count) – Jane Nodder, Liz Matthews, Maureen Medlar

Jane Nodder

The MV40 Team of Neil Stabbs, Tim Harvey and Darren Hendley narrowly missed out on a medal in 4th place. Also running were Danny Chan, Ian Bithell and Mandy Clarke. Great to see so many people out supporting the Vets’ races and hope to see some of you at the Grand Prix races over the rest of the year.

Plenty more photos to see on the YKH facebook group page

—Glaisdale Rigg Fell Race.

A great 8 mile fell race on the North Yorkshire Moors.

For Knavesmire Chris Roberts, Neil Stabbs, Giles Hawking and Tom Ratcliffe won the team prize.

Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts was second.

Scout Adkin was first Lady.

Neil Stabbs

Following his success at the Vets XC on Saturday Neil Stabbs was back in action on Sunday , again running strongly to claim the first M40 prize.

Barry Atkinson was first M55 .

Also running were Andrew Pattinson, Ewan Kirk, Andy Chapman Gibbs, Petra Chapman Gibbs & Janet Cordingley.

—Essex Twenty.

Sarah Atwood ran the Essex 20 and finished in 2:27:00.

—Steyning Stinger Marathon.

Stef Durkin also headed down South and ran the Brighton Park Run getting a 19.53 PR .
On Sunday he did the Steyning Stinger marathon.

According to Stef “it was fantastic, mostly driving rain & slogging through mud but that’s trail-running for yer innit even got to see the glorious Sussex Downlands in the sun albeit V. briefly finishing with a cooked breakfast & be scorpioned medal ,how ‘Stinger’ is that?”.

—Norton 9 mile Road Race.

16th Stephen Maddison 55:13

276th Vivianne Fraser 1:17:07302nd Maureen Madler 1:19:07

353rd Vanessa Barret 1:23:15

357th Helen Leech 1:23:36

505th Sue Adams 1:45:44

515th Paul Adams 1:51:12

—York Parkrun

45 members of YKH took part.

Parkrun PB’s for:

Charlotte Harrison 29:48

Zoe Pattinson 21:49