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Gill Bland brings you a busy series of results including some fantastic performances at the World Half Marathon Championships
Sublime Smith leads GB’s excellent display
Despite the ‘current situation’, we’ve had some great running shows lately thanks to the London Marathon and the Valencia World Record Day. This weekend did not disappoint either since Half Marathon World Championship in Gdynia she delivered fantastic runs and a women-only world record. Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya was the lady who set that new world record at 65:16. It was a fast race overall – German Melat Yisak Kejeta set a national record of 65:18 to take the silver medal and despite running what would have been a world record prior to this race, 65:19 was just enough. for a third party. place for Yalemzerf Yehualaw from Ethiopia.
Irish Anne Marie McGynn ran a fantastic race to finish 42nd on a PB and a new Irish record of 71:40. Samantha Harrison led the GB women’s team home in 71:53 with young Becky Briggs running a 73:08 debut half marathon and Clara Evans coming home in 73:11. Unfortunately, Great Britain was unable to present a full women’s squad due to injuries to Purdue, Davis and Carruthers that left them unfit to compete.
The men’s race was equally exciting, with Joshua Cheptegei at the top of his 10,000m world record as he faced his half-marathon debut. However, not everything was as simple as the previews would have us believe; We won’t screw it up and let you read the full report here to find out what happened. However, we can’t leave you hanging when it comes to the GB and IRL male results, which were absolutely impressive!
Each of them established a new PB. Jake Smith erased his previous record to run 60:31 for 18th place, a new Welsh record and third on the UK’s all-time list behind Mo Farah and Callum Hawkins. Kristian Jones ran 63:03 for 60th place, Adam Craig was just two places behind him at 63:12 and Tom Evans was 64th with 63:14. For Ireland, Kevin Seaward ran his second race this year and his second BP, finishing in 62:58 (58th place) and Hugh Armstrong placed 70th in 63:37.
Top quality results on the roads
Back in the uk Cheshire 10k at Arley Hall he saw Jess Judd setting a benchmark at the start of his next training block. He finished first in 32:32 ahead of Jip Vastenburg in 34:03 and Kirsty Longley (34:14). Longley’s results move him to second place in the 2020 UK v40 standings. Ohmar Ahmed took the men’s victory in 29:24 with a strong fight for second and third, resulting in 29:36 for Chris Parr and 29:37 for Alex Brown. James Westlake and Rob Warner also crouched less than 30 minutes to complete the top five.
the Velopark 10 miles Presented by Mornington Chasers saw the top 10 all go below the hour mark in the men’s race. Kent AC took first place thanks to Nathan Wilkins and a 55:09 finish. Cambridge Harriers’ Phil Dickens was second in 56:17 and Niall Gilchist third in 57:20 for Clapham Chasers. The women’s race was a clean sweep for the host club. Janine Makaronidis was first in 67:48, Danielle Smreczak second in 73:36 and Camilla Ray third in 73:52.
the Mallory Park 5k Quick Run got the midlands into sprint action as Sale Harriers athlete Aimee Pratt charged all the way with a massive 15:53 PB, putting triathlete Sophie Coldwell in second place for Charnwood with an improvement of 14 seconds off her previous best mark, (although she wasn’t the only one in her house to have a PB this weekend). Cloe Hubbard completed the fast podium in 16:12 and another PB, for Newark AC. It was another triathlete, Harry Leleu, who took the men’s victory by marking 14:07 to beat Chris Perham of Poole AC (14:08). Third place went to Seb Anthony at 2:20 pm.
RunThrough was busy across the country this week with a lot of races on offer and, well, they got great results. Launching them on Wednesday was the Chase the Moon Olympic Park 5k which saw Kurtis Gibson win in 14:58, Ahmed Abdulle second in 15:03 and Paul Quinton third in 16:33. In the women’s race, it was Cara Huckstep who took the victory in 19:57 ahead of Ellie Cumner (20:01) and Cyn Cano (20:12). Over 10k, the podium went to Kate Rose (39:17), Laura Thompson (41:16) and Kat Owens (42:23) and for the men, the medals went to Ewan Cameron (32:58) Simone Luciani ( 32:58) and George Day (33:28).
the Newbury Race Course 5k, 10k and half marathon There was also a great turnout and saw Jack Gregory race home at 15:46 for 5k followed by Lewis Banner (15:56) and William Levett (15:59). The women’s competition was just as fast, as the first three were well under 20 minutes. Grace Copeland brought them home at 4:56 pm with Sophie Lloyd second at 5:19 pm and Emily proto third at 5:29 pm. Samanthamend returned to racing in the 10k and was rewarded with a 37:37 victory. Isabel Stubbs took the silver at 39:00 and Laura Baylis followed her home at 40:21. It was Alastair Smith who broke the tape in the men’s race in a time of 32:58, maintaining a competitive distance ahead of Mark Worringham (33:12) and Matt Risden (33:24).
The longest distance of the day, the Half Marathon was owned by a brilliant result from James Bellward, who broke a 69:21 for the victory. Jack Boswell was second in 72:02 and Stephen Blake third in 72:18. Maturity showed its strength in the women’s race when V45-er Vicki Taylor claimed her crown in 84:23, beating Rebecca Tinnelly (1:29:49) and Jitka Hall (V40, 1:30:32).
Stunning performances by Davies and O’Regan at the Bedford Autodrome Marathon
Finally, Sunday was the big one, the Running the Grand Prix at Bedford Speedway. The women’s marathon race was red hot with the top seven running for less than three hours. It was great to see Jo O’Regan come back running 26.2 and in PB form, clocking in a 2:41:31 to beat his best by over 40 seconds despite being way ahead of his closest rival and not having a run. very exciting. Laura Boehm got second place in 2:45:29 and Becki Timmings, who came third in 2:49:19.
The men’s career should not be left in the shadows either. Andrew Davies was way ahead, finishing what must have been a pretty lonely race in an impressive 2:17:12, earning a convincing win over Paul Piper (2:24:26) and Chris Mason (2:25:36). .
Career plans have changed 4 times in the last 5 weeks to @fellrunningandy And not once did he shake, moan, panic, or get frustrated! Today he ran 2:17:12 solo to claim his first marathon victory and top the ‘Proper Old Men’ standings in the UK once again. #legend @RunThroughUK 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/eSud9lJKRa
– Steve Vernon (@ SteveVernon29) October 18, 2020
In the Half Marathon Kristian Watson (68:04) and Emma Hodson (77:01) were first at home, beating Phil Martin (68:23), Robert Elmore (70:55), Julia Bijl (78:19) and Georgina Watson (81:54). The 10k results were: Samuel Roberts – 31:00, Michael Eccles – 31:08, Harry Tullet – 31:44 and Clare Thurgood – 36:24, Chloe Ridewood- 37:40, Ellie Sherriffs – 39:48. The fast times continued throughout the distances with the 5k podium looking like this: Holly Dixon in first (16:12), Milly Dunger in second (17:41), Lily Farr in third (18:54) and for the men, George Gurney first (15:31), with Sam Sutherland in a final photo for second at 15:38, just ahead of Matt Kitching in chip time, who finished third in 15:39.
Blickling Half Marathon it was won by Neil Adams at 1:17:04 and Leanne Finch at 1:25:05. Full results are still coming in and can be found here.
the Hercules Wimbledon 5k RelaThe event appears to be a good opportunity for the clubs to face some team races in the capital, as most of the normal cross country seasons have been canceled. If you have access, let us have them. Otherwise we will leave this instant post here and let you imagine them.
If road racing seems too easy, you may need to enroll in the Wansfell uphill only race next year. It’s only 2.5km long, but it goes up 400m and organizers say “if you can get close to or even beat your current time for a flat 5km, it’ll be a really good race!”
This year’s hardcore runners were Jacob and Scout Adkin, who crushed the competition finishing in 13:53 and 15:50 respectively, with Scout taking ninth place overall, as well as the women’s victory. Chris Richards was runner-up in the men’s race in 14:47 followed by Rob Jebb in 14:51. Jess Bailey was second for women in 17:54 ahead of Nichola Jackson (17:58)
the Maverick Adidas Terrex X-ULTRA Jurassic Coast The “ultra” winners were Alex Van-Tuyl (4:32:50) and Marta Vigano (5:40:01), the “long” victory went to Lewis Ryan (3:57:27) and Louisa Robbins (4: 28:05) with Dale Seddon (1:14:43) and Jenny Marshall (1:29:55) taking the “middle” wins and Ed Bird (44:58) and Elissa O’Brien (55:07) first in the “Short distance.
And that brings us to the end of a fairly full week of racing. See you next weekend!
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