Charlie kicks off marathon season with a club record
- brian17harris
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
It was set to be another fairly quiet weekend for racing until we heard of a club runner competing in the first big marathon of the season (you’ll hear plenty more about marathons over the next two weeks at least).
We're grateful for Charlie Clarke sending this report in -
“I ran the Brighton marathon today and finished in 4 hours 14 minutes. It was a comfortable run with excellent crowd support and a twisting course that covers all that Brighton has to offer. It was windy but the course winds backwards and forwards and so the wind is in your face and at your back.
It wasn’t a spectacular time but one month away from my 70th, I am more than happy that I managed to go the distance.”
Maybe not “spectacular” for Charlie, but good enough to be a new club V65 record for Charlie – well worth a post-race beer now he knows that !! Many congratulations Charlie.
Without wishing to tempt fate, Charlie already has the Bath marathon in his diary for August and so he will now have an extra incentive for his training– Dick Waldron’s MV70 record is around 4:25….
Brighton Marathon
1 Sam Cook (unattached) 2.25.05 (chip 2.25.04)
4664 Charlie Clarke (Cirencester AC) 4.16.10 (4.14.36) – club V65 record
9196 finished www.londonmarathonevents.co.uk
Elsewhere, there were just two road 10k’s we were aware of today Sunday 12th, but we only have feedback from one of the members who ran.
Richard Read was returning to racing for the first time in 8 years at Tewkesbury. Whilst he was just outside his target time of 45 minutes, it’s great to see a (fairly) new member making his comeback to racing with club.
Tewkesbury 10km
1 Scott Taylor (unattached) 36.23 (chip 36.22)
45 Richard Read (Cirencester AC) 45.14 (45.12)
206 Jonathan Higgs 58.33 (57.57)
207 Amanda Naylor 58.33 (57.57) – 1st FV65
437 finished
Berkeley 10km
1 Lee Stopford (Stroud AC) 33.06 (chip 33.05)
71 Ionel Iancu (Cirencester AC) 49.59 (49.48)
11th April parkruns
Congratulations to Ollie Campbell for his win at Tetbury.
At Cirencester, Kate Kilby had a strong run to log the best age graded score of the day at a whopping 85%.
First member home was Rich Allen who has been coping with a shin problem. He celebrated his 50th parkrun by running with daughter Tilly, who finished as 2nd lady despite being at the younger end of JW11-14. Congrats to both.
There were ups and downs on the injury watch front - it was good to see Rachel Ranger back with no knee niggle, but unfortunately Karen Higuera was still below par.
If she’s reading, this perhaps Susanna Austin could let us know if she was approached by any strangers after being featured in Runner World? Hopefully no paparazzi ;-)
Ian Barrett did his usual 12-13mi workout around a new parkrun location, this time as part of a rather small field at Wotton-under Edge.
Another member wrapping a pretty speedy parkrun into his pre-marathon workout was Mike Hobbs, who also came 3rd in 19.17 at Moreton-in-Marsh Fire Service College.
Carrying on his recent habit of international parkrunning, well almost, Paul Timms tried out the out and back course along the coast in Aberdeen, but brutal rain and headwinds made the first half pretty grim. A stunning course in better weather.
Cirencester: 16 Rich Allen 22.49, 30 Clare Stickney 23.37, 40 Kate Kilby 24.28, 43 Casey Vatcher 24.49, 59 Rachel Ranger 25.36, 74 Susanna Austin 26.23, 84 Alan McAdam 27.01, 110 Rachel McAdam 28.39, 111 Karen Higuera 28.39, 133 Pam Wheeler 29.57, 145 Angela Hilditch 30.32, 156 Kirsty Leggate 31.40, 205 Ruth Fulford 38.40, 227 finished.
Tetbury: 1 Ollie Campbell 20.26, 28 Stephen Hale 25.25, 145 finished.
Carterton, Kilkenny Lane: 84 Gordon Jones 28.35, 128 Rachel Jones 33.45, 168 finished.
Wotton-u-Edge: 3 Ian Barrett 20.03, 48 finished.
Newent: 27 Richard Edwards 30.26, 59 finished.
Witney: 34 Martin Croucher 23.59, 279 finished.
Fell Foot, Newby Bridge, Windermere: 8 Charles Woodd 20.40, 218 finished.
Aberdeen: 43 Paul Timms 25.11, 138 finished.
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