Leo Holmes' Roundup 3rd November

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Firstly, we’d like to once again say a huge well done to Emily Fell, Georgia Palmer & Louise Flynn who represented us at the english National cross country championships in Mansfield. They did the club extremely proud, finishing 33rd overall in an extremely competitive field 👏

Heading now to the Elan Valley, where the popular 10 Mile race returned. We had four croups in action.

Nat Palmer was first back in 1:27:22, followed by Dave Walker in 1:29:51, Julie Scholey in 1:44:57 and rounded off by Wendy Cole who was guide running in 2:17:41 👏

Speaking of Nat Palmer, he also took part in the Twmbarlwm Terror the very next day. He was 66th overall, recording a time of 1:19:09 over 7 miles of 1000ft of elevation! 😮

Cirencester Half also took place over the weekend. We had two croups taking part, Emily Jones recorded a fab 1:44:30, and Carol Rees was back just after in 1:48:03 👏

Turning to the Sugarloaf winter fell race now, this is a 6 mile course involving 1,590ft of elevation!

First back for the club was Steve Chadwell in 1:05:31, followed by Cassie Summers who was first woman back in 1:07:36. We also had three other runners:

👉 Clive Osmond - 1:10:37

👉 Howard Kent - 1:16:55

👉 Jemma Nurse - 1:26:08

Moving onto the most popular race for croups this weekend, the Richard Burton 10k! 30 croups participated overall, here is a summary of the results:

👉 Angharad Mair first back for the club women and 🥇 F60-69 in 42:37.

👉 Matthew Jones first back for the club men in 38:00!

👉 Susie Bowes 🥉 F50 - F59 in 43:34

👉 Dave James 🥉 M60 - 69 in 39:53

Over to Derwent Water in the Lake District, Yvonne and Richie Bullen were in action in the 10 mile race!

👉Yvonne finished 🥇 V60 in 1:23:14

👉 Richie finished 🥉 M60 in 1:12:40

Lastly, but very much not least, a huge congratulations to Jane Crane & Clare Johnson for completing the Anglesey trail half & 10k respectively. The route involved all kinds of terrain, even sand! Jane was 🥉 F50 in 2:09:38, and Clare 🥈 F70 in 1:43:21, brilliant! 😮