It was a record breaking weekend as the club half marathon records for male and female were broken. Emma Pick finished 1st in the Leicestershire half marathon with a very impressive time of 1:17:51, knocking a massive 7.5 minutes off her previous PB. And, Ash Baldwin finished 1st in the Bedford half marathon in an excellent 1:14:31.
Also in those events, Mark Harriot finished 3rd in his age group in a time of 1:31:15 in the Leicestershire half and Rachael Naylor achieved a PB with a time of 1:52:42 at Bedford.
In this weekend’s parkrun events – the most popular was Kingsbury Water Park, where Mike Shelton finished in 3rd position (21:28) followed by Lisa and Katie Stretton (26:32 & 27:51), Roger Eastaff (41:29), Nicola Bannister (44:51), Alison Dolphin (58:38) and Stephen Andrews (58:39).
Next most popular was Tamworth Castle Grounds where Tom King was first home for the club in 31st position (23:06) followed by Billy King (24:33), George Hope (28:01), Marcus Fairburn (29:49), Sandra Ingram (31:35) and Alison Perry (47:10).
Other runners out and about were Steph Attenborough (35:00) and Jo Sharman (35:01) at Abbey Park, Garth Cox (23:06) & Roger Lloyd (24:27) at Beacon, Mike Stevenson (37:40) at Brueton, Jacky Tierney (29:46) at Congleton, Tim Mudd (30:05) at Corby, Allen King (22:09) and Chris Bennett (24:14) at Coventry, Ben Dorkins (25:25) at Jesmond Dene, Mike Hughes (50:08) at Ludlow, Simon Gordon (26:01) at Sutton Park and Ian Orton (24:59) at Upton House, which completes his volunteer alphabet challenge and leaves him now just one off his 4th alphabet. At Rosliston, Emma “warmed up” nicely for her half marathon finishing at first female and 5th overall in 20:53.
But, three Peelers decided against an easy Saturday morning run and took on the Dirty Dozen, a trail run around Cannock Chase featuring 12km of twist, turns, ups and downs and the infamous ditch of doom! Luke Collins finished in 11th place in 1:02:46 followed by Clair Guffick (2:06:59) and Lee Guffick (2:08:31).
