Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th October

On Saturday 14th October the Harriers took 3 teams to Bridgewater for the Parrett Trail Relays which was ran over 6 legs with 6 runners in each team. The start was at 9.00am which meant an early start for the runners as they had to sign in at 8.30am for the first leg runners.

The Parrett Trail Relay started in Steart in Bridgewater and it finished in Winyards Gap in Dorset. The Exmouth Harriers took a Men's & Ladies & Mixed team but the Mixed had to have 3 ladies running in it. In total there was 24 teams running in the event hoping to win either the men's / ladies or the mix team prize and out of the 3 main prizes Exmouth Harriers home 2 of them the Men's and the Ladies and mixed team came home in 4th place.

In the Mens team in leg order Hugh Marsden 2nd (1.06.15), Jamie Palmer 1st (47.02), Jon Croome 3rd (1.01.00), Jim Pyne 4th (1.03.55), Tony Hatchard 5th (56.42), Shaun Lock 6th (1.02.51) . Their total time 5hr 57min 45sec and they were 16 minutes ahead of second place team.

In the Ladies team also winner their category was Hannah Dupain 1st (1.17.42), Sue Wilkin 2nd (1.09.00), Stef French 3rd (1.06.43), Lorraine Croome 4th (1.09.07), Emma Dupain 5th (1.16.20), Camilla Matheson 6th (1.14.21). Their total was 7hr 13min 13sec also they were 16 minutes ahead of second place team.

The Mixed team they just missed out of the top 3 teams by just 6 minutes to come home in 4th place. Julie Gellender 4th (1.19.14), Paul Champion 2nd (57.57), Phil Bater 2nd (1.06.04), Steve Merry 2nd (1.06.12), Dawn Teed 7th (1.16.30), Joe Pascoe 2nd (1.06.53) Their total time was 6hr 52min 50sec.

Also thank-you to Sue Price for all driving Sue did along the route and thanks to Camilla and Joe for stepping in at short notice.

On Sunday 3 Harriers went to North Devon for the North Devon 10k.

Ray Elston was the only category winner by finishing in 86th place & 1st vet 65 in a time of (45.29), Lee Russell was in 92nd place in (46.01), and Jim Wyatt came home in 117th place & 2nd vet 60 in (48.37).

(JB)