John Perratt is the new British Masters 5k road champion in the over 70s age group. John clocked 20mins 15secs at Horwich to beat Folkestone Running Club’s Ed Simpson by 54 seconds.
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Friday, June 29, 2007
Ironbridge Runner
Ironbridge Runner has moved from its former premises further up North Street, quite close to the junction with High Street & Fore Street. The new shop is very spacious, and once again Peter is able to display all his stock in one place. Both of the previous shops are now closed… but the Startline Clinic is remaining just up from the old shop in the shadow of the Ironbridge itself.Pop in and have a look around… and wish Peter all the best with his new venture.
Roger R.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Torbay Half Marathon - Sunday 24th June
TOBY Lambert retained his Torbay half marathon title after a tough battle with local favourite Kairn Stone. The pair, plus Carl Morris of Wells City harriers, soon pulled clear of the 1,000-strong field and at the end of the first lap had opened a good lead. By eight miles Morris had dropped off the pace leaving Stone, who is now based in Plymouth and defending champion Lambert to fight it out or top spot.
“Toby said he pushed ahead at 12 miles and opened a gap on Kairn which he held until the finish,” said race organiser David Hyde. The Winchester runner, who was visiting relatives in the area, crossed the line in virtually the same time as twelve months ago with Stone 13 seconds adrift in second and Morris a further minute back in third.
Cirencester AC international Wendy Jones easily retained her title finishing almost two minutes ahead of Bristol & West AC runner Claire Willer. Honiton Running Club’s ultra distance international Heather Foundling-Hawker was third.
"We were very pleased with the way the event went and it was a really good day,” added Hyde. “I think we had 1,050 finishers which was a little down on last year’s 1,100 so that is something we will look at.”
Harriers results:
13th 1:16:40 Dave STONE
31st 1:21:59 Shaun LOCK
74th 1:26:52 Adrian KEARNS
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
SW Vets T&F Champs - 17th June
There was only one Exmouth Harrier at the South West Veterans A C Track & Field Championships at Exeter Arena this year – but what an athlete!!John Perratt, competing in these Championships for the first time as a V70, contested three events and came away with three gold medals – you can’t do better than that! Well, actually, John thought that he could have done better, because he only broke the Championship age group records for the 5,000m (20:38.5) and the 1,500m (5:48.9). In the 800m his 2:51.8 fell just short of the record which stands at 2:51.3.
He claimed that he was feeling a bit tired by that stage, but really, it’s just not good enough!
A modest and slightly embarrassed John also claimed that “unfortunately there is not much opposition in the Over 70 age group” – not really very surprising when a 70 year old is producing performances like that.
Well done John, brilliant - you’re still a great inspiration to us!!
(LT)
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Bampton 10k - Devon 10k Champs [16th June]
[Image? Hugh in the Falklands Marathon]
11 HUGH MARSDEN 36:46 MV45
29 ADRIAN KEARNS 39:45 SM
35 ANDREW JOHNSON 40:18 MV40
78 RAY ELSTON 45:09 MV60 - 2nd V/60
86 EMMA DUPAIN 46:35 SL
114 JIM WYATT 49:45 MV60
124 DAWN TEED 51:25 LV40
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A TERRIFIC three-man duel ended in victory for Exeter Harrier’s Andrew Chambers in the Bampton 10k road race. Chambers, Torbay’s Peter Monaghan and Pete Hockin were locked together as they entered the final quarter of a mile but the two veterans had no answer to the Exeter runner as he surged clear to win by six seconds. “It was a cracking race,” purred race organiser Ian Buchanan. As well as claiming first prize Chambers was also crowned Devon champion with Honiton Running Club’s Heather Foundling-Hawker the women’s champion. “It was great to have the county championships in what is a small village event and we were delighted that we had a record turn-out of 204 finishers,” added Buchanan. “We were really pleased with the way it went.”
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Foundling-Hawker dominated the women’s race to finish almost two minutes clear of Emma Hitchins, of South West Road Runners, with Vicky Skelton third.
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Results - men: 1 Andrew Chambers Exe) 33:58; 2 Peter Monaghan (Torbay, M40) 34:04; 3 Pete Hockin (Bide, M45) 34:27; 4 Pete Belcher (Royal Marines) 35:7; 5 Zac Warwick (SDAC, U20) 35:45; 6 Kerry Roberts (Tiv, M45) 35:55; 7 Ross Shaddick (Tavi) 36:14; 8 Tony Symons (Tavi, M45) 36:37; 9 Simon Edney Bide, M45) 36:39; 10 Dave Severn (unatt) 36:40.
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Results - Women: 1 Heather Foundling-Hawker (Honiton, W40) 39:16; 2 Emma Hitchins (SWRR, W35) 41:12; 3 Vicky Skelton (NDRR, W35) 41:29; 4 Kathleen Sincock (SWRR, W40) 41:39
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Of Talaton & Dawlish
[Talaton from the air]
Five Exmouth Harriers competed in the Talaton Trotter, a 6 ½ mile multi terrain race which was won by Gary Perratt of Axe Valley Runners in 41:47. The first Exmouth Harrier to finish was Jon Croome, who came 9th in 45:32, after an excellent race. Andy Johnson was 12th in 48:36, with Tim Gent 25th in 52:25. Lorraine Croome came 40th in 55:58, with Nigel Dupain 45th in 56:37. 109 runners completed the race.
Finally, an outstanding performance at the 4 mile Dawlish Coastal Dash saw Harrier Shaun Lock achieve 5th place out of 132 runners in 23:20.
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Thursday, June 07, 2007
Tuesday, 5th June
FORMER British international Dave Buzza led a Cornwall AC clean sweep in the Cubert 5 miles road race, near Newquay, last night. With Danny Simons away on a school camp the way was left clear for Buzza, his coach, to dominate the race as he finished over a minute clear of Ronnie James to win in a time of 25mins 51secs, one of the fastest times by a veteran this year. Chris Harry, an over 45 veteran, was third.
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Just two days after winning the Exmouth 10k Cathy Newman made the trip down from East Devon to claim another victory. The Exmouth Harrier proved too strong for Cornwall AC’s Jo Friday as she raced to victory in a time of 29:15, again one of the fastest veteran times of the year so far over what is a fast course.
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Monday, June 04, 2007
Manor Hotel 10k - 3rd June
On Sunday, Exmouth Harriers hosted their second road race this year, the Manor Hotel 10K. There were 200 runners and the race was won by Andrew Chambers of Exeter Harriers in 33:38. Several Harriers were involved in the administration of the race and eleven competed.
The first Exmouth athlete to finish was Cathy Newman, fresh from her triumphs in the European Championships in Regensberg, Germany. Cathy was 13th overall, 1st senior lady and 1st FV45 in 37:27 after another brilliant run, but her age graded performance of 86.91% was the best in the race.
Adrian Kearns was 20th in 38:47, and Andy Kennedy 26th in 39:11. Roger Rowe was 1st V60 and 29th overall in 39:18 and his age graded performance of 85% was the second best performance of the day.
Duncan Parkes came 60th in 43:45. Ray Elston was 62nd overall and 1st V65 after another superb run in 43:50, followed by Mark Thompson, 64th in 44:29. Neil Ferreday was 73rd in 45:40.
Jon Bamsey thought he would never be able to race again, but 17 months after what he thought was definitely his last race, he came 77th in 46:17. Well done Jon, Exmouth’s athlete of the day!
Jim Wyatt was 91st overall and 2nd V60 with another excellent performance in 48:06. Denise Kennedy was 155th in 55:38.
Altogether there were 47 prize winners in 17 individual categories ranging from Junior (15 to 17 years) to 70 plus. On top of this were the eight team awards.
Congratulations to race director Bob Keast for another successful, well run event. Bob would like to thank his team of helpers, including the marshalling, etc. by Exmouth Sea Cadets, Exmouth Air Cadets, Exmouth St John Ambulance and the Police, assisted by several Harriers not running on the day. Also, Harriers Roland Young for setting up the course, Hugh Marsden and Dave Stone who set up the start and finish, Dawn Teed and her timekeeping team, Steve Merry and the results team, and Nigel Dupain who drove the lead car. Thanks to Exmouth Lifeboat Station for manning the drink station, to the Manor Hotel for the use of their facilities and to Kings Garden & Leisure Ltd. for allowing Dave Stone to use their works van for transporting the start and finish banners, finish funnel, etc, to and from the race.
The first Exmouth athlete to finish was Cathy Newman, fresh from her triumphs in the European Championships in Regensberg, Germany. Cathy was 13th overall, 1st senior lady and 1st FV45 in 37:27 after another brilliant run, but her age graded performance of 86.91% was the best in the race.
Adrian Kearns was 20th in 38:47, and Andy Kennedy 26th in 39:11. Roger Rowe was 1st V60 and 29th overall in 39:18 and his age graded performance of 85% was the second best performance of the day.
Duncan Parkes came 60th in 43:45. Ray Elston was 62nd overall and 1st V65 after another superb run in 43:50, followed by Mark Thompson, 64th in 44:29. Neil Ferreday was 73rd in 45:40.
Jon Bamsey thought he would never be able to race again, but 17 months after what he thought was definitely his last race, he came 77th in 46:17. Well done Jon, Exmouth’s athlete of the day!
Jim Wyatt was 91st overall and 2nd V60 with another excellent performance in 48:06. Denise Kennedy was 155th in 55:38.
Altogether there were 47 prize winners in 17 individual categories ranging from Junior (15 to 17 years) to 70 plus. On top of this were the eight team awards.
Congratulations to race director Bob Keast for another successful, well run event. Bob would like to thank his team of helpers, including the marshalling, etc. by Exmouth Sea Cadets, Exmouth Air Cadets, Exmouth St John Ambulance and the Police, assisted by several Harriers not running on the day. Also, Harriers Roland Young for setting up the course, Hugh Marsden and Dave Stone who set up the start and finish, Dawn Teed and her timekeeping team, Steve Merry and the results team, and Nigel Dupain who drove the lead car. Thanks to Exmouth Lifeboat Station for manning the drink station, to the Manor Hotel for the use of their facilities and to Kings Garden & Leisure Ltd. for allowing Dave Stone to use their works van for transporting the start and finish banners, finish funnel, etc, to and from the race.
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(LT)
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