Major Stone Half Marathon 2022 Race Report

Posted: September 4, 2022

Nine Harriers made the trip to Lockington in the East Riding for the Major Stone Half – one of the ‘long’ races in this year’s road championships. This race is organised by East Hull Harriers and doubled up as the YVAA 2022 Half Marathon.

The pre-race forecast was a bit mixed… rain/no rain, calm/breezy, warm/cool but in the end the conditions were about perfect. 18-20 degrees, dry and whilst there was a slight headwind on some sections overall it made for a good run.

The course runs through the rural lanes around Lockington with a short out and back section at Watton at just over the half-way mark. There was a cycle challenge on at the same time (starting and finishing in a different place) but the cyclists avoided the runners and vice versa so it wasn’t a problem. So long as runners ignored the signs saying 25km route and 50km route!

The 3 water stations were well manned and the course was well marshalled and signed throughout with direction arrows on the bends and distance markers every mile. The course was described as undulating which it was, although nothing like the type of undulations we see on a club training run. It made for a quick course with the mens winner (Niall Gilchrist – Ealing Eagles RC) finishing in 1:13:26 and ladies winner (Venika Moverley – East Hull Harriers AC) in 1:24:19.

Harriers results are:

Harriers Position	Overall Position	Name	Cat	Cat Position	Chip Time	Gun Time
1	29/141	Kevin Dessoy	MV55	7/19	1:32:47	1:32:53
2	35	Anthony Waring	MV50	4/15	1:34:45	1:34:51
3	36	Matthew Rose	MV50	5/15	1:35:00	1:35:06
4	61	Adam Sunderland	MV50	8/15	1:44:16	1:44:21
5	71	Naomi Shields	FS	5/9	1:47:01	1:47:07
6	72	Nicky Ottaway	FV45	4/12	1:47:41	1:47:46
7	92	Michael Hall	MV55	15/19	1:54:07	1:54:14
8	123	Phil Hanson	MV65	6/7	2:09:50	2:09:58
9	138	John Field	MV45	11/11	2:25:40	2:25:47