Welcome to the June update!
2023 Road Championship
The Road Championship is well underway now with both Club 6 and Club 5 having taken place.
Thanks Michael S for stepping in to run the Club 5 as I was on holiday. Paul Sammonds took fastest time with 28:51. Fastest female was Helena Croft (30:03) and fastest novice was Andy Jones (35:19). The handicap prizes were:
| Actual Time | Handicap Time | ||
| 1st | Vicky Noble | 38:18 | 27:18 |
| 2nd | Paul Sammonds | 28:51 | 28:06 |
| 3rd | Michael Sanderson | 29:19 | 28:49 |
Great run by all three – well done
The latest championship race was the Buxton Half on 28th May with five Harriers making the trip. The Buxton results are:
| Name | Overall Position | Time |
| Anthony Waring
Gary Putnam Tracey Newman Richard Whale Keren Pearson |
66
172 331 357 379 |
01:39:37
01:55:11 02:20:26 02:29:19 02:38:04 |
Well done to all five.
The top 5 in each category in the Road Championship are;
Men
| Run Heaton 10k | Wakefield 10k | Buxton Half | Club 6 | Club 5 | Total | |
| Anthony Waring | 22 | 22 | 25 | 5 | 5 | 79 |
| Gary Putnam | 19 | 20 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 72 |
| Leighton Moxon | 19 | 5 | 5 | 29 | ||
| Richard Whale | 22 | 5 | 27 | |||
| Jack Sunderland | 25 | 25 |
Ladies
| Keren Pearson | 22 | 15 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 70 |
| Julia Thomas | 25 | 25 | 5 | 55 | ||
| Noreen Edery | 23 | 19 | 5 | 47 | ||
| Tracey Newman | 25 | 5 | 30 | |||
| Joanne Jones | 23 | 5 | 28 |
Age Graded
| Anthony Waring | 19 | 19 | 25 | 63 | ||
| Gary Putnam | 17 | 13 | 23 | 53 | ||
| Keren Pearson | 16 | 15 | 20 | 51 | ||
| Noreen Edery | 25 | 25 | 50 | |||
| Julia Thomas | 23 | 22 | 45 |
The next races in the championships are:
the Flat Caps 10k at Sowerby Bridge on 11 June
all of which are followed by the next Club Championship race, the Club 10 on 11 July
Yes, July is a busy month.
Summer monthly 5k series
The June race took place on Tuesday 6th with 30 Harriers taking part. This is down from the 40 runners took part in the May race which in turn was an increase from April. The results for the June race are here
Other races
Entries for the Joe Percy (14th June) are now closed. We have 18 men and 15 ladies entered with the first 10 to count. Despite chasing emails and notifications of entry deadlines quite a few Harriers submitted their entry via the web site after the closing date. The organisers were kind enough to allow us an extension. Please can club members take notice of closing dates as in this case, without the chasing emails / FB posts and a deadline extension we would not have had a team.
As always, if you’d like your races and achievements celebrated in the Road Update, please let me know by finding me at the club or dropping me an email
Kevin Dessoy / 07Jun23
