Road update – April 2023

Posted: April 11, 2023

Hi all

Welcome to the latest road news where you’ll find updates for the Club Championship, results from club competitions and other races where Harriers have taken part.

If you’d like other races included in future updates, please let me know.

2023 Road Championship

Wakefield 10k – 19 March. There were 1399 finishers at his popular local event in aid of Wakefield Hospice. 17 Harriers made the start line and their results are:

Pos.	Bib	Name	Category	Category Position	Net Time
12	1261	Joe Minchella	MSEN	6/180	35:55:00
55	37	Curtis Firth	MSEN	18/180	39:36:00
88	74	Julia Thomas	FV45	1/101	41:01:00
130	86	Anthony Waring	MV50	13/99	42:47:00
135	1526	Craig Sheard	MSEN	42/180	42:54:00
139	102	Joanne Jones	FV45	2/101	43:05:00
195	168	Gary Putnam	MV40	35/111	45:09:00
200	1266	Leighton Moxon	MV35	32/102	45:21:00
223	114	Sophie Cromwell	FV35	1/80	46:24:00
247	1121	Logan Anderson	MV50	28/99	47:02:00
265	1552	Sarah Todd	FSEN	19/161	47:34:00
278	1369	Diane Baldwin	FV65	1/13	47:49:00
455	342	Noreen Edery	FV70	2/8	51:26:00
696	1433	Carolyn Harrison	FV45	26/101	55:38:00
752	485	Debbie Beck	FV50	27/82	56:46:00
801	2213	Heidi King	FV45	36/101	57:58:00
876	842	Keren Pearson	FV35	42/80	59:25:00

Some excellent results with Joe being 1^st Harrier home, Julia and Joanne coming 1^st and 2^nd in their age category, Sophie and Di coming 1^st in their individual age categories and Noreen coming 2^nd in hers. Congratulations to all.

Full results can be found here https://racebest.com/results/q88t7

The standings after 2 races are:

			Race 1	Race 2
			Short	Short
	No. of races	Scoring Races	Run Heaton 10k	Wakefield 10k	Club 6	Total
Mens
Anthony Waring	2	2	22	22	5	49
Gary Putnam	2	2	19	20	5	44
Jack Sunderland	1	1	25			25
Joe Minchella	1	1		25		25

Ladies
Julia Thomas	2	2	25	25		50
Noreen Edery	2	2	23	19	5	47
Keren Pearson	2	2	22	15	5	42

Age Graded
Noreen Edery	2	2	25	25		50
Julia Thomas	2	2	23	22		45
Anthony Waring	2	2	19	19		38

The next race in the championship is the Buxton half on 28th May

Club Races

Club 6

The Club 6 was held on Saturday 25^th March, a move from the traditional day of a Sunday. This seemed to work well with 38 entrants in advance and 32 runners on the day. Thanks to the handicappers, timekeepers, marshals and other helpers.

Congratulations to:

Paul Sammonds, first male home

Katie Walshaw, first female home, fastest overall runner and winner of the Past Members Cup

Emma Sheard, winner of the Walter Greenwood Trophy for fastest handicap

The next race in the series will be the Club 5 on Tuesday 23^rd May and you can sign up on the website. I’ll also be looking for marshals so if you’re not running and can help, please register for that (also on the website)

Monthly 5k Handicap

The monthly 5k handicap series starts today (Tuesday 11th April) and lots of Harriers have signed up. If you haven’t pre-registered then you can still turn up and run, starting at 7:00pm from Magdale Fields.

Other races

The sign up sheet for the Joe Percy (14^th June) is on the noticeboard and on the website. We’re looking for teams of Harriers for this prestigious local event which is well within the ability of all our club runners and is held on roads used on training nights. We need a minimum of 10 per team so please sign up.

In other news, 5 Harriers took part in the Wilmslow Half with new member Michael Armitage putting in an appearance after only deciding to enter 2 days before. Liz Woodfield was first Harrier home in 1:30:39, edging closer to the elusive 90 minutes and Helen Standing broke her half marathon PB (set more than 15 years ago).

Damo McQueen ran a PB at the Trafford 10k (37:10)

Kevin Dessoy, Mike Hall and Phil Hanson ran the Haweswater Half in March with Kevin getting a new PB (1:32:04)

Mike can’t stop racing, completing the Monsal Trail half in 1:56:23

Thanks for reading

Kevin