UK, December 13, 2020
Run Aintree Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Liverpool
The 10km was the most keenly contested distance and it wound up with Chris Williams getting the better of top master Andy Norman with 31:07, Martin Duff reports.
Leanne Jones was the best of the women on the course around the famous race track with 36:31 as Sophie Wood was the fastest of the women over the half-marathon distance with 78:17, just one second outside her best though without a UKA permit the event would have not counted for ranking purposes.
Overall fastest (13.1M, all chip times)
1 Chris Pownell 74:06
2 Dean Hanwell 74:32
3 Neil Burton (M45) 75:06
M40: John Lloyd (M40) 76:16
M45: 2 James McKie 79:49
M55: Rob McGrath 84:01
Women:
1 Sophie Wood 78:17
2 Luisa Candioli 83:36
3 Beth Donnelly 84:14
4 Ailie McGowan 86:15
Overall fastest (10km)
1 Chris Williams 31:07
2 Andy Norman (M40) 31:17
3 Karl Darcy 31:22
4 Harry Blackburn 32:44
5 Tom Garbett 33:03
6 Luke Edwards 33:07
7 Ross Harrison 33:09
8 Chris Maher 33:12
9 Simon Croft 33:30
10 Matthew Leahy 33:34
11 Nick Gaskell (M50) 33:53
12 Adam Jones (M50) 33:56
13 Stephen Campbell 34:05
14 Damian Ashton (M40) 34:12
15 Ben Newington 34:43
16 Thomas Wyatt 34:44
17 Jay Walker 34:56
M55: 1 Stephen Watmough 35:35; 2 Tony Harvey 37:43; 3 Robert Jackson 38:31
Women:
1 Leanne Jones (W35) 36:31
2 Sarah Mackness (W35) 37:13
3 Katy Pritchard (W40) 38:27
Overall fastest (5km):
1 Przemyslaw Tomczak 15:06
2 Ethan Brady-Jones 15:48
3 Se Loughlin 15:49
4 Josh Hall 15:54
M50: Francois Rafferty 17:27
M80: Ron Thornton 38:04
Women:
1 Ellen Klarney 17:40
2 Gabrielle Phelan 18:23
3 Lilian Lewis 18:23
4 Katie Mathieson 18:44
W45: Sarah Kearney 19:58
Mallory Park 10km (Inc Leics & Rutland 10km Championships), Kirkby Mallory, December 13
Juniors dominated the men’s race with Luke Duffy narrowly winning in a PB 30:15 from Matthew Stonier (30:16) and Rory Leonard (30:18) as the top 10 broke 31 minutes.
Jess Judd won the women’s race in a fast 32:30, just 14 seconds short of her best ever time.
Triathlete Sophie Coldwell followed her home in 33:25 in her debut at the distance.
Overall:
1 L Duffy (Mans, U20) 30:15
2 M Stonier (Inv EK, U20) 30:16
3 R Leonard (Morp, U20) 30:18
4 C Wheeler (MKDP) 30:21
5 A Brown (Morp) 30:21
6 C Perham (LTPC) 30:27
U20: 4 S Hart (Newb) 30:52; 5 S Coppard (Ton) 31:18; 6 M Dey (Bury) 31:56
Women:
1 J Judd (B’burn) 32:30
2 S Coldwell (Charn) 33:25
3 H Nuttall (Charn) 35:09
4 A Morton (Horsh BS, U20) 35:25
5 M Grice (AFD) 35:27
W45: 1 T Hinxman (Der) 38:28
Blast Running 5km, Edinburgh
Overall (5km):
1 A Jeffrey (P’bello, M40) 17:41
2 P Barr (P’bello) 17:51
3 J Campbell (P’bello) 18:45
Women:
1 S Kyle-Playford (P’bello) 21:20
2 K Marcus (P’bello, W40) 27:03
Race 2 Overall (5km):
1 M Fullerton (Edin, M40) 17:14
2 T Prew 17:28
3 W Bradley (Lon C AC) 18:05
Women:
1 C Pim (Edinburgh Athletics, U20) 21:51
2 S Homer 22:03
3 J Gardner (Sweatshop, W50) 22:33
Remembrance Runs, Dibden Airfield, Saffron Walden, Essex
With a variety of distances on offer it was the 10km fastest, Ryan Burling, who took the plaudits with a 30:15 which followed his 29:49 earlier in the month, Martin Duff reports.
Jonathan Escalante-Phillips was also inside 31 minutes as 2:30:42 marathoner Tracy Barlow (picture by Mark Easton) was the best of the women with 36:19.
The 5km event saw European under-18 3000m champion Thomas Keen set a PB of 14:44.
Former European under-20 800m champion Khahisa Mhlanga had her first outing on the roads when taking the women’s section with 17:09 although she has run a 17:00 parkrun.
Overall fastest (13.1M, chip times):
1 Nick Harris-Fry (Orion) 72:11
2 George Gathercole (AFD) 73:01
3 Richard Price (Warg) 73:48
M50: John Anderson (C&C) 82:05
Women:
1 Jen Baird (E Lon, W40) 84:06
2 Katy Austin (Ips J) 88:08
3 Jane Makaronidis (Morn) 89:29
W50: Vicky Simpson (B Stort) 98:40
Overall fastest (10km):
1 Ryan Burling (Mil K) 30:15
2 Jonathan Escalante-Phillips (C&C) 30:58
3 Darren Sunter (NHRR) 33:18
4 Crispian Bloomfield (Bill’cay, M40) 33:23
M60: 1 Paul Reddaway (Ware) 37:41; 2 Terry Knightley (Ilf) 40:14
M65: David Butler (Bill’cay) 40:09
M70: Geoff Russell (Royst) 47:13
Women:
1 Tracy Barlow (TVH, W35) 36:19
2 Laura Thomas (Ips J) 37:44
3 Alex Baird (Trent) 39:23
Overall fastest (5km):
1 Thomas Keen (C&C) 14:44
2 Colin McGuiness (C&C) 15:03
3 Thomas Bridger (C&C) 15:30
4 William Newcombe (C&C) 15:36
5 Cameron Ackroyd (C&C) 15:46
M40: Paul Farmer (Ampt) 16:07
M50: Mark Waine (Ampt) 17:56
M55: Paul Spowage (Col H) 18:46
M60: Richard Holland (WG&EL) 20:04
Women:
1 Khai Mhlanga Herts P) 17:08
2 Hannah Lloyd (R’side) 17:40
3 Sally Judd (Herts P, W45) 18:50
W45: 2 Rachel Porter 19:57
W50: Karen Archbold (L’toft) 20:45
W65: Yuko Gordon (FVS) 23:17
Overall (1M):
1 Naimah Mossi (B&B, U13) 4:56
2 Analie Twydell 5:34
3 Phoebe Sanders (Walden Tri) 6:10
No men faster
PB 5km, Haywards Heath (men)
Because of 15mph-plus winds on the predominantly flat exposed Showground, the race maybe did not quite live up to its name but there were two competitive cracking races and 70 of those that broke 17 minutes did achieve lifetime bests even if conditions weren’t perfect.
Most competitors also got well over 5km on their measurements but that was probably due to the 20 plus tight corners in the race and runners having to take a wider line than measured on the very wet and slippery bends.
British Championships 1500m finalist Ian Crowe-Wright used his speed to slip past Joe Wigfield in the last 20 metres to win in 14:23 (pictured, photo by Mark Shearman).
Surprisingly it was his first ever listed 5km on the road. Fellow 1500m star Wigfield (3:40.85 PB) was also effectively debuting as his pre-race best was just 16:09.
Robbie Fitzgibbon was also in contention throughout and he made it a hat-trick of metric milers and the 3:36.97 man who did have a proper PB (14:15) but here could only run 14:29.
Henry McLuckie, himself a 3:42.16 performer, was first under-20 in fourth in 14:30 but well down on his 14:13 PB set in better conditions.
English National and UK Inter-Counties cross-country champion Lewis Sullivan was first under-17 in his debut in 15:05.
English Schools cross-country champion Benjamin Peck also debuted and a first under-15 in 15:57.
Overall:
1 I Crowe-Wright (B&H) 14:23
2 J Wigfield (Liv H) 14:25
3 R Fitzgibbon (Phoe) 14:29
4 H McLuckie (SB, U20) 14:30
5 J Grace (AFD) 14:31
6 R Harvie (AFD) 14:33
7 F McNally (Phoe) 14:34
8 A Davis (Phoe) 14:39
9 M Weatherseed (Ton) 14:41
10 C Charleston (AFD) 14:42
11 A Abdulle (Ilf) 14:45
12 H Reilly (M&M, U20) 14:46
13 F Richardson (C&T, U20) 14:47
14 A Pointon (AFD) 14:48
15 A Ediker (C’field, U20) 14:48
16 K Reilly (Ton) 14:49
17 T Higgs (S Lon) 14:49
M45: 1 H Bristow (B&H) 16:09; 2 J Skinner (Hay H) 16:09
M55: 1 D Tullett (Chelm) 17:38
M60: 1 P O’Connell (Horsh J) 18:47; 2 J Lowden (B&H) 18:59
U20: 5 D Brookling (WSEH) 14:54; 6 J O’Hara (Ports) 15:01; 7 N Potter (Chich) 15:05; 8 J Cann (Horsh BS) 15:13; 9 T Wood (Eryri) 15:28; 10 M Snowdon (Ips) 15:33; 11 M West (B’works) 15:39
U17: :1 L Sullivan (St Ed) 15:03; 2 O Hitchcock (Ips) 15:46; 3 H Yelling (B&H) 16:21;
U15: 1 B Peck (Thet) 15:57; 2 L Newton (Craw) 16:50; 3 A Guppy (Lewes) 16:59
PB 5km, Haywards Heath (women)
The all women’s race also went to the wire with Izzy Fry just edging Beth Kidger (Fry on right in Mark Shearman’s photo) with both getting times of 16:24.
English National under-20 runner-up Fry had run a 16:06 (and 16:02.00 on the track) with British Championships 1500m finalist Kidger closer to her lifetime best of 16:18.
Hannah Irwin was third in 16:39 and Holly Dixon fourth in 16:50 but both were well short of their bests as generally the women found it much harder to run fast times than the men who with much smaller timespans covering each wave that set off were able to run in much larger groups.
Harriet Bloor was first under-20 in her 5km race debut in 17:00.
Clare Elms, the first woman athlete aged over 40, was denied a age group lead a few days earlier due to a missing permit, did achieve a W55 2020 best with 18:18 in her third race in a week though was over 20 seconds down on her Wednesday time.
The 2003 AAA women’s 10km champion Caroline Hoyte, who is new to the W50 age group, set off at close to UK record pace but slowed and dropped out just after halfway.
Women:
1 I Fry (Newb) 16:24
2 B Kidger (Phoe) 16:24
3 H Irwin (G&G) 16:35
4 H Dixon (Camb H) 16:40
5 M Renfer (High) 16:43
6 G Kersey (Bas) 16:44
7 S Astin (Norw) 16:50
8 R Murray (Bed C) 16:55
9 G Copeland (W’borne, U20) 16:58
10 J Hodder (Wirr, U20) 16:58
11 H Bloor (Lewes, U20) 17:00
12 C Thorp (Ports) 17:00
13 E Proto (Lewes) 17:17
W50: 1 J Briggs (Arena) 18:28; 2 S McDonald (S Lon) 18:32; 3 M Campbell (Lewes) 20:58
W55: 1 C Elms (Dulw) 18:18; 2 S Ridley (Hay H) 20:53; 3 C Wood (Arena) 21:38
U17: 1 E Yelling (B&H) 18:33; 2 I Hayes (Horsh BS) 18:41; 3 S Hopkins-Parry (HY Runners) 18:55; 4 I Guirdham (Lewes) 18:56
PB Junior Mile, Haywards Heath
There were wins for Reus Brown (pictured right, by Mark Shearman) and Eva Barton in the junior mile races.
Overall:
1 R Brown (Hast, U13) 5:30
2 G Lewis (Sutt, U15) 5:32
3 G Gilbert (B&H, U11) 5:40
Women:
1 E Barton (W Suff, U13) 5:46
2 P Oliver (FoD, U11) 5:51
3 I Buchanan (HY Runners, U11) 5:52
Romney Marsh 10km, New Romney
Ed Bovingdon took a minute off his year-old PB to win in a respectable 31:03.
The 32 year-old repelled the challenge of 18-year-old Charlie Brisley, who was a former South of England under-15 cross-country champion and he finished 10 seconds back.
Third was the even younger Louis Small who himself won the same title as Brisley in 2019.
The 16-year-old set a 19 second PB of 31:27.
Verity Hopkins set a remarkable four and a half minute PB and her 37:17 time is at a significantly faster pace than any listed 5km (18:58) she has achieved.
The most interesting veteran performance came from Jon Wigley.
The former Athletics Weekly staff member and IAAF man was a former international over 25 laps and his M70 debut came exactly 45 years after he set a 10,000m PB of 28:35.74 in finishing seventh in that year’s AAA Championships.
His time may have been 16 minutes slower but it won him his M70 age group by seven minutes.
Overall:
1 E Bovingdon (I&I) 31:03
2 C Brisley (U20) 31:13
3 L Small (Ashf, U17) 31:27
M70: 1 J Wigley (Inv EK) 45:26
Women:
1 V Hopkins (Ton) 37:17
2 K Goodge (Ton, U20) 37:44
3 B Morrish (Ton) 37:49
Back to Basics 10km, Forres
Sean Chalmers enjoyed a big breakthrough with a 45-second PB and his first sub-30 and he was 12 seconds faster than Robbie Simpson.
Jenny Bannerman was the fastest woman with a time of 35:08. She was in the faster first race and finished 22nd of 23 runners.
Overall (10km):
1 S Chalmers (I’ness) 29:55
2 R Simpson (Dees R) 30:07
3 K Wilson (Moray) 31:21
M40: 1 B Livesey (Notts) 32:39
Women: 1 J Bannerman (I’ness) 35:08
Overall Race 2 (10km):
1 S Sharpe (Forres, M40) 35:58
2 A Rogan 37:08
3 C Fraser (I’ness, W) 37:16
Women:
1 Fraser 37:16
2 K Rogan (Moray) 37:36
3 M Slater (Moray, W40) 39:04
Milton Keynes Winter Half-Marathon, Day 2
Jordan Clay was an easy men’s winner in 68:40 for his first sub-70 minute performance.
Alicia Lacey was fastest woman in 80:48 which is nine minutes quicker than her listed PB.
Overall:
1 J Clay (L Buzz) 68:40
2 D Hudson (BRJ, M35) 72:05
3 G Phillips (York) 72:08
U20: 1 I Ellard (Helpston) 73:34
Women:
1 A Lacey (Norw RR) 80:48
2 L Longhurst (Morn) 83:55
3 N Martin (Kett, W35) 87:02
W60: 1 L Hembury (Tring) 96:21
Dorney Lake Race Series (5km/10km/HM), Windsor
Overall (5km):
1 A Miell-Ingram (Rad) 15:13
2 R Miell-Ingram (Rad, U17) 15:24
3 D Jarrett (Has B) 16:11
Women:
1 M Pearce (Mil K, U15) 18:53
2 G Furze Gruneiro (Woking) 19:20
3 E Pearce (Mil K, U13) 19:48
Overall (10km):
1 J Local 33:28
2 T Wright (Bexley) 34:29
3 S Bennison (Brack FR, M35) 36:47
Women:
1 J Bijl (Lon Hth) 37:13
2 C Warrington (B&R, W40) 37:54
3 L Hawtin (Oxf C) 38:10
Overall (HM):
1 E Rees (Clap C) 74:45
2 M Thompson 75:26
3 T Harman (Rav CoL) 76:04
Women:
1 J Rickard (Wind VR) 99:27
2 E Shannon (W40) 1:40:59
3 K Gow (Fulham) 1:41:28
