Glory Days Return!
Striders women repeated their triumphs of a few years ago by finishing first team at Saturday’s HL fixture at Wrekenton. Our three ‘counters’ , Fiona, Keri & Nina, all had fantastic runs and were backed up by six other team mates all doing their best to push the other teams further back – and how they succeeded! Striders were well ahead of second place Durham City and pushed undefeated Heaton into fourth place – well done everyone! Surely this will inspire even more of our women to turn out and help the club to do even better?!
WELL DONE WOR LASSES!!
It was also a fine performance by the men’s team with 13 brave boys crossing the finish line, led by Phil Sanderson in 29th place running from the fast pack. James Garland and Ian Thomas had fine HL debuts and it was good to see a young Daglish making a welcome return to the mud. The team matched their best finishing position this season (7th) but the struggle to avoid ‘the drop’ is not over – we need an even bigger turn out for the remaining two fixtures to ensure ‘survival’!
Results
Men
Pos | Name | Club | Cat | Time |
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1 | JENKIN, Dan | Durham City Harriers | 36:39 | |
29 | SANDERSON, Phil | * 39:36 | ||
91 | GARLAND, James | 41:22 | ||
122 | BENNETT, Mike | 42:25 | ||
123 | REEVES, Thomas | 42:29 | ||
156 | GIBSON, David | 43:46 | ||
157 | THOMAS, Ian | 43:48 | ||
162 | DAVIS, Geoff | 44:08 | ||
181 | ROBERTS, Shaun | 45:29 | ||
194 | WHITE, Conrad | 46:09 | ||
212 | DAGLISH, Graham | 47:15 | ||
228 | HOCKIN, Richard | 48:11 | ||
234 | NESBIT, Dougie | 48:32 | ||
247 | ROBSON, Alistair | 50:31 | ||
267 | ROBSON, Dave | 54:13 |
* Fast pack (+5mins)
274 finishers. Men’s Team 7th, Division 2 – 7th overall.
Women
We haven’t had a caption competition for a while – entries to the mailing list. Here’s mine:
“Are you finding this a bit muddy, then?” Shaun.
“You’d look a lot better in purple, pet!” Alan Rowell.
Pos | Name | Club | Cat | Time |
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1 | MCMANUS, Claire | North Shields Poly | 27:30 | |
5 | SHENTON, Fiona | 29:51 | ||
11 | PEARSON, Keri | * 30:29 | ||
13 | MASON, Nina | 30:33 | ||
59 | DAVIS, Susan | 33:19 | ||
75 | BARLOW, Stef | 34:42 | ||
77 | YOUNG, Jan | 35:00 | ||
83 | READEY, Claire | 35:37 | ||
87 | TARN, Lindsay | 36:46 | ||
97 | PROCTOR, Angela | 39:06 |
* Medium pack (+2mins)
101 finishers. Women’s Team 1st – 3rd overall.