Harrier League

Wrekenton, Saturday, February 26, 2011

Grand Prix Race. Mud King/Mud Queen Race.

Mudman and Mudwoman

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’!

Good turnout for Wrekenton! So much so, I had to stitch two photos together to make this one ...

Results

Men
Pos Name Club Cat Time
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

Susan eases past the competition ... apparently.

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
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.

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