Category: Race reports

Check out the videos of Charmaine and Kanisha winning the 100m sprint at Sutton in Ashfield yesterday on our Flickr photos page.  They also both won their 200m races, as did Nicholas Pryce and Luke Fleming.  Full report to follow……

We had two new club records at the Midland Veterans track and field match at Telford.  Janice Pryce set a new club W50 record in the High Jump with her 1.25m clearance. Meanwhile, Gordon Chapman set our first ever club M80 record with his time of 15.56.9 in the 2000m Walk. Well done Janice and Gordon.

The 1st National Junior Athletic League match of the season took place at Tamworth on Sunday.  Gabrielle Kinney, Kieran Smith and Katie Ingle all had victories.  The results are available here.  Well done to everyone who took part.

A number of insane brave Sutton runners competed in atrocious conditions at the Milton Keynes Marathon and Stratford Half Marathon yesterday.  At Milton Keynes Paul Jenkins completed the course in 3.31 and Mark Rickards got a PB with a 3.37 finish – both great achievements given the weather.  At Stratford the weather was described as the worst in the 30 years of the event.  Andrea Deathridge was our 1st runner home in 1.31 (not far off a PB), with Clare Davis (2.18), Pete Wells (2.18) and Sarah Smewin (2.27).

Well done to Chrissie, Hannah, Kane and Matthew, who all performed superbly at the UK Sportshall Final which was held at the NEC yesterday.  Chrissie and Hannah both got PBs. Hannah (Under 15 age group) was 5th= in the Vertical Jump and 8th= in the Speed Bounce.  Bearing in mind that this makes her 5th and 8th IN THE UK, that’s most impressive.  Similarly, Chrissie finished 5th in the Under 13 shot.  Both Kane and Matthew came home with gold medals; Kane for his cracking leg in the Under 15 4 x 2 lap relay and Matthew for winning the Under 13 Vertical Jump with a massive leap of 71cm.  Well done to all 4 athletes. The Birmingham teams finished well overall; with the Under 13 Girls coming 4th, the Under 13 Boys coming 2nd, the Under 15 Girls were 2nd and the Under 15 Boys came 5th in a very competitive competition.

Full Results here.

Well done to the twelve Royal Sutton athletes who completed the London Marathon today.  The 1st runner home for the club was Dave Long who finished in 2 hours 48 minutes, knocking a massive 4 minutes off his PB.  Russell Simpson, Mark Bridges and Colin McAuley (on his first marathon) all comfortably beat the 3 hour mark.  Kate McBrien was the first lady home in 3 hours 21 minutes.  The times for all our runners are shown below:

• Mark Bridges – 2.50.10
• Alison Evetts – 4.28.41
• John Fletcher – 3.12.43
• Clive Hackforth – 3.32.16
• Dave Long – 2.48.29
• Sarah McNulty – 5.10.16
• Steve Marklew – 3.22.48
• Colin McAuley – 2.54.56
• Kate McBrien – 3.21.50
• Russell Simpson – 2.49.14
• Chris Taylor – 3.22.29
• Paul Terleski – 3.18.20

Photo of Dave Long from ERRA National Road Relays courtesy of www.racephotos.org.uk

We had athletes competing at a variety of events last weekend.  Adam Barnes showed some good early season form at the Peterborough Open recording times of 11.8 in the 100 metres and 24.0 in the 200m.  Results here. 

On Sunday our Masters athletes competed at the Midland Masters AC Relays at Donisthorpe Woodland Park and returned with a number of trophies.  Andrea Deathridge provided the highlight, running the fastest leg of the day in the women’s race.  We also had a victory in the M65 age group with Roy Humpherson, Doug Hyde and Clive Sayers being the successful team.  Our other athletes competing were Pete Parker, Bunny Kyd and Mike Stanley.  Full results available here.

Dave Liddall ran in the Worcester Marathon and finished 18th in a time of 3.20.54.  Results here.

A 43rd place finish for the Royal Sutton senior men at the National 12 Stage Road Relays in Sutton Park today.  This was a great performance given that we were missing 3 of our first team runners.  Well done in particular to Colin McAuley who ran well on the dreaded 1st leg and Simon Lees who had a great run on his 1st outing after a series of injuries.  Thanks also to Roy for acting as stand in Team Manager – even Fred turned up on time! 

Full results available here.  The individual splits were as follows:

43 RoyalSuttonColdfieldAC 4:48:49

1. ColinMcAuley (67) 31:47
2. PaulTerleski (65) 16:58
3. NickCorker (54) 29:09
4. SimonLees (53) 16:07
5. MarkBridges (49) 30:23 3
6. KieranSmith (48) 17:26
7. RussellSimpson (49) 31:12
8. JohnFletcher (48) 18:41
9. SimonCorker (48) 31:59
10. TonyHinchley (48) 17:14
11. DavidLong (46) 30:40
12. FredericTremblay (44) 17:13

Photos also available on Bryan Dale’s site here

Great results at the Midland Counties Road Relays today.  The Men’s team finished in 10th place in a time of 4.16.27 – our best finish both in terms of time and position for many years.   The individual splits are below and the full results are available here:

1. Ollie Harradence (17) 29:03
2. Steve Marklew (20) 16:51
3. Russell Simpson (16) 17:12
4. Nick Corker (10) 28:52
5. Chris Taylor (12) 17:28
6. Simon Corker (13) 17:01
7. Mark Bridges (12) 30:24
8. Kieran Smith (12) 17:29
9. Paul Terleski (12) 16:58
10. Dave Long (10) 30:41
11. Tony Hinchley (10) 17:29
12. Fred Tremblay (10) 16:59 (how much did he pay the timekeeper to get his time rounded down?) 

In the Master’s race we finished in 8th place.  The splits are below and results here:

1. John Fletcher (9) 34:02
2. David Bowen (9) 19:33
3. Paul Jenkins (9) 20:05
4. David Liddall (9) 34:10
5. Colin McAuley (9) 17:21
6. Matthew Lumley (8) 21:05

We had four runners competing in the Women’s race.  Lana Partridge ran the fastest leg in 19.59, with Sarah Smewin (27.50), Kate McBrien (23.53) and Kirsty Tarr (24.19) all having great runs.  The results available here.

The Men’s team qualified for the Nationals which will take place on 14 April in Sutton Park.  Further photos are available on Bryan Dale’s site here.

Well done to Amy Johnson who represented the Midlands on 18 March at the Home Countries XC International in Glasgow.  Amy finished in 19th place in the U20 women’s race.