| 1 | 00:16:10 | HATCH, Mike | Sale Harriers Mcr | Senior Men |
| 6 | 00:16:30 | HALMAN, Michael | Senior Men | |
| 7 | 00:16:39 | DOWNS, Rob | Male Vet 40 | |
| 20 | 00:17:39 | MORRIS, Trevor | Male Vet 45 | |
| 21 | 00:17:42 | TAYLOR, Graham | Male Vet 40 | |
| 47 | 00:18:47 | JOHNSTONE, Robert | Male Vet 40 | |
| 48 | 00:18:50 | BALE, Mark | Senior Men | |
| 49 | 00:18:50 | EAGLE, Ray | Male Vet 50 | |
| 50 | 00:18:51 | FAIRS, Mick | Male Vet 55 | |
| 60 | 00:19:09 | COOPER, Mike | Male Vet 40 | |
| 88 | 00:20:14 | GILBERT, Geoff | Male Vet 55 | |
| 99 | 00:20:31 | BULLOUGH, Don | Male Vet 50 | |
| 104 | 00:20:41 | AYRES, Paul | Male Vet 50 | |
| 106 | 00:20:43 | SUTTON, Kate | Lady Vet 45 | |
| 109 | 00:20:46 | MENDHAM, Gavin | Male Vet 55 | |
| 124 | 00:21:26 | TRIMBLE, Gareth | Senior Men | |
| 128 | 00:21:34 | PRICE, Sally | Senior Ladies | |
| 129 | 00:21:36 | ASHCROFT, Ian | Male Vet 60 | |
| 133 | 00:21:49 | MADDOCK, Sally | Senior Ladies | |
| 146 | 00:22:06 | WATSON, Peter | Male Vet 60 | |
| 147 | 00:22:08 | WHEABLE, David | Male Vet 40 | |
| 155 | 00:22:29 | POWNALL, Roy | Male Vet 55 | |
| 158 | 00:22:31 | AVES, Joanne | Senior Ladies | |
| 159 | 00:22:37 | HINKE, Penny | Lady Vet 45 | |
| 163 | 00:22:45 | PORTEOUS, John | Male Vet 50 | |
| 165 | 00:22:49 | ASHCROFT, Owen | Senior Men | |
| 178 | 00:23:19 | GREEN, Katy | Senior Ladies | |
| 188 | 00:24:02 | GILBERT, Louisa | Senior Ladies | |
| 206 | 00:25:18 | FAULKNER, Trevor | Male Vet 60 |
282 finishers
Full results at http://www.spectrumstriders.org.uk/races/lymm5k/2007/lymm5kresults2007.htm
5k is too short.
I start too fast,
Pace won’t last
I get caught.
I’d not run a 5k for over a year. Partly because they fail the “longer to drive there than it takes to run it” rule but mainly because a sustained 5k sprint is just so hard. With a downhill start and an uphill return Lymm promised to enforce the classic “out too fast, stagger back” experience but series points were needed.
In the event it turned out to be rather more of a race than a sprint with pollen playing a bigger part than the hills. We certainly started fast enough and at 1k (2:57) I was happily leading the second group. Mike Halman was with the leaders about 50m ahead. I expected their lead to increase and Mike to disappear as we started to climb but by halfway, as we turned back onto the country lane, I was instead getting closer. I could feel the hayfever in my nose but Mike was really struggling with his breathing and was just hanging on to the leaders.
Soon I was within spitting (or rather sneezing) distance of Mike but I could also hear more runners pounding up behind me. At 4k four guys came rushing past us both and as Mike chased them he opened the gap on me again. We lowered our shoulders for the last 400m and managed to pull back one of the places lost.
Staggering away from the finish area I managed to miss the real race action of the day as Group 2 provided a sprint spectacular.
Rob