National Road Relays 21/3/10 Wythenshawe Park
A spring like day for the relays with support from Martin,Roy,Simon,Carolyn Hirons and the Green Family.
Women 6 x 4.8K
Team position 21st
Katy Green 20:30 25th
Kate Sutton 21:59 25th
Clare Hawkes 21:30 24th
Christine Geraghty 21:25 23rd
Sarah Waite 20:53 23rd
Nicky Mowat 21:13 21st
28 teams completed
Men 6 x 4.8K + 6 x 7.4L
Team position 32nd
Damian Nicholls 23:32 15th
Mark Bale 17:44 20th
Jim Pendrill 25:19 20th
Bill Heaton 17:49 21st
Trevor Morris 27:18 24th
Mick Fairs 18:34 25th
Malcolm Fowler 26:01 28th
Tony Hulme 19:25 29th
Graham MacNeill 26:22 30th
Mike Cooper 18:28 30th
Stuart Parrott 26:14 29th
Ricahrd Hirons 19:06 32nd
46 teams completed
Kate Sutton
Note from Malcolm:-
Regarding the mens results. We finished 32nd but three teams finishing ahead of us were B teams which moves us up to 29th. Alas, not fast enough to qualify for the National Champs for which we needed to finish in the top 25 teams but the quality this year was very high.
It's interesting to note that Damians time for the long leg, which was by far our fastest time, would have made him the 2nd slowest runner in the winning Leeds City team had he been running for them!
Its interesting how people perceive things differently,
Damian would be fifth fastest out of twelve ,as the slower runners do the short legs.
When you consider that Leeds City has quite a number of runners competing for them from outside the area , rather like Sale Harriers and Salford ,who have have runners competing for them from up to a hundred miles away , as Malcolm ran for Salford for six years ,leaving the rest of us to keep the club competitive.So being fifth ranked in one of the countrys best teams is extremely creditable
Tony
Tony is correct I should have said 2nd slowest long leg, or 5th fastest long leg in Leeds team depending on how you look at it. In any event Damians time was 34th fastest long leg compared to my rather pathetic 155th fastest! A complete list of long leg and short leg times is now available on http://www.race-results.co.uk if any runners want to see how their time compared overall with other runners.