BUPA Great Manchester Run (10k)

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Sunday 18th May 2014

Women's Elite Race (Gun)  
1 Tirunesh Dibaba (Eth) 30:10  
27 Diane McVey 38:56  
       
Men's & Main Race (Chip)  
1 Kenenisa Bekele (Eth) 28:23  
157 Andrew Whittingham 37:50  
177 Mike Hill 38:18  
207 Mark Bale 38:44  
350 Graeme Screawn 40:43  
471 Paul Norris 41:37 1st M55
527 Janine Ellis 41:56 4th F45
657 Katy Green 42:43  
761 Diane Bygrave 43:11  
958 Sally Gilliver 44:00 3rd F50
1366 Nicky Mowat 45:17 1st F55
1724 Huma Rahman 46:17  
2940 Clare Hawkes 48:46  
2971 Chris Cannon 48:49  
4300 Javed Hussein ('Mr Rahman') 50:55  
10704 Pete Stock 58:53  
       
(approx   40,000 entrants)    

We were very proud to see Di McVey running with the elite women. 

It was extremely hot.   Quote from Katy; 

'Take 3 mins off your time everyone – a physicist I met on the tram home said it was practically like running in 40 degrees in the shade because of our body heat and the outside air heat molecules.'

A great atmosphere, with plenty of opportunity to celeb spot.  There were more WRC runners than anticipated and the men actually had a team.  I was glad to be in the first wave and back home for lunch.  When dropping my daughter off at the station at 5.30pm I saw some runners just returning from Manchester!

Nicky

5 Comments

  1. chris
    20 May 2014 at 11:20

    I’m going to take another 30 seconds off for climbing onto the central reservation on the dual carrigeway so I could give Di a cheer as she raced passed . Proud is just how I felt .
    So that’s 3.30 off my time , so a PB . I’ll take anything at the moment .

  2. Clare H
    20 May 2014 at 14:34

    I’m all for blaming the outside air heat molecules – it sounds so much better than being old, slow and knackered

  3. Sharon
    20 May 2014 at 15:15

    Well done everybody, it was great to watch on TV later that day and shows Manchester in a great light. The best bit for me was seeing Di heading off with Tirunesh and the other Elites, I was extremely proud! I also spotted a line of Wilmslow vests when they showed the main start, always a proud moment on national tele!!

  4. Di Mc
    21 May 2014 at 16:50

    Thanks for that Chris it was much appreciated!! 3 minutes off our time? Sounds great, a pb for many of us then!!

  5. Carolyn
    22 May 2014 at 21:45

    And Pete Stock was running with his daughter, who did a pb by 2 mins, so we can round that up to 5! She’ll be delighted!

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