A varied race with a 2½ km uphill start, flat along the Middleton Way, then a long off-road section leading to a finish on the road in Poynton Centre. After enjoying summer in the first half of the week, winter returned, only 3o but sunny.
This was the fourth race in the 2022 Club Series with the two parkrun series operating in parallel throughout. No-one so far has completed Wilmslow+CheadleHulme+Bramhall+Burnage but Roy is the early leader in Congleton+LymePark+Stretford+AlexandraPark.
22 Wilmslow runners on the start list, 19 starters, Covid, with Trevor injured along the way. Race numbers looked lower than in previous years. I can remember the days when 50 Wilmslow runners was not abnormal in one of our ‘Summer’ Series. Since then the number of races has mushroomed as it became appreciated that there was money to be made and the simplicity, frequency and choice offered by parkrun makes it an attractive alternative. There were in fact 390 finishers against 625 in 2019, shows how well Cat and the team did with the Wilmslow Festival.
We started with a Wilmslow huddle but most quickly shot up the road. Hopefully others can report on what was happening nearer the front of the race, I have neither the eyes nor the legs
Meanwhile Don and I struggled up the hill. Angie and Jan came past in the first km., John I could see, Julie and Trevor I assumed were behind. The climb seemed to have got longer and it was a relief to hit the flat of Middlewood Way, I had tracked Jan and Catherine all the way at Hale but they were already gone, no-one to compete with, just a matter of grinding out the kilometres. On a wet day the off-road, about half the course, can be muddy and hard work but today you just had to skip between the bumps and the potholes.
Richard was 1st. M40, Louisa 1st. F45, Angie 1st. F60, Andy 1st. M70, Ian 1st. M75.
Kate 2nd.F55, Nicky 2nd. F60, Holly 3rd. FSen, Paul 3rd. M60.
Look-out for Jan’s update of the tables.
Ian
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Wilmslow first in the Ladies team and third in the mens Teams
Wilmslow runners and teams results:
Pos | Chip | Runner | Club | Cat | Cat Pos |
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1 | 33:11 | RYAN WORLAND | SALE H | MSEN | 1 |
2 | 34:44 | ADAM THOMPSON | STOCKPORT H | MSEN | 2 |
4 | 34:52 | RICHARD COEN | WRC | MV40 | 1 |
17 | 40:39 | FAYE JASMINE WATERHOUSE | STOCKPORT H | FSEN | 1 |
18 | 40:44 | MARK KIRKBY | WRC | MSEN | 10 |
33 | 42:42 | LOUISA HARRISON | WRC | FV45 | 1 |
37 | 43:12 | MATTHEW TAYLOR | WRC | MV45 | 7 |
68 | 46:01 | ANDY WATTS | WRC | MV70 | 1 |
80 | 46:58 | HOLLY LUCAS | WRC | FSEN | 3 |
96 | 47:54 | PAUL NORRIS | WRC | MV60 | 3 |
100 | 48:15 | KATE SUTTON | WRC | FV55 | 2 |
105 | 48:38 | ANGELA MCCARTHY | WRC | FV60 | 1 |
120 | 49:45 | NICKY MOWAT | WRC | FV60 | 2 |
140 | 50:51 | IAN ROBERTS | WRC | MV55 | 10 |
192 | 53:28 | CATHERINE MELLOR | WRC | FV40 | 9 |
196 | 53:41 | JANET WYLES | WRC | FV55 | 4 |
229 | 56:56 | IAN ASHCROFT | WRC | MV75 | 1 |
251 | 58:18 | JULIE LUCAS | WRC | FV55 | 9 |
339 | 01:05:31 | DON BULLOUGH | WRC | MV65 | 10 |
DNF | TREVOR FAULKNER | WRC | |||
390 | Runners | ||||
Team Pos | Team Name | Points | |||
1 | STOCKPORT H | 10 | |||
2 | BRAMHALL | 30 | |||
3 | WRC | 56 | |||
8 | Teams | ||||
1 | WRC | 21 | |||
2 | MARPLE | 42 | |||
3 | BRAMHALL | 43 | |||
7 | Teams |