It was the Great Manchester Run this weekend. 10k and half marathon.
In the 10k it was close for the ladies Eilish McColgan a close second to Hellen Obiri [the Olympic and Worl Champion] from Kenya. Eilish shaved 2 seconds off Paula Radcliffe’s European record time. Kenyan ladies took third and fourth place too
In the Men’s race New Zealand’s Jake Robertson beat Australian Jack Raynor.
David Weir won the Wheelchair race.
Philip Sesemann was 12th 6 seconds ahead of Jonny Mellor.
Well we had a couple of runners and family out in Manchester.
Huma took the kids for a run before shopping…
Graham was happy with his fastest 5k of the year to start and then hanging on to the end
Whilst Ian was running with his works colleagues to raise money for Maggies Manchester in support of his colleague Helen who has had an incredibly bad time.
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Results below:
| Name | Club | Finish Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack raynor | New Zealand | 28:16 |
| 1 | Hellen Obiri | Kenya | 30:15 |
| 202 | Graham Screawn | WRC | 38:46 |
| 270 | qes hussain | WRC | 40:05 |
| 440 | David Baxter | WRC | 43:02 |
| 844 | huma rahman | WRC | 46:32 |
| 1746 | Ian Roberts | WRC | 50:48 |
| 2361 | Janet Screawn | 53:19 | |
| 6332 | Imaan Hussain | 01:05:21 |