This morning saw the running of the 25th Great North West Half Marathon and the 1st of the Clayton Club Road Championships for 2014.
The route a super quick & flat course is normally suited for PB hunters, but not today. The gale force winds along Blackpool front had different ideas, as you can see from my splits (can you guess which miles I had to run into the wind?)
5:54, 5:47, 6:05, 6:37, 6:32, 6:31, 6:21, 6:14, 6:08, 7:18, 7:27, 7:09 & 6:24
Although the conditions were very testing it was a very good and enjoyable race. Well done to all the runners who braved the elements today, full results can be found at http://www.fyldecoastrunning.org/GNW%20Results%20Results2014.pdf
Clayton results as follows:
42 – Dave Motley – 1:24:41
59 – Paul Hesketh – 1:25:40
67 – Dave Bagot – 1:25:57
147 – Mick Hogan – 1:33:36
264 – Steve Bicomb – 1:38:46
379 – Andy Quinn – 1:44:09
The remaining road club championship fixtures are below, surely you road runners can’t let a fell captain become No 1?
Friday 23rd May 7:00pm – Burnley Lions 10k, Colne
Sunday 27th July 11:00am – Towneley Park 6, Burnley
Thursday 25th September 6:45pm – Ron Hill 5k, Whitworth
December – Guy’s 10
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