Priory 10k 18 July

Adrian Leach has stretched his lead at the top with almost 242 miles covered in 35 races. Maria McDonald-Leach is secure in second spot whilst Nicola Henshaw, Martyn Stearn and Roy Young battle it out for 3rd. 102 members have now done at least 1 race this year. The total race distance now stands at 4035 miles.

Another fantastic turnout for a GP event - 38 runners took advantage of good racing conditions - and many stayed on to socialise afterwards.
Its quite rare to get a new club record after 26 years of competition, but Peter Grimoldy wrestled the M60 10k record off Ken Bingley in a time of 39:25. Ken was magnanimous in losing his title, saying that his was done of a tough course, not a flat one! Plenty of records left Ken.
Once again pbs abounded. Craig Tipton, Becci Winter, Jenny Dews, Michael Knowles, Gail Wrangles, Pat Wood, Jayne Collins, Nicola Henshaw - all establishing new records. Anyone missed out - let us know. Andrew Jackson was our first finisher in 17 spot with a year best time of 34:50. Other year best times went to Peter Grimoldy, Karen Ball, Rob Ward, Tim Wilsher, Stewart Haigh, Janet Davis, Alan Tattersall, Ron Davies and Ken Barton. Prizes went to Liz Burrows (3rd lady?), Peter Grimoldy (1st M60) and Trevor Nichol (2nd M60). Thanks also to our cheerleaders, Graham Charnock and Karen Spedding.

A cold but sunny morning for this scenic but tough multi-terrain race with about 1240 ft of climb! The surfaces range immensely but never to be forgotten is the half mile or so of cobbles which form the infamous Trooper Lane - (compared to this the Birstwith Brute on the Guy Fawks run is more of a pussycat!). The last 100 yards to the finish line includes a wade/run through the river Calder with short but steep banks on either side. A race which should be done for the experience - but probably not on a rainy day! Don't run it to try for a pb! First back for us was our fell runner,Craig Tipton, followed by Gail Wrangles, our first lady. Others enjoying the morning were Becci Winter, Pat Wood, Stewart Haigh and Karen Cooper.

We have been advised that one of our former members, Alan Fletcher has passed away. Those who have been with the club for many years will rember Alan who moved to France about 15 years ago. Our sympathies to his wife, Celia. They have lived in Spain for the last few years where the funeral will take place on Saturday at 2pm.

Tim & Mel Owen travelled to the Wirral where Tim recorded yet another pb to compliment his recent successes at 5k and the half marathon

Janet Davis was our sole representative in this field of 700 and came away with a year's best time.

Of our 8 entrants 4 had pbs and 2 year best times to justify the organiser's claims that it is a fast course. Well done to Tim and Mel Owen, Karen Spedding and Nicky Henshaw for knocking massive lumps off their previous pbs

Three runners tackled this tough half in the Lakes (Richard Smith, Syam Velayudhan and Catherine Jones).

Amazingly, our two Leach's, Adrian & Maria still had the energy to fit another Marathon in - this time in Sunderland with the start and finish in the Stadium of Light.

Yet again there was fantastic support from members for a Grand Prix event with 36 competing plus 2 more prospective members and Graham Charnock and Emily Owen as 'back-up crew'.
Andrew Jackson led us home, finishing 33rd overall in a time of 36:49. Second home, Craig Tipton was just over 40 mins, not far off his pb. Peter Grimoldy and Martyn Stearn finished 1st and 3rd respectively in the very competitive M60 category. Our first lady was Rebecca Winter who knocked over 5 minutes off her previous pb. She modestly stated afterwards that she could have gone faster if her coaching team had managed to keep up with her! In total we had a staggering 14 pbs - others achieving theirs were Adrian Leach, Darren Horobin, David Hughes, Jenny Dews, Michael Knowles, Gail Wrangles, John Knowles, Tim Owen, Karen Spedding, Angela Dixon, Mel Owen, Sheleen Naylor and Jane Bleakley.