SOUTH OF THE THAMES 7.5-MILE CHAMPIONSHIP, Tonbridge, Kent
Somerhill College performed host to the occasion that has been on the calendar since 1888 for the lads and 2004 for the ladies and Georgie Bruinvels prolonged her domination of the Affiliation’s girls’s occasions with one other victory.
The Aldershot grasp had gained the South of the Thames staff race in November to make it three victories within the shorter five-mile occasion to go along with two second locations and right here, Bruinvels made it three wins over the more durable seven-and-a-half-mile championship distance.
The victory marked a swift restoration for the 36-year-old because it got here simply six days after a 2:44:47 marathon in Pisa, a time which in comparison with her 2:38:22 for third in final yr’s Manchester Marathon, a race she had gained in 2017 in 2:37:03.
Bruinvels famous the way it was good to run on a unique however troublesome course and mentioned: “It was insanely muddy and slippery, so the most important goal was to remain standing.
“I’d say that I felt good, it’s at all times enjoyable working in combined races, particularly over the cross and when they’re longer. I simply labored arduous when it was good underfoot and tried to remain upright when it wasn’t. It was good to do a unique course too.”
Simply as within the shorter November race, Belgrave Harriers simply took the ladies’s staff medals and it was second positioned Rachel Brown who obtained the higher of team-mate Emily Robbins to cause them to victory.
Cole Gibbens (Mark Hookway)
The boys’s race noticed hosts Tonbridge dominate, as their Cole Gibbens, who has two Kent 10-mile victories underneath his belt this yr, led house their six runners into the highest 9 scoring locations.
It was Stuart Brown who took second for Tonbridge as third positioned Findlay Dyer helped Belgrave to narrowly take the second positioned males’s staff medals from Tonbridge’s B staff.
General: 1 C Gibbens (Ton) 43:21; 2 S Brown (Ton) 43:39; 3 F Dyer (Belg) 43:49; 4 L Mills (Ton) 43:59; 5 M Taylor (Ton) 44:06; 6 A Howard (Ton) 44:49; 7 E Mallett (HW) 44:55; 8 M Grindrod (B&H) 45:06; 9 P Chambers (Excessive, gst) 45:09; 10 J Goodge (Ton) 45:17
M40: 1 M Evans (B&B) 48:46
M45: 1 J Lane (M&M) 50:07
M50: 1 S Winder (E&E) 49:54
M55: 1 T Sales space (G&G) 52:06
M60: 1 M Tennyson (G&G) 56:29
M65: 1 S Bean (E&E) 61:40
M75: 1 G Newton (B’mth) 75:31
DEWER SHIELD TEAM (6 to attain): 1 Tonbridge 27; 2 Belgrave 95; 3 Tonbridge B 112; 4 Blackheath & Bromley) 241; 5 Tunbridge Wells H 356; 6 Tonbridge C 360
COLMAN CUP TEAM (12 to attain): 1 Tonbridge 139; 2 Tunbridge Wells 921; 3 Tunbridge Wells B 1505
Tonbridge AC (Mark Hookway)
Girls: 1 G Bruinvels (AFD, W35) 50:33; 2 R Brown (Belg) 51:16; 3 E Robbins (Belg) 51:40; 4 B Murray (THH) 52:52; 5 E Bradley (Belg) 54:34; 6 A Roydon (M&M, U20) 55;58; 7 A Karlsson (Tun W) 56:43; 8 S Glecross (E&E, U20) 57:48; 9 L Mangan (Belg) 58:05; 10 L Goodson (Belg) 58:06
W40: 1 M Armstrong-Plieth (Croy) 62:14
W55: 1 T Oldershaw (Ton) 63:55; 2 O Balme (Dulw R) 64:19
W60: 1 T Taylor (Tun W) 64:28; 2 A Norris (Dulw R) 65:21
W65: 1 P Iannella (S Lon) 71:38
W70: 1 M Statham-Berry (Ling) 72:38
TEAM: 1 Belgrave 40; 2 Dulwich R 126; 3 Tunbridge Wells 145
Saltwell 10km (David Hewitson)
SALTWELL 10km ROAD RACE, Gateshead, Tyne & Put on, December 21
Linton Taylor and Lucy Crookes got here out on high of an occasion that claims to be “England’s oldest highway race.”
Over a three-lap undulating course, Taylor, the 2020 English Nationwide cross-country bronze medallist, had a snug males’s race win in 32:44, whereas Crookes, a former team-mate of Taylor at Metropolis of Leeds, added the ladies’s title from W45 and three-time English Colleges winner, Justina Heslop in 37:20.
It was solely Crookes second outing of the yr following a win within the Heaton Harriers Memorial race in November which was her first outing for greater than a yr.
Linton Taylor (David Hewitson)
General: 1 L Taylor (Leeds) 32:44; 2 D Hughes (B’hill) 33:10; 3 N Marsh (Leeds) 33:24
M40: 1 S Jackson (Sund) 33:33
M50: 1 M Anderson (Clare) 37:18
M60: 1 I Norman (Warmth) 40:17
Girls: 1 L Crookes (Tyne B) 37:20; 2 J Heslop (Elsw, W45) 38:37
Lucy Crookes (David Hewitson)
FRIDAY NIGHT UNDER THE LIGHTS 5, Battersea Park, London, December 20
Bournemouth’s asylum seeker Abdinasir Elmi had a snug victory over Cameron Allan and Andrew Penney in 23:10 as he acted as pace-maker for the whole area.
After travelling to the UK from Somalia, Elmi is now unbeaten in 9 races since his first within the Poole 10km on the finish of September and his membership mentioned that: “While he was in Somalia, Abdinasir spent a while coaching with a number of the world’s high athletes together with Mo Farah and Bashir Abdi. He’s run half marathons in 63 minutes and 64 minutes.”
Right here, Alland and Penney had no reply as Elmi went away proper from the beginning, establishing a nine-second lead over a giant group after simply over a kilometre, clocked at 2:35.
The chasing group numbered greater than a dozen at this level with Jonathan Collier narrowly forward of the remaining.
The chasers have been whittled right down to eight, led by Ben Alcock, at two thirds distance, earlier than the ultimate shoot out noticed Elmi’s 28 second lead then pegged again to 21 seconds as Allan obtained the nod over Penney and Sam Gebreselassie in 23;31.
The ladies’s part noticed Naomi Taschimowitz come out on high in 26:57 with a ten second margin over Kate Estlea-Morris, with Ruby Carter a distant third in 27:31.
This was the Shaftesbury over-35 athlete’s first outing since a 2:40:30 marathon debut in Amsterdam in October.
Runners from older age teams typically gave the race a miss however one over-60, Clare Elms did toe the road and was given 30:47, a time simply three seconds exterior her personal British W60 finest set at Wolverton in November. This was within the first and slower race of the 2 on supply.
General (Race 2): 1 A Elmi (B’mth) 23:10; 2 C Allan (Hought) 23:31; 3 A Penney (HW) 23:32; 4 S Gebreselassie (Belg) 23:35; 5 B Alcock (Mattress C) 23:38; 6 B Bradley (AFD) 23:40; 7 A Fyfe (Belg) 23:43; 8 T Butler (SB) 23:48; 9 J Collier (Kent) 23:53; 10 D Mulryan (TVH) 24:18; 11 A Milne (HW) 24:21; 12 H Brodie (Mattress C) 24:23; 13 B Dewer (Herne H) 24:34; 14 J Hancock (Belg) 24:37; 15 A Parkinson (Corby) 24:43; 16 M Harrison (Mattress C) 24:45; 17 L Laylee (Herne H) 24:48; 18 B Sporle (S’finish) 24:48; 19 R McCawley (AFD) 24:48; 20 C Walker-Powell (Ports) 24:51
M40: 1 Z Hale (B&H) 26:05
M45: 1 S Fell (P’boro &NV) 27:14
M50: 1 J Lawler (Excessive) 27:17
M55: 1 T Sales space (G&G) 28:22
Girls: 1 N Taschimowitz (SB, W35) 26:57; 2 Okay Estlea-Morris (AFD) 27:07; 3 R Carter (HW) 27:31; 4 E Howsham (Learn) 27:47; 5 G Kersey (Bas) 27:48; 6 E Apsley (THH) 28:03; 7 L Thompson (VP&TH, W35) 28:27; 8 S Forbes-Smith (Clap) 28:52; 9 Okay Natkiel (Phoe) 28:58; 10 R Piggott (Lon H, W35) 29:20
Race 1
Girls: 1 Okay McArthur (Greatest A) 30:14; 2 S Delderfield (VoA, W40) 29:49; 3 C Elms (Kent, W60) 30:47
HULAVINGTON SECRET SANTA 10, Wiltshire, December 22
General: 1 A Daniel (T Tub) 53:17; 2 J Bellward (Chipp, M40) 54:17; 3 J Cracknell (L Goat, M40) 54:32
Girls: 1 S Trahair-Williams 65:06
LOFTUS POULTRY RUN MULTI-TERRAIN, North Yorkshire, December 22
General (7.5M MT): 1 M Creasey (Mandale) 38:33; 2 H Allan (Excessive) 38:33; 3 L Gamble-Thompson (N Marske) 39:59
M50: 1 A Ackersley (N York M) 45:53
Girls: 1 A Pigford (Hought) 47:14
W50: 1 S Thornton (N Marske) 50:28
TORRINGTON CHRISTMAS CAPER 10 MULTI-TERRAIN, DEVON, December 22
James Baker took his lifetime profitable tally over all distances and Park Runs to 1158 with victory on this occasion described as ‘10 miles of mud, forest trails, rivers and hills.’
The Chichester racing machine had good firm as 1989 English Colleges 3000m fourth placer and junior worldwide Ceri Rees, who’s now over-50 and into off-road long-distance working, took second.
General (9M Approx. MT): 1 J Baker (Chich R, M45) 62:07; 2 C Rees (Tav, M50) 63:39
Girls: 1 R Ezra-Hamm (Tamar) 69:51
WOLVERHAMPTON TURKEY TROT 5, West Midlands, December 22
General: 1 A Davies (Maldwyn) 24:58
Girls: 1 B Tabor (Tip) 29:17
LEE VALLEY VELOPARK HALF-MARATHON, Stratford, London, December 20
General: 1 J Campbell (Clap) 71:25
Girls: 1 E Gordon (Belg) 83:00
WESTON PROM 5, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, December 19
General: 1 J Williamson (S’burn) 25:28; 2 S Rodda (Learn) 25:36; 3 N Williams (Vale R) 25:43
M50: 1 Okay Summers (Weston) 27:29
M70: 1 J Malone (Nailsea) 35:55
Girls: 1 C Baker (B&W) 28:32; 2 J Heffer (B&W) 29:51
W50: 1 Okay Hughes (W’bury) 31:14
W60: 1 S Masters (W’bury) 34:52
CHASE THE MOON BATTERSEA PARK, London, December 18
General (5km): 1 N Bester (Greatest A) 15:18; 2 O Garrod (Belg) 15:31
M70: 1 D Pitt (Serp) 20:56
Girls: 1 I Padfield 16:43
W40: 1 L Bailey 17:26
General (10km): 1 H Hart (Belg) 31:58; 2 T Holliday (VP&TH) 32:01
M55: 1 M Morris (Serp) 36:39
Girls: 1 G Reynolds (Herne H, W40) 35:16; 2 E Doull 36:04
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