Pen y Ghent course incorporates the British champs
PEN Y GHENT (inc. British Mountain Operating Championships and Inter-Counties), Horton-in-Ribblesdale, June 14
Nancy Scott of Aldershot, Farnham and District and Ross Gollan from East Sutherland AC, representing Scotland North, had been victorious within the UKA Inter-Counties Mountain Race held over the Pen y Ghent course on Saturday (June 14), Ian Hartman stories.
The race included the UKA Mountain Operating Championships and was additionally used for choosing the England crew for the Snowdon Worldwide Race on July 19.
Settle Harriers hosted the occasion at Horton-in-Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire. There had been warnings of heavy thunderstorms the day gone by however aside from a number of heavy showers, one in every of which coincided with the beginning of the feminine race at 12:30pm, the climate was ultimate for operating. Even the early morning mist on the summit of Pen y Ghent had cleared away by then.
Nancy Scott gained the Inter-Counties race and UKA Mountain Operating Championships forward of Elle Twentyman (Derbyshire/Rugby & Northampton AC).
Isla Paterson (Gala Harriers), who was not representing a county, was third, with fourth-placed runner, Eve Pannone (Cumbria/Ambleside AC) taking the Inter-Counties bronze medal.
Fifteen counties fielded full groups with the Yorkshire crew taking the gold medals, one level forward of Cumbria with Surrey two factors additional again in third.
By the point the boys’s race began half-hour later, the storm had handed over. Ross Gollan repeated his victory over main under-23, Finlay Grant (Derbyshire/Darkish Peak Fell Runners) within the current UKA Fell & Hill championship in Scotland, with Oscar Subuh-Symons (Surrey) taking third.
There have been 23 males’s groups. Yorkshire’s males emulated their ladies’s crew with victory by 5 factors over Derbyshire and Lancashire with the latter taking silver medals on account of their closing runner ending one place forward of the final counter from Derbyshire.
Males (12.2km/612m): 1 R Gollan (Scot North) 47:53; 2 F Grant (Derbs) 48:16; 3 O Subuh-Symons (Surr) 48:19; 4 M Knowles (Lancs) 48:52; 5 F McGrath (Bris) 49:11; 6 N Edmondson (Yorks res) 49:14; 7 L McCourt (NE Counties) 49:19; 8 J Battrick (Cumbr) 49:28; 9 A Heyes (Yorks) 49:49; 10 D Dry (Scot West) 50:20; 11 T Hilton (Scot East) 50:21; 12 F Lydon (L&R) 50:26; 13 D Haworth (Mat) 50:30; 14 J Cummings (Yorks) 50:35; 15 G Cunliffe (Lancs) 50:39; 16 W Tighe (Derbs) 50:46; 17 T Wooden (Wales North) 50:47; 18 S Nutter (Bord) 50:48; 19 D Clarke (Yorks) 50:51; 20 G Foster (Cumbr) 50:56
TEAM: 1 Yorks 33; 2 Lancs 38; 3 Derbs 38; 4 Cumb 43; 5 Scot East 47; 6 Scot West 67; 7 Scot North 84; 8 Wales North 87; 9 NE Counties 89; 10 NIR 89
Ladies: 1 N Scott (Surr) 54:35; 2 E Twentyman (Derbs) 54:57; 3 I Paterson (Gala) 56:50; 4 E Pannone (Cumbr) 57:01; 5 C MacDonald ((NE Counties) 57:21; 6 A Pearse (Yorks) 59:44; 7 R Mather (Yorks) 60:01; 8 C Powell (Cumbr) 60:10; 9 E Weir (Surr) 60:22; 10 Okay Walshaw (Yorks) 60:26; 11 M Browne (Yorks) 60:32; 12 H Lavelock-Allan (Cumbr) 60:46; 13 E McColm (Lancs) 61:33; 14 L Powell-Smith (Lancs) 61:36; 15 N Beadle (Surr) 61:42
TEAM: 1 Yorks 20; 2 Cumbr 21; 3 Surr 23; 4 Scot East 64; 5 NIR 67; 6 Derbs 70; 7 NE Counties 78; 8 Lancs 78; 9 Wales North 85; 10 L&R 31
MAN V HORSE CHALLENGE, Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, June 14
Dewi Griffiths turned solely the fifth runner – and the primary Welshman – to win the race, ending almost 13 minutes forward of main horse Gweni, ridden by Gabi Morley, to earn himself a trophy and £250.
Total (24M/4000ft): 1 Dewi Griffiths 2:23:58; 2 Jonathan Morris 2:37:26; 3 Peter Taylor-Bray 2:37:29; 4 Micah Drew 2:39:00; 5 Dominic Jones (M40) 2:43:03; 6 Matt O’keefe (M40) 2:52:02
M50: Anthony Glover 3:10:24
M60: Dave Powell 3:35:42
M70: Mike Warrick 4:04:15
Ladies: 1 Rhianwedd Weimer 3:13:39; 2 Sam Avery 3:14 01; 3 Ellie Baverstock 3:18:09; 4 Poppy Tanner 3:21:00
W40: Jo Lloyd Davies 3:30:48
W60: Ruth Hutton 3:47:06
SEVEN HILLS OF EDINBURGH, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, June 15
Total (14.3M/2200ft, age underneath M50/W45 not declared): 1 J Eykelbosch (Cors) 99:04; 2 J Barrable (Cors) 1:43:34; 3 S Paterson (Ochil) 1:46:41; 4 S Napier (C’thy) 1:49:16; 5 A Luetchford (HBT) 1:51:13; 6 J Mckenna (C’thy) 1:52:00
M50: Okay Speirs (Cors) 2:03:30
M60: A Hogg (C’thy) 2:39:45
M70: Jimmy Hudson 2:59:38
TEAM: 1 Cors 12; 2 HBT 30; 3 Dutch R 124
Ladies: 1 Isla Cubitt 2:07:21; 2 Elaine Baxter (W45) 2:09:02; 3 I Ellwood (Edin) 2:21:04; 4 S Robinson (HBT) 2:25:25
W55: J Sanders (C’thy) 2:34:43
TEAM: HBT 303
WINCLE TROUT, Macclesfield, June 14
Total (5.5M/900ft): 1 J Bannister (Sale) 44:42; 2 S Harding (Sale, M40) 45:47; 3 B Hicks (Macc) 47:22; 4 A Beavers (Macc, M40) 47:55; 5 J Burgess (Staffs M, M40) 48:34; 6 D Lawler (Staffs M) 48:51
M50: T Greenald (Alt) 52:48
M60: Duncan Cowie 61:34
M70: M Moorhouse (Mat) 62:29
TEAM: 1 Macc 20; 2 Staffs M 47; 3 Boll 56
Ladies: 1 Amelia Pagett 51:17;2 H Wall (Staffs M, W40) 52:55; 3 Kate Davies (W40) 55:01; 4 A Loftus (Chorlton) 57:17
W50: S Fourie (R Free) 57:41
W60: C Tregaskis (Ross) 65:10
W70: A-M Jones (Macc) 69:31
TEAM: 1 Macc 397; 2 Staffs M 603; 3 Sinf 1001
SWALEDALE FELL MARATHON, Swaledale, June 14
Total (23M/3586ft, h:m solely): 1 R Saether (E Hull) 3:01; 2 G Baker (Amble) 3:02; 3 C Alborough (Dur F) 3:12; 4 R Gaughan (Decide) 3:16; 5 Julian Simpson (M50) 3:22; 6 B Hamilton (Swale) 3:23
M60: A Henderson (Dur F) 4:03
Ladies: 1 E Thompson (Elvet, W40) 3:55; 2 J Younger (Swale, W40) 3:58; 3 E Harrison (T&S, W40) 4:06; 4 F Billinghurst (Neth’ll) 4:07
W60: V Clarke (Darl) 4:41
MEELS, Trassey, June 12
Total (3.5M/1800ft): 1 A Crutchley (Newc) 36:48; 2 J Millar (Mourne) 36:59; 3 D Hicks (Newc, M45) 37:50; 4 E McMullan (Newc) 37:57; 5 Michael Patterson 38:35; 6 Paul Rooney (M40) 38:59
M50: W Fleck (B’mena) 42:22
M65: D McGreevy (Newc) 46:26
M70: Peter McGuckin 57:54
M80: J Adgey (N Down) 69:06
Ladies: 1 E Dickson (Newry) 44:49; 2 D Wilson Drom, W55) 46:20; 3 S Mcintyre (Runwell, W40) 47:15; 4 S Hanna (Mourne) 48:10
W60: A McNeill (Drom) 60:10
U20: Holy Fisher 49:05
