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| Wendy and Simon Smith |
Eight members of Grantham Running Club headed to the South
Holland district of Lincolnshire to take part in the Long Sutton 10K on Sunday
17th November 2019. As with many other fenland road races the
organisers, Sublime Racing, promote the event as a fast, flat, PB friendly
course, with the caveat that the weather conditions, namely the absence of
wind, need to be kind. Fortunately for the 497 who completed the race weather
gods were relatively generous and some quick times were duly witnessed as a
result.
First home for GRC and a week after running 45:01 at the
Essex Remembrance 10K Run in Saffron Walden, Chris Armstrong bettered that 2019
best by just shy of half a minute with a 44:34 clocking. He was followed by recent
club recruit Kate Yates who, in just her second race outing for the club, ran a
very fine 46:50 in her first recorded performance over 10K. This time is likely
to see her finish in the top five GRC women for the distance in 2019.
Behind Kate, Emma Weighill comfortably ran a season’s best
59:29, her second quickest ever 10K and only 28 seconds off her PB set at
Woodhall Spa in 2018. Ronnie Wilkinson, who joined the club in June, recorded
her first known race performance, finishing just outside the hour in 1:00:02.
An impressive performance from Lisa Williams, another who has recently joined
GRC, saw her break her 10K PB, set at West Pinchbeck in September, by nearly
four minutes, coming home in 1:01:00.
Paula Ebbins completed her fifth 10K of 2019 in 1:06:06,
bettering her time set at the Long Sutton Spring 10K in March by eleven
seconds. Finally, husband and wife duo Wendy and Simon Smith crossed the finish
line together in 1:06:08 which earned Wendy a new 10K PB by over ninety
seconds.
The race was won by Ian Bailey of Sleaford
Striders in 33:15 with Juliet Potter of Charnwood AC the winning woman in
35:36.
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