Notfast 10k

From: Grantham Running Club [mailto:admin@granthamrunningclub.co.uk]
Sent: 15 July 2014 10:17
To: John Burgess
Cc: event@granthamrunningclub.co.uk
Subject: Athletics Report

Notfast 10k

Grantham Running Club picked up two of the prizes at the 27^th Notfast 10k race from Newark Rugby Ground, Catherine Payne (pictured left) won the shield for first lady and Penny Hodges (pictured left) won the prize for first female veteran.

00:43:43	Catherine	Payne
00:45:37	Penny	Hodges
00:46:14	Robert	McArdle
00:52:37	Paul	Durham

Bushy 10k

Andrew Pask lowered his PB by almost 90 seconds over this course round Orton in Peterborough and was closely followed by Abi Schofield also enjoying a great season who was third lady to cross the line. Another GRC member in good form, Yvonne Taylor set a season’s best. Full results;

			Time
Andrew Pask		M	41:24
Abi Schofield		F	41:37
Brendon Buckley		MV	63:03
Yvonne Taylor		FV	68:48

Whissendine 6

Two GRC runners made the short trip to Rutland to take part in this six mile road race on an undulating course round Stapleford Park. Dean Riggall finished in the top 25 with a time of 41:19 with teammate Gwenda Williams finishing in 59:10

Parkrun Newark

In this week’s Parkrun both of GRC’s men gave good accounts of themselves with Rob Howbrook finishing just a few seconds outside his already impressive PB in 20:59 and Andrew MacAllister setting a new best time of 25:15

Regards

Robert McArdle

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Bushy 10k

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Here is a photo of GRC's Andrew Pask with his sister Louise at the Bushy 10k on Sunday. Welsh born Andrew came to Grantham with the RAF and found inspiration to run his best ever time on Sunday from the visit from his elder sister seen here wearing the colours of the Islwyn club from his native Wales.

Machu Picchu Trail and Thurlby 10k

Machu Picchu Trail

Grantham Running Club's Paul Rushworth started the first leg of his world tour with a high altitude run in Peru along the Inca Trail, to reduce the nausea Paul had to chew coco leaves to keep him going through the higher passes. The next stop on his trip is the Colca Canyon in the South of the country for an attempt at the course record.

Thurlby 10k

 

GRC's Catherine Payne picked up the medal as third lady in this 10k race in South Lincolnshire in a time of 43:52 with teammate Robert McArdle finishing in 46:59

Newark Parkrun

This week saw three PBs from the GRC runners at Newark.

Chris ARMSTRONG	21:32	M
Nick PAYNE	23:57	M	New PB
Helen BROWN	26:58	F	New PB
Brendon BUCKLEY	30:30	M	New PB

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Notts 10 Mile Road Race

In the early evening sunshine at the Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre in Nottingham Andrew Pask set a Personal Best time as he led the Grantham Running Club runners on this two lap race round the rowing lakes. There were impressive debuts at this distance by Andrew Spencer and Marc Tremain. With an off road ultra in the Peak District looming next week both Paul Rushworth and Ben Mason eased back on the pace in preparation but still posted respectable times

Time
67:07		Andrew	Pask (PB)		M
68:46		Paul	Rushworth		M
70:42		Ben	Mason		M
76:02		Andrew	Spencer		M
76:23		Mark	Hillson		M
78:25		Marc	Tremain		M
91:57		Lucy	Roberts		F

Newark Parkrun

12 hours after completing the Notts 10 GRC runners Marc Tremain and Lucy Roberts joined their teammates for the Saturday morning Parkrun in a torrential downpour. Despite the tricky conditions there were PB's for the club's first male and female runners with both Stuart in 20:22 and Abi in 21:25 taking exactly one second off their previous marks! Performance of the day was from Kevin Baker who despite being held up on the way to the event started late and overtook 190 runners on his way to the finish. Full GRC results below;