TR24 Pasky's Team

GRC's members who had the privilege of running in Team A were; Grant Davies, Joe Clarke, Richard Payne, Matthew Atter, Stuart Sinclair, Andrew Pask, Scott Jones and Caroline Davies.

First to set off was debutant Grant Davies who ran his first mile at an incredibly fast pace in-order to gain a position before the cross country course narrows. Bringing his team home in 6th place after one lap he passed on to Joe Clarke who ran a similar 'full throttle' pace.

After the first round of sunny afternoon laps, the team began the evening/night round of laps in 9th position overall. Andrew Pask ran the first fully dark lap and was fortunate to enjoy the 'Singer In The Woods' performance who he ran past three times. The night laps were not without incident though; Richard Payne had to withdraw after 2.5km of his 3rd lap through injury, passing to Grant Davies to complete the lap. Also Andrew Pask finished his lap at 04:30 without Scott Jones there to receive the baton. Andrew on heavy legs ran to wake Scott and then continued to run the first 2.5km of Scott's lap. Despite the incidents the GRC team only lost around 10mins in total.

Dawn broke and the team were pushing on. After some maths and with most runners having completed their 4th 10km lap, it was obvious that in-order to allow Caroline Davies to start her first lap before the 12:00 shut-off the final two runners would need to average under 50mins. That they did and Scott handed the baton to Caroline just 3 mins before the cut-off after running their 2nd last lap, the unstoppable Caroline set-off for her 4th lap, securing the teams lofty position.

The whole of Team A awaited the arrival of Caroline on the finish straight armed with the GRC flag to celebrate. Caroline, showing no let-up in the pace arrived minutes earlier than expected. After being passed the flag the team couldn't keep Caroline's pace for the celebratory finish but were delighted with their 9 place out of 215 teams of 8.