It was a almost a clean sweep of personal bests at Prestwold
Hall on Sunday 28th October with five of the six Grantham Running
Club members taking part in the Leicestershire 10K securing new record figures.
Unsurprisingly the race had generally positive reviews: after
some congestion at the start, runners had plenty of space on the airfield based
race, but had to contend with the perennial issue on such courses, namely
exposure to the wind. At least pleasant autumnal sunshine took the edge off the
cold southerly. The course was mostly flat, sometimes on gravel, with a grand
finish in front of the Hall, complete with a compare giving a shout out to each
and every finisher, who was rewarded with medal, drink, banana, flapjack and
sweets!
New club member Russell Love was first to finish, setting an
excellent new PB of 41:19, which was nearly three minutes quicker than his
previous effort over 10K. He was followed by another new member Tim Brown, who
appears to have made his race debut, setting an impressive benchmark of 44:43
upon which to hopefully improve. Matt Fryer’s PB of 45:31 knocked 39 seconds
off his previous best.
Mark Jessop (1:03:30) was the unlucky GRC runner who didn’t
set a personal best at Prestwold Hall, but he can be satisfied with his second
quickest 10K of 2018. Although 39 seconds down her time at the multi-terrain
Clumber Park Trust 10K a week earlier, Louise Kennedy set an official 10K PB
with her 1:06:21 clocking - over two minutes quicker than her previous best set
two weeks ago at the Stilton Stumble. Amanda Hetherington completed the quintet
of personal record setters, taking nearly two minutes off her previous best
with 1:06:36.
The race was won by Nick Samuels of Sale Harriers Manchester
in 32:34 with Alice Daniel of Sheffield Hallam AC the winning woman in 37:04.
There were 728 finishers.
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