The second race of the Lincoln Wellington AC 5K Series, held
on Tuesday 25th June, saw another impressive turnout of sixteen runners
for the low-cost, no-thrills, multi-lap race held on the footpaths around the
LWAC HQ at the Yarborough Leisure Centre in Lincoln. After a day of heavy rain
that finally relented three hours or so before the 7:30 race start, heavy cloud
cover and cool temperatures provided very good conditions for running, with
only a light to moderate breeze hindering progress over certain sections of the
course.
Matthew Kingston-Lee and Chris Limmer, the first two
finishers for GRC, went into the race decidedly downbeat over their prospects
but both came away very happy with their unexpectedly strong performances.
Matthew eased himself into the race with a moderately steady opening mile and
then accelerated prog
PB for Andy |
Chris Limmer, who is beginning to reap the benefits of the
preparation put into running May’s Thames Path 100 mile long race, was on the
heels of Matthew for much of the race and only dropped back when Matthew
accelerated in the closing stages. His time of 17:22 was fourteen seconds
quicker than his May effort at Lincoln and his quickest 5K time in five years.
Ahead of Matthew for the opening small lap of the race was Joaquim Jeronimo,
who opted for the ‘go out hard and hang on as best you can’ strategy. Although
this predictably saw ‘Flash’ slow steadily over the course of the race, he
showed considerable determination to control the fade in the closing kilometre
to finish in an excellent 18:05 – 23 seconds quicker than the PB he set in the
opening race of the series and with the same finishing position of 36th.
Rob Howbrook who, as in the May race, took part in the
preceding Memory Mile, where he matched his time of 5:38, couldn’t quite match
his outstanding 5K performance a month earlier where he broke his PB, but his
time of 19:10 was still good enough to comfortably come first in the V60 age
category. Peter Bonner, who had a great Memory Mile run, finishing fifth in
5:22, bettering his May time by 18 seconds and setting a new fledgling club
record, finished the 5K very close to Rob in 19:13, 23 seconds down on his 5K
PB set at Eye in the ARC sanctioned race in June.
Andy Atter, who is in the opening stages of preparation for
the Chester Marathon in October, was pleased to better his official 5K PB by
one second with 20:04, although he has broken 20 minutes on three occasions at
parkruns. He was closely followed in 20:09 by a seemingly rejuvenated Jack
Dodwell, who broke his 5K PB by an impressive 56 seconds just a month after
running 21:06 at the May LWAC 5K.
Another runner who went home from Lincoln very happy having
arrived with low expectations was Stefan Latter, who bettered his official 5K
PB, set at May’s LWAC5K, by 25 seconds, clocking 20:25. Sam Jepson-Rivers was
next to finish on his official 5K debut, clocking 20:39 half an hour or so
after he had run 5:49 in the Memory Mile. Nick Rossington had also run the
Memory Mile, bettering his May time by 22 seconds with 6:02. He was then nearly
two minutes quicker than his May LWAC 5K time with 20:46, approaching his 2018
season’s best of 20:30. Nick was pushed hard to the finish by Sam Dodwell
(20:48), who continued his impressive improvement over the course of the year,
improving on his May LWAC 5K time by 36 seconds.
Holly's first ever mile race |
Holly Durham was next to finish, first of three GRC women to
take part in the race. Having run the
Memory Mile in 6:24, Holly put in a solid
performance to clock 21:07. Paul Kelly was another to clock a 5K PB, bettering
his May LWAC 5K time by 23 seconds coming in at 21:59. In his first official 5K
race Wayne Baxter ran well to clock 24:41, which is quicker than any parkrun he
has completed this year and only 19 seconds off his best parkrun time, set at
Rutland Water in 2018.
Completing the GRC contingency was Sarah High, who notched
up a 5K PB on her Power of 10 profile, bettering her December 2018 time by over
a minute with a fine 25:27, and Tracy Webb (28:12) who, two days after racing
in Peterborough, ran well to finish just two seconds slower than she had at
Lincoln a month earlier.
In an impressive display of depth and quality, hosts Lincoln
Wellington AC all but dominated the top ten, with Joe Wilkinson leading the
first of nine consecutive LWAC finishers with a time of 15:11. The club also
won a quality women’s race courtesy of Abbie Donnelly finishing in 16:50. There
were 156 finishers.
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