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| Liz at the Clayton 10k |
The full results were:
39.26 Tony Taylor
46.14 Lindsay Beeston
52.19 Heather Carter
56.11 Liz O’Keeffe
On Saturday there was a record attendance by Sandbach
Striders at the Congleton 5k parkrun with 20 members of the club running the
three laps of Astbury mere, five of whom cycled there and back in preparation for
an upcoming triathlon. Lindsay Beeston continued his run of good form with a
new personal best, as did Andrew Gibson who was spurred on by the club’s Mr
Motivator Terry Coppenhall.
Molly Pheasey had a financial incentive from her mum Clare this week to improve her time and managed to knock three minutes off her personal best thus tripling her pocket money for the week. Kelly White and Paul Morris made the successful transition from the free weekly couch-to-5k course the club regularly puts on to complete their first parkruns. Isobel Bennett also proved once more that it isn’t just new runners who can show an improvement by recording yet another 5k personal best time.
Molly Pheasey had a financial incentive from her mum Clare this week to improve her time and managed to knock three minutes off her personal best thus tripling her pocket money for the week. Kelly White and Paul Morris made the successful transition from the free weekly couch-to-5k course the club regularly puts on to complete their first parkruns. Isobel Bennett also proved once more that it isn’t just new runners who can show an improvement by recording yet another 5k personal best time.
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| Catherine, Clare, Jo, Cheryl and Jason at the Congleton parkrun |
19:20 Tony Taylor
21:51 Gordon Hutchins
22:13 Lindsay Beeston
22:20 Andrew Gibson
22:20 Terry Coppenhall
24:31 Mat Simister
25:01 Jason Bulley
25:49 Heather Carter
25:56 Cheryl Hutchins
26:08 Johanna Bulley
28:18 Molly Pheasey
28:19 Garry Pheasey
28:30 Kelly White
28:31 Paul Morris
29:12 Isobel Bennett
29:45 Sally Murray
32:02 Eve Roberts
36:23 Heidi Pheasey
36:23 Clare Pheasey
36:23 Catherine Greaves
Sunday was also a busy day for running events with Striders
being represented in five very different events.
Firstly, Vicky Thorley showed what you can achieve with a
little dedication by running her first 10k since joining the club only a couple
of months ago. Accompanied by club social secretary Karen Lovatt they completed
the Race for Life 10k at Delamere Forest. The ladies ran together and finished in 1 hour 17 mins.
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| Karen Lovatt, Vicky Thorley and Claire Platts at the Race for Life 10k |
Never wanting to take the easy option, three Striders
completed the ultra-tough Leaden Boot 26.2 mile challenge, which includes 5800
feet of ascent. This popular event which is open to both runners and walkers starts
and finishes in the White Peak village of Alstonefield. Jason finished in 7:08, Matt in 8:01 and Elaine in 8:28
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| Matt Wood, Paul Nicholls, Jason Bulley and Elaine Wood at the Leaden Boot |
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| Elaine having her feet blessed before the event. |
Also in action on Sunday along with around 40,000 other
competitors was Tom Mayell in the Great Manchester 10k, he managed to beat
both snooker ex-world champion Shaun Murphy and Take That member Mark Owen in a time of 47 minutes
dead.
Another popular local race ran on Sunday was the Chester
half-marathon, new Strider Jan Peake was amongst the finishers managing to
complete his first half-marathon.
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| Orla with her mum Elaine at the Chester Half-marathon |
1:53:05 Elaine Tatham
1:55:08 Jan Peake
Meanwhile in Wales Steve Treweeks took on the challenge of
his first fell race, running 10.5 miles over Calder iris. This tough race
includes over 4000 feet of ascent / descent, Steve finished the race in 2:24:16