On a lighter but still bitterly cold evening, 28 runners, including 2 ‘first timers’, contested the April Handicap last night. Having finally recovered from a prolonged chest infection, Greg Whiteman stormed home first in a PB time of 19:46 knocking 29 secs of the time he set last April. Chris Wilson was 2nd, reducing his PB time of last month by 66 secs, and David Pearce 3rd in 21:15, 34 secs better than his PB time set in September 2011.
Matthew Pritchard ran an SB in 4th, ahead of first timer Kirstie Mitchell who was closely followed home by Sue Garnish and Kevin Stone. The next 3 positions were filled by Neil Sunderland, David Pimm and Jo Newstead who all ran SBs. Jon Kinsey in 12th was the only other PB finishing 3 secs ahead of Dominic Vizor whose time of 17:51 was the fastest of the evening. Libby Marchant, 20:39, was fastest lady.
With Rosie Gerrard away in France, David Pearce moves up to 1st in the League Table, 5 points ahead of her, and Kevin Stone only 3 points behind in 3rd. It looks, then, as though the overall winner will be one of these three. As you will see from the attached table, with prizes going down to the first 10 in the League, there is still all to play for. I’m so looking forward to the May race when I hope that all possible prize winners turn up! Many thanks to last night’s helpers and spectators.
RESULTS
RACE ORDER | TIME ORDER | |||||||||
Position | NAME | Start Time | Recorded Time | Position | NAME | Race Time | Pace | SB? | PB? | |
1 | Whiteman,Greg | 12:00 | 3146 | 1 | Vizor,Dominic | 17:51 | 5:57 | |||
2 | Wilson,Chris | 12:30 | 3331 | 2 | Hinton,Robb | 18:23 | 6:08 | |||
3 | Pearce,David | 12:30 | 3345 | 3 | Chang,Joe | 18:28 | 6:09 | |||
4 | Pritchard, Matthew | 12:10 | 3350 | 4 | Pimm,David | 18:53 | 6:18 | SB | ||
5 | Mitchell,Kirstie | 12:00 | 3415 | 5 | Downe,Ben | 19:14 | 6:25 | |||
6 | Garnish,Sue | 10:20 | 3420 | 6 | Whiteman,Greg | 19:46 | 6:35 | PB | ||
7 | Stone,Kevin | 13:00 | 3427 | 7 | Parker,Kevin | 19:51 | 6:37 | |||
8 | Sunderland,Neil | 08:30 | 3428 | 8 | Kinsey,Jon | 20:18 | 6:46 | PB | ||
9 | Pimm,David | 15:40 | 3433 | 9 | Grecian,Peter | 20:32 | 6:51 | |||
10 | Newstead,Jo | 09:30 | 3445 | 10 | Marchant,Libby | 20:39 | 6:53 | |||
11 | Dawson,Caroline | 10:30 | 3448 | 11 | Wilson,Chris | 21:01 | 7:00 | PB | ||
12 | Kinsey,Jon | 14:30 | 3448 | 12 | Pearce,David | 21:15 | 7:05 | PB | ||
13 | Vizor,Dominic | 17:00 | 3451 | 13 | Neal,Jonathan | 21:20 | 7:07 | |||
14 | Grecian,Peter | 14:20 | 3452 | 14 | Stone,Kevin | 21:27 | 7:09 | |||
15 | Hinton,Robb | 16:30 | 3453 | 15 | Pritchard, Matthew | 21:40 | 7:13 | SB | ||
16 | Kirk,Richard | 09:20 | 3454 | 16 | Emery,Ricky | 22:11 | 7:24 | |||
17 | Marchant,Libby | 14:20 | 3459 | 17 | Mitchell,Kirstie | 22:15 | 7:25 | FR | ||
18 | Downe,Ben | 15:50 | 3504 | 18 | Owen,Brett | 23:45 | 7:55 | FR | ||
19 | Kirk,Victoria | 10:20 | 3505 | 19 | Garnish,Sue | 24:00 | 8:00 | |||
20 | Warren,Natalie | 10:00 | 3507 | 20 | Dawson,Caroline | 24:18 | 8:06 | |||
21 | Chang,Joe | 16:40 | 3508 | 21 | Kirk,Victoria | 24:45 | 8:15 | |||
22 | Owen,Brett | 12:00 | 3545 | 22 | Warren,Natalie | 25:07 | 8:22 | |||
23 | Parker,Kevin | 16:00 | 3551 | 23 | Newstead,Jo | 25:15 | 8:25 | SB | ||
24 | Neal,Jonathan | 15:00 | 3620 | 24 | Kirk,Richard | 25:34 | 8:31 | |||
25 | Emery,Ricky | 14:20 | 3631 | 25 | Sunderland,Neil | 25:58 | 8:39 | SB | ||
26 | Esslemont,Sue | 06:10 | 3706 | 26 | Cenalmor,Maria | 28:53 | 9:38 | |||
27 | Brinkworth,Howard | 04:00 | 3721 | 27 | Esslemont,Sue | 30:56 | 10:19 | |||
28 | Cenalmor,Maria | 08:50 | 3743 | 28 | Brinkworth,Howard | 33:21 | 11:07 |
TOP 20 LEAGUE POSITIONS
Place | NAME | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Total |
1 | Pearce,David | 24 | 26 | 27 | 19 | 20 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 28 | 186 | |
2 | Gerrard,Rosie | 15 | 24 | 19 | 24 | 28 | 22 | 18 | 19 | 12 | 181 | ||
3 | Stone,Kevin | 15 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 29 | 26 | 23 | 5 | 23 | 178 | ||
4 | Kinsey,Jon | 15 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 18 | 20 | 144 | ||||
5 | Marchant,Libby | 15 | 15 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 10 | 138 | ||||
6 | Thurston,James | 29 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 24 | 136 | ||||||
7 | Wilson,Chris | 15 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 134 | ||||||
8 | Pimm,David | 16 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 23 | 116 | |||
9 | Dawson,Caroline | 28 | 28 | 17 | 29 | 12 | 114 | ||||||
10 | Fuentes,Javier | 27 | 25 | 25 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 113 | ||||
11= | Emery,Ricky | 15 | 29 | 13 | 29 | 21 | 5 | 112 | |||||
11= | Downe,Ben | 15 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 25 | 23 | 10 | 112 | ||||
13 | Sunderland,Neil | 15 | 15 | 17 | 24 | 9 | 24 | 104 | |||||
14 | Garnish,Sue | 15 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 28 | 24 | 100 | |||||
15 | Coghlan,Chris | 30 | 29 | 17 | 5 | 17 | 98 | ||||||
16 | Fuentes,Jamie | 15 | 22 | 30 | 28 | 95 | |||||||
17 | Kirk,Richard | 15 | 15 | 21 | 30 | 5 | 6 | 92 | |||||
18 | Whiteman,Greg | 15 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 30 | 91 | |||||
19 | Harris,Daniel | 22 | 21 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 86 | ||||
20 | Fawzy,Moustafa | 21 | 10 | 22 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 83 |