AVRs make a splash at the Honiton Hippo
Eleven AVRs took on the Honiton Hippo; a tough, hilly off-road challenge of more than 7 miles with many river crossings to navigate.
Eleanor Wood was an impressive third female finishing 26th in 1:04.54.
Despite a 50k stomp across Dartmoor last weekend, James Hawker came in 43rd in 1.10.28. Louise Harrison finished very strongly in 51st in an excellent 1.14.00. A very muddy Suzi Blackett was 65th in 1.18.49 having taken a plunge in one of the rivers.
Kelly Giles was 76th in 1.21.18 with Simon and Lindsey Freathy together in 88th in 1.26.17. Helen Holmes struggled with her nutrition and had a tough final mile finishing 94th in 1.28.06 followed by Rachel Hiscock in 109th in 1.38.58, Denise Burgess in 111th in 1.39.23 and Shirley Salter with a big smile on her face in 113th in 1.40.28. A total of 138 runners took part in the race organised brilliantly by Howard Bidmead and Honiton RC. All the results:
http://www.honitonrc.com/uploads/9/8/9/3/9893707/hippo2022resultprovisional.pdf
Glorious One-two at Glastonbury for AVR
Richard Hardy took the win in a huge PB of 34:13 at the Glastonbury Levels 10k, ran on a fast, flat out-and-back course on traffic-free roads. In a brilliant AVR 1-2, Joel Seward took second place in 34:37, also a PB.
Ian Kinnersley was second M60, 22nd in an excellent 43.19. The fourth AVR, Louise Rawlins was very pleased with her 57:12 as it was a minute quicker than last year. The race, organised by Mendip AC, attracted 98 runners.
Lush Leonardslee
Rob Collier and Sam Summers took part in a pilot event for the Brighton Marathon trail series 10k held at Leonardslee Gardens, near Horsham in West Sussex. It was a hilly route of shale paths through woodland in the stunning setting of a grade 1 listed garden. Rob came in ninth and first M50 in 43:21 with Sam completing it in 1:25.19.
Seaton parkrun
At Seaton parkrun on Saturday conditions were perfect for a fast run and local youngster Innes Fitzgerald took full advantage smashing both her own female course record and the age-grade record for Seaton with her 16:17 second-place finish, just two seconds behind Wayne Loveridge who finished in a lifetime best of 16:15 as he managed to just hold on for first finisher. AVR’s Rik Tumber was seventh finisher in a PB of 19:02.
