Farnborough Foray

Angela Kerr and Steve Lewis headed to Surrey for the Farnborough Winter Half Marathon which took place in freezing, sub-zero temperatures on Sunday morning.

With both recovering from illness and injury it was all about getting round with Steve finishing in 2:08.25, 1304^th and Angela in 2:16.223, 1448^th with 1697 completing the flat 13.1m race run around Farnborough airfield and organised very efficiently by 2:09 events.

Grizzly gets closer

AVRs were out in force over the weekend practising for the Grizzly and Cub.  Two groups ran the Sid Vale Ring in gorgeous winter sunshine on Saturday while another two groups tackled the Cub route and beyond on Sunday.

Seaton parkrun

It was good to have the sunshine back for Seaton parkrun, and after a course check for ice the event was able to go ahead with 157 finishers.  It was a clean sweep for the AVR men with first finisher Ritchie Durrant in a PB of 16:51 followed by Richard Hardy in 17:22, also second on age-grade with 78%, and Lee Moran in third in 18:35. Second female to finish was Kerry Board in 22:45.

Celebrating her birthday with a PB was Laura Kerr in 24:21. Helen Boehm got another PB of 37.14 while reaching her 50 milestone.  David Sadler celebrated his 200^th volunteering stint.  Congratulations to all three!