Photo courtesy of Newcastle AC
Saturday 10th April, Mourne Mountains Northern Ireland, the first round of the 2010 British Fell Running Championship held over a new race route -Silent Valley, 10m/4500’. Race winner was Andy Symmonds (Kendal AC) in 1:43:56 from Morgan Donnelly (Borrowdale FR) running 1:44:14, and Rob Hope (Pudsey & Bramley) in 1:45:35. It was fantastic to have some good company for the race yesterday –a full Keswick AC men’s team placed 7th, behind strong teams from Borrowdale FR, Dark Peak FR, Pudsey & Bramley AC, Mourne Runners, Calder Valley FR and Eryri Harriers. Seeing Matthew come through so strong on the first climb was absolutely fantastic and I had to to push hard on some of the frankly brutal descents and climbs that followed to try and keep him in touch –had it not been for some sketchy lines taken over rough ground following Borrowdale vests we both may have pulled through for top 15 or top 10 finishes in what was a quality race at the sharp end.
Photo courtesy of Newcastle AC
The ladies acquitted themselves well too -Pippa picking up a win with a particularly strong effort in the opening British Championship race of the year, despite being quite under the weather, and leading the ladies to 4th in a very close team competition (team results here).
Photo courtesy of Newcastle AC
As I write this I’m now feeling somewhat tired out by a fantastic weekend of fine weather and some great fell racing –good crack. Well done to all who raced. Next British Championship race is the Sedbergh 3 Peaks race, 4.1m/1663’ on Saturday 27th June –If you haven’t got your entries in, do so now as the race will fill up long before.
17 Matthew Fraser 01:53:55
19 Steve Hebblethwaite 01:54:28
55 Jamie Luxmoore 02:09:55
93 Ian Davies 02:24:45
184 Chris Clark 03:35:58
1 Philippa Maddams 02:09:35
17 Julie Carter 02:30:30
20 Joanne Gillyon 02:38:00
25 Holly Williamson 02:45:55
42 Kim Clark 03:18:36 (3rd FV40)
Full results here.
More photographs here, here and here.
1 comment:
Well done to everyone who took part. You all did KAC proud!
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