Northern Athletics 12 and 6 Stage Road Relays at Heaton Park, Manchester

Keswick AC fielded 12 men for the 12 stage road relays at the weekend.  The routes are made up of 6 long legs at just over 5 miles and 6 at just over 3 miles. Keswick AC also took 2 ladies teams to the event, made up of 6 runners each. The leg started with a flat section followed by a gradual climb for 250 metres before dropping down to the base of the longest climb. The course was very undulating which made it hard to pace correctly especially for the later runners who were running mainly in isolation. All 12 men and women ran really well considering most of the 3 teams were made up by fell runners while the majority of other competing teams were track and road specialists more suited to this type of event. It was great to see Keswick field 24 runners for this event and shows the club has a good core of runners all at a good level. The future looks fruitful at the club and things will hopefully go from strength to strength with some quality runners and so many people improving week on week. Keswick AC runners, position and times are listed below.  The men were 28^th from 73 teams, and the women were 12^th and 26^th overall out of 52.

        Phil Winskill    (26) 30:30

        Sam Stead        (25) 17:12

        Marc Brown       (29) 33:22

        Chris Brewer     (28) 17:45

        Peter George     (33) 33:41

        Stuart Edgerton  (34) 19:50

        Ian Davies       (36) 33:15

        Rob Wynne        (34) 18:17

        Christopher Edis (36) 34:20

        Lee Newton       (34) 18:31

        S Hebblethwaite  (29) 31:04

        Josh Hebson      (28) 17:12

 

        Samantha Ayers   (29) 19:51

        Jenn Mattinson   (22) 19:56

        Joanne Gillyon   (19) 21:06

        Catherine Evans  (19) 20:09

        Katy Moore       (13) 20:03

        Hannah Horsburgh (12) 18:15

        Helen Winskill   (39) 20:57

        Hayley Hodgson   (39) 22:19

        Siobhan Brewer   (37) 22:54

        Rachel Mellor    (34) 21:31

        Caroline Lyall   (30) 21:11

        Deborah Edgerton (26) 21:22

 

In an altogether different race congratulations to Andrew Slattery who finished the 32 mile Haworth Hobble in just over 5 hours. Also well done to Lyn Thompson for finishing a strong 3rd at Middle fell on Saturday.