A weekend of PBs for Heathside's road runners

With a good number of our members splashing through the mud at the London Cross Country championships on the Heath on Saturday (report to follow), it was a quiet weekend elsewhere for our road runners.  However what we lacked in quantity was certainly made up for in quality with some well earned PBs at distances from 10k to marathon.  Rob Shulman had a great run at the Luton marathon, finishing in 2hr54min which was his first PB at that distance for two and a half years, while Phil Wright ran his debut marathon in Turin in 3 hr 18min - well done to both! In Gosport, Dan Madams impressively ran the half marathon in 74min43sec, a PB for him by over 2 minutes and Anthony Hall also had a great run to get a PB at St Neots (answers on a post card if you know where that is!) with a finishing time of 78min42sec.   Angela Howe was first woman at the Fraserburgh half, finishing in 86mins, particularly impressive as she apparently had to stop to avoid a rearing horse en route.  

Julian Ferraro and Steve Monaghan had good runs at the Shakespeare Raceway Half marathon - a race run on a pancake flat airfield,  coming in 6th and 7th places.  Kevin Gadd is to be congratulated on a 10k PB at Brighton, and Hugh and Dan finished side by side at the 10k in Richmond, in just over 38 minutes.  

There was a handful of good parkruns, with an award this week for the most exotic parkrun being made to Caroline and Brian Boyle who went all the way to Bradford this weekend.   

18/11/12 Luton Marathon
13th Rob Shulman PB

18/11/12 Turin Marathon, Italy
666th Phil Wright 3hr18min

18/11/12 Gosport Half marathon
25th Dan Madams 74min43sec PB

18/11/12 Old Deer Park 10k, Richmond
20th Hugh Wade-Jones 38min18sec
21st Dan Findlay-Robinson 38min24sec

18/11/12 St Neots Half Marathon

13th Anthony Hall   78min42sec PB

18/11/12The Shakespeare Raceway Half Marathon, Long Marston, Staffordshire

6th Julian Ferraro 77min07sec (2nd vet)

7th Steve Monaghan 78min 09sec (3rd vet) 

18/11/12 Brighton 10k

54th  Kevin Gadd  34min 52sec PB

196th Constantinos Stavrianakis 39min 21sec

234th Stuart Fisher 39min 33sec 

18/11/12 Fraserburgh Half Marathon

17th Angela Howe (1st Woman)  86min 06sec

and from last Wednesday a huge PB from Sue, who thinks the course was a bit short but we'll let her off shall we?

14/11/12 Run in the Dark 10k (9.66km by Sue's Garmin), Battersea Park

14th Sue Rust 36min06sec (2nd woman) 

Results for Ally Pally parkrun

17 Jeannine CASE 00:27:02

21 Lyn EVANS 00:28:45

Bradford parkrun

7 Brian BOYLE 00:20:52

24 Caroline BOYLE 00:22:48

Finsbury parkrun

4 Adam MITCHELL 00:18:07

7 James JOSEPHS 00:19:05

59 Sarah ILLINGWORTH 00:25:38

75 Laura BOOTHMAN 00:27:50

Gladstone parkrun

13 Georgie KENNEDY 00:23:24

Grovelands parkrun

1 Liam PROUDLOCK 00:17:49

Gunnersbury parkrun

58 Nessa JACKSON 00:23:41

Hampstead Heath parkrun

6 Tom TABORI 00:20:19

54 Bob GOULD 00:27:00