Club Handicap Sunday 9 January

Fortunately it wasn't one week later because Yorkshire Water started work on the road and created a diversion of the footpath which would have made the route 300 yards longer.

Unfortunately a couple of the runners took a shortcut which made their route 300 yards shorter. Their times have been adjusted in the results. At least they will have a reasonable handicap next time.

Congratulations to Mary Harris who despite having her handicap cut by over a minute for her excellent run in the Abbey Dash, still managed to win the handicap in a net time of just under 7 minute miling.

Roy and Mark looked to be attempting to get a good handicap for next time. There will be a stewards enquiry into whether there was any doping involved.

  Pos                      Watch   H'cap   Run   GP 
                            Time           Time  Points
    1 Mary Harris          40.22    5.45  34.37  91
    2 John Bucktrout       41.15    0.00  41.15  76
    3 Julia Geddes         41.17    0.00  41.17  75
    4 Ian Place            41.29    6.00  35.29  89
    5 Bob Jackson          41.33    8.00  33.33  93
    6 Simon Vallance       41.35    9.15  32.20  97
    7 Richard King         41.37    8.15  33.22  94
    8 Drew Taylor          41.39   11.15  30.24 100
    9 Andrew Cutts         41.50    9.30  32.20  97
   10 Paul White           42.05    6.15  35.50  88
   11 Martin Horbury       42.06    9.30  32.36  95
   12 David Barton         42.12    5.00  37.12  85
   13 Rob Bumstead         42.17   10.30  31.47  98
   14 Mal Smith            42.27   11.00  31.27  99
   15 George Little        42.50    8.30  34.20  92
   16 Steve Dixon          42.55    6.15  36.40  87
   17 Mike Brown           42.56    2.45  40.11  77
   18 Maddie Geddes-Barton 42.57    5.00  37.57  81
   19 Eric Green           43.22    8.15  35.07  90
   20 Stephen Ball         43.46    0.00  43.46  74
   21 Ken Kaiser           43.51    6.15  37.36  83
   22 Carole Schofield     43.58    5.15  38.43  80
   23 Roy Flesher          43.59    7.15  36.44  86
   24 Jules Barltrop       44.51    7.30  37.21  84
   25 Dawn Morley          45.04    5.00  40.04  78
   26 Geoff Webster        46.45    8.00  38.45  79
   27 Mark Bean            48.45   11.00  37.45  82

Congratulation to Tracey who won bronze medal for 3rd place in the race and also a gold medal as 1st vet. She was also presented with a medal for best Yorkshire Marathon of 2004 and presented with a special engraved notepad holder for representing GB at Athens. It seems another trophy cabinet will need to be ordered.

The wimmins team of Tracey, Lisa and Mary were all placed well (higher than I had expected so I hope they were pleased) and were unfortunate to finish 4th, just 8 points outside of bronze team position. Lisa came through strongly on the 2nd lap. Mary was only 12 seconds behind Sue Cariss who had run 38.50 at the Abbey Dash. Jules was still unwell with a cold. Hayley was another running above my forecast. We should be optimistic about picking up some team prizes this year. Sylvia was last for the first lap but then picked up 8 places. Another 10 laps and she'd have won!

In the men's race, only Brian and Jerry finished in the top half of the field, Steve Webb was in the third quarter and the other 5 of us in the last quarter. Steve Dixon, in his first x-c race, finished 8 places higher than he had feared. Despite our packing at the back there were 3 teams behind us in the team rankings (we finished 14th)

Wimmin
 
  3 Tracey Morris   23.22
 13 Lisa Willeyman  24.35 (as spelt in the programme)
 39 Mary Harris     27.07
 56 Jules Barltrop  28.52
 58 Hayley Palmer   29.25
 72 Sylvia Watson   31.28
    80 finished
 
Men
 
 35 Brian Hanley    43.49
 80 Jerry Watson    46.50
124 Steve Webb      50.28
154 Bob Jackson     53.43
157 Alan Hutchinson 54.02
165 Martin Horbury  55.49
184 Geoff Webster   58.03
188 Steve Dixon     59.04
    196 finished
2nd claim Striders
129 Howard Jeffrey  51.00
136 Jon Willingham  51.42
182 Jim Towers      57.55

Sun 23 Jan 10:00 Brass Monkey
Sat  5 Feb 09:00 Rombalds Stride NO ENTRIES ON DAY
Sun  6 Feb 09:30 Dewsbury 10k NO ENTRIES ON DAY, CLOSING DATE 22 JAN

Bob