What an epic few months it’s been for the Essington Harriers putting in some Long Sunday Rundays during the winter months in preparation for the Manchester Marathon & London Marathon next week.
All that hard work paid off with outstanding runs from the Marathon team, 9 runners doing their 1st in person marathon, 7 runners getting a marathon distance PB!
Along with the Marathon, we had two runners doing the Cathedral To Castle run, and the Saturday morning Parkrunning too.
Parkrun
With a lot of our runners either tapering or resting before the Manchester Marathon, we had fewer members running Parkrun this week.
| Position | Name | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Hill Country Park parkrun event #7 | |||
| 188 | Claire Haywood | 01:08:42 | Tail Walker (with Taly) |
| Wolverhampton parkrun event #453 | |||
| 123 | Glyn Rowley | 00:27:20 | |
| 199 | Rachel Rowley | 00:31:10 | Parkrun PB |
| 322 | Kerry Garratt | 00:40:57 | |
| 323 | Laura Mew | 00:40:57 | |
| Walsall Arboretum parkrun event #508 | |||
| 211 | Mick Elwell | 00:29:30 | |
| Isabel Trail parkrun event #132 | |||
| 87 | John Acton | 00:25:45 | |
| Chasewater parkrun event #106 | |||
| 74 | Geoff Green | 00:27:54 | |
| 75 | Tammy Edwards | 00:27:55 | 2nd in Age Group |
| 80 | Drew Allen | 00:28:15 | 3rd in Age Group |
| 81 | Martin Holyhead | 00:28:16 | |
| 114 | Gary Jenkins | 00:30:32 | |
| East Park parkrun event #102 | |||
| 53 | Robin Tinsley | 00:30:29 | |
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Cathedral To Castle
The Rotary Cathedral to Castle 10 Mile Multi Terrain Run – or ‘Cathedral to Castle’ as it is affectionately known, is one of the most exciting urban and country road events in the UK. It is also aiming to be the largest charity fundraising running event in the Staffordshire region, with our chosen charities being local throughout Tamworth and Lichfield.
The course itself is fast and relatively flat making it suitable for all abilities – for beginners whose key objective is to complete the course, to more regular long-distance event runners, looking to beat their personal best time. It covers a 10 mile multi-terrain course from Lichfield Cathedral, passing through Hopwas Woods and finishing at Tamworth Castle where you’ll be greeted by an action-packed family fun day across the Castle Grounds.
Official Photos https://mickhallphotos.photohawk.com/galleries/cathedral-to-castle-2023
Official Results https://results.racetimingsolutions.co.uk/Results.aspx?CId=16269&RId=1589
| Position | Name | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 699 | Matt Dodd | 01:45:20 | Course PB |
| 918 | Claire Haywood | 01:59:53 | |
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Manchester Marathon
After Dave (did you know he run a marathon) Poynton and Holly Thomas completed the Virtual London Marathon last year, a buzz of FOMO spread around the club, and largely bullied and harrassed encouraged and spurred on by Phil Mew, several members started the training for Manchester Marathon 2023.
When out club Grand Prix was created, it incorporated the Manchester Marathon and so it’s set to be a fixture in the club calendar for the foreseeable future, though not everyone who ran the event is so keen to sign up again.
Unfortunately, a late bout of illness meant Phil could not take part this year.
Official Results: https://results.sporthive.com/events/7039548795219704576/races/485067
Official Photos: https://live.awol.io/event/12855/home
It was an epic experience & what a club, not just yesterday but for the months of training, the route plans, support, advice and encouragement off every member along the way. Gary supporting around the route on the mic
Rachel and Glyn coming to support us. It’s been an amazing journey topped off by a lap of honour yesterday and a
And a special shout out to Philip Mew, gutted you were not able to make it today but you lead by example from the moment you “motivated” people to sign up to the final training runs… being a marathoner is only a matter of time for you.
Sarah & Tammy
| Position | Name | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6890 | Holly Thomas | 03:50:05 | 1st in person Marathon Marathon PB |
| 9297 | Ralph Taylor | 04:03:18 | 1st in person Marathon Marathon PB |
| 9470 | Martin Holyhead | 04:04:52 | 1st Marathon |
| 9514 | Tammy Edwards | 04:05:21 | Marathon PB |
| 9515 | Drew Allen | 04:05:22 | Marathon PB |
| 10069 | Geoff Green | 04:09:53 | Marathon PB |
| 10070 | Matthew Kingston | 04:09:53 | 1st Marathon |
| 12451 | Helen Ward* | 04:28:36 | Marathon PB |
| 12952 | Sarah Blackshaw | 04:33:20 | 1st Marathon |
| 13364 | Darren Phillips | 04:37:47 | Marathon PB |
| 13983 | Chris Bate | 04:44:03 | 1st Marathon |
| 14863 | Lisa Hickman | 04:53:42 | 1st Marathon |
| 15512 | Dave Poynton | 05:01:41 | 1st in person Marathon Marathon PB |
| 16010 | Robin Tinsley | 05:10:29 | |
| 16989 | Ian Gardner | 05:31:22 | 1st Marathon |
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