Northern Road Relays
Northern ladies 6 and mens 12 stage road relays
Saturday 31st March 2012
Results
Ladies6 x 2.41miles per leg
1 Rachel Thompson 13.33 Team Position 5th
2 Lindsay Brindle 13.56 7th
3 Michelle Devine 16.11 10th
4 Suzanne Budget 14.54 10th
5 April Stephenson 15.49 10th
6 Maria Lowe 14.24 10th
An all round strong performance from the ladies and a top result on the day. It was nice to see the team enjoy themselves so much on the day.
Men 6 x 2.41miles and 6 x 4.8miles per leg (odd number legs 4.8m and evens 2.41)
1 Andy Townsend 26.56 Team Position 44th
2 Tim Roe 13.58 39th
3 Martyn Bell 25.42 38th
4 Billy Martin 14.39 38th
5 Karl Ward 28.52 40th
6 Carl Balshaw 14.15 40th
7 Alastair Murray 26.01 38th
8 Tony Hesketh 16.05 38th
9 Stuart Edmundson 26.58 38th
10 Colin Wood 15.50 38th
11 Rob Whitaker 32.08 41st
12 Pete Bland 16.44 40th
A massive thank you to everybody who ran, but a bigger thank you to all the lads who ran at such short notice, like Rob who rushed over from Wetherby at the last minute to run on Leg 11. Thanks also to Pete Ramsdale for bringing the tent and to my missus Jane for helping out on the day with numbers , and babysitting duties etc.
Once again it was a very stressful week for me and Ali as we tried to coax and cajole people to run for the club, we have 200 members but you wouldnt think so when you try and put a team together. The race was advertised on the website front page for at least 6 weeks and I personally e.mailed at least 40 people 6 times but still we were runners short on the Friday. It seems strange that me and Tony are in our 65th years of age and still are running for Horwich in the A Team ( Yes the A Team )
Anyway
On the plus side we had a great day out, we met runners we hadn’t seen for ages, we chatted to other team members, it was like a festival of running and very enjoyable.
Pete Pland.