Friday 17 August 2012

Rubbish 5K Report, look out giant slugs on the course!


Race 5
The weather during the day had been horrendous with torrential rain and gale force winds.
Thankfully by the evening the wind and rain had cleared and the sun threatened to break through the clouds.
Before the start of the event I gave the warning of slugs on the course!
Yes landing on one of these slimy creatures might result in a nasty slip!

The Start
From the off Rob set a hot pace with me, Harry and his friend Toby sitting on for the ride!
Harry and Toby spent the first lap chatting away like two school boys on the back seat of the school bus, it seems they were using the event for training with a plan to push the second lap.

Lap 2
Into the second lap and Toby made his move up a short steep climb with Harry in hot pursuit1
I followed Rob until about 600m to go where my legs started to blow!
I was hoping for a sub 18 min run on this trail course but sadly it was not to be.
Even so  I did achieve my 2nd fastest time on the course [my course best was set back in 2009, only 4 sec off!].
Harry won with 17.22, could he have broken Ben Johnson's record 16.45 if he'd gone all out from the start?
Well we have one event left to find out!
Vicky Harvey had a great run to finish first lady finishing with 22.35.
RESULTS
The last Rubbish 5K will be a handicap race on September 12th at 7pm.
Brian Grice has set the handicaps as follows;
P.s. A Big Thanks have to go out to Brian for timing and results this year, Cheers!
P.p.s.
A quick plug for the CROSBY 5 K RUN
Which will start at 7pm 29th Aug from the adventure centre at Crosby Marina
UKA licensed race, very fast course1
More details can be found on the Southport Waterloo A/C website.
P.p.p.s
This will also be Jon's birthday bash night out in Crosby.
If you are interested in going out for a meal after the race you can contact  me at ricksrunning61@gmail.com

HANDICAP

EXPECTED
TIME

RUBBISH HANDICAP

SCRATCH

29 mins

Jon Singleton   Gill Gillison   Sheila Marshall  

Sarah Reynolds   S Flannagan   Ginny Howell  

Sarah Lunt

2 mins

27 mins 

Donna Spencer   Jess Spencer  

Mike Lavender   Lindsey Mutch

2.30

26.30

Sue Stewart   Jane Blacklin   Andy Gilford

3 mins

26 mins

Helen Rigg   Dave Aspinall  
V Heredith

3.30

25.30

Elaine Sutton   Nick Meredith   T Bond   A Bradbury

4 mins

25 mins

Carol Wright

5 mins

24 mins

Rachel Thomas

5.30

23.30

David Marsh  

6 mins

23 mins

Steve James   Carole James   Michelle Spencer

6.30

22.30

Vicky Harvey   Ed Sherstone   Paul Stennett 

Jenny Caton   Geoff Caton   Don Wilkinson

7 mins

22 mins

Matthew Tobin   Rob Cosgrove   Sue Cooper

Ian Kilshaw   Phil Baxendale   K Wresillo   P Todd

7.30

21.30

Marc Taylor

8 mins

21 mins

Terry Bolland   Gareth Williams   Clare Constable

8.30

20.30

Brian Davey   Neil Silcock   Trevor Williams

P Warrington   M Sutton   Angela Delaney

9 mins

20 mins

Andy Hudson   Rob Johnson   Simon Tobin

Matthew Nelson   Paul Talbot   Paul Ashby

9.30

19.30

S Bennett   Howard Nuttall   Tracey Peters

Max Rothwell   Boyd Park   K Evans

10 mins

19 mins

Keith Lunt   Paul Cain  

10.30

18.30

Rick Bowker   Steve Lewis   Steve McLean

Greg Callaghan   Chis Dunn   Rob Berry

11 mins

18 mins

Steve Wilkinson   Rob McGrath

11.30

17.30

Ben Johnson   Harry Doran   David Hamilton

Matthew Thompson   Rob Ashworth

Toby Loveridge  

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