Helsby RC weekly round-up from 8th to 14th April 2019

Hello Green Army

A little bit behind with the blog from last week, apologies, it’s still the weekend in theory so you can forgive me. Gaz will update you with another one in a few days i’m sure.

A few notices first of all, it’s Border League race 7 on Weds. It’s a 4 mile race so it’ll be a quick one and the presentation is afterwards with hopefully some coming home to Helsby. Would be great to finish off the season with another great turnout. Details below

Race 7 19:30 Wed 24 Apr 2019: staged by Prestatyn RC, Ffrith, post code LL19 7AR.

We are having our annual curry night this Friday 26th, after the Mid Cheshire 5k, let me know if you want to join in, plenty of time to get home, and get showered and changed and back out again. Booking the table for 9.30pm at India Garden. Contact me on social media or fitzpatrick_chris@hotmail.com

Thanks for Richard Hankins sending in a report.

I love the Lakes and will generally take opportunities to get out there for a day. A friend of mine suggested we meet up for this race: we’ve done two other races in the series over the last couple of years and I liked them both. The weather was cold but clear so I took the opportunity to get the motorbike out and travelled the scenic route via the ferry to Hawkshead. There are a series of races on the day with the 10K trail race the best attended. A small event site was established on the recreational fields with a range of traders, food stall, loos etc. Inov8 were there selling their shoes and if you wanted to try them out you could wear a pair in the race and return them after.

The route is hilly, to say the least, rising from Hawkshead up to Claife Heights and then down onto the banks of Windermere. It was at times very rocky underfoot and only two weeks before London Marathon I was nervous of injury and really took it easy in some sections. There were a few fallers who were quickly picked up by Coniston MRT who were out on the course. The initial section was paths but later opened up to wide runnable forest trails. At 13km there is a long (approx 1m) very steep incline. The organisers call this the coffin trail and it was adorned with rather naff skeletons and images of coffins. After that the last 3K are fast, fun downhill.

This is one of the races I’ve most enjoyed. The views were glorious, the weather perfect an the atmosphere was good. I wasn’t particularly fast at 1:28:45 and 46th out of 150. But for once, the point wasn’t to be quick…it was to enjoy the run and come back in one piece. I reckon I might be back for this race next year.

Would be good if a few of us could get back to this one, sounds great

Wed 10th April see a huge turnout for the Chester Spring 5 which was the 3rd road counter of the season.

Colin Bishop ran a great race finishing 1st from the Helsby contingent, but is not on the results below, i think due to being 2nd claim, still a quality performance, i believe one of the fastest in the country in his age group this year. Hannah Cowley finishing 1st lady, another excellent performance on the night. Janet Robertson came 3rd FV50, Debbie Read came 2nd FV60, and Jackie Keasley came in 3rd FV60. Well done tyo call that ran greats races.

26	28:03	312	chris	fitzpatrick	Helsby Running Club	28:02	26	Male	26	Male Vet 40	8
27	28:12	300	Hannah	Cowley	Helsby Running Club	28:12	27	Female	1	Senior Female	1
87	32:29	305	Richard	Hankins	Helsby Running Club	32:19	87	Male	81	Male Vet 45	12
107	33:12	319	James	O’Hara	Helsby Running Club	33:08	110	Male	100	Senior Male	40
121	33:41	50	Davyd	Michell	Helsby Running Club	33:35	120	Male	113	Male Vet 40	25
132	34:19	332	June	Whitehead	Helsby Running Club	34:13	131	Female	11	Senior Female	5
150	35:05	267	Ian	Landucci	Helsby Running Club	34:55	147	Male	134	Male Vet 55	7
168	36:16	401	Benjamin	Tumilty	Helsby Running Club	35:51	163	Male	147	Senior Male	50
183	37:28	299	Helen	Owens	Helsby Running Club	37:04	181	Female	26	Female Vet 40	4
184	37:31	218	Rachael	Holden	Helsby Running Club	37:06	182	Female	27	Female Vet 35	5
198	38:02	301	Gary	O’Connor	Helsby Running Club	37:37	194	Male	167	Male Vet 50	22
203	38:12	77	Roy	Gaskill	Helsby Running Club	38:04	204	Male	172	Male Vet 50	23
219	38:40	395	Janet	Robertson	Helsby Running Club	38:30	219	Female	36	Female Vet 50	3
227	38:59	17	Mike	Barnard	Helsby Running Club	38:48	229	Male	187	Male Vet 45	26
234	39:18	91	Carol	Shaw	Helsby Running Club	39:09	238	Female	42	Female Vet 55	4
241	39:29	167	Geoff	Collins	Helsby Running Club	39:18	242	Male	196	Male Vet 60	14
242	39:29	47	Kai	Horsley	Helsby Running Club	39:00	234	Male	197	Under 20 Male	10
244	39:30	89	Debbie	Read	Helsby Running Club	39:21	245	Female	47	Female Vet 60	2
299	42:39	333	Stephen	Wiggins	Helsby Running Club	42:10	296	Male	228	Senior Male	68
307	43:14	412	Geoff	Shaw	Helsby Running Club	43:02	308	Male	230	Male Vet 65	13
316	43:45	334	Christopher	Igoe	Helsby Running Club	43:15	312	Male	236	Male Vet 55	18
347	46:26	221	Jackie	Keasley	Helsby Running Club	46:04	349	Female	95	Female Vet 60	3
363	47:36	160	David	Wiggins	Helsby Running Club	47:05	360	Male	259	Male Vet 60	21
406	51:07	413	Janet	Shaw	Helsby Running Club	50:55	408	Female	137	Female Vet 65	4
408	51:14	46	Karen	Horsley	Helsby Running Club	50:39	406	Female	138	Female Vet 45	20

John Whitehead and Geoff Collins are updating the club counters as well now so these will get sent out every month now with the blog.

For those of you that don’t know every year we run Club Championships with various disciplines to compete in from ROAD / FELL / MINI FELL / TRAIL/ CROSS COUNTRY AND BORDERS LEAGUE. Myself and Geoff Collins are stato and collate the results for every race. There are certain Races that count towards each championship all of which are on the Helsby page (LINK:https://helsbyrunningclub.wordpress.com/2019-road-and-fell-champs/) and prizes for overall winners and various Category prizes.

Everyone who takes part in one of these events gets points, 1^st for Helsby gets 30 pts, 2^nd 29 pts etc and points are allocated by Gender so the more events you enter the better chance you have in the championships. In the Fell and Road Championships where there are 10 race’s we’ll only take your best 7 results.

In the past we’ve never really shouted about the results until presentation night but to help increase a little competition and increase the Helsby presence at some of these events we thought we’d try and do a monthly update until we only have a few events left in each championships.

Road:

In the Road Championships so far we have had 3 events and the leaders for both the men and ladies are the only Helsby vests to compete in all 3 events, the on fire Chris Fitzpatrick lead the men while the unicorn that is Helen Owns leads the Ladies

Next Race is the Spring 5k in Kingsley on the 26^th April with the dry weather continuing extra places are being made available!!

Fell:

As for the Fell’s we are only one race in so plenty of time to get involved and most races start and finish at a Pub too! Pipe Dream was the first Race with only 4 Helsby vests out, Rachel Arnold took the only Ladies Points on Offer while Tim Palmer claimed the victory for the Helsby men bagging himself 30 points.

Next Race is the Llangynhafal Loop on the 27/04/2019 this is 7.6KM in length and classified as an AS race (Basically short in distance with S**t loads of accent, but don’t let that put you off)

Best Regards

John

Well done all who took part in a park run Our consolidated club results can be seen HERE

That’s it for now, Remember to keep sending any reports or other stuff you want including to helsby-race-reports@outlook.com

Cheers

Fitzy

Race 7 19:30 Wed 24 Apr 2019: staged by Prestatyn RC, Ffrith, post code LL19 7AR.

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