Helsby weekly round-up 12-13th April 2014

Hi all
It was a busy weekend running wise with a fabulous Helsby turnout at the latest Delamere Park Run 5k on Saturday 12^th April. Twelve green vests were led home by the brilliant Colin Bishop who ran through the finishing tape for first overall with Colin Thompson running well with a solid 4^th place. Tom Dejong took his course PB and Janet Robertson led the ladies home for 56^th overall. Well done to all who ran.

For full results see below
http://www.parkrun.org.uk/delamere/results/latestresults/
It was also the Coledale Horseshoe Fell Race on Saturday with Helsby’s Jim O’Hara in attendance. This is an 8.5m traverse in the Lakes with 3000ft ascent in total. Unfortunately no results as yet but they should appear here soon
http://www.ellenboroughac.org.uk/?page_id=639
or for more information http://www.fellrunner.org.uk/races.php?id=2994
As I’m sure many of you are aware it was London marathon weekend last Sunday and many of us were tuned in, not to watch Mo but to see how our three Helsby runners got along. Not far behind Mo in all fairness was Chris Fitzpatrick with an awe inspiring sub three hour run to finish in the top 1000 of the race. Guess he never wore the mankini in the end. Great and similar runs were had by Helen Owens and Clare Miller. Helen Owens had completed a sub four hour Manchester Marathon just the week before too. Very impressive Helsby quartet there and be sure to congratulate them.
926^th                Chris Fitzpatrick          2.55.35
5965^th             Stephen Roach             3.35.37
13,280^th           Helen Owens              4.06.47
13,715^th           Clare Miller                  4.08.39
Hope I’ve not missed anyone, let me know if so!
For more details and full results please see the following website below
http://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/
It was the 2^nd road counter of the Helsby summer road series on Sunday at the local Whitley 10k, a race organised by Spectrum which takes in some of the country lanes of Cheshire and the pleasant village of Whitley. Another great turn-out for Helsby with a good battle for club honours between the many categories. Ivan Davies piloted the way for Helsby with a great win closely followed by Roy and Ian. Louise McEveley was first lady home to take the full race points.
Hopefully this now makes it interesting for the third road counter this coming Wednesday at the always popular West Cheshire Spring 5 race.
34^th                  Ivan Davies                 40.31
38^th                  Roy Gaskill                 40.52
54^th                  Ian Landucci               41.40
90^th                  Dave Feakes              44.26
124^th                Dave Madders           46.10
162^nd               Geoff Shaw                48.10
178^th                Louise McEveley        49.02
199^th                Lesley Feakes             50.29
234^th                Jo Farwell                   53.02
313^th                Janet Shaw                 1.02.02
343^rd                Paul Bulmer                1.07.31
346^th                Stephen Wiggins         1.07.32 
For full results and further information please see the official website below
http://10k.whitleyvillage.org.uk/
LOST PROPERTY
In other news did anyone find a blue OMM jacket last Wednesday after the club talk as it was possibly left on the night by a club member? If so please drop me a line. Could someone also ask behind the bar tonight too. Just to reiterate, it’s a blue OMM jacket, very lightweight.
Good luck to all those at the Spring 5 on Wednesday and hopefully our marathon runners are also recovering well.
Keep on running
Adair