Tewkesbury Guy Fawkes 5m - 6th November 2022
On Sunday Tewkesbury AC hosted is ever-popular Guy Fawkes 5 mile road race, which always achieves its entry limit within a couple of hours from opening, and was the final event in this year's Gloucestershire AAA Road Race Series. After a day of heavy rain on Saturday, approximately 400 runners were rewarded with perfect running conditions, drawing representatives from all of the local clubs.
Bourton Roadrunners had its largest turn-out of the season with twenty-one members on the start-line, with this event also being the last race within the club’s own competition series, and Bourton boasting age-group winners; personal best times; and two runners in their first ever race.
Bourton’s Darren Long had a great race, finishing first MV50 in a time of 30 minutes and 10 seconds. He was followed by his partner, Maxine Emes, who was second LV40 in 35 minutes and 46 seconds.
Other club members were Ian Tolfts 37:40 (PB), Barry O’Leary 39:11 (PB). It was neck-and-neck for the next two, with Tom Hill just pipping Tony Goodwill in 41:40 and 41:54 respectively. Liz Hulcup and Gill Carrick were together for most of the race, again another close finish, with Liz in her first race in a new age group, finishing in 43:41 and LV70/1 with Gill hot on her heels in 43:44. Linda Edwards (2nd claim) and training for the La Rochelle marathon was pleased with 45:49. Allie Quinn and Louise Hamilton-Smith, after running their first marathon just 2 weeks ago, pushed each other round, Allie in 47:31, a course PB and Louise in 47:33. These were followed by Noelle Morgan in 49:54, Gillian James 50:42, Pam Robb 50:47, Lynn Hudson pacing Samantha Mellor in her first race finished in 53:17 and 53:18, Jen Brew 55:20, Shirley Creed 56:34, Coral Feeney-Hill 56:35, Jenny Evanson 61:15 and Polly Hammond, again in her first ever race, 73:59.
Gloucestershire AAA Cross Country League, Cirencester - 5th November 2022
However, on Saturday the weather couldn’t have been different for the first round of the Gloucester AAA Cross Country season, at Cirencester, where there was torrential rain and windy conditions. Despite these challenges, Bourton's 13 year old Junior runner, Lucy Hillary in year first event in the U15 age group, had a fine run, making the tough and muddy 4.5k course look relatively straight forward and finishing a brilliant 5th place in 21:17.
Parkrun
As usual, the members were in attendance at a number of parkrun events on Saturday, including:
Chipping Norton: Lorna Shawcross – 26:04 1st LV60, Rob Williams – 27:24.
Newport Riverfront, Wales: Jaq Underwood – 32:23.
Wyre Forest: Susan Hunt (2nd claim) – 27:08 1st LV55.
Highlights
21 club members were flying the club’s colours at Tewkesbury AC’s Guy Fawkes 5m, boasting age category winners, PBs and first-time racers.
Bourton Junior, Lucy Hillary had a brilliant run at Cirencester Cross Country, finishing 5th in her new age category.
Other reports may be found on our recent race reports page.