Triathlon Success
A great week of running, swimming and biking from our harriers this week as the trio of Holly Flannery, Mark Flannery and Mike Jeffries were first team to finish at the Cleveland Triathlon Steel Man. Holly led the team with an excellent swim and was only seconds behind the leaders as she handed onto her dad who then produced a master class on the bike to lead their nearest rivals by over 9 minutes. Mike then extended the lead with the Richmond and Zetland Harriers team finishing over 10 minutes quicker than their nearest rival team. In the 2nd team we were also represented by Scott Wardman and George Robinson. Carl Jones was also in action at the same event and was the 2nd Vet-40 and 9th in the individual race. At the Burton Leonard 10k, Reece Dalton was the top U17 runner in 7th place (37:00), Ian Hepworth also had an excellent race and was the 3rd V65 in 116th (53:30). Nikki Billows finished in 185th in 65:35, her first 10k race of the year since her injury. Ken Harker and Jeremy Pattison represented the club at the Sunderland 5k with Ken finishing in 70th and the 3rd V40 (17:26) and Jeremy 89th in 17:58. At Town Moor Michelle Nolan was 18th and 2nd lady in the Northern Front Runners event over 5k (18:28). The New Marske 5k had Steve Middleton finish in 10th and the second V35 in 16:49 with Peter Armstrong in 56th in 19:16.
At the Darlington parkrun, Andrew Buckley was 3rd in a new pb of 17:26 and Ken Harker 6th in 17:58. Peter Armstrong was 24th in 20:22 and Shaun Purkiss dipped over 21 minutes in 21:19 in 41st after he stopped to tie his laces half way round (school boy error). George Veitch paced his father round to a new pb in 23:23 in 80th, with George in 81st and 23:26. Anna Harrison was 93rd in 24:12 and Zoe Wharton in her first park run was 185th (28:45). Sally Harrison was just outside her pb in 190th (29:02) ahead of Mark Fletcher in 191st in 29:03, with Laura Dunphy in her first parkrun of the year in 295th in 47:16.
At the final NYSD track meet of the year there were some fantastic performances by our athletes. In heat 2 of the 800m, Harry Robson (02:12:8) just edged out James Greer (02:13:8) for 1st and 2nd places, with Harry 2nd and James 3rd in the NYSD championships for U17M. In the final heat saw a return to the track for Chris Peacock who was 3rd and the top Vet man in 2:32:1. Laura Kirkham (02:37:7) was 7th in the same heat and the 3rd U17 female in the championship race. In the U13G 100M Abbie Robson was 2nd in 15:10 in the 1st heat. Heat 2 saw the flying Emily Harris comfortably win in 14:10. The U15G 100m, saw Eliza Withers finish in 3rd (14:5) and Vanessa Roper just behind in 4th (14:6). The U13 boys first heat had Sam Baldwin finish in 8th (18:90), in heat 2 James West was 2nd (15:90) and the final heat Ewan Baxter was 4th (16:8). James Davidson was 5th (14:30) in the U15 boys first heat and Alex Greer was 4th in heat 2 (13:3). The 100M open had Adam Walker finish in 4th in heat 1 (12:3), in heat 2 Richard Kirkham was 1st (12:8) and Karl Murray had to unfortunately pull up with a hamstring injury. Heat 3 Harry Robson was 1st (13:3), just ahead of James Greer in 2nd (13:4), with Emily Baldwin 3rd (14:6) and Emily Kirby 4th (14:9) in heat 4. In the final heat, Mark Fletcher was 4th(15:00) and Pauline Whittaker 5th (16:3). Hammer star Laura Dunphy was 2nd (16:57) just ahead of Pauline Whittaker 3rd (11.48). The U13 boys shot putt Joe Withers was just beaten into 3rd (5:75), Ben Lambert 6th (3.66) and Sam Baldwin 8th (3.26). Abbie Robson was the clear winner in the U13 girls shot (6:97).
In the very large field of U13 Boys long jump, James West was 9th (3.29), Ben Lambert 12th (3:21) and Ewan Baxter 14th (3:06). The U15 girls shot putt had Vanessa Roper in an excellent 2nd (6:53) and Eliza Withers in 4th (6:25). Alex Greer won the U15 boys shot (6:91), Matthew Lambert was 4th (5:60) and Lewis Moore 5th (4:66). The U15 boys long jump Alex Greer was again the top placed harrier (4th, 4:21), followed by Matthew Lambert in 7th (3:66) and Lewis Moore in 9th (2:74). Eliza Withers was 8th (3:67) in the U15 girls long jump. The senior ladies shot had Pauline Whittaker take 2nd (6:01) and Laura Dunphy in 3rd (5:85). The U17 men was 1st for Adam Walker (7:49) and Richard Kirkham in 2nd (7:35). In the senior men shot putt it was the battle of the heavy weights, Karl Murray was 3rd (6:67), followed by Mark Fletcher (4th, 5:61) and Tony Lambert in 4th (4:82). The senior ladies long jump had Laura Kirkham in 5th (4:03) and Emily Kirby in 6th (3:77). Another large field was found in the senior mens long jump with Richard Kirkham 12th (4:93), Harry Robson 14th (4:20) and James Greer 15th (4:19). Tony Lambert and Mark Fletcher did try to give Chris Tomlinson a competition but unfortunately couldn’t compete due to missing registration with the over running shot putt. Ewan Baxter was 10th in the U13 Boys 800m (03:24:0). In the first 1500M heat Reece Dalton was 4th (04:23:0), with Luke Hack in 9th (04:43:4), the fast finishing Michelle Nolan 10th (04:50:2) and Issy Starkey (14th, 05:43:3). In the final heat of the 1500M Karl Murray (who had recovered from pulling up in the 100m) had a great run for 2nd (04:59:5), Adam Walker on his 1500M debut was 4th (05:03:1) and a late surge from Donna Riddler (05:08:1) pipped Rosie Adams (6th, 05:09:03).
Many thanks to all those who helped out with the measuring and adjudicating at the NYSD events.
This week sees Richmond and Zetland Harriers take over parkrun at Darlington and we would like to see as many members as possible attend the event either to run or to help out. If you would like to assist in marshalling, time keeping, recording runners, handing out finishing tokens or just running please let Sarah know.
For those who haven't registered to run before and who would like to you can register via this link