Fast times at January’s Street 5k

There was another good turn out of athletes from across the County and further afield at the Harrier’s monthly midweek Street 5km road race last Wednesday. Julian Emery of Clevedon AC went one better than earlier in the series with his winning time of 15.44 never troubled by any in the chasing group. There were also a handful of runners taking part for the first time ever as part of their New Year resolution to get fit.

For the Harriers it was left to Steve Masters and Andrew Deamer to once again battle for honours.  Steve got the edge with his 17.02 just one second ahead of Andrew for 4^th and 5^th places respectively. Top V50 man Dickie Wythe was back in 8^th place with his 17.07, whilst top V60 was once again Colin Money with his 22.09.

For the women Linda Cummins of Yeovil Town RR shows that she is making steady progress on the way to getting back to full fitness following a major injury over 18 months ago. She is using the monthly Street races as a gauge of her fitness towards taking part at the London Marathon in April. Here she ran 20.44 for first woman home, and there’s still a chance with two further editions of Street to go this season that she’ll get back down to around 20.00 for this distance. For the Harriers, honours went to Marion Colman, 1^st F45 with her 22.59 and to Pat Challis, 1^st F55, with her 25.10.

Other Harrier positions and times:

9^th Tom Lock 17.29; 11^th Pete Darton 18.06; 12^th Les Lock 18.09; 13^th Dave Stanfield 18.19; 14th James Mellanby 18.20; 28^th Gary Tubridy 20.04; 39^th Mike Scadding 21.26; 41^st Nick Edwards 21.48; 55^th Clive Gibbons 23.41; 56th John Sutton 23.43; 63^rd Debbie Keeble 25.50; 64^th Terry Exell 26.1267^th Adam Hawkins 26.55; 68^th Annette Hennessy 27.41; 73rd Lorraine Royle 35.29.

There were also a number of runners taking part at Street for the first time from local Gyms and Fitness Clubs.  Alex Lake of the Yeovil Cannons Gym won the battle to be first home from a gym in his nippy 18.34, whilst John Hunt and Sharon Humphries from the local Fitness Factory posted good first times with 22.14 and 25.04 respectively. The Next race in the Series is on Wednesday February 14^th. Race HQ is the United Reform Church, opposite Living Homes with registration opening at 6.45pm before the race at 7.30pm.

Harriers are reminded that for those taking part in the London Marathon or anther marathon this spring that the Club’s senior coach Clive Thomas and our top Marathon man, Adrian Marriot, are holding an evening seminar to help share good advice are tackling the distance. Please contact Clive to book your place on 01458 443184.