Street 5km March 07 Race & series round up
The final race in the
Harrier’s 2006/07 Street 5km Series saw Harrier Ann Taswell first home for the women in a steady 18.48 despite the
fact that she is currently in London Marathon training and completing large
volumes of miles in training. Winning for the men was Tim Wallis of the Bristol
& West club in a nippy time of 15.27, with first Harrier home Eddie Richards coming back into form
with 16.17 for 4th place. Eddie
is now in training for
Clevedon’s Julian Emery was
in 2nd place and his team mate Steve Hollier, whilst only 2nd
V50 with a time of 17.35, had the best age-graded result, 86.9%, of the night.
1st V50 was that man Dickie Wythe. 1st V60 once again
Colin Money. 1st F55 was Marion Colman.
In the junior races there
was a great turn out by enthusiastic youngsters aged 8 to 12. The 1km race was
won by Harrier Naomi Marable in 3.44, with Tom Day just behind in 3.46, Year 5
Abigail Gibbons 3rd in 3.57, and Year 4 Haiden Watts 4th
in 4.04. In the 3km race Kieran Young won again in 7.07 with Harriers Austin
Thorne, 2nd, Curtis Stevens, 3rd and 1st girl
Vera Assis all close behind. The future looks bright for the Harriers.
Overall Series winners for 06/07 based on the best 5 performances, out of
6, were Andrew Deamer of the
Harriers for the men with Linda Cummins of Yeovil Town Road Runners. Andrew’s
Tuesday evening training with the Harriers is finally paying off after 10
years! Andrew followed up his success in the Street Series with overall V40
victory in the Wessex XC League just 5 days later. What’s he going to win next?
In overall 2nd place were
Harrier’s British Masters champion Dickie
Wythe and Weston AC’s Teresa King. 3rd
placers were MAC’s Ottalie Day, once again in the top 3, and the Harriers’ Tom
Lock. Well done to all that managed to complete at least 5 out of 6 races to
gain the coveted T shirt.
See you all in October 2007
for the 109th edition of the Street races!