Gilling wins Street 5km race

Wells Harrier Jon Gilling paced himself to victory at the latest Street 5km race last Wednesday in a time of 16.48. He had company for the first 4 laps before taking off to get well away from Chris Symons and Mark Lewis who both finished some 30 seconds back. First home for the women was Henrietta Syers in 19.38. In the accompanying junior races, Harriers Charlie Martin and Luke Prior ran out winners in the 1km and 2km races respectively.

There were 83 runners, including 18 Harriers, in the main event with Pete Darton finishing 4^th in 17.47 just ahead of 1^st junior, in 5^th place overall, Tim Atwell. Ed Willingham was next for the Harriers in 18.26 in 9^th place. Amongst the other Harriers there were age category wins by Jim Smith (1^st V60 in 20.38), Carol Buckland (1^st F35 in 21.08), Julia Hector (1^st F45 in 23.24) and Marion Colman (1^st F55 in 24.01).

Other Harrier positions and times:

16^th Dave Stanfield 19.01; 20^th Ed Tickner 19.31; 22^nd Paul Knight 19.34; 36^th Ian Liversidge 20.45; 39^th Jason Keast 20.53; 47^th Linda Smith 21.22; 52^nd Ian Carpenter 21.50; 65^th Colin Money 24.25; 66^th Matthew Spilsbury 24.33; 70^th Andrew Wade 25.12; 71^st Julia Maunder 25.16; 80^th Annette Hennessy 31.13.

In the junior races 11 year old Charlie Martin won the 2km race on his debut at Street in a nippy time of 7.42, with fellow Harrier Callum Moir also running well for 3^rd place in 8.39. In the 1km event 10 year old Luke Prior stayed just ahead of team-mate Danny Kennedy with 3.34 and 3.56 clockings. Sols Chadwick won the sprint finish for 3^rd place ahead of classmate Jack Hale with both timed at 4.01. Chloe Martin with 4.31 was first girl home with Iona Moir next with 5.05. Mattie Wade also had another good run with his 5.26.

This is the 20^th Anniversary of the Street Races. A commemorative Technical t shirt will be available for those competing in 5 races this season for £5, or to Club members for £12. Orders by Feb 1^st 2009.

Members are reminded that the closing date for entry to the Somerset Cross-country Championships is December 1^st with the event to take place at Blaise Castle, Bristol on Saturday December 6^th. Full timetable now on the website.