Women sweep the prizes at Hestercombe!

Hestercombe Humdinger and Hurtle Sunday Feb 21^st

There was some good running this past Sunday at the hilly Hestercombe Humdinger where the first woman home was Harrier Jenny Moore, in a shade over 64 mins for the 9.5 mile course. Jenny had solid backing by Carol Buckland, Pat Challis and Jenny Adams to secure the first women’s team prize. Jenny was 18^th overall; Carol 141^st in 80mins; Pat 230^th in 90 mins; and Jenny 310^th in 117mins.

Not to be outdone, in the accompanying Hestercombe Hurtle over 5km Hayley Carver, aged 14, was an excellent 2^nd female home in the race. That’s great.

Also turning out were two of the men – Nicky Edwards despite a long lay off was back racing and finished the course in 174^th for 84 mins, and Paul Chadwick was out racing again for 63^rd place in 72 mins.

The Humdinger was the first of this year’s Somerset Race Series. The 2^nd race is this Sunday’s (Feb 28^th) 7.5 mile road race at Babcary, and the printed leaflet with all the 16 fixtures for the year should be available at that race.