It was a fantastic evening in Smalley last night, for a really great race that is the Smalley 5 Bells (5 mile)!
We had 20 Striders out of a total 324 runners, who took on this lovely, albeit challenging, course which was very well organised with friendly & supportive marshals too! Thanks Smalley RR!
There were great performances all round, with Martin Kerr getting 3rd place overall and 2nd in his Age Cat, Pascale Holden won her Age Cat and Kenny Malton came 9th place overall – brilliant well done!!
We also had Brian Thomas, Andrew Miller & myself getting 2nd/3rd/4th in our Age Cat, Ian Crompton came 5th in his, and Liz Phillips 4th in hers – fantastic running folks on a warm evening too!
It was really nice to meet Sally Cartwrights Mum, who was up for the weekend and gave us all a cheer on the last 100 metres, she also joined us for the team photo :D
Thanks also to Sarah Huskinson for her support & pics and Kate Hughes for supporting with our main man Eammon Hughes, who as always provided his excellent and ‘amusing’ pics! :D
Special mention too to Alex & Nick Hall who showed 100% commitment to the cause by still making the race despite Alex being locked out of her house only a couple of hours before!! Prompting a mad dash by Nick to come home from Donington to rescue our damsel in distress and drop her at the race, phew, well done both of you!!!
Just one more thing – please could Andrew Miller & Tim Stokes contact the organisers to ask them to update the club to Shelton Striders (currently down as just Shelton), as this will affect the RunDerby race series, cheers!
Smalley 5 Bells (5 mile) |
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| Pos | Name | M/F | AG | AG Pos | Chip | Gun |
| 3 | Martin Kerr | 3rd | M40-44 | 2nd | 28:44 | 28:46 |
| 9 | Kenny Malton | 9th | M Sen | 7th | 31:24 | 31:25 |
| 27 | Brian Thomas | 27th | M50-54 | 2nd | 34:13 | 34:13 |
| 30 | Andrew Miller | 30th | M50-54 | 3rd | 34:33 | 34:38 |
| 36 | James Realey | 36th | M Sen | 22nd | 35:57 | 36:06 |
| 41 | Richard Tissington | 41st | M50-54 | 4th | 36:32 | 36:35 |
| 65 | Andrew Lucas | 61st | M40-44 | 10th | 38:06 | 38:12 |
| 68 | William Luesley | 64th | M45-49 | 15th | 38:13 | 38:19 |
| 82 | Pascale Holden | 7th | F50-54 | 1st | 39:24 | 39:29 |
| 121 | Ian Crompton | 103rd | M60-64 | 5th | 43:03 | 43:13 |
| 130 | Tim Stokes | 109th | M50-54 | 11th | 43:35 | 43:48 |
| 150 | Liz Phillips | 26th | F50-54 | 4th | 44:49 | 45:02 |
| 171 | Matthew Henning | 131st | M50-54 | 15th | 46:27 | 46:40 |
| 173 | Steve Cartwright | 132nd | M45-49 | 29th | 46:47 | 46:47 |
| 192 | Sally Cartwright | 54th | F45-49 | 15th | 48:40 | 48:55 |
| 220 | Lyndsay Wiles | 73rd | F50-54 | 15th | 51:40 | 51:57 |
| 239 | Amanda Wilson | 85th | F55-59 | 10th | 52:56 | 53:12 |
| 249 | Alex Hall | 92nd | F50-54 | 19th | 53:58 | 54:16 |
| 258 | Eamonn Hughes | 158th | M55-59 | 14th | 54:35 | 54:53 |
| 269 | Paul Phillips | 161st | M60-64 | 9th | 56:16 | 56:34 |
| 270 | Hannah Cartwright | 109th | F Sen | 11th | 56:43 | 57:01 |