Race 11 - Jedburgh Half Marathon – Sun 27th October 2013
Fourteen Blyth members travelled to Jedburgh on Sunday
27th October for the Jedburgh Half Marathon, the penultimate race in this
season's Grand Prix. First back for
Blyth was Peter Brown in 13th place with a time of 1:24:07, Jake and Jon also
had good runs to give us three runners in the top 25. Cath Young was
first Blyth Lady in a time of 1:45:45.
|
Pos. |
Race Pos. |
Name |
Cat |
Time |
Pace /M |
Div. |
Pts. |
|
Pos. |
Race Pos. |
Name |
Cat |
Time |
Pace /M |
Div. |
Pts. |
|
1 |
13 |
Peter Brown |
M40 |
1:24:07 |
6:25 |
1 |
8 |
8 |
122 |
Dave Bradley |
M50 |
1:41:08 |
7:43 |
4 |
12 |
|
|
2 |
20 |
Jake Jansen |
M |
1:25:12 |
6:30 |
1 |
7 |
9 |
159 |
Cath
Young |
F55 |
1:45:45 |
8:4 |
- |
- |
|
|
3 |
24 |
Jon French |
M |
1:26:47 |
6:37 |
2 |
8 |
10 |
214 |
Dave Roberts |
M50 |
1:49:35 |
8:22 |
4 |
11 |
|
|
4 |
56 |
Robbie Barkley |
M40 |
1:33:11 |
7:6 |
1 |
6 |
11 |
307 |
Clare Calverley |
F35 |
1:58:46 |
9:4 |
5 |
8 |
|
|
5 |
70 |
Shaun Dodd |
M40 |
1:35:14 |
7:16 |
3 |
9 |
12 |
344 |
Ron Ingram |
M50 |
2:03:02 |
9:23 |
5 |
7 |
|
|
6 |
85 |
Calum
Storey |
M |
1:37:25 |
7:26 |
3 |
8 |
13 |
356 |
Peter Maylia |
M50 |
2:05:44 |
9:35 |
5 |
6 |
|
|
7 |
100 |
Steve Dobby |
M40 |
1:39:02 |
7:33 |
3 |
7 |
14 |
380 |
Anne Craddock |
F55 |
2:09:58 |
9:55 |
6 |
6 |
|
|
Total
No. of finishers :- 447 |
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The full results can be found at HERE
Report below courtesy of Steve Dobby.
Looking
at the forecast for Sundays penultimate GP race at Jedburgh did not give me a
warm and fuzzy feeling, however, upon waking on Sunday morning all looked well,
in Cramlington anyway. I drove up to
Jedburgh with Peter M and Jake J and the weather slowly turned from rather
pleasant to rather wet and windy by the time we arrived.
I
led the lads to the wrong place for our numbers but we eventually got sorted at
the town hall. We then me up with the rest of the Blyth posse with a total of
13 souls about to brave the weather.
The
weather then proceeded to confuse the hell out of me, sunny one moment then
cold and wet the next, I eventually plumped for shorts and a thermal t under my
vest, which I regretted within the first 10 mins of the race.
After
a quick tour of the town from the start we left the A68 to run through a
housing estate, dodging dog shxt as we went then it
was up the usual hill within a mile of the start, the weather was nice and
sunny at this point and made all the better for having some running company in
the form of Calum and Dave B.
The
first half was actually pretty pleasant apart from the blooming 10K competitors
who turned back after 3 miles, part timers. So on we
went with a little hint of what was to come on the return trip when the leaders
were streaming past us on the way back at about the 6 mile mark and they were
leaning into the wind ! it was great to see Peter brown and Jake J mixing it up
with the leaders !.
It
was time for another hill between 6 and 7 and this is where young Calum pulled away from me, I sensibly didn't try to stay
with him !!!, just after the half way point as the course swung around for the
return leg there was a chap giving out sweeties which I dived into , only to return
with a single cola bottle, not the jelly babies I was aiming for, rats. So for
the next 10 mins chewing the cola bottle took my mind off running for a bit !.
Now
the wind started to make its presence felt but I was still feeling pretty good
at this point and soldiered on. The long road at 9 mile was particularly
testing in the wind but I was with a group of lads and we took turns taking
point which helped a bit. Now fast forward to mile 11 where I was starting to
tire and on the way to 12 there was a rather taxing hill that ate into my
reserves of energy, once crested there was a couple of further little rises and
we were back into town for the run in so I endeavoured to keep the pace up,
unfortunately 4 lads got past me in this last half mile but I kept them close
enough to see if I could get them on the line in a little bit of last sprint
action, which is exactly what I just managed to do, wooo
hooo !!!. I got in under my 1:40 target as well so
was well pleased. Then it was off to cheer the rest of the gang in ! Everyone
was really trying hard getting to that finish line !!! thankfully there were
bananas, water, lucozade and a choccy
bar on offer ! which were readily consumed !
So
all in all a pretty good day, yes it was a tad windy but it is a canny course,
mostly through the countryside, but the weather gods seem to know what day this
race is on as the wind direction and strength was exactly the same 2 year ago
!!!
Well
done everyone who took part !!!
Mistakes/corrections etc.,
please contact Steve Walker by clicking on the link.