Redcar Half Marathon

[Sun 13th Jun 2010] Hello all, every so often I have some weird ideas, after vowing a few years ago never to do Redcar again “always blowing a hoolly half marathon” I went and ran it this year.

Strangely it wasn’t too windy; it was cool and damp with a slight breeze on this fairly flat course.  All on tarmac main roads so not scenic! It’s an out and back course, so you see how far the Kenyans were in front at halfway, the answer was miles!.

This year after course changes since I did it last time, a park and ride scheme was in place to get you from the car to the start area.  Once there you stand on one half of a road in a queue for the start.  Fortunately this is where chip timing comes in!  I think it took Davina and I about a minute to get to the start line, you could get into a pace without falling over anyone after the first couple of miles.

Plenty of water and marshals en route, with a good goody bag at the end.

Davina, with Mr and Mrs Baxter had very good runs, with Davina smashing her PB by 2 mins.  Mind you she didn’t have anyone to talk too on this occasion!  A great run indeed.

Times as follows, well done to all.

Surname	Forename	Gender	Cat	Team/Club	Chip Pos	Chip Time
Singer	Iain	M		Blyth Running Club	145	1:31:36
Baxter	Ian	M	40	Blyth Running Club	274	1:38:25
Baxter	Phillippa	F		Blyth Running Club	619	1:51:03
Lonsdale	Davina	F	35	Blyth Running Club	623	1:51:18

Iain Singer