And yet another Grand Prix series draws to a close after the
season ending Brampton to Carlisle 10 mile Road Race on the 18th November, as
usual most division winners had been decided before this race but some minor placings were still up for grabs.
In Division One, Robbie was once again the winner, making it
three in succession and seven division 1 titles in total. Graeme Stewart was in second place, a one
place improvement over last year and third went to Martin Gaughan. Jake in fourth place only counted four races,
three of which he won, if we can talk him into half marathons next year them
maybe Robbie will have some serious competition!
In Division Two Heather Christopher gained maximum points with
six wins in her counting events to place first, one place higher than last
year. In second position was Shaun Dodd,
also improving one place from last year and in third position was Ian Baxter.
Division Three saw the closest finish out of all the divisions
with Phillippa Baxter beating David Potts by one
point only. Phillippa
won four and was second in her six counting races whilst David won three and
was second in three. Third place in the
division went to Martin Scott. Both
David and Martin were Grand Prix first-timers unlike Phillippa
who claimed her third successive promotion, watch out division two next year!
Division Four was won by Mark Ponton,
who like Heather in division 2, had six victories in his counting events. Second place went to Heather Barrass and third was shared between Davina
and Louise Rawlinson.
Remember
that the structure of the Grand Prix has changed slightly for next year's
competition, details are on the website.
If you haven't got your name down for next year's Grand Prix and wish to
take part then pass your name onto one of the members of the Grand Prix Working
Party as soon as possible.
Finally,
a few facts and figures for the anoraks amongst us:-
Ø Five
people competed in all nine races, Ron Ingram, Heather Barrass,
Heather Christopher and Phillippa and Ian Baxter.
Ø Most
popular race - the Tynedale 10k
Ø Least
popular race - Great Cumbrian Half
Ø Most
popular distance - 10k, but is this because of the distance or the fact that
all the races were local and in the evenings?
Ø Least
popular distance - half marathon
Ø Division
with best turnout to races - division 3 with 64.6%
Ø Division
with worst turnout - division 1 with 37.4%
Ø Overall
turnout to races - 53.1%, an increase of 1% over last year
Ø Robbie
has now won the division 1 seven times, one more than Andy Brown
For all the results from the 2011
Grand Prix click here and for the Final Grand Prix tables
click here.