Cold Canterbury delivers some great performances.

Sunday saw the first big race of the year with the Canterbury 10 with 30 FRC runners taking part. The weather was a fine crisp morning but conditions were still somewhat icy. There were some fabulous results with Tom Bean first home in 13th place out of 1144 runners followed by Stephen Male who was 15th overall and 1st male 50-59. Henry Axon finished in 28th place with Josh Pine in 57th. Several runners also achieved a top 15 placing in their age groups. Paul Bartlett was 7th in the 50-59 age category. Karla Lardner and Catherine O’Connor were 13th and 15th respectively in the 45-54 female category. Alan Fletcher was 5th in the 70-99 male category. Well done to all who raced!!

Full results are below:

Tom Bean 57:07:00 Stephen Male 57:36:00 Henry Axon 59:29:00 Joshua Pine 01:03:40 Paul Bartlett 01:04:12 Stuart Sprinks 01:05:29 Nick Bryant 01:06:22 James Springett 01:08:45 Martin Murray 01:12:21 Gregory Dixon 01:15:42 Vicky Scott 01:15:41 Kevin Whitby 01:16:13 Karla Larnder 01:16:28 Phil Maull 01:17:20 Catherine O’Connor 01:17:36 Anh-Van Whitby 01:18:44 Rebecca Powney 01:21:35 Jason O’Callaghan 01:22:22 Diane Parsons 01:24:11 Andrew Smith 01:24:20 Andrew Hadlow 01:25:09 Christian Gilbert 01:26:03 Helen Webb 01:26:32 John O’Hara 01:28:25 Anthony Scott 01:29:05 Jennifer Quinn 01:29:35 Alan Fletcher 01:31:56 Rachel Smith 01:32:21 Amy Owen 01:42:01 Denise King 01:48:37

This week’s Parkrun results are as follows: Congratulations to Joe Bruce on his fantastic PB and taking first place out 260.

FOLKESTONE: Joe BRUCE 00:16:07 pb Krzysztof KLIDZIA 00:18:36 Simon RAMSAY 00:18:45 Tristan BRUCE 00:19:06 Rob COLLIER 00:19:14 Phil HOYLAND 00:19:38 David GILLETT 00:20:02 Nick STEELE 00:20:17 Ian MERRICK 00:20:34 Martin MURRAY 00:21:38 Nicholas BRYANT 00:21:38 Hayley NEWMAN 00:21:47 Darren PHILIP 00:22:49 Henry AXON 00:22:51 Oliver COLLIER 00:23:27 Hazel GREEN 00:23:29 Stuart ERSKINE 00:23:30 Rob HILL 00:23:31 Louisa EEDE 00:23:32 Jason HERRIDGE 00:23:47 Ben HANCOX 00:23:48 Jacob HENWOOD 00:24:53 Paul BARTLETT 00:24:56 Alan RANDALL 00:25:00 David BOTTING 00:25:59 Marie BRAZIER 00:27:30 Deirdre COOMBS 00:27:40 Kevin WHITBY 00:28:01 Paul HANNAY 00:28:04 Jane WREN 00:28:09 Richard FOWLES 00:28:23 Malcolm GIBBS 00:28:29 Prakash GURUNG 00:28:34 Andrew RICHARDSON 00:28:47 Diane PARSONS 00:28:52 Hayley TURRELL 00:29:03 Tom BEAN 00:29:24 Anthony SCOTT 00:29:37 Aldous HOSKING 00:29:37 Carolyn LEWIS 00:29:49 Sylwia TOKARSKA 00:29:50 Linnaea STOCKALL 00:29:51 Trudi CURD 00:30:44 Rachel SMITH 00:30:46 Gary BRAZIER 00:30:57 Jacob BURVILL 00:31:05 Simon BURVILL 00:31:10 Rebekah NEWTON 00:32:13 Debbie DUNHAM 00:32:14 Kate LANCEFIELD 00:32:22 Maria CHAPMAN 00:32:57 Amy OWEN 00:33:08 Louise FOWLER 00:37:13

SOUTHSEA: Darren CREW 00:22:31 Jody STOAKES 00:26:47

ASHFORD: Deborah JEFFERY 00:24:36

WHITSTABLE: Will JARVIS 00:22:02

DARTFORD HEATH: Caroline CURTIS 00:24:27 Brent PARKER 00:33:15