The first FRC Winter Handicap of 2023 (Race 4 of the series) saw Joe Bruce storm home in 23 minutes 24 seconds to smash a Club record that had stood for thirty-two years by a fantastic 44 seconds!!! The previous record of 24 minutes 8 seconds for the 4.4 miles course was set in the inaugural race on 22 January 1991 by seventeen-year old Andy Gillet, with only Joe (24:16, December 2022) and local running legend, John Creane (24:16, December 2007) getting anywhere near that time.
Parkrun this Week –
Folkestone – 2nd man overall was Prakash Gurung in a time of 17:42 followed by Phil Hoyland 19:02, Dave Gillett 19:10, Krzystof Klidzia 19:1, Jacob Henwood 19:19, Nicholas Bryant 19:46, Ian Merrick 21:04. Linnea Stockall smashed her PB and came 1st lady overall with a time of 21:10 followed by Darren Crew 21:27, 3rd Lady overall Vicky Scott 22:10, Kevin Whitby 22:17, Kev Howse 22:26, Darren Philip 22:28, Jody Stoakes 22:34, Philip Maull 22:40, Ron Bell 22:46, Joe Carroll 23:10, Jane Wren 24:19, Anthony Scott 24:23, Alan Randall 24:36, David Botting 24:50, Rob Hill 25:13, Collette Windsor 25:42, Jason O’Callaghan 25:49, Jason Herridge 25:50, Andrew Tremain 26:01, Deirdre Coombs 26:21, Sylwia Tokarska 26:29, Chris Woolgar 26:35, Simon Coffey 26:53, Andy Richardson 26:53, Louisa Eade 27:02, Rachel Yorke 27:20, Paul Hannay 27:24, Malcolm Gibbs 28:17, Anh-Van Whitby 29:06, Julie Gibbs 29:40, Kirsty Gardiner 29:45, Marie Brazier 29:54, Kate Lancefield 30:26, Kirsty Wilson 31:07, Rebekah Newton 39:07, Debbie Dunham 39:08
Whitstable – Will Jarvis 20:26
Walmer and Deal Seafront – Karla Larnder was 3rd lady overall in a PB time of 21:59 followed by Alan Fletcher 26:18
Ashford – Henry Axon was 3rd overall in a time of 17:14 followed by Deborah Jeffery 24:39 and Amy Owen 28:40