This week’s report is a round up of the past 2 weeks of FRAC’ers sporting antics and some antics they have been. First up was the Sevenoaks 48th Sevenoaks Circular 22 Mile Challenge held by the LDWA (Long distance walkers association) Jane Wren Ron Bell and Caroline Curtis took part. whilst not actually being a race – this event involves an element of self navigation using written directions in abbreviations. The course was wet and very muddy and the intrepid threesome admit they got lost a few times but in their words “it was so much fun”
Sunday 17th March saw another another group of hardy trail runners who took on the Western Heights Half Marathon. Phil Maul had this to say about the event. “It was a fabulous run, if really muddy, but we all so enjoyed the historic sights of the Grand Shaft, Citadel and Grand Redoubt”. First home was 1st lady, in 2nd place Linnaea Stockall in 2:23:25 minutes, Sylwia Tokaska in 3:10:05, Phil Maull in 3:22:34 and Neil Adams 3:39:22
Last Sunday was the Hastings Half Marathon with 2 FRAC runners. First home was Martin Salmon 1:47:13 followed by Simon Coffey 1:49:49 with Antony Scott finishing in 1:57:13.
Good Friday saw the return of the club’s annual race the Folkestone 10. This was the 40th running of the event with the starter being Mike Gratton who was winner of the first ever Folkestone 10 back in 1984 and whose record in 1985 of 48:45 still stands. Representing the club were 4 wild card winners . First back to the Hythe Green was Torben Jessen in 1:04:05 coming in first Male Vet 60 and 43rd overall. Thomas Murray finished in 1:11:23 in 95th place. Hazel Green finished 1:17:15 and was first Female Vet 55 with Ivana Collier close behind, using this as part of her 20 mile London marathon training run in 1:21:57. Excellent results by all!!!!
In addition to the brilliant runners who took part in their masses ( the race was sold out several days before Good Friday) it couldn’t have taken place without an army of FRAC volunteers who manned water stations, gave out race packs, cycled as support riders and came to the rescue when the course was covered in shingle at 8am in the morning . Spades and brooms at the ready they cleared large sections of the course just in time for the race to begin. Finally a massive thank you to the Race Committee who worked all year round to ensure everything was in place for the race to go ahead.
Finally this week’s parkrun results are as follows:
FOLKESTONE: Prakash GURUNG 00:17:02 Simon RAMSAY 00:17:40 Joe BRUCE 00:18:42 Henry AXON 00:18:48 Tristan BRUCE 00:19:10 Ian MERRICK 00:19:31 Nick STEELE 00:19:53 David GILLETT 00:19:55 Jacob HENWOOD 00:20:34 Vicky SCOTT 00:21:46 Anthony LEYTON-THOMAS 00:22:32 Kevin WHITBY 00:23:13 Philip HEATHFIELD 00:23:2 Stuart ERSKINE 00:23:25 Phil HAINES 00:23:42 Anh-Van WHITBY 00:23:51 Joseph CARROLL 00:23:59 Ian VOUSDEN 00:24:09 Rob HILL 00:24:10 Nikki GOODWIN 00:24:55 Tomas LANE 00:24:57 Catherine O’CONNOR 00:25:03 Matthew APPLEBY 00:25:22 Richard FOWLES 00:25:28 David BOTTING 00:25:32 Louisa EEDE 00:26:08 Torben JESSEN 00:26:08 Caroline CURTIS 00:26:39 Deirdre COOMBS 00:27:19 Neil ADAMS 00:27:53 Joe FINNIGAN 00:28:08 Carolyn LEWIS 00:28:20 Collette WINDSOR 00:28:37 Jane WREN 00:28:38 Paul HANNAY 00:29:27 Julie GIBBS 00:29:51 Kirsty GARDINER 00:30:08 Roisin BUNT 00:30:33 Rebekah NEWTON 00:30:49 Debbie DUNHAM 00:30:54 Hayley TURRELL 00:31:05 Amy OWEN 00:31:09 Rachel SMITH 00:31:10 Brian DAVIS 00:31:34 Kate LANCEFIELD 00:35:57 Lisa SMITH 00:35:57 Elizabeth SMITH 00:36:21 Trudi CURD 00:36:30
ASHFORD: Deborah JEFFERY 00:21:39
SOUTH NORWOOD: Krzysztof KLIDZIA 00:19:59
HASTINGS: Andrew NOBLE 00:18:14 Lesley CLANCY 00:22:39
BROCKLANDS: Jonathan DRINKWATER 00:26:50 Catherine-Anne CURTIS 00:37:08
ROTHAY PARK: Anthony SCOTT 00:24:33
DOVER WATERFRONT: David TYLER 00:16:18 Stuart WEST 00:20:05