Race Report 6th June 2022

This weeks Race Report comes with a very strong 10k theme as they seemed to be the most popular distance to race over the weekend!

First race to mention is the long standing Goole River Bank race that took place.

Callum Parke put in an excellent performance after his initial lactate threshold test some weeks ago to show his training and racing is on the up to finish 7th position overall!

Staying with the off-road theme we had two great performances over the Ultra distances firstly from York athlete Vivianne Fraser who did the Harrogate based Punk Panther race while over in Tenerife Chris Keeler managed a fantastic performance in the Blue Mountain trail race ( more details to follow ). 

Team Blizard arrived at a very wet and windy Grimsby 10k but poor conditions could not put a dampener on the performances.

As always sorry if we have missed anyone as just too many to mention every single person but some of the stand out runs of the day were:

1st V40 and new pb Shane Grace to take 5th place overall - 32:40

Tom Shaw Worksop Harriers 10th overall - 33:46

1st V50 Dave Tune - 35:36

1st V45 Jenny Blizard and 6th overall - 37:07 & 1 minute faster than she ran in 2016 on the same course!

John Suthers V40 new pb - 37:39

Tracey Fearne 1st V50 - 39:07

Malc Stapleton 3rd V55 - 39:57

Giles Searlby new pb - 44:28

Susie Hinchcliffe 5th V45 - 44:08

Chris Inman 4th V65 - 46:21

Faith Edlington-Mole 6th V55 - 47:34

However “Run of the week” goes to regular training partner Andy Teasdale who took a full minute off his personal best, to finish in 34:55.

For those who know Andy and the facts that he has had a new inclusion into the family recently with his second child only a few weeks old and that we often see his training hard and getting his sessions in before 5am in the morning, I think everyone will agree he deserved the “award” this week!

Massive well done everyone and until next week….keep training!