Team Blizard Race Report
With many of the team recovering from running recent marathons you might think the race report would be slightly diluted but no chance as the excellence keeps marching on over a variety of distances!
The week kicked off on Tuesday evening over in East Park, Hull where it was the next round of the East Hull road league.
There were fine runs from coached athletes Olly Sizer , John Pogornyi and Jack Potter fresh from his excellent recent marathon.
Saturday saw the first round of the Northern track league events take place with Seth Kirby and Lee Davies both competing on the track at Doncaster.
Another race that took place on Saturday was the Quayside Sunderland 5k road race where coached athlete Nick “Redcar” Williams showed he is a man in form as he came away with another personal best time.
There were fine runs from the “Posh and Becks” of the local running scene as Danny James took the overall win in the White Rose half marathon trail race with fellow Portugal attendee Lucy also running really well.
Fresh from her workout on the Blizard Run Club live class Vivviane Fraser ran the Grim Up North canal Ultra marathon that takes some doing post kettlebells!
Super Sunday was all about 10k road races and the Blizard community was well represented with races all over the area.
Friday night regular attendee Anna Thompson made a winning return to racing taking the 1st place in the Deeping 10k.
A little nearer home we saw the excellently organized Big Green 10k in Scunthorpe with so many of the team running there are too many to mention but a big shout out to both Clare Steele and Vikki Wilson as both smashed their 10k pbs!
North Derbyshire Chesterfield saw a record field race on the undulating course and big shout outs to Mark Trolley, Ann Barker and Bev Warwick who all either pb’d or took age group wins to name just a few of the many of you who ran.
The Pontefract 10k is quickly establishing itself as a popular race locally and again there was so many of you running it is impossible to mention everyone but a few of the eye catching runs came from Susie Hinchcliffe and Richard Burke both gain podium positions in their age group and Wayne Singleton placing an excellent 3rd place overall.
However, each week we like to choose a performance that we hand the “Run of the Week” to and this week it goes to coached athlete Shaun Yates who ran a new personal best placing 5th place overall but more importantly taking a huge 8 minutes off his initial personal best when he first came for a test only a short while ago.
Massive well done to everyone who raced and many thanks to all those who took time to send in their results as it really does help us.
Until next week………keep training!
