Saturday saw the 30th annual running of the Marathon du Médoc in Pauillac, France.
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| Sandbach Striders at the Marathon du Médoc |
For the fourth year in succession members of Sandbach Striders took their place on the
line-up in the world’s biggest party marathon. The 26.2 mile route takes place in the blazing hot sunshine of the Bordeaux vineyards. This year on the event’s 30th anniversary 10,000 runners battled their way around a route which included 23 wine tasting stops. All of whom were in fancy dress. Sizteen Striders donned their carnival outfits for the run.
Needless to say the emphasis is on fun and wine and not speed! The full results were as follows:
05:19:05 Heather Carter
06:22:43 Catherine Greaves
06:22:43 Tom Mayell
06:22:44 Jason Bulley
06:22:44 Clare Pheasey
06:24:47 David Parr
06:44:26 Johanna Bulley
06:26:30 Paul Nicholls
06:27:26 Michael Escolme
06:27:27 Perry Wyatt
06:28:12 Christiana Bunte
06:28:37 Chris Brumby
06:28:40 Jill Young
06:22:36 Gordon Hutchins
06:22:39 Cheryl Hutchins
06:52:03 Grant Stanning
Only a week after taking over all of the marshalling duties at the free weekly Congleton 5k parkrun seventeen Striders turned out once more to run the three laps of Astbury Mere. Andrew Gibson and Fran Gilchrist pushed each other all the way to this finishing line and to new personal best times, closely followed by Matt Wood who also pb’ed. Lou Hayward and Tracey Hale continued their run of good results to complete a tally of five Strider personal bests.
00:22:16 Andrew Gibson
00:22:17 Francis Gilchrist
00:22:44 Craig Edwards
00:24:19 Matt Wood
00:26:17 Louise Hayward
00:26:18 Alan Wilcox
00:26:29 Denis Culloty
00:28:13 Kelley Underwood
00:29:10 Elaine Wood
00:29:26 Isobel Bennett
00:30:45 Karen Lovatt
00:31:21 Tracey Hale
00:31:54 Sarah Feaver
00:35:03 Stella Stilwell
00:37:47 Oscar Hayward
00:39:10 Nathan Lee
00:39:12 Lucy Lee
Meanwhile Tony Taylor found himself up in Lancashire running the Ormskirk parkrun, Tony completed the course in 9th position in 19:40
On Sunday Lucy Darling ran the Lake Vyrnwy half marathon today accompanied by her husband Neil. Neil ran his first ever half-marathon whilstLucy earned a new personal best time by over 10 minutes finishing in 2 hours 3 minutes.
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| Lucy and Neil Darling at the Lake Vyrnwy Half-marathon |
Also on Sunday it was the turn of the Gawsworth 10k. This scenic and popular event around the grounds of Gawsworth Hall had two Striders taking part both of whom had also run the parkrun just the day before. Stella Stilwell was first Strider home in 56:11 closely followed by Dennis Culloty in 1:02:01
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| Denis and Stella at the Gawsworth 10k |