27 degrees and 89% humidity and that was at 4:30am – oh, which was also the start time!
An F1 race track, medal/bottle opener and 3rd place in her category (and top 10% overall), here is a terrific race report from Stefania Williams on the Singapore Marathon – well worth a read.
11 club members took part in this fairly well established local race in cold icy conditions producing some great performances and times.
With all the men finishing in the top 50 and the ladies also putting in strong performances this was a good day at the office.
Thanks to Ann-Marie Shield for the following race report:
My first Wednesday run with Ponteland runners everyone was going on about the start of the cross country season coming up, “its great fun and the hot chocolate and cakes more than make up for the mud”… hmmmm I wasn’t convinced. Mud plus cold plus hills did not sound very fun and I thought everyone was plain crazy! I certainly didn’t think 2 months later I would be rocking up to Aykley heads with spikes in hand ready to run.
Eleven Ponteland Runners took part in the 2017 edition of this long established, very well organised 10k.
Despite the windy, cold conditions there were a number of PBs for members including a first sub 40 minute time for Roland Brown – well done Roland.
Race report and reflections from Heidi Finlay on doing cross country as a “grown up” – thanks Heidi.
Another weekend and another XC fixture. This time we had the luxury of a Sunday fixture which brought with it a few hangovers and some unanticipated but very welcome sunshine. Read the full race report from Laura