Glorious Goodwood

Glorious Goodwood

By Tom Pollak and the HW News Team

Three HW athletes were celebrating personal bests last Sunday at the finish of the 29th Chichester 10K road race, which culminates in a lap of the iconic Goodwood motor racing circuit. In a fast race in which winner Nick Goolab of Belgrave set a new course record of 29:01, Alex Milne (above) finished in 10th position out of 1529 runners in a PB of 30:02 – a result which shoots him into fourth on the Club's all-time 10km road rankings. There was a PB, too, for Joe Clark who finished in 70th, in 33:17. 

Also in action was Gina Galbraith (below left) who was third W40 and 20th overall in the women’s race, in a PB of 37:44, while Peter Giles was top M75 finisher in 43:48.

Meanwhile in Hertfordshire Jonny Cornish (above right) headed home a 1357-strong field to win the Watford half-marathon, crossing the finishing line in 01:07:29, almost three minutes ahead of the runner-up.

Three other HW athletes were also in action: Peter Lee, who was 126th and 10th M50 in 01:28:16, Stewart Bond (143rd and 15th M50 in 01:29:06) and M40 Jim Carrington (204th in a PB of 01:32:24).

A quartet of HW youngsters were in action for Surrey in the South East Schools Inter-County Cross Country match at Writtle University College, Chelmsford on Saturday. County Champion Ellen Weir helped the Intermediate Girls to silver team medals, finishing fourth out of 87 runners in 14:58, just 23 seconds behind the race winner. Lulu Weisz was fifth of the six scoring athletes, taking 17th place in 15:24. Millie Thorpe was eighth Surrey finisher in 30th place (15:45). In the bronze-medal winning Junior Girls team Rosie Speed was also the fifth scorer, finishing 22nd out of 90 runners in 13:54.

Results

Saturday, Feb 3: South East Schools Inter-County Cross Country, Chelmsford,  Full results

Sunday, Feb 2: Chichester 10K, Goodwood, Full results  Run Britain

Sunday, Feb 2: Watford Half Marathon, Full results    Run Britain


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HW athletes filled three of the top six places in the Bushy Park race on Saturday. Ed Mallett, making his debut in the event, was second of the 1474 runners in 16:04, with Fred Slemeck third in 16:17 and Justin Reid sixth in 17:10.

Fourteen HW runners were in action in the Wimbledon Common event. Teenager Ronan McArdle finished eighth of the 550 runners in a PB of 19:42, while Alex Binley was fourth in the women’s race in 22:47, five seconds ahead of Lisa Thomas.