At the Martinshaw Woods cross country race on Sunday, the men put out a strong team of 12 runners with 3 finishing in the top 5: Will Clarke 2nd, Tim Don 3rd and Jack Peasgood 5th. For the ladies team who had 10 runners, Kirsty Hillier finished a strong 4th place. Emily Smith ran for Barrow as a guest and finished 2nd but was not allowed to score.
We also had some first-timers to cross country with Matthew Wolloch and Chris Bowles both scoring for the men's team, and Lorna Goodacre running for the ladies team. Additionally, Nigel Hillier returned after an 11-year absence.
There was also a rising star who ran in the kids race. Junior member Tilly Bowles, 7 years old, made her Barrow Runners debut! Well done Tilly.
Due to the icy conditions on Saturday morning, we had a quieter than usual parkrun weekend. Jake Blythe finished 1st in the SM18-19 category at Abbey Park, Andrea Winkless finished 2nd in the VW50-54 category at Braunstone, Dawn Storer finished 2nd in the VW55-59 category at Conkers, and Mark Sadler continues to make us all jealous by running in the Australian sunshine and finishing 1st in the VM65-69 category at the Champion Lakes parkrun.
Our biggest parkrun turnout was at Rushcliffe where we had 8 runners amongst a huge 850 runners in total, with Paul Leaney finishing 3rd in the VM65-69 category.
Congratulations to all our runners this weekend!
Martinshaw Woods Cross Country
Men's team
- 2nd Will Clarke 🥈
- 3rd Tim Don 🥉
- 5th Jack Peasgood
- 26th Geoff Beetham
- 71st Mats Vermeeren
- 134th Matthew Wolloch
- 138th Chris Bowles
- 200th Nigel Hillier
- 203rd Roger Griffiths
- 210th Paul Leaney
- 230rd Mark Braithwaite
Ladies team
- 4th Kirsty Hillier
- 13th Rachel Bentley
- 16th Louise Male
- 19th Kristie Matthaie
- 35th Andrea Winkless
- 62nd Sue Taylor
- 81st Claire Dennison
- 97th Lorna Goodacre
- 108th Monique Raaijmakers
parkrun
Abbey Park parkrun
- Jake Blythe 00:19:32 🥇 1st SM18-19
Braunstone parkrun
- Andrea Winkless 00:25:53 🥈 2nd VW50-54
Champion Lakes parkrun
- Mark Sadler 00:24:48 🥇 1st VM65-69
Conkers parkrun
- Dawn Storer 00:26:52 🥈 2nd VW55-59
- Ian Fisk 00:29:27
Rushcliffe parkrun
- Mat Richardson 00:22:40
- Jack Peasgood 00:24:30
- Paul Leaney 00:25:45 🥉 3rd VM65-69
- Greg Biddle 00:26:19
- Ben Dunkley 00:28:02
- Heather Dunkley 00:28:48
- Rob Phillips 00:30:37
- Amanda Stanbridge 00:32:56
Prepared by Ben Spencer