A very busy weekend of racing saw Morpeth Harriers in successful action on both Saturday and Sunday, with the club’s Senior Men travelling south for the English Road Running Association Autumn Relays while blue and white vests were also prominent in races at Kielder and Jarrow.
ERRA Autumn Road Relays
Another strong performance from the club’s Senior Men in the ERRA Road Relays held at Sutton Park just North of Birmingham on Saturday afternoon saw the long journey south rewarded with an outstanding top ten finish over the six challenging stages.
Finn Brodie led out once again, clocking 17 minutes 21 seconds for the 5.84 kilometre leg and coming back in 11th place, but Carl Avery – who had recorded the fastest time at the qualifying Northern Relay a fortnight beforehand – moved the team right up to 4th after running one second faster.
On third leg George Lowry’s 18:21 meant they moved down to 9th, but Josh Fiddaman (17:47) moved up two places on leg four and Phil Winkler, recording the same time on leg five, moved up a further two to 5th.
Drafted in at relatively short notice and still not fully race fit, Sam Hancox’s 18:47 on last leg saw the club finish in 8th place of some 67 teams with an overall time of 1:47:23, an excellent placing by the team with Morpeth the only club to fly the flag for the North East region.
In fact the only other team from the North of England to finish ahead of Morpeth were, perhaps unsurprisingly, Leeds City AC, for whom Olympian Emile Cairess, who had competed so strongly in the Paris Marathon in August, ran the day’s fastest time of 16:38 to move the Yorkshire outfit into a lead on leg two which they comfortably held on to, recording an overall time of 1 hour 43 minutes 36 seconds, with Shaftesbury Barnet in 2nd (1:44:19) and Cambridge and Coleridge AC in 3rd (1:44:51). t
The women’s four stage relay was won by Herne Hill Harriers in 58:12 with Vale Royal 2nd and Thames Valley 3rd.
Disappointingly, aside from Gateshead’s Senior Men, who were 25th here, the only other NE representation appears to have been in the U/17 Boys, where NSP finished in 14th. A good job that Morpeth, at least, are travelling.
Full results
ERRA Autumn Road Relays
Another strong performance from the club’s Senior Men in the ERRA Road Relays held at Sutton Park just North of Birmingham on Saturday afternoon saw the long journey south rewarded with an outstanding top ten finish over the six challenging stages.
Finn Brodie led out once again, clocking 17 minutes 21 seconds for the 5.84 kilometre leg and coming back in 11th place, but Carl Avery – who had recorded the fastest time at the qualifying Northern Relay a fortnight beforehand – moved the team right up to 4th after running one second faster.
On third leg George Lowry’s 18:21 meant they moved down to 9th, but Josh Fiddaman (17:47) moved up two places on leg four and Phil Winkler, recording the same time on leg five, moved up a further two to 5th.
Drafted in at relatively short notice and still not fully race fit, Sam Hancox’s 18:47 on last leg saw the club finish in 8th place of some 67 teams with an overall time of 1:47:23, an excellent placing by the team with Morpeth the only club to fly the flag for the North East region.
In fact the only other team from the North of England to finish ahead of Morpeth were, perhaps unsurprisingly, Leeds City AC, for whom Olympian Emile Cairess, who had competed so strongly in the Paris Marathon in August, ran the day’s fastest time of 16:38 to move the Yorkshire outfit into a lead on leg two which they comfortably held on to, recording an overall time of 1 hour 43 minutes 36 seconds, with Shaftesbury Barnet in 2nd (1:44:19) and Cambridge and Coleridge AC in 3rd (1:44:51). t
The women’s four stage relay was won by Herne Hill Harriers in 58:12 with Vale Royal 2nd and Thames Valley 3rd.
Disappointingly, aside from Gateshead’s Senior Men, who were 25th here, the only other NE representation appears to have been in the U/17 Boys, where NSP finished in 14th. A good job that Morpeth, at least, are travelling.
Full results