Results update 11 March 2019 – Retford Half, Chester 10k, Rother Valley 5k / 10k, Barcelona Marathon, Parkruns

Posted on March 13, 2019 by martin in News | 0 Comments

Barcelona Marathon – 10 March 2019

Well done to M35 athlete Michael Richardson who finished in 4388th place with a chip time of 3:42:43

“Heading back to the UK with a lovely DAC vest tan line. Always a pleasure to wear and represent, good or bad performance wore with pride through the streets of Catalonia

Marató Barcelona absolutely delighted with that in the struggle of the glorious barca sun ”salt tablets worked a treat”. A recent run of annoying injuries put participation in question and came with a target of just getting a sub4. Struggles kicked in at 15k but managed to pick it up and progress nicely at steady pace. 4-6 weeks run free now to hopefully recover at last”

Retford Half Marathon – 10 March 2019

After our presentation evening the night before.. Well done all runners,
it was a very cold damp start with rain later on.

Pos	Forename	Surname	Cat	ChipTime	ChipPos	GunTime
48	Mariusz	Felczerek	M40	01:22:05	48	01:22:08
101	Peter	Tallents	M40	01:26:47	103	01:26:49
368	Justyna	Felczerek	F35	01:44:50	377	01:44:57
749	Debbie	Williams	F45	02:05:30	751	02:06:20
884	Christina	Mallender	F45	02:17:33	882	02:18:23

Chester 10k – 10 March 2019

Kevin Newman finished this race in 82nd place with a chip time of 38:17. Well done Kev.

Rother Valley 5k / 10k Multi Terrain – 10 March 2019

Well done to all our runners, some great times all and 3rd place for Jonathan in the 10k and 2nd place for Phil in the 5k.

POS	NAME	GENDER	CATEGORY	GUN TIME	CHIP TIME
3	Jonathan Frary	Male	Senior	00:37:01	00:36:58
175	Sandra Meakin	Female	V40	01:10:56	01:10:47
176	Mark Kenworthy	Male	V50	01:10:58	01:10:47
177	Vicky Lindley	Female	V35	01:10:59	01:10:48
POS	NAME	GENDER	CATEGORY	GUN TIME	CHIP TIME
2	Phil Whitehead	Male	Senior	00:18:39	00:18:39

Parkruns – 9 March 2019

Wayne Brett wrote “My own take on todays Doncaster Park run, bit of a read but hopefully some smile 🙂 I haven’t tagged people but some are mentioned.

Doncaster Parkrun 9th March 2019.

First thing to check was just how cold it was out there to decide just how many layers ill be wearing today. Not too bad I thought and opted for just the cold wear gear and t-shirt. Driving to the park I see a hint of water hit the windscreen and I am now already thinking hmmm… I don’t like water. No matter I thought onwards it may stop by the time I get there.
Arrived nice and early, rain still dropping slowly so sit in car for about 15 mins debating if it’s going to play nice enough to seduce me outside and brave it. Yes the weather gods decided that for hose 30 seconds I made that choice it would stop let me get out and think hmm maybe another light jacket and boom off I went.

Now this folks is where weather gods laughed at me. No sooner did I see Marty, Dawn and Mark (and others) but the wind then picked up, bracing is a word I would like to use. Others call me all sorts but I don’t do cold or wet very well. No worries everyone is getting hyped and ready to roll, the intro to the new starts seemed to take forever in that but we marched onto the start line. The longest walk known to man. All I can say is thank you for not taking too long in getting it going as by now the rain had decided to say oh you think it’s fun, wait till you see what I’m about to shove down your throat.

Race begins and were all off, fighting for the smallest amount of tarmac you can get onto so you “don’t get dirty” LOL. No sooner had it started did the rain decide to just fall in sheets, not just vertically but horizontally right into the face too. It felt like cutting glass was cutting into your soul. No matter though as it was soon into the “cover” of the other side of the lake and ready to head round onto the field. I will call it a field for now, this will change shortly.

Lake bit done up the sodding hill and there she is our very own Dawn cheering us on, massive coat on hood up, I have no words for this lady right now. Onto the first part of “the field” this part is now called the introduction to sliding, it’s an introduction because at the next bend you head into Death Valley, so called now due to mud covering the roots of trees. This moved into the moguls, I’m sure even an Olympic skier would have issues with those things, moving round straight into oops I slipped corner and onto… Grandma’s porridge. This part of the course sapped any hopes and dreams you have right there and then. You cannot see puddles of water so much, just a lot of mud pools. You don’t know if its solid and you pray that your next step won’t make you disappear. Through the banks of saplings which I just have to say did a great job of funnelling us all into the bog and out onto what we all thought was about a million times better than what we had just done. Round and down the tree line and back to the tarmac. I haven’t mentioned the weather in lap one, that’s simply because it was dire… Wind and Rain presented itself into making me as wet as a bath would. The final stretch back to the start which should now just be called slippery snake and this is when the weather gods thought hmm what else we can now do to really mess with them… I know SUNSHINE.

Now most think this is great and yes in some respects it is, the wind died down, I wasn’t getting wet anymore and well it seemed a little easier. It was still a mud bath, the moguls were still being dodged and the Bog of doom was still there to make sure your feet were sodden. However now came the tarmac. TARMAC I hear you cry, surely that’s easy. Yes it is… but it is now also a mirror. Blinding light hitting you from the floor. If I need a tan I would get one here all round.
Final lap and as we all do think that’s it we’ve done it, what else can happen today. Well luckily for me it was just the same run round with the same spots and issues as ever. One poor guy had his dog “pulling” him around, that’s fine on tarmac, but on mud… Let’s just say dogs seem to grip better than humans. The man did fall the dog decided it was best to keep trawling the mud. He was ok as about 5 people all around him got him up. I know he was fine because he and his dog then passed me shortly after covered from head to toe.

The final sprint over the finish and done. Dawn there to greet us all with a smile and a well done as she scanned the code.
What have we learnt, firstly if you do Doncaster and it’s anything like not dry wear something with a good tread on it? I felt like I had slick tyres on. Wearing the correct gear is a must, socks are vital and I am so thankful that at least I had that right. If this was your first park run, I promise you it gets easier. I though Donny in a partially dry day was hard… Donny on a wet day is basically a tough mudder.

PB’s for Kelsey WILSON , Claire SAYLES , Tammy CULLEN , Michael CULLEN , Roy TURTON , Elaine GREEN , Sarah SMITH , David SMITH , Lynn OLSEN

First timers were Connor ANDERSON , Janet POWELL , Jeannette WALTERS , Karen LEWCHENKO , Isobel JENKINSON , Mike CLEASBY , Kevin WAUGH , Felicidad MINGUEZ , Rae MCGUIRE , Samantha HILL , Vicky KEVERNE

At Doncaster 1st DAC mane to finish was Simon WRIGHT and first DAC lady was Julie CULL.

Set of photos from Doncaster taken by Chris Cull here.

Durham

127	Kelsey WILSON	25:58	SW20-24	57.00 %	F	23	Doncaster AC	New PB!	15

Normanby

125

Vicky ROYLE

29:50

VW45-49

54.86 %

Doncaster AC

PB stays at 00:27:46

Sewerby

142

Claire SAYLES

31:11

VW35-39

48.53 %

Doncaster AC

New PB!

Scunthorpe

361	Tammy CULLEN	34:28	VW40-44	44.97 %	F	131	Doncaster AC	New PB!	2
362	Michael CULLEN	34:29	VM40-44	40.79 %	M	231	Doncaster AC	New PB!	2

Rotherham

Roy TURTON

22:19

VM50-54

67.14 %

Doncaster AC

New PB!

Rother Valley

3	Peter BADGER	17:50	VM40-44	78.88 %	M	3	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:17:32	126
7	Connor ANDERSON	18:29	JM15-17	74.12 %	M	7	Doncaster AC	First Timer!	27
12	Martin JAMES	19:07	VM40-44	73.06 %	M	12	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:17:33	93
193	Janet POWELL	28:49	VW55-59	65.47 %	F	47	Doncaster AC	First Timer!	22
194	Elaine GREEN	28:50	VW50-54	60.40 %	F	48	Doncaster AC	New PB!	11
265	Jeannette WALTERS	31:58	VW60-64	62.46 %	F	86	Doncaster AC	First Timer!	41
288	Karen LEWCHENKO	33:36	SW30-34	44.25 %	F	99	Doncaster AC	First Timer!	1
289	Isobel JENKINSON	33:36	SW20-24	44.05 %	F	100	Doncaster AC	First Timer!	2
310	Lynnette-Jane TEMPERTON-BALL	35:46	VW55-59	49.95 %	F	111	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:29:03	46
345	Dee SCHADE	41:29	VW60-64	46.77 %	F	136	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:37:22	25
350	Susan HUNT	42:37	VW45-49	38.01 %	F	141	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:34:12	11
352	Gemma Louise WARD	42:42	SW30-34	34.74 %	F	143	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:32:25	32

Kingsbury

182

Mike CLEASBY

27:19

VM45-49

51.92 %

158

Doncaster AC

First Timer!

166

Clumber

45	George LAING	24:19	VM55-59	64.84 %	M	42	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:21:03	93
47	Kirsty LAING	24:27	SW30-34	60.67 %	F	4	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:23:11	64
185	Kevin WAUGH	31:01	VM55-59	49.54 %	M	128	Doncaster AC	First Timer!	38

Frickley

Simon PARKIN

26:55

VM45-49

54.37 %

Doncaster AC

PB stays at 00:25:58

Doncaster

2	Simon WRIGHT	19:25	VM50-54	78.45 %	M	2	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:17:07	33
3	Jack PELL	19:42	JM15-17	70.64 %	M	3	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:18:27	43
4	Christopher MORAN	20:10	VM40-44	68.18 %	M	4	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:17:33	81
13	Pete WADE	22:26	VM60-64	72.14 %	M	13	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:20:32	97
20	Peter OLIVER	23:40	VM55-59	67.18 %	M	20	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:21:42	57
40	Harry FLINT	25:14	JM11-14	58.92 %	M	40	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:24:17	17
68	Wayne BRETT	26:12	VM40-44	52.10 %	M	64	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:25:05	4
96	Wayne CODDINGTON	28:20	VM60-64	56.59 %	M	85	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:27:23	4
102	Bill TOPPING	28:33	VM70-74	62.52 %	M	90	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:24:14	204
137	Julie CULL	30:46	VW60-64	63.06 %	F	25	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:27:43	64
138	Marc PELL	30:46	VM40-44	45.72 %	M	113	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:26:44	48
140	John ATKINS	30:52	VM35-39	43.25 %	M	115	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:25:55	20
150	Alan THIMBLEBY	31:41	VM55-59	50.18 %	M	121	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:24:01	6
156	Trevor BLAKE	32:04	VM40-44	42.88 %	M	124	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:27:14	30
169	Felicidad MINGUEZ	33:04	VW35-39	45.21 %	F	40	Doncaster AC	First Timer!	1
172	Claire MACLEOD	33:12	VW45-49	48.80 %	F	43	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:27:32	24
183	Julie GUEST	33:52	VW55-59	53.44 %	F	49	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:28:39	123
184	Sarah SMITH	33:54	VW40-44	46.07 %	F	50	Doncaster AC	New PB!	5
185	David SMITH	33:55	VM35-39	39.95 %	M	135	Doncaster AC	New PB!	2
191	Warren INGRAM	34:37	VM40-44	39.43 %	M	136	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:32:36	2
192	Catherine FORRESTER	34:47	JW15-17	43.99 %	F	56	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:28:25	25
197	Martyn WALTER	35:26	VM55-59	44.50 %	M	137	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:23:15	116
198	Yvonne GIBBON	35:39	VW45-49	45.44 %	F	61	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:32:16	25
199	Gill PICK	35:41	VW50-54	48.16 %	F	62	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:31:05	27
200	Mark KENWORTHY	35:43	VM50-54	42.65 %	M	138	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:26:31	59
209	Lynne WEBB	36:35	VW60-64	53.80 %	F	69	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:35:20	20
212	Rosemary ARMSTRONG	36:54	VW75-79	66.89 %	F	71	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:27:45	116
214	Winifred COSTELLO	37:06	VW55-59	50.13 %	F	72	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:33:00	12
231	Rae MCGUIRE	41:04	VW45-49	39.85 %	F	83	Doncaster AC	First Timer!	1
237	Samantha HILL	42:30	VW40-44	36.47 %	F	87	Doncaster AC	First Timer!	1
238	Vicky KEVERNE	42:32	VW45-49	37.34 %	F	88	Doncaster AC	First Timer!	1
240	Lynn OLSEN	44:06	VW45-49	37.57 %	F	89	Doncaster AC	New PB!	2
241	Sue GREAVES	44:14	VW70-74	50.34 %	F	90	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:31:53	32
244	Michael REYNOLDS	45:04	SM30-34	29.11 %	M	153	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:22:38	34
247	Lynn GRIFFITHS	46:29	VW55-59	39.48 %	F	93	Doncaster AC	PB stays at 00:40:13	10