Results Update 25 May 2014 – Great Baddow 10 Mile, Chester half, Askern 10k, Parkruns and Edinburgh Races
Endmund Carr Great Baddow 10 Mile – 18 May 2014
Dave Sedgwick had a great race on what was a very hot day, Dave run another PB (13 seconds) finishing with a chip time of 57:40 in 5th place. Full results here.
18 May 2014 – Chester Half Marathon
Well done to new member Rebecca Jackson F40 who ran this half marathon in 2:18:58 finishing in 3981st place out of 5375 athletes
Askern 10k – 21 May 2014
Simon Wright mad a welcome return to racing with his first performance of 2014 where he won the V45 category. Simon is a big inspiration for his 
fellow runners at DAC and he was first DAC runner home.
Mick Page won the V60 category and Philip Bussey won the M65 category.
Great to see the club so well supported and fantastic effort from all our athletes, a full set of photos are here.
A great write up on the Doncaster Freepress.
| Position | Name | Time | Category |
| 1 | Garath Lowe – Clowne | 32:24 | M40 |
| 5 | Simon Wright | 35:01 | M45 |
| 24 | Jonathan Frary | 36:45 | M |
| 26 | Steve Mcguire | 36:50 | M |
| 43 | Mick Page | 38:00 | M60 |
| 87 | Jonathan Buxton | 39:55 | M45 |
| 89 | Ben Elliot | 39:59 | M |
| 110 | Dave Brikett | 40:58 | M50 |
| 147 | Philip Bussey | 42;01 | M65 |
| 164 | Adrian Fearn | 42:34 | M40 |
| 174 | Peter Wade | 42:51 | M55 |
| 193 | Dave Evans | 43:24 | M60 |
| 332 | Martin Boyd | 48:23 | M50 |
| 552 | Bridget Boutell | 57:01 | F50 |
Scunthorpe parkrun – 24 May 2014
Caroline Wheelhouse had another great run at Scunthorpe, she ran a PB on the course by 16 seconds and was first lady to finish with a time of 20:02. Caroline is now age graded 90.35%.
Bradford parkrun – 24 May 2014
Andy Siddle won the Bradford parkrun by about a minute with a time of 17:35, just 11 seconds off his PB for the course, well done Andy.
Doncaster parkrun – 24 May 2014
Fist runner home was Matty Smith from Scunthorpe with a time of 17:42.
Highest age graded runners was Rosemary Armstrong and she ran a PB of 7 seconds.
First DAC runner home was George Philips who finished second.
PB’s for Michael Forrester (19 seconds), Marie-Louise Taylor (Second lady to finish and PB was be 24 seconds), Sue and Ken Greaves (by 30 seconds).
Ken won the monthly prize for park runner of the month.
If you have not given it a try yet register here, its free and the event happens every week at Sandall Park 9am. Once you have registered you can run at hundreds of parkruns across the UK and beyond for free. 89 Doncaster AC athletes have taken part so far, how many weeks until our 100th runner takes part?
| 2 | George PHILLIPS | 18:06 | JM11-14 | 78.36 % | M | 2 | PB stays at 00:17:42 | 31 |
| 19 | Richard RANDLE | 21:53 | VM50-54 | 69.61 % | M | 18 | PB stays at 00:21:17 | 10 |
| 22 | Philip BUSSEY | 22:09 | VM65-69 | 75.70 % | M | 21 | PB stays at 00:20:54 | 15 |
| 33 | Michael FORRESTER | 23:35 | JM11-14 | 60.14 % | M | 32 | New PB! | 11 |
| 34 | Marie-Louise TAYLOR | 23:39 | VW35-39 | 64.27 % | F | 2 | New PB! | 3 |
| 59 | Andrea SIMPKIN | 27:10 | VW45-49 | 58.47 % | F | 9 | PB stays at 00:27:02 | 8 |
| 64 | Rosemary ARMSTRONG | 27:45 | VW70-74 | 81.56 % | F | 13 | New PB! | 14 |
| 80 | Julie GUEST | 32:46 | VW50-54 | 51.78 % | F | 23 | PB stays at 00:32:12 | 7 |
| 84 | Sue GREAVES | 35:15 | VW65-69 | 59.29 % | F | 26 | New PB! | 7 |
| 85 | Ken GREAVES | 35:15 | VM65-69 | 48.94 % | M | 59 | New PB! | 7 |
Some Races to enter
Sandall Beat 10k – 11 June 2014
Owston Ferry 10k – 15 June 2014
Doncaster Town Centre 5k – 16 July 2014
Edinburgh Marathon and 10k – 24/25 May 2015
Dave Sedgwick ran the 10k. Dave said “Really tough course and ran against Harry Summers who is an Australian Commonwealth games athlete and Derek Hawkins who is a GB international. Came 7 th in 35.32s. Nowhere near pb but ran ok to be fair. It was just so hilly early on!!”
Martin Hookway ran the Marathon finishing with a time of approx 3:39 having suffered from cramp during the race and going into the race with a strapped up knee and sore achilles. Martin has the York Marathon later in the year as well as Thunder Run. Only 4 weeks ago Martin completed the Highland Fling 53 mile ultra.
Fell Racing!
Fancy something different this year? The Accelerate Gritstone Series of Fell Races looks great –
| Sunday 16th March | Wolf’s Pit Fell Race (including Gritty Series) |
| Friday 6th June | Castleton Fell Race (including Gritty Series) |
| Sunday 8th June | Accelerate Edale Fell Race (including Gritty Series) |
| Sunday 20th July | Great Hucklow Fell Race (including Gritty Series) |
| Friday 1st August | Salt Cellar Fell Race |
| Saturday 30th August | Longshaw Sheepdog Trials Fell Race |
| Sunday 12th October | Windgather Fell Race |
| Saturday 1st November | Grin ‘n Bear It Fell Race |
http://www.gritstoneseries.co.uk/
If you want to send a contribution to include on this results update please email them to Martin James.