In style annual occasion on the Channel Island sees good prove and eager competitors
Race 1, 5km, L’Free, Guernsey, Channel Islands, April 18
Richard Bartram took the opening 5km occasion in 14:47 as his Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets membership battled for supremacy with Channel Island guests Jersey Spartan.
Luke Holmes was an in depth second for Jersey in 15:00 because the rivals every took three of the highest six positions among the many males.
Hosts Guernsey did present the ladies’s winner as Eloise Scholes ran 18:12 to edge out final yr’s general winner Steph Twell, who was in her first outing for greater than two months.
General: 1 R Bartram (VP&TH) 14:57; 2 L Holmes (Jers) 15:00; 3 H Wells (VP&TH) 15:08; 4 B Andrews-Callec (Jers) 15:11; 4 E Carney (Jers) 15:14; 6 D Howarth (VP&TH) 15:24
Ladies: 1 E Scholes (Guern) 18:12; 2 N Petit (Guer) 18:16; 3 S Rowe (Guern) 18:28; 4 S Twell (AFD, W35) 18:30
W60: 1 C Newman (Ex’mth) 19:59
W70: 1 A White (Ex’mth) 26:59
U15: 1 G King (Guern) 18:37
Richard Bartram (Peter Frankland)
Race 2, KEITH FALLA MEMORIAL CROSS-COUNTRY, L’Ancresse, Guernsey, April 19
Richard Bartram was a dominant pressure on the head of affairs, choosing up his second win of the pageant and with far more important hole than the day earlier than because the solar shone and there was much less wind than for the 5km.
His 24:28 places him eighth on the all-time listing for the 4.75mile loop and the race was a one-two-three for Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets, with Harry Wells getting the nod on Greg Divall in a dash for the road.
Having been edged out the rostrum locations on the street the day prior to this, Steph Twell repeated her victory of the earlier two editions of this cross-country spherical, with a time of 30:01.
Each Twell and Guernsey’s Nix Petit had overhauled an early lead taken by Lauren Mitchell, who accomplished the rostrum threesome.
A bit means additional again, Cathy Newman once more was finest age-graded runner on the day with a 33:07 return.
General (4.75M): 1 R Bartram (VP&TH) 24:28; 2 H Wells (VP&TH) 25:16; 3 G Dival (VP&TH) 25:17; 4 S Galpin (Guern) 25:28; 5 D Howarth (VP&TH) 25:32; 6 J Rees (Guer, U20) 25:33
U20: 2 L Holmes (Jers) 26:10
Steph Twell (Peter Frankland)
Ladies: 1 S Twell (AFD) 30:03; 2 N Petit (Guern) 30:35; 3 L Mitchell (Medway Tri, U20) 30:45; 4 E Jamieson (Guern, U20) 32:47
W60: 1 C Newman (Ex’mth) 33:07
Luke Holmes leads Richard Bartram (Peter Frankland)
Race 3; CROSS-COUNTRY RELAY, Delancy Park, April 20
The 4×1-mile occasion, which doesn’t rely within the general standings, noticed a collection of mixture outfits on the entrance of affairs and the quickest time general went to Luke Holmes, who headed the winner of the 2 earlier races, Richard Bartram on the opening stage.
Steph Twell, who had received the cross-country on Saturday, was within the first combined staff and posted the second quickest girls’s time of 6:09 however was headed by runner Lauren Mitchell of Medway Tri, who clocked 5:56 on the second leg for Staff Holmes 2.
General (4x1M): 1 Sandbaggers 2036 (R Bartram 4:56, G Divall 5:10 , D Howarth 5:12, H Wells 5:18); 2 The Good, The Dangerous & The Ugly 21:57 (T Merrien 5:34, A Roger 5:38, L Merrien 4;56, M Roger 5:49); 3 Combined Muggles 22:35 (J Ingrouelle, S Twell 6:09, A Hurrell, J Morwood 5:00)
Quickest: L Holmes 4:55; Bartram/L Merrien 4:56; Morwood 5:00
Guernsey juniors (Peter Frankland)
Ladies: 1 Eat our Mud Bunnies (Guernsey juniors) 25:21 (T Murray 6:21, O Montgomery 6:34, I Warren 6:29, G King 5:57)
Quickest: Mitchell 5:56; King 5:57; S Twell 6:09
Bradley Andrews-Callec (Peter Frankland)
Race 4, EASTER 10km, Guernsey, April 21
Curving across the north of the Island on a U-shaped level to level course, the occasion went to Bradley Andrews-Callec, who was solely fourth within the opening 5km of the collection.
The Jersey Spartan runner had damaged away from a quartet of Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets staff mates with Aldershot’s Joe Morwood, earlier than going away to win in 31:26.
Andrews-Callec completed sixth within the South of England under-20 championships final yr and right here improved his 10km private finest by nicely over a minute to disclaim Morwood a victory.
Richard Bartram had already accomplished practically sufficient to safe the pageant general title and was content material to amble dwelling in fourth.
Steph Twell, though nicely exterior her better of latest years, had a snug girls’s part victory in 38:08, a minute away from Nix Petit to retain her personal collection title.
General: 1 B Andrews-Callec (Jers, U20) 31:26; 2 J Morwood (AFD) 31:33; 3 H Wells (VP&TH) 32:01; 4 R Bartram (VP&TH) 32:17; 5 G Divall (VP&TH) 32:40; 6 D Howarth (VP&TH) 32:44
M45: 1 M Jamieson 33:45
M55: 1 S Ingrouille (Guern) 36:25
M60: 1 G Merfield (Guern) 38:26
Steph Twell (Peter Frankland)
Ladies: 1 S Twell (AFD, W35) 38:08; 2 N Petit (Guern) 39:07; 3 V King (Guern, W35) 39:20
W60: 1 C Newman (Ex’mth) 40:54; 2 P Flynn (Strag) 46:51
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