Chance heads for the hills

While many of the club were pushing themselves on local circuits, Chance Rowan travelled to Wales to race this weekend, choosing Marathon Eryri in the Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park. Chance completed the race which takes in the Llanberis Pass in 3:46:43.

Closer to home nine Stragglers raced at the Surrey Masters XC in Nonsuch Park. The men's team of Ted Fraser, Phil Hammett and Malcolm Fletcher took silver in M65, while the women - Tara Holt, Pamela McHutchon and Merilyn Davis - won bronze in W55. Pamela and Malcolm both won individual silvers in their age groups.

Earlier in the day, nearly 100 Stragglers ran in Bushy's parkrun and eight of them finished in the top 50. You could be forgiven for thinking it was a mob match but it wasn't. However, the group that trains with Kev Best, had to run the course three times as part of their training, the first at race pace. Lisa Bailey was the first to finish in 11th, followed by Scott Singleton, Sarah Holt and Jacob Law-Sales.

On Sunday it was time to complete the local half, the River Thames Half in Walton which both David Curtin and Des Hoar did, in 1:33;24 and 1:59:09 respectively. Tony Finn travelled to Valencia for his half, finishing in 1:36:24. Also travelling this weekend, Jim Desmond raced at the Dublin Marathon (3:38:10) while Andrew Dell'Anno completed the Venice Marathon in 3:49:18.