When Sidmouth Running Club member Clive Gilbert highlighted that Cranbrook Parkrun was celebrating its’ 1st birthday last Saturday and there would be cake, Tracy Scannell, Lesley Fitzhenry, Beccy Johnson, Mark Norton and Alexa Baker decided to join him.
Everyone had great fun running among Little Red Riding Hoods, Where’s Wally, Cheerleaders and unicorns. The route set in Cranbrook Country Park was very flat, along gravel pathways and grassy stretches through the community orchard and the Mighty Greens will certainly return despite cake being a one off.
Members of Sidmouth Running Club Juniors and adults took part in the Sidmouth Carnival as a walking group entry to support the carnival and promote the club in the community. The theme was ‘Mighty Green’, and we had a lot of caped crusaders but the greenest of them all was Martin Barnard and his son Ben who went full on ‘Incredible Hulk’ green!
The idea was to have ‘slo-mo’ races through the finishing ribbon with a podium finish at intervals along the route but the competitive Juniors left the adults standing as they practically sprinted the whole way round, the evening was topped off by coming first in our category.
The LME Bradleys Exmouth 10k is a popular flat road race and was a comeback event from injury/illness for Mighty Greens Yasmin Salter, Suzi Rockey and Christy Ward.
One of the nice things about running a loop is the encouragement given by fellow runners as they pass by in the opposite direction; although it does help to get their names right and in true Chairman’s form Terry only found out when reading the results that the ‘Pete’ he was cheering on was ‘Colin’!
The encouraging marshals (many from sponsors Bradleys Estate Agents) keep you going and Colin Ryan was the first Mighty Green over the line in 44:26, 21st out of a field of 186 with Catherine Hilton hot on his heels finishing in 48:57. Cheryl Boulton was very happy to get her 10k PB and Donna Womersley-Westlake was delighted to run the whole 10k without walking.
Results: Colin Ryan 44:26, Catherine Hilton 48:57, Sam Ingram 51:31, Suzi Rockey 53:37, Cheryl Boulton 55:23, Yasmin Salter 55:32, Christie Ward 58:31, Terry Bewes 1:08:23, Alexa Baker 1:08:23, Donna Womersley-Westlake 1:14:34, Grahame Womersley-Westlake 1:14:39.
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