Mighty Greens Running up that Hill, and then another one

Sidmouth Running Club members Antony Hall and Ollie Goodchild Horne took part in Climb South West’s 5 Trig challenge on Saturday.  

The scenic route starts from Budleigh Salterton and follows the South-West coast path to West Down Beacon, heading inland across Woodbury Common, Harpford, Muttersmoor to High Peak and back along the coast path to Budleigh. The word challenge stems from 2,818 feet of elevation!  

Although Antony described the run as 22 miles of hills and pain, the Mighty Green finished in second place in 3:43, with Ollie finishing in 5th place in 4:04, a brilliant effort from both runners on a seriously tough course. 

Five Mighty Greens took part in South West Road Runners Drogo 10 on Sunday, and exciting and testing 10-mile multi-terrain fell race that starts and finishes at Castle Drogo. The views across Teign Valley are sensational, which is some consolation of a total in excess of 1,750 ft. 

Jess Watkins was the first to cross the finish line, 52nd out of a field of 429 in 1:24:31, Darren Pearce finished in 171th place in 1:39:59 and Catherine Hilton in 1:53:44. Carol Hounsell and Sarah Watkins ran together, enjoying the beautiful scenery but said the route was rather undulating! They finished in 2:18:16. 

A bit closer to home, Judith Jeeves, Jo Earlam and Mark Andow took part in Winding Paths’ Starcross Shuffle. The runners have seven hours to complete as many 6.6 mile loops along the Exe estuary as they want.  

Judith was happy to complete one loop, enjoying the scenery as she ran along having taken part in Cranbrook parkrun the day before. Jo ran four loops making it her 96th marathon, her 5th in as many weeks in 6:17:10, and Mark, who won the draw for SRC’s London marathon place 2023, ran an incredible six laps, an ultra-marathon of 40 miles in 6:29:57, which earned him third place. Congratulations to everyone.