This was a difficult week, I paced a competitor on the Hardmoors 200 ultra race Steve Davies.  A group of us organised by Eddie and Dawn Fletcher did stages with Steve and I had a 25 mile stretch to cover Saturday night.  Due to illness Steve was unable to run by the time I took over, but he was still able to cover the 200 miles in 59 hours with no sleep, on some of the most brutal terrain I have seen.  Conditions were not great overnight with some fog and icy wind.  I was with Steve for around 11 hours, starting at around midnight and finishing at around 11 am Sunday morning.

All the route I paced on was as per the photograph on the right, very hilly and exposed.

South Yorkshire Road League – Penistone 10 May 2017

Photo by Mark Havahand

I felt tired all day and thought I had an upset stomach, not really feeling up for the race.  I had to beat Alan Ford by about 33 seconds to finish 1st Vet 40, I could not do it tonight, well done Alan.  I finished 2nd V40 with a time of 30:12.  Basically the first 3 miles were up hill.  My splits were 5:36, 6:22, 6:56, 5:29 and 5:40.

Its always tough to get a team out for the 4 races, well done to our ladies finished 4th out of 13 teams.  Our Vet Men showed strength and depth finishing 1st by 23 minutes (out of 12 teams).

Individual Prizes – Best Results for many years for Doncaster AC

Once again, Nicola Devine showed her running ability winning the senior ladies (and overall) league.  Brilliant running Nicola who has competed in 26 races so far this year!

Rose James was 3rd V35 lady.  Martin James was 2nd V40 man.  Peter Badger was 3rd V40 Man.  Mo Rodwell was 3rd V50 man.  Pete Wade was 3rd V55 man.  Kevin Newman was 1st V60 Man.  Phil Bussey was 1st V60 Man.  Brilliant effort all.

Parkrun 13 May 2017

Unfortunately it was quite windy so my time was a bit down on what I had hoped for.  My splits were 5:49, 6:07 and 6:06 giving me a time of 18:02.  Good tempo run though on a tough course.