Robin Hood & BDSL Presentation Night

PB’s & Prizes galore!!!
This time of year marks the start of the autumn marathon/half marathon season & 14 runners from the Club lined up on Sunday with thousands of others on the start lines for the Robin Hood Marathon/Half Marathon. Two runners, Gary Price & Nikki Reeves, tackled the full distance & for Gary it was the joy of dipping under 4 hours for the first time with a PB of 3.57:04. For Nikki it was a different challenge after an injury & illness hampered season & in the circumstances she should be pleased with a chip time of 5.12:53. 12 Club members tackled the half marathon distance & many took advantage of the warm, but otherwise superb running conditions, to record PB’s for the distance. Leading the way was Andy Hawtin, whose 1.22.14 smashed his PB. Paul & Shane Chapman, who also recorded PB’s of 1.25.41 & 1.25.57 respectively, were next to finish which meant the Club had 3 top 150 finishers out of the 7130 who completed the race.  The next two home were Christian Glover & Christina Cooper who both shattered their PB’s in returning superb times of 1.28:39 & 1.29:19.
Katie Cotton ran well for her 1.37:02 while Tracey Glover, who has had a superbly consistent season, stopped the clock at 1.42:49.  Ashley Parkes was next across the busy finishing line in a hard run PB of 1.44:30 while Kelly Knight, was justifiably pleased with her 1.47.36 after an injury blighted season. Laura Storer’s 1.50.08 just missed her PB while Cheryl Bell’s 1.55.08 & Jenny Tattersall’s 2.11.08 were considerable improvements on their previous marks for the distance. The battling duo of Carolyn Ife & Cath Johnson completed a very rewarding race for the Club’s athletes with chip times of 2.23.10 & 2.56:26 respectively.
The presentation of the Burton & District Summer League prizes took place at Marston Sports & Social Club on Friday night and the number of award recipients from the Club emphasised what terrific progress the Club has made in a relatively short period of time. Both men’s & women’s teams took 1^st place team prizes across the 8 race series while individually Christina Cooper took 1^st place in the senior women category with Katey Cotton a well deserved 2^nd in this category. It was a clean sweep in the VL35 class with Tracey Glover, Nikki Reeves & Sam Skidmore taking the 3 awards on offer. Inge Moore received recognition for her tremendous efforts across the series with 3^rd place in the VL55 category. Not to be out done by the Club’s women Dominic Sharman took 2^nd place in the very competitive MV40 class while Chris Mason’s efforts secured him the 1^st MV60 prize. Andy Orme, Andy Hawtin, Colin Mee, Tracey Glover & Sam Skidmore were also deservedly recognised for competing in all of the series 8 races.