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MASTERS ATHLETICS SUMMER 2013.
best of recent years, and Liz Wynn’s 18:25 proved victory of the W45 teams. The winning 55:34 time has only
sufficient for Serpentine’s victory as Louise Vallier timed ever been bettered by course record holders Reading
18:40. Roadrunners.
A long way back, Bristol through Sarah Everitt’s 19:06 and
Coventry through Jayne Mumford’s 20:32 held on for the
other medals.
Liz Wynn
On the Glory
Leg for
Serpentine
Back, in a distant third, were Telford, who failed to take the Lucy Elliot
title for the third year in a row but their anchor runner Claire Moved up
Martin did make it a hat trick of fastest legs as she came Eight places
through with 17:09, which was 14 seconds up on her time To give
last year, but she admitted she found it hard, taking off so Winchester
far behind the leaders. the trophy
Even further back though was Long Eaton’s Sarah Harris
who moved from 14th to ninth with a 17:28 for the third Charnwood through Kate Ramsey moved up to fourth.
fastest leg. Ramsey, who holds the all-time Vets women’s record of
16:09 from 2005 ran 18:30 to move up 13 places in the
W45: overall race while Altrincham’s W55 Vicki Perry ran 19:29.
Dulwich failed to defend their title due to Clare Elms injury
but such was Winchester’s dominance, it was unlikely that W55/W65
any team could match the Hampshire-based team, BINGLEY regained the title they had last won back in 2006
whoever was there as they enjoyed a very easy victory. and they led all the way.
At the end of leg one, it was former national 10,000m The lightly raced Mary Green, who was less than a month
champion Zara Hyde Peters who had opened up a clear into the age group and had only ran a handful of road races
lead for Coventry with a 17:45, which put her second in the in the last five years, was a clear leader on leg one and she
combined women’s race behind the leading W35. timed 20:00 to win the fastest leg award.
Former National Masters champion Viv McConnell was a
clear second for Bristol, 38 seconds back while there was a However, note W55 London Marathon winner , Vicki Perry
further minute gap back to Jane Gandee of Winchester and ran 19:29 in the W45 event.
Jackie Halford of Wolverhampton. Bingley’s Sue Cariss, who had been the fastest W45 in
1997, wasn’t at peak fitness but her 22:46 and Rebecca
Bristol went in front on the second leg through Claire Weight’s 21:49 ensured they won by 40 seconds.
Joliffe’s 19:38 but the gap was down to just eight seconds Cannock and Staffs started more gently but Dot Fellows
as Michaela McCallum, who can boast a sub 2:40 moved them into medal contention on leg two and they
marathon, moved Winchester into a close second with an were anchored by Chris Kilkenny, who herself was the
18:46 clocking as Coventry Godiva dropped to third just fastest W45 back in 2001. She moved through strongly
under a minute back. with a 20:43 for the second fastest leg.
With W45 record breaker Lucy Elliott to come there was Last year, course record holders Dulwich snatched third on
never any doubt that Winchester would win, even if she the line through Claire Steward and this time the former
wasn’t at her very fittest. London marathon age group winner led them off in third
place and Stephanie Burchill kept them in contention. On
Setting off in eighth in the overall women’s event, Elliott the final leg, European masters indoor 3000m champion
soon took the W45 lead and easily ran down the six W35 Ros Tabor moving through in the final kilometre with the
teams ahead too. Her 17:25 moved her 37 seconds clear third fastest leg of 20:49.
of all W35s and gave Winchester a two and half minute
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