Peco
XC League - Race 3
Bramley
Fall Woods
HPH Men’s Results
33
Tom Williams S
45
Abinesh Gnanavelu S
59
Chris Jones 50
70
Mike Jollands S
79
Shane Ewen S
100
Richard Quinn S
117
David Womersley 55
133
Paul Sanderson 45
139
Ralph Kinder 55
141
Rick Pullen 50
145
Alan Deighon S
149
Ken Fox 50
190
Jeffrey Render S
Premier
Division: HPH Men finished 7/7
Men’s
Vets: 11/17
HPH
Women’s Results
5
Helen Williams S
16
Alison Boyle S
75
Janet Glynn 35
85
Sue Foster 35
99
Vicki Megson S
108
Kay Fawcett 35
114
Liz Green 45
115
Liz Jones 50
Ladies
First Division: HPH Ladies finished 3/10
Ladies
Vets: 14/17
U15
Girls Results
9
Rebecca Hayne
U17
Girls Results
1
Ellie Dooley
Age
Group Key: S Senior / 35 / 45 / 50 / 55 etc.
Pictures of the event can be found here
Race report:
Sometimes I wonder if it’s a bit easy to slip into self congratulation about how friendly we all are. It rolls off the tongue so readily. The main reason I got to thinking about that is that I’m not actually very friendly at all. I’m not sure that I’m unfriendly, I just think I’m averagely friendly. It turns out that averagely is indeed a word as defined by my spellchecker. It’s easy for it to not mean anything.
More on that later….
I was particularly excited as the 3rd PECO race represented my first ever team sporting event. To summarise, I thought it was hard. Very hard in fact.
In the Juniors we had Ellie Dooley and Rebecca Hayne. Ellie was 6th lady in that category and Rebecca was 17th lady.
I have to say that I was rather arrogant about the hill I saw prior to the start. I thought it’d be fairly easy. I was wrong. Five and a half miles is a long old way in mud. It was extremely good fun, mucky, rainy and tiring.
Particular run quicky well doney to Helen Williams who finished a fantastic 5th in the ladies race! Tom Williams came in 33rdfor the men and was the first male HPH past the post in a Williams quicky runny double header of happy winning times.
Also, Abinesh Gnanavelu came all the way back from Ireland to finish 45th for the men and that’s a bit brilliant really isn’t it?
For my part, I finished a little (a lot) later in 100th position for the lads and loved every minute of it. Apart from the end bit, which I didn’t love. The end bit was odd and it’s how I will forever define the “friendly” nature of HPH to anyone who asks me. Normally, there is much cheering, but there wasn’t. Instead of the usual wall of ten screaming faces cheering you on to the finish, there was Shane on the floor and white as a sheet. There wasn’t just Shane though, there was Sam and Helen and every other HPH finisher and there was also a plan. There was a phone. There was getting bags. There was communication. There was not panicking. There was not flapping. There was a sense of calm. Things got done and sorted out and Shane got the care that he needed. There is always room for improvement, but as first goes go, this was very good.
It should be noted that the care started when Vicki Megson found Shane lying on the floor and helped him up and out of the mud. Having walked Shane to the end, Vicki went on to run another lap and finished the race in 99th position for the ladies, an absolutely fantastic effort.
Google has just now defined friendly as “characteristic of or befitting a friend.” I don’t know what I think about how friendly I am but I do know who I’d want looking out for me at the end of a race. They were all there on Sunday.
P.S. - If Shane Ewen ever again has a lie down and a walk and manages to beat me by thirty odd places, we will no longer be on speaking terms.
Courtesy of Richard Quinn
Results of the day will be posted on the results page shortly.
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