Alice leads the Almosts home at Tewkesbury half
ALMOST Athletes were well represented at the Tewkesbury Half Marathon on Sunday, with 17 members completing the route.
Alice Tredgett was the first AA to finish and first in her category in an impressive 1:32:32, shortly followed by Lee Ormerod in 1:34:54.
David Woolnough achieved a PB time of 1:44:46, narrowly behind Olga Goffin whose time of 1:42:15 gave her a 14th place category finish.
Last Monday saw the running of another local favourite, the Berkley 10k, where Steve Phelps ran a PB time of 44:01.
Josh Hand led his clubmates home in 38:03, while Rachel O’bryan earned a 1st category finish in 47:07.
A number of other AAS ran strongly to achieve top five category placements, including Peter Morris (43:43), Edward Munro (49:10), Portia Clapham (49:47), Hayley Woolnough (55:05), Alison Hume (55:17), Lorraine Taylor (56:40), and Felicity Read (56:57).
Phelps followed up his success at Berkley with another PB over the weekend, this time at the standard triathlon distance. He completed the course at the Cotswold 51fiver event in 2:36:11, breaking his previous best time by 18 minutes.
Liz Garner hit a milestone of 250 Parkruns at Cheltenham on Saturday, with Sharmila Door celebrating her 50th.
Pete Mitchener was the run director, while Nick Lewis was the first Almost and 12th place overall in 19:51.
Lewis Jones (20:21), Bill Schindler (21:00) and Chris Handscomb (26:12) all had PB runs.
Neil Tring took on the hilly course at Rochdale and finished first in his category and seventh place overall in a time of 24:37.
Further afield, Dave Nelson visited the Westpark event in Munich, finishing in 33:01.
Heather and Mike Smith both completed the Chester Half Marathon in 2:25:55, while Allan Green ran the Swan Challenge Marathon, in 5:17, and Adrian Courtney completed the Scorpion Run at Symonds Yat.