Kentish Express Ashford & District
Noble flies the flag for club in Yorkshire
Athletics
Andrew Noble represented Ashford & District RRC at the Saucony National Cross-Country Championships at Harewood House, Yorkshire, on Saturday.
He finished the 12k course in 50min 07sec, placing him 1,055th out of 2,006 runners.
The sun shone on A&D runners facing the unrelenting hills and steps of the Lenham Winter Cross Marathon on Sunday. Rik Holden completed the course in in 4:55,13, while Steve Hickman finished in 6:46.47.
Gill O’Connor endured Sunday’s unseasonably warm weather on the East Sussex coast, finishing the Brighton Half Marathon in 1:43.17.
Will Whittington (24:57) and Emma Jenkins (32:15) completed the 5k Great Run Local around Kingsnorth on Sunday.
Two A&D runners took on the SVN challenge around Reculver on Saturday.
A mixture of trail, grass, concrete and tarmac, the event started in lateafternoon sunshine and finished in misty darkness. Helen Weeden marked her 48th marathon to date, covering an ultra distance of 31.25 miles in 7:0512. Eddie Rodger covered 26.2 miles in 4:40.19.
Christine Costiff faced windy conditions during the 5k along the seafront in the Hastings parkrun on Saturday, finishing in 21.24.
Two club members completed the Birkenhead parkrun. John Fidge finished in 27.18, followed by Ann Fidge in 30.44.
Chris Boyce was second overall in the Ashford parkrun with a time of 19.18.
Scotty Lynch was 13th overall in 21.04, followed by Mark Harrison (21.13) in 16th place and John Beale in 18th with a PB time of 21.35. Ian Grundy (23.00) was next home for the club, closely followed by Don Dewar (23.18), Terry Sellen (23.33), Will Whittington (23.51) and Stu Nunn (23.56).
Rod Kessack crossed the finish line in 25.12, with Keith Lynn (25.28) close behind. Lisa Bracken was next in 27.31, followed by Shaun Snowwolf-Harris (27.42), Lucy Johnstone (28.52), Emma Jenkins (32.10), Lesley Moody (33.56), Susan Sutton (34.23), Becky Hodgson (34.59) and Julie Foster (39.56).