Carr races to victory in Flamingo Land 10k race
Ultra specialist Nikki is first woman home in multi-terrain event
Eleven members of Scarborough Athletic Club competed in an inaugural race at the Flamingo Land Resort, a fund raiser for the Udzungwa Forest Project in Tanzania, which helps protect vulnerable species.
The FlaminGo 10k run consisted of a multi-terrain twolap course, passing through the zoo, theme park and golf course areas of the resort.
The first home for the club was the in-form Nikki Carr, who finished the first woman overall in 39 minutes 40 seconds.
This was the second consecutive win for ultra distance specialist Carr, which augurs well for her participation in her next ultra race, a 55-mile Hardmoors event this weekend.
She headed three female club members, who achieved excellent results in their agegroups.
Suzanne Miah was t he fifth senior overall in 45.02, Lesley Bayes first over-60 in 55.20 and Liz Raper first over65 in 55.24.
The club’s four male runners were led home by David Field who was fifth over-50 in 45.18. He was followed by Jonathan Poulter, who paced newcomer Mark May round the course, and finished along side Mark in 45.26. Tony Rawlings was the next in 47.20.
Sam Shepherd son fol-lowed Tony home i n 50.54 and Shirley Field completed the course in 57.27.
Five members of Scarborough Athletic Club continued to achieve excellent results at the weekly Sewerby Parkrun, with another overall victory and four personal best times despite some windy weather on the coastal section of the course.
Jack Robertson who started the race as the joint course record holder with Bridlington Road Runner Phil Taylor, set a new course record of 16 minutes 17 seconds when heading the 120 runners.
Robertson was followed by a previous four-time winner Matt Middleton who was the runner up in 18.49.
Matt was followed by three r unners who al l achieved a personal best ti me, with Christian Mummert finishing in eighth overall and the first male 11-14 age-group in 20.35.
Next home and also first in her age-group was Hannah Bayes who was third female overall and first female 15-17 age group in 22.08.
Linda Hinchliffe achieved a second successive personal best when clocking 29.02 after finishing 28th woman overall.