On Saturday Mike Grealy ran the Great Cornard Park run and did it in 0:22:15 coming in first place in his age category.

 

The Essex Cross Country Relay Championship also took place on Saturday.  This is a Team race with laps of 5k, three ladies to a team or four men to a team.  Halstead Road Runners fielded two male and two female teams.  The men’s teams came in at 16th and 33rd place out of 55 teams and the ladies came in at 21st and 31st out of 45 teams.  Individual times were as follows;

James Smith 0:16:33

Gavin Allen 0:17:32

Wes Atkins 0:17:52

Mat Hutley 0:18:13

Nathan Roulson 0:18:26

Steve May 0:19:18

Gavin Ripton 0:20:18

Rachael Roughan 0:21:17

Kelly Judge 0:22:52

Andy Carter 0:23:14

Wendy Carter 0:24:33

Anna Bambridge 0:24:40

Nicole Smith 0:25:51

Lauren Hutley 0:28:44

 

Will Tuson ran in the Grantchester 10k on Sunday in a time of 0:42:50.  This is an off road course so was fairly slippery on Sunday.

Michelle Edney, Jane Roach, Mandy Humm and Charlii Bower took on the Stort 10 which is also an of road race.  Charlii completed it in 1:48:00 (other times are unconfirmed).

Ross Kemble travelled to Nottingham and did the half marathon in a time of 2:06:16.

On Monday night two teams took part in the Ipswich Jaffa 400m relay race in very wet conditions.  Teams consist of 3 men, 2 ladies and a junior.  The race is fairly informal so no official results but the A Team came in 2nd place and the B team were only a couple of places behind.