Report from Graham Lake: As I had some free time while the kids were at Grandma’s I thought I’d give this race a go. 12 miles is further than I normally race, so I took it easy for the first section up through the woods and over the open moor, basking in the rare sun and having a good look round at the gorgeous North Yorkshire Moors, watching the line of runners snaking away in front and behind was quite a…

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Woodhouse Moor parkrun A total of 528 runners took part. Position Gender Position parkrunner Club Run Time 1 1 Benjamin DOUGLAS Leeds City AC 00:16:12 22 1 Faye BIRKBY Unattached 00:19:33 216 171 Andrew WEBSTER Otley AC 00:26:52 374 128 Alice WEBSTER Otley AC 00:31:01 492 198 Toni MIDGLEY Otley AC 00:36:59 Bradford parkrun A total of 610 runners took part. Position Gender Position parkrunner Club Run Time 1 1 Matthew John MERRICK Bingley Harriers and AC 00:16:48 4 4 Mark HALL Otley…

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Report from Howard Another weekend another 10 miler. I nursed my knee during the week because it was swollen and clicking from a bike ride with the saddle too low so I did not get round to running again for a speed session, albeit short, on Friday. Saturday with saddle adjusted properly I rode up to Wetherby to do the parkrun. I wanted to push it a bit harder (23.05) so that today’s 10 was run slightly fatigued to get…

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For those who didn’t know Scott had a fantastic run at Manchester Marathon finishing 7th overall (and 4th Uk runner) in 2:29:27. The race was won by Shadrack Tanui in 2:21:19, 1st Uk male (2nd overall) was Ben Johnson of Southport Waterloo AC in 2:25:04, 1st lady (31st overall) was Dani Nimmock of City of Norwich AC in 2:38:22. Well done Scott.

Report from S Boddy I received a late entry to this event after my mate dropped out so I wasn’t particularly well prepared. (always good to get an excuse in early I feel). It’s a quick start with the first mile or so heading down from Baildon through Esholt before the steep, sharp hill in the Woods. I started nearer the front than I intended so spent the first stages of the race being passed by others. This included Vicky…

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Pos Gender Pos parkrunner Club Run Time Bois de Bologne Paris 1 1 Adam Holland Notfast RC 16:49 8 1 Louise Prestwich York Acorn RC 19:31 74 57 John Davis Otley AC 27:02 Bradford 1 1 Timmy Gedin Arena 80 AC 17:39 63 1 Sheila Norrie Unattached 24:39 290 86 Ruth Auchterlounie Otley AC 32:09 Sewerby 1 1 Philip Morris Handsworth Roadhogs RC 18:08 11 1 Ruby Firth Bingley H. and AC 20:36 44 39 Stephen Small Otley AC 24:19…

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Report from Howard I was able to do the Thirsk 10 for the first time in a long time because it had been postponed due to the snow earlier in the year. I lined up with 676 others in what were pretty well perfect conditions. Temperature about 10 degrees, no wind to speak of and bright without blazing sun. The route itself is on decent tarmac with much of the route on closed roads and just enough slightly rolling undulation…

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Report from Hannah: It’s starting to become a bit of a tradition that a small contingency of Otley AC runners turn up at a local LDWA event and myself, Sara Richard, Liz Fawcett, Mary Hampshire, Tom Lynch, Ed Davies and Laura McCabe all lined up for this year’s Blubberhouses 25, which is actually 24 miles these days after a change to the route a few years ago. Sara, Liz and I were hoping to stick together to make the day…

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Report from John Davis Last year, I made an agreement with my partner, Debbie. I would enter the London Marathon, which Debs thinks I should do ‘because it’s ours, & it’s one of the biggest in the world’ &, when I got my rejection, I’d get to enter the one I really wanted to do, Paris. That’s how it turned out and, despite a knee injury messing up my training & giving my a terrible last 10k, I enjoyed it…

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More 5k Ramblings from Tony Walker Life always seems so busy (generally in a good way!) so fitting races (and runs in general) can often be a challenge. So when I saw a 6pm Saturday evening start I thought surely nothing can conflict with that! So over the border into Lancashire avoiding the bandits off I went for some chest expanding fast 5k running. The podium 5ks are set up similar to the ones at the Brownlee centre in Adel….

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