Race Reports

RACE REPORTS

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Rugby 6M - 15th May 2013

Fantastic Night For Wootton

Wootton Road Runners Veteran Ladies won the team prize at the Rugby 6 in the East Midlands Grand Prix with the team enjoying a fantastic night overall claiming 2^nd in the Vet Men team category and the Senior Ladies and Senior Men both grapping 3^rd

Barbara Willison was the leading Vet Lady taking 2^nd place in the F40 category in a time of 41.21 with support from Frances Hooper (43.41) and Helen Van Uem (43.58), who was the 3^rd F40. Gabby Deere (44.43) was 3^rd F50 and Lorayne Keet-Marsh (53.36) 3^rd in the F55.

Jo Gardner was 2^nd in the Senior Ladies race in a time of 40.46 with Courtney McKeown (50.09) and Hayley Rogers (51.27) also scoring.
The Senior Men were led by top performer Chris Lazenby (35.11) closely followed by James Armstrong (35.16) who both set PB’s with Lee Berrill (36.38) and David Lazenby (36.45) also scoring. Richard Fowler won the M45 category in a time of 35.30 with Richard Lack (36.09), Steve Heighway (37.54) and the improving Terry Allen (38.49) completing the scoring for the Vets. Wootton took a contingent of 38 runners to the race with over 15 of them setting PB’s. The next race in the series is the Blisworth 5.
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Silverstone 10K - 9 May 2013

Wootton Ladies & Vet Men Win At Silverstone

Wootton Road Runners Senior Ladies and Veteran Men both won team prizes in the first race of the East Midlands Grand Prix Series over 10K at Silverstone motor race circuit. In blustery conditions in a field of over a 1,000 runners the ladies were led home by Imogen Norton in a time of 38.28, who also won the senior ladies individual prize, with Victoria Ayliif (41.11) and Jo Gardner (43.02) running great races to score.

The victorious Vet Men were the old guard of Richard Fowler (37.17), who was 5^th V45 and Richard Lack (37.29), along with Steve O’Reilly (39.07) and Steve Heighway ( 39.33).

Wootton were represented by 47 runners and the leading runner overall was the vastly improved James Armstrong (36.44) who managed to edge in front of Chris Lazenby by 2 seconds. Other solid performances came from Charles Howard (37.58), Lee Berrill (38.15), the returning David Lazenby (38.26) and debutant Ian Honeyfield (38.29).

In the Vet Ladies Helen Van Uem clocked 45.3 to take 6^th in F40 category and Gabby Deere 46.40 to take 4^th in F50 category.
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Tough Guy - 27th January
(Courtesy of Terri Mason) - here
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Wootton Ladies storm to success

Wootton Road Runners were celebrating success on Saturday as their ladies stormed to success in the Northants County Cross Country Championship to take the Ladies County Team title. Despite the recent floods the event took place at Abington Park.

In the Ladies race with a field of 42 runners, Imogen Norton took a superb 3rd place, behind International star Sian Edwards and Birchfield's, Nicole Roberts. Imogen was well supported by Julie Dixon in 6th place and Vicky Ayliff in 9th, Jasmine Lowdon, Nicola Wood and Terri Mason. Imogen, Julie and Vicky comfortably took the Team Title with 19 points from Rugby & Northampton who came 2nd with 28 points. Wootton also took 4th place in the team competition too. The team performance was particularly rewarding as Wootton took the title from local rivals Rugby & Northampton after them winning for 3 consecutive years.

A combination of injury, illness and clashing commitments meant Wootton were unable to enter a Male team. However, James Armstrong ran his usual gutsy race to finish 32nd in a very strong field, with Steve Heighway a creditable 37th.