Race report by David Phillips
Well here was the first of the 5 series of the 10k events each month until February 2025 and what a great event this was. As usual I’ve sponsored the whole series and well done Sarah and Rob of Tempo Events for putting this on again-great! There were 335 runners were in it so it was very full but the good thing was that I started early and was on my own for most of the run and a few passed me near the finish. The bad news was that I came 335th on the time so I was last. Never mind it was great out there.
Mind you the weather was awful with probably the worst wind ever on the course and I’ve never experienced anything like it here before in all the years I’ve run it. The wind was so bad that the trees were almost falling into the road where we ran and people did say that one tree did get blown over!
So the start is all uphill anti clock wise to about 4k at the highest point for all of the counties surrounding the event and it was really difficult to get to the top without walking and jogging! Eventually at the top the wind was so dangerous that it almost blew me over but I did carry on.
Then the good news was that it was then downhill to about 6k so no problem there and the road was almost traffic free.
Then from the bottom the last 4k was on roads (one flooded) around the village, and still very windy but eventually the finish was in sight at the sports field and pavilion and the 10k was over! Great.
Then as usual all finishers had their super bag of 4 large sausages at the end so this was great. As I sponsored it I was given more than 1 bag so thanks a lot Sarah and Rob!
So again a real difficult and hard event and the next event is in November and it will be the other way round (clockwise) and the hill to the top will be dreadful again.
So well done again the organisers Sarah and Rob and see you in November.
Massey Results.
43 Alan McDougall 47.49
74 Zoe Moore 52.12
138 Jonathan Kingston 58.22
176 Stuart Sahan 1.02.27
207 Daniel Connolly 1.05.03
216 Mary Connolly 1.05.40
231 Alison Lowe 1.07.36
243 Kate Kingston 1.09.25
251 Christine Bevis 1.10.27
284 Laura Hankey 1.13.42
289 Jason Douglas 1.14.23
290 Phyll Douglas 1.14.24
317 Paul Cooper 1.22.27
333 Kelly Sahan 1.33.33
334 Beckie Draper 1.36.50
335 (LAST) David Phillips 1.40.00.
There have never been 16 Massey runners in this event so well done everyone.
See you all in November.