Quayside 5km wins for Carl Avery and Megan Stenhouse

It wasn’t all about London this week as we convey you our newest endurance operating round-up from across the UK.

QUAYSIDE 5km & Junior 3km, Newcastle, Tyne & Put on, April 22

Carl Avery was one second quicker than his fourth-placed time right here final yr, with a 14:29 clocking, after simply getting the nod on Joe Firth for his first victory within the race.

It was the identical time that delivered a sixth place on the banks of the River Tyne in 2024 and the place the Morpeth Harrier was third in 2023 and second in 20:18 in a race that the now 39-year-old has run in since 2014.

Second positioned Firth has solely been racing since 2022 and right here the Metropolis of Leeds 26-year-old was 5 seconds inside his earlier greatest with a 14:30 return.

Ladies’s winner Megan Stenhouse discovered that 16:54 was simply sufficient for a girls’s race victory at a venue the place the 22-year-old ran 16:20 within the August race right here.

Carl Avery (David Hewitson)

General: 1 C Avery (Morp) 14:29, 2 J Firth (Leeds) 14:30; 3 A Brown (Hought) 14:36; 4 Z Kettle (Tyne Br, U20) 14:46; 5 D Bradford (NE Proj) 14:46; 6 L Davies (NE Proj) 14:50; 7 S Punn (Gate, U20) 14:50; 8 B Hodgson (B’ham) 14:50; 9 L Liddle (Gate) 14:53; 10 F Davies (Warmth) 14:56

M40: 1 A Swinburn (Morp) 15:21

M45: 1 D Heslop (M’boro)15:50

M50: 1 D Milligan 16:30

M55: 1 W Pearson (E;vet) 17:15

Ladies: 1 M Stenhouse (R&N) 16:54

W45: 1 E James (Wallsend) 19:59

W50: 1 D Foster (T’dale) 19:16

5km, B Race, chosen

M70: 1 G Payne 20:26

W65: 1 M Minchella (J&H) 22:18

Junior 3km (U16): 1 J Cathy (Blay) 9:18; 2 A Johnston (Blyth) 9:18; 3 C Brownbridge (Gate) 9:41

U14: 1 J Dhawar (Morp) 10:26; 2 J Fawcett (Morp) 10:31; 3 H Hardy (Warmth) 10:58

Women (U16): 1 C Das (Gosf) 11:21; 2 J Gould (Gate) 11:22; 3 M Taggart (J&H) 11:46

U14: 1 C de Lucas (Phoe F) 11:56; 2 C McPhhearson (Blyth) 12:52; 3 M Robson (Elsw) 13:26

James Cathey (left) beats Alistair Johnson (David Hewitson)

SHAKESPEARE HALF-MARATHON, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, April 26

General: (13.1M): 1 C Kilburn (Mansf, M40) 70:48

M50: 1 A Glover (W’bury) 78:52

M55: 1 S Pope (Totley) 80:13

M60: 1 J Wilkins (Vets) 83:41

Ladies: 1 B Straw (Bir) 82:27

W50: 1 J Eddy (Right here) 95:31

W60: 1 Ok Wright (Strat) 85:37

WREXHAM 10km, North Wales, April 26

General: 1 J White (Norw) 31:39

Ladies: 1 M Turnbull (Maldwyn, W40) 41:47

W55: 1 H Davies (Wrex Tri) 44:15

SERPENTINE LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH, Hyde Park, London, April 24

European Masters W45 10km silver medallist Zoe Oldfield loved a slender four-second girls’s victory over Alice Malin, Steve Smythe experiences.

Clare Elms, who gained the W60 10km title in Madeira final yr, wasn’t within the high ten girls after a mile however a ten:35 final 3km moved her by way of to 3rd and closed on the main duo.

Elms, who holds all the course information from W40 to the W60 age-group improved the latter mark to 18:16.

European Masters M50 Indoor 1500m medallist Simon Coombes produced the very best males’s efficiency with a 16:30 clocking giving him sixth place general.

General: 1 G Wilkinson (Orion, M40) 16:00

M50: 1 S Coombes (Herne H) 16:30

M60: 1 P Parry (B&W) 17:58; 2 S Corfield (SoC) 18:26

Ladies: 1 Z Oldfield (Lough, W45) 17:57; 2 A Malin (Ful) 18:01; 3 C Elms (Kent, W60) 18:16; 4 N Archer (S Lon, W45) 18:29

W50: 1 E Skinner (Kent) 19:16

W55: 1 A Critchlow (W4H) 20:03

W60: 2 L Woolhouse (Vets) 21:37

W65: 1 S Davies (B&W) 22:22; 2 J Davies 22:50

BAY Highway 5km, Derry, Northern Eire, April 22

General: 1 N Johnson (Anna) 14:47; 2 N Dinsmore (Anna) 14:52; 3 J Doherty (Finn V, M40) 14:57; 4 Ok Kelly (Raheny) 14:57; 5 S Melarkey (Derry) 4:58

Ladies: 1 S Kelly (Derry) 17:00

W55: 1 F Prue (S’properly) 20:27; 2 A Carr (B’mena) 21:04