Weekly endurance racing round-up consists of huge 26.2-miler in Northern Eire plus the Newcastle-Gateshead Marathon and extra.
BELFAST CITY MARATHON, Northern Eire, Could 2
Ethiopians Abay Alemu and Tadesse Mamo dominated and will solely be cut up by one hundredth of a second on the entrance of the occasion as each got 2:16:24.
The pair moved clear within the closing phases earlier than a dash end noticed Alemu break the tape in first place. „I am very completely happy and the individuals have been very good,“ stated Alemu: “The climate was very chilly and the tempo was not good however the feeling is sweet.“
Behind, a 3rd Ethiopian Abera Ketema was a minute down as Swansea’s Josh Griffiths was the primary Brit in 2:18:01 as fifth positioned Jonathan Cornish set a private greatest at 2:19:38.
For the ladies, Morocco’s World Mountain Cup runner Aziza Selsouli got here out on high in 2:38:00.
Total: 1 A Alemu (ETH) 2:16:24; 2 T Mamo (ETH) 2:16:24; 3 A Ketema (ETH) 2:17:38; 4 J Griffiths (Swan) 2:18:01; 5 J Cornish (HW) 2:19:28; 6 C Purcella (USA) 2:21:36; 7 J Turner (B&H) 2:22:57; 8 A Hanlon 2:23:58; 9 J Doherty (Finn V, M40: 2:27:00; 10 P McColl (RRC) 2:28:23
Girls: 1 A Selsouli (MAR) 2:38:00; 2 J Storm (Derry, W35) 2:39:09
MK MARATHON & HALF Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Could 4
Total (26.2M): 1 M Elbayan (Lut) 2:25:36; 2 S Tuttle (Mil Okay) 2:32:12; 3 S Buckle (St Alb, M40) 2:32:56
Girls: 1 G Carter (Serp, W35) 2:51:32
W55: 1 W Chapman (Sund Str) 3:08:54
Total (13.1M): 1 L Stopford (Stroud, M40) 68:16; 2 J Moynihan (Ely) 68:21; 3 N Coyle (Stroud) 68:28; 4 J Davies (Dac) 69:48
M65: 1 D Darnell (Hunts) 94:05
Girls: 1 A Gabb (Dac, W40) 82:33; 2 P Canwell (Redway, W40) 82:43
W65: 1 L Hembury (Tring) 1:41:22
W70: 1 B Stevens (Mansf) 1:43:43
NEWCASTLE GATESHEAD MARATHON, HALF & 10km, Tyne & Put on, Could 3
Paul Peters received the marathon in 2:31:23, whereas Glenn Reay added the 13.1-mile occasion in 71:27, because the Tyneside sequence of occasion unfolded.
Total (26.2M): 1 P Peters (Sale) 2:31:23; 2 T Backhouse (Low Fell) 2:31:43
Girls: 1 A Linskey 3:09:30
Total (13.1M): 1 G Reay 71:27
M45: 1 A Heppell (Gosf) 73:29
M50: 1 J Richardson (NSP) 77:21
Girls: 1 L Thompson (York, W35) 80:23
W50: 1 A Dargie 93:20
Total (10km): 1 M Robson (Elvet) 33:40
Girls: 1 L Choke 46:20
BRECKLAND 10km, Thetford, Norfolk, Could 4
Total: 1 N Adams (NNBR, M45) 32:45
M65: 1 J Moore (Norf G) 39:13
Girls: 1 L Franklin (St Ed) 39:34
W60: 1 A Ransome (L Goat) 43:28
SHINFIELD 10km, Berkshire, Could 4
Total: 1 D Hawkins 31:47
Girls: 1 L Locks (AFD, W45) 37:37
WITHAM MAY DAY 10, Essex, Could 4
Total: 1 N Filer (Col H, M40) 54:27
M60: 1 P Spowage (Col H) 63:36
Girls: 1 M Liu (S’discipline) 72:38
GREAT BIRMINGHAM RUN 10km, West Midlands, Could 3
Total: 1 F Fielding 31:24
M55: 1 J Jennings (Knowle & D) 37:54
Girls: 1 R Gifford (Leam) 35:04; 2 C Smith 35:25; 3 C Hammett (THH) 35:57
W50: 1 C Hay (Mansf) 37:48
GREAT EAST ANGLIA 10km, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, Could 3
Total: 1 J Holman (Norw) 30:40; 2 M Bunn (W Norf) 32:07; 3 A Mussey (Col H, M50) 32:52
W50: 2 B Corleys (B’discipline) 33:52
M60: 1 S Roberts (Boston Tri) 39:15
Girls: 1 L Finch (Bure) 35:29; 2 L Mapp (Hunts) 36:19
IPSWICH TWILIGHT 5km, Suffolk, Could 3
There have been shut battles in each the boys’s and girls’s races earlier than Poppy Tank and Ben Felton narrowly prevailed over Callum Charleston and Amelia Quirk.
For ladies’s winner Tank, who acquired residence by two ticks in 15:38 and it was a private greatest by six seconds, beating her time from December thirty first 2024 in one of many Podium sequence races.
English Nationwide cross-country silver medallist Quirk was having her first run out on the roads this 12 months and her 15:40 return was seven seconds outdoors her year-old greatest efficiency.
Total: 1 B Felton (Chelms) 14:32; 2 C Charleston (AFD,) 14:34; 3 M Snowden (Ips H) 14:38; 4 M Clark (Norw) 14:39; 5 D Evans (SB) 14:43; 6 J Morley (ol H) 14:45
M45: 1 G Crush (Norw) 16:03
M60: 1 C Ridley (Col H) 17:59
M65: 1 R Harvey (Fram) 19:52
M70: 1 J Haynes (B Stort) 20:29
TEAM: 1 Ipswich H 20
Girls: 1 P Tank (Plym) 15:38; 2 A Quirk (Brack) 15:40; 3 D Glover (Fram) 16:05; 4 Maddie Jordan-Lee (AFD) 16:07; 5 L Wellstead (Vol H) 16:08; 6 M Smith (Herne H) 16:20; 7 G Kersey (Bas) 16:31; 8 Millie Jordan-Lee (AFD) 16:37
W40: 1 Okay Vargeson (L Goat) 17:42
W45: 1 R Jones (Assist) 19:10
W50: 1 A Oakman Col H) 20:24
W60: 1 V Jennings (Ips J) 23:08
W70: 1 J Morgan (St Ed) 23:28
TEAM: 1 Colchester H 35
MELMERBY 10km, Ripon, North Yorkshire, Could 3
Total: 1 M Creasey (Mandale) 31:33; 2 A Styanley (H’gate, U20) 31:39
M50: 1 C Jones (R&Z) 33:35
M60: 1 P Peacock (Thirsk & S) 38:54
Girls: 1 N Robinson (H’gate, U20) 38:24
W55: 1 A Spencer (Valley St) 41:22
W60: 1 J Johnson (Peni) 43:38
MK ROCKET 5km, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Could 3
Total: 1 J Prior (Mattress C) 14:57; 2 T Blunt (Shrews) 15:26
M50: 1 Okay White (Mil Okay) 16:22
M60: 1 J Loxley (Redway) 18:49
Girls: 1 A Gabb (Dac, W40) 17:42
W50: 1 J Mills (Redway) 20:34
W55: 1 W Chapman (Sund Str) 20;28
W60: 1 J Loxley (Redway) 20:56
RUN FRIMLEY 10km, Surrey, Could 3
Sarah Gee, 62, received the ladies’s race general in 38:41. The British 10 mile and half-marathon W60 quickest ever stated: “On this hilly course, I used to be happy with the tempo given the elevation and it’s a part of my technique to get quicker earlier than doing the marathon once more.”
Total: 1 D Quinlan 34:24
Girls: 1 S Gee (Windle, W60) 38:41
SALTASH HALF-MARATHON, Cornwall, Could 3
Total: 1 T Brooks (Teign, M45) 78:41
Girls: 1 C Friends (Soton) 84:43
SOUTHAMPTON MARATHON, Hampshire, Could 3
Total: 1 A Greenleaf (Win RC, M40) 2:32;18
Girls: 1 M Dominy 2:56:51
VICTORIA PARK 10km, London, Could 3
Total: 1 A Barnes (Lon H, M40) 33:35
Girls: 1 Z Oldfield (Lought, W45) 37:14
WORTHING RUN FEST HALF-MARATHON, West Sussex, Could 3
Total: 1 R Hoyte (Phoe) 70:01; 2 P Maher 70:10
Girls: 1 L Ramirez (Enviornment) 87:30
W55: 1 S McDonald (S Lon) 95:10; 2 L Albrecht (Arun) 95:23
YMCA FUN RUN 5, Reigate, Surrey, Could 3
Total: 1 G Roux 29:50
Girls: 1 G Bruinvels (AFD, W35) 30:45
W60: 1 A Smith (S Lon) 34:54
MOTAVATION SERIES, Race 1, Charlton-on-Otmoor, Oxfordshire, April 30
The brand new five-race sequence started with a victory for Oxford Metropolis’s Duncan Lawrence however his membership have been once more nicely crushed by native rivals Abingdon.
For the ladies, final 12 months’s sequence winner Lieben Dickens was comfortably headed by Witney Highway Runners’ bettering Isabel Stubbs, however Headington Highway Runners once more received the ladies’s staff.
Total (5M 346yds): 1 D Lawrence (Oxf C) 27:13; 2 A Herbert (Cher) 27:36; 3 M Lock (Wit) 27:42
M50: 1 P Fernandez (Abing) 29:19; 2 L Newell (Abing) 29:47
M60: 1 B Reynolds (THH) 32:32; 2 M Slevin (Head RR) 33:23
M70: 1 P Gregory (Voa) 34:07; 2 B Vaughan (Oxf C) 35:44
TEAM (6 to attain): 1 Abingdon 87; 2 Alhester 142; 3 Abingdon B 174
Girls: 1 I Stubbs (Wit) 31:45; 2 L Dickens (Head RR) 32:15; 3 S Giles (Alch) 33:51
W40: 1 Okay Danniels (Eynsh) 34:40
W50: 1 S Howard (Wit) 35:57; 2 S Davies (Oxf C) 37:02
W60: 1 V Woodward (Abbey) 38:19
TEAM (6 to attain): 1 Head RR 81; 2 Witney 97; 3 Woodstock 132
GREAT YARMOUTH PROMENADE 5, Norfolk, April 29
Total: 1 C Reynolds (G Yar) 26:56
M65: 1 J Moore (Norf G) 31:26
Girls: 1 L Finch (Bure, W35) 28:56
EAST HULL HARRIERS’ SPROATLEY 6, Humberside, April 28
Total: 1 L Sudderby (E Hull) 31:22
M50: 1 S Bateson 32:09
Girls: 1 R Allen (E Hull) 40:28
