From the Barns Green and Ealing half-marathons to the Vitality London 10,000 and more.
BARNS GREEN HALF-MARATHON, West Sussex, September 28
Beth Kidger won the women’s race overall in 77:48 but less than five minutes down was top W60 Elspeth Turner who ran 82:42, to improve the UK best ever time for the age group by a minute.
The Horsham Blue Star Harrier has a long and continuous history of half-marathon running going right back to a 74:07 in the 1986 Great North Run but who already had a W60 second ranked 83:52 posted recently. This went with a series of top 10km times headed by a 37:01 British best from Bognor Regis in May.
Simultaneously the holder of the previous W60 best, Sarah Gee was improving at Ealing (see below) but Turner has now removed both her times from the record books.
Overall: 1 S Cook 70:59
M50: 1 S Perkins (Horsh J) 78:58
Women: 1 B Kidger (Phoe) 77:48
W55: 1 J Briggs (Arena) 88:30
W60: 1 E Turner (Horsh BS) 82:42
BARNSTABLE MARATHON, Devon, September 28
Overall: 1 L Gulliford (Mendip Tri, M40) 2:38:00
Women: 1 K Newcombe (Stroud, W40) 3:08:02
BOURTON HALF-MARATHON, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, September 28
Overall: 1 D Gillett (W Tempo) 70:07
Women: 1 M Marchant (W Tempo) 81:44
W55: 1 F Maycock (W tempo) 92:24
BURE VALLEY 10, Aylsham, Norfolk, September 28
Overall: 1 M Bath (Norw RR) 53:34; 2 J Senior (Norw) 54:21; 3 G Gay (Norw) 54:48
M40: 1 M Haywood (New J) 56:10
M45: 1 N Adams (NNBR) 56:20
M50: 1 M Dann (Norw) 59:21
M60: 1 T Lake (Wym) 65:08
M65: 1 J Moore (Norf G) 65:57
Women: 1 M Beckett (Norw) 59:40
W45: 1 L McDonnell (Wym) 66:47
W55: 1 L Hurr (Norf G) 73:59
CHATSWORTH 10km, Bakewell, Derbyshire, September 28
Overall: 1 L Heyes (Hallam, W) 37:14
EALING HALF-MARATHON, London, September 28
While Joe Wigfield won overall in 66:42, deeper in the field, Sarah Gee thought she had improved her own W60 best, set at Burnham Beeches in August by 22 seconds with an 83:25 clocking.
It was Wigfield’s first outing over the half-marathon distance although a couple of sub-49-minute 10-mile wins at the Cabbage Patch 10 in 2022 and 2024 suggested such a time, if not faster, was probable.
Top W45 ranked Alice Braham, a member of the local Ealing Eagles club, was a comfortable women’s race winner with a 77:29 clocking.
Gee had indeed improved her previous mark but had been keen to improve as Elspeth Turner had got close to her time at Southampton last month, with 83:52 after an 83:42 at Fleet while still short of her 60th birthday….
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