HARLOW Running Club competed in the third round of the East Herts / West Essex Cross Country League over a 5 mile course at Newport, near Saffron Walden.

The Ladies Team finished 3rd from 4 teams and are in 3rd place after 3 rounds.

The Men’s team finished in 4th place and are 4th after 3 rounds.

Overall Harlow are in a combined 3rd place after 3 rounds.

In the Ladies race Lucy Barnes finished in a fantastic 1st place out of 80 finishers in 28min 51sec. She was followed home by Terri Wiley in 3rd place in 31.15 and Fieke Blackwell 11th in 34.42.

In the Men’s race Rob Lowe finished in 6th place out of 90 finishers and 1st Vet 50 in an excellent 27.20. Not far behind was Pas Blackwell in 8th place in 28.02 and Ben Usher was 20th in 29.51.

Full Results

Ladies
1 Lucy Barnes 28.51
3 Terri Wiley 31.15
11 Fieke Blackwell 34.42
15 Sandi Rust 35.38
18 Paige Bircham 36.31
26 Louise Cootes 38.13
37 Gail Nicholls 40.52
38 Kerry Mavris 40.58
51 Alison Wilkinson 42.58
54 Laura Prime 43.39
55 Kate Babb 43.53
58 Tracey Stratford 44.47
59 Teresa Stickland 45.05
61 Selina Morgan 45.08
62 Michelle Sheridan 45.09
67 Jane Evans 46.10
68 Sandra Westgate 46.11
80 finishers

Men

6 Rob Lowe 27.20 (1st Vet 50)
8 Pas Blackwell 28.02
20 Ben Usher 29.51
28 Kirk Crudgington 30.45
31 Martin Westley 30.54
38 Mark Bentley 32.40
39 Andy Terrell 32.55
40 Lex Ellington 33.00
43 Nick D’Alton 33.53
47 Chris Arnell 34.24
48 Jon Steadman 34.28
50 James Dowsett 34.46
58 Mark Unwin 35.23
64 Miguel Luque 37.02
66 Bobby Draper 37.24
71 Sean Flynn 38.43
72 John Tennant 39.20
75 Alan Cootes 39.58
84 Tony Harman 42.51
90 Alan Wellbelove 49.34
90 finishers

Meanwhile, at the Peddars Way Ultra Marathon (48 miles) Tom Stevens finished in 44th place out of 134 finishers in an exhaustive 8hrs 53min 56sec.

The Peddars Way is a national trail that runs from the Suffolk border to the
North Norfolk Coast.

There were parkrun PB runs from Kevin Peacock at Harlow, finishing in 83rd place out of 223 finishers in 27.50, and by Jermaine Shand at the Gunpowder parkrun, at Waltham Abbey, finishing in 22nd place out of 192 finishers in
20.52.