KR226 Press Report – Ilmington Race 4, Tatton Hall, Prestwold Hall

Tempo Winter Series Race 4, Ilmington, Sunday 2^nd May 2021

Tempo Winter Series race 4 took place last Sunday, again just two weeks after the prior race.  Emma Ford and Angus Inman joined the usual suspects from Kenilworth on the hill in this race which also saw the return of Tom Dable.

Following the same Covid-safe format; runners were seeded into groups of 6 and given appropriate arrival times at the car park so that a group of 6 could be set off every 5 minutes. After seeing reduced numbers in Race 3, it seemed that Tempo had sold on some of those places as the number of runners swelled again for this race. 

Oliver Flippance didn’t have the best time of things during the race but persisted to finish 8^th in 40:53 which now puts him in 3^rd among the ever presents in series.

Emma Ford put in a great performance as seen in last winter’s series to finish 11^th and 1^st female with a time of 42:14. New member Angus Inman also performed well on his debut to come 24^th in 43:54.

Chris Lyons continues his race by race improvement to drop another minute off his time to finish in 47:07 and claim 39^th position.

Jane Kidd was racing in a depleted state after running a marathon on the Sunday though still finished respectably as 7^th female and remains 2^nd placed female from the ever presents in the series.

The race was won by Ben Cruze from Stratford Upon Avon AC in 33:55 and there were 155 finishers.

Winter Series Race 4 Times

Pos	Name	Time	Category	Cat Pos	Gender	Gen Pos
8	Oliver Flippance	00:40:53	M sen	5	Male	5
11	Emma Ford	00:42:14	F Sen	1	Female	1
24	Angus Inman	00:43:54	M Sen	9	Male	21
39	Chris Lyons	00:47:07	MV 35	12	Male	36
50	Jane Kidd	00:49:31	FV 55	2	Female	7
59	Tim Fenton	00:51:24	MV 55	8	Male	49
68	Richard Clarke	00:53:18	MV 35	18	Male	56
85	Kerrie Flippance	00:57:39	FV 45	8	Female	20
126	Pauline Dable	01:06:59	FV 65+	2	Female	47
153	Tom Dable	01:35:12	MV 65	2	Male	88

Green time shows an improvement over Race 3

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Run Tatton 10k, Saturday 24th April 2021

Race Report by Rob Carr

Rob Carr and Clare Crofts were present at this well organised, picturesque & covid secure race put on by RunThrough Events.

Race Packs were sent out ahead of the Event and Runners were pre-seeded based on Estimated Finish Time and then sent off in Waves, with Individual Runners sent off in pairs 2m apart every few seconds.

The route heads around Tatton Park Estate and onto an adjoining closed country road.  The estate features beautiful grounds, with trees, lake, sheep, cattle and deer on show. Surfaces were mainly tarmac paths and roads, with a couple of small sections of gravelled paths (Start/Finish Area).

Rob reports great support and shout outs in the Finish Area, with plenty of goodies! – Race Medal & Technical T-Shirt – Bottled Water, Flapjacks, Kind Bars & Love Corn Snacks all included.  Rob laid claim to both his and Clare’s flapjack!

Rob Carr was celebrating a 10k PB in 41:47 which netted him 111st place.  Clare Crofts also was able to PB in 53:38 for 378^th place.

There was a strong field with 20 Runners <35 mins and 650 Runners.  Jacob Cann (Horsham Blue Star Harriers) was overall winner in 31:14. Eleanor Davis (Preston Harriers) won the ladies race in 33:50.

Prestwold Hall 5k, Sunday 2^nd May 2021

Eigh 5k races were available at Prestwold Hall last weekend from elite level sub 15 minutes to open format.  Prestwold offers a closed fast environment for racing and three Kenilworth Runners  were present.

Neil Sheward took place in the first open race of the day attempting to achieve a sub-18 time.  Unfortunately that will have to wait for another day however he still achieved an admirable 18:30 for 12^th place and 2^nd in his category.

The open race was won by Harry Lupton from Charnwood AC in 15:56 and there were 25 finishers.

Position	Name	Gender	Category	Finish
12	NEIL SHEWARD	M	V50	00:18:30

Later in the day Ryan and Harry competed in the 18-22 Minute Men and 22-26 Minute Women’s race.  Ryan Baker certainly had a good day in the office and recorded a new 5k PB of 16:57 which put him 1 second behind the leader to claim 2^nd place taking 1:10 off his previous best time.  Hari’s performance of 19:04 was no PB but was however good enough for 38^th position.

Their race was won by Daniel Turner from Wolverhampton and Bilston AC in 16:56 and there were 82 finishers.

Position	Name	Gender	Category	Finish
2	Ryan Baker	M	SEN	00:16:57
38	Harry Purewal	M	SEN	00:19:04