Mr. Moir reports for duty and send in these words
Redcar Half Marathon – North East Champs 12-6-11
One of the main reasons that I decided to do this race, despite it being my third race in a week was that the conditions were forecast to be ideal with no wind and cool temperatures, so I felt it would be a shame to miss the opportunity.
Tyne Bridge Harriers @ Redcar Half Marathon
We had 10 TBH’ers out in total, Paul Hilton, DD and Carter in one car, Me, Deka, Kerry and Mark Hall in another, Rob K, Mrs Rob and Dave Rowe in a third (Andy Harrison sensibly making his own way there) so we had ourselves a convoy, and following a few long cuts we got to Redcar, eventually.
The race started in glorious sunshine and it got fairly hot very quickly. A strong TBH pack set off together running 5:55s which I hung onto for a few miles but then felt a little too hot and started desperately looking for the first water station at 4 miles. Other people were feeling it too, and some actually stopped to drink at the water station.
We then headed out onto a dual carriageway which was fairly dull, seemed to go on forever and appeared to be slightly uphill. We turned around a roundabout and went back on ourselves and somehow along with the rather strong wind that had come from nowhere this also seemed also to be uphill (must have been an optical illusion or something). The wind kept up pretty much for the rest of the route making it fairly hard going, and also makes you wonder how much more time people would have taken off their PBs if the BBC had been slightly more accurate with their predictions.
PB’s to note :
Andy Harrison ran sub 1:30 for the first time in 1:28:59
Dave Rowe – 1:33 taking a massive 6 minutes off his PB
Full results are here :-
www.runteesvalley.co.uk/2011results
But we have a few corrections to sort out with the organisers.
Dave Moir
Corrections and updates have been made and we can now say a massive congratulations to Paul Hilton, Mark Hall, Dave Daniels & Tony Carter for being awarded 2nd Male Team Prize. Very well done lads !!
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great report dave it was another fantastic performance from TBH at redcar today the whole bunch showed great spirit in a very tough conditions 1hour 16mins for tc 1hour 20mins for mark hall paul hilton 1hour 22mins dave daniels 1hour 22mins andrew harrison pb at 1hour 28mins 59 seconds dave rowe pb 1hour 33mins 33 seconds me 1hour 40mins dead wor lass 1hour 44mins rob kirtley 1hour 45mins i would all so like to congratulate an old club of mine runner paul james who ran 1 hour 25mins and 1 second and all so thank the support from wallsend who gave there support to our ruuners well done to all
Well done to my fellow club members for their sterling efforts in some pretty nasty conditions. Also, a belately congratulations to the 4 lads who helped the club acheive 2nd Team prize (TC, Horlicks, DD and Hilts).