City of Salisbury Athletics and Running Club

With hot competition from as far afield as London and Devon, Stuart Holloway was relegated to seventh place overall in the Gosport half marathon but he was still able to boost his City of Salisbury team in their Hampshire road race campaign among the leaders in the men’s league.

On a breezy day when improvements were scarce his time of 73min 46sec gave the club’s A quartet a solid start, backed up by James Hassan 79.24, Richard Davidson 81.22pb, and Mike Brewster whose 82.36 gave him third place in his age group.

Another good performance came from the B team’s Reece Ingram who clocked a pb 82.53, supported by James Mills 84.44, Benedict Saunby a debut 88.11 and Craig Weatherburn 89.26.

Ruth Thom led the way for the club in the women’s A race with 89.41, then with two more great runs came Charlotte Ingram 93.58pb and Sarah Brewster 101.50 for fourth in her age group.

The B team comprised Rachel Bala 111.16, Louise Sloane 111.51 and Alison Scott 115.19.
Mike White was first counter for the men’s C team, recording 89.49, with Richard Larcombe 92.36pb, Joe Cornwall 93.40 and Nick Hudson 97.25.

Other CoSarc finishers were: Steve Mitchell 98.08, Craig Murphy 98.14, Stuart Robertson 100.09, Terry Brown 102.06, Barry Vincent 106.52, Jon Kershaw 108.28, Paul Slaughter 111.04, Richard Williams 111.19, Marc Hankins 112.02, Mel Murphy 117.33, Lucy Orchard 117.38, Liz Roberts 117.44, Jane Whiteley 112.05, Rebecca Lockwood 124.42, Jackie Hassan 125.31, Colin Martin 138.40, Fi Thatcher 139.43, Denise von Roretz 143.14, Will Witt 146.11 and Lesley Brown 153.51.
In the rain and mud of the Dark Valley half marathon near Ringwood one week earlier, Mike White was timed at 99.41 for 13th spot, followed by Stuart Robertson 108.10, Fi Thatcher 158.30 and Joan Kerr 171.51.

Next Hampshire road league fixture is the Victory 5mile on Dec 2nd.
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City of Salisbury’s Richard Davidson produced one of his best performances on the road at the Hayling 10mile in what proved to be good conditions for speedy running by the sea.
His time of 60min 56sec not only set a new mark at the distance but also gave him fourth place in his age group behind winner James Baker of Chichester’s 54.09.
Craig Weatherburn was next Salisbury finisher in 67.46, just outside his best, followed by Richard Larcombe 69.14pb, Craig Murphy 72.08pb and Barry Vincent 81.05.
In the ladies’ race, Melenie Murphy clocked 86.05, Anne Norman 101.29 and Lesley Brown 104.52.
Over a much tougher course at the Stickler multi terrain 10mile hill race in Dorset, Reece Ingram took a hard-earned tenth spot in 72.53 behind Clapham’s Edward Rees in first place with 67.16.
Barry Hards was timed at 82.59, Steve Mitchell 87.11, Chris Maple 87.57 and Ella-May Hards 89.57.
On Saturday [10th] the club switches its focus to cross country running with a big Hampshire league fixture at Aldershot.
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The weekend cold snap was a key feature of many running events, not least in the two-day Original Mountain Marathon over the high moorland of South Wales.
City of Salisbury’s Stuart Holloway and Ruth Thom were the running club’s only representative pairing and they were happy enough to be able to say that despite severe conditions underfoot as well as snow flurries, they survived everything the course could throw at them.
The only slightly less cold roads of the Clock Change 10k Challenge at Calne allowed Richard Larcombe to record a personal best of 42min 25sec as Salisbury’s fastest of the day.
Jonathan Kershaw was next in 45.57 and he was followed by Kieran McManus 54.46pb and Lesley Brown 61.41.
The 5k event at the same venue gave Duncan Watson a promising debut of 29.04.
In the hilly Breamore 10k, Mike White finished well up, stopping the clock at 43.16.
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