| Only one event this week held on a slightly cool but otherwise typical evening in Battersea Park with almost 20 out – about the same as for the running event held simultaneously. Half of the field were, as usual, Surrey Walking Club including a couple of second claimers. The club got into the frame courtesy of a good third place from Shaun Lightman, who continues to improve, once again holding off two or three others who had beaten him recently and only just failing to break 44 minutes for the 5 miles and beating
4th by almost 200 metres. Paul King, Chris Flint, Mike Hinton from Ilford and Peter Crane were all within 30 seconds with the last two only a second apart – quite a battle! Kevin Burnett was SWC’s last finisher opting to walk rather than run on this occasion and was just outside of 5 miles an hour. |