| This popular, early season evening track race attracted 22 walkers including 6 from Surrey Walking Club. The evening was pleasant but not too hot and times generally satisfactory but not outstanding. An exception to this was Mick Harran who chased the normally much faster Shaun Lightman all the way to finish less than half a minute behind and inside the hour for the first time. Three minutes behind, Ian Statter had a great tussle with Peter Hannell over the last quarter of the race with the order changing several times and Ian finally losing out by a few seconds on the last sprint for the line. David Hoben also had a good race with Bernie Hercock of Enfield closing a 30 metre deficit into a 2 second victory. Mick’s gold medal in the Surrey Championship and Shaun’s gold in the VAC M65 group were the only ones of that colour with several silvers among the other SWC results. |
| 1. I.Richards (Steyn 1st M60) 48 min 54.0 sec; 2. S.Uttley (Ilf 1st M50) 53 min 46.3 sec; 3. S.Allen (Barnet 1st Herts) 55 min 32.6 sec; 6. S.Lightman (Sy WC 1st M65, 2nd Mddx) 59 min 15.3 sec;7. M.Harran (Sy WC 2nd M70, 1st Surrey) 59 min 39.7 sec; 10. P.Hannell (Sy WC 2nd M65, 2nd Surrey) 1 hr 2 min 40.0 sec; 11. I.Statter (Sy WC 3rd Surrey) 1 hr 2 min 46.2 sec; 15. D.Delaney (Sy WC) 1 hr 9 min 28.7 sec; 13; 14. D.Hoben (Sy WC 2nd M55) 1 hr 11 min 9.7 sec. |