As has been mentioned before and will be again the bank holiday was hot ( too hot for a ten mile race ) seemed to be what everyone was saying to me after I had signed up for the 10.
Hildenborough is a lovely 5 mile course (two laps for the ten ) or a short cut for the 2.5 mile option .
So after all the children had run their age group races in the morning we all lined up on the start line at 2.30 pm.
I had a good run following John Baldock for the first 5 miles keen not to over cook it and then push on later if the heat didn’t get me .At 6 miles it got John , I saw him take his hat off and straight away thought that he was struggling. He slowed down and I went passed the rest of the race was spent trying to catch the next runner telling myself “I bet he’s over 50” .
I got closer and closer but didn’t quite get him luckily for me he wasn’t an m50 .
A lot of runners swapped to the 5 mile option on the day or pulled out after one lap and they also had 4 DNF’S so only 51 finishers for the 10 mile .
Mike King had great delight telling me I was 5th, him being 6th in the 5 mile event meant I had to write this rubbish.
Hildenborough is a great day for all, lots of families had a great time with their children running. And a good course for the older ones.
Well done to our own Sam Taylor for organising this again a real community event.
Here are the results.
10 mile 51 runners
| 1st | Maria | Heslop | TAC | 1.02.04 | |
| 5th | Dave | Hadaway | TWH | 1.07.37 | 1st m50 |
| 13th | John | Baldock | TWH | 1.15.21 | |
| 22nd | Nick | Pierce | TWH | 1.27.16 | 1st m60 |
5 mile 128 runners
| 1st | Julian | Rendall | TAC | 28.07 |
| 6th | Mike | King | TWH | 31.42 |
| 16th | Colin | Timmins | TWH | 34.41 |
| 21st | Matthew | Newman | TWH | 36.23 |
| 29th | Mick | Barstow | TWH | 37.29 |
| 40th | Andy | Page | TWH | 39.26 |
| 42nd | Colin | Ricketts | TWH | 39.51 |
| 45th | Amanda | Smith | TWH | 41.54 |
| 50th | Clare | Andrew | TWH | 42.39 |
| 101st | Janet | Bird | TWH | 53.25 |
There were 59 runners in the 2.5 mile event won by (future member) we hope.
Dillon Hobbs 15 .58
Cheers
Dave