Month: June 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Peel Road Runners were amongst the thousands of runners who embraced the challenge of Cardiac Hill in Sutton Park as part of the Great Midlands Fun Run. The popular local 8.5mile run took place last weekend in rather warm running conditions but still the Peelers provided some great running performances and new personal bests.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”923″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]The unofficial times for the event had Malcolm Bembridge as the first Peel Road Runner to cross the finish line with his recorded time of 1:02:53hrs, a new PB beating his 2017 time by 7mins. Darren O’Leary finished just behind with his time of 1:04:40hrs. Carolyne Browne was the first Peel female to finish as Carolyne recorded an unofficial time of 1:17:23hrs for her 8.5miles. Just behind Carolyne was Jo Insley who probably had the best Peel performance of the day when she ran a new PB time of 1:17:25hrs (unofficial). Sandra Ingram finished just behind Jo with her time of 1:19:00hrs.

It was a busy week for Peel Road Runners at Parkrun events across the region last weekend too. Liz Morgan was the sole representative at Conkers where she ran a time of 30:45mins for her 5k. Andrew Pickard was running in Sheffield at the Concord Parkrun event where Andrew clocked up a time of 24:04mins and 23rd position overall.

A trio of Peelers were over at Perry Hall Parkrun – Robert Hirst, Michael Stevenson & Christine Norris who clocked up times of 25:05mins, 28:22mins & 37:27mins respectively. Christine also finished 1st in her age category.

The majority of Peel Road Runners turned out at Kingsbury Water Park for their weekly free timed 5k run. The fastest of which was Michael Shelton with his finishing time of 22:08mins, just ahead of Philip Neale with his time of 22:19mins. Simon Smith followed Phillip home with his time of 22:45mins followed across the finish line by Simon Gordon with his 24:53mins. The remaining male Peelers in action were Garth Cox (25:15mins), Stuart Hatton ran his 100th Kingsbury Parkrun (26:12mins) and Adam Chyla (27:35mins).

Leading the Peel Road Runner females home was Vickie Gilks who ran a time of 35:34mins for her 5k just ahead of Wendy Bowyer who ran 35:35min.

Lisa Fletcher (aided by Jo Insley) volunteered to run as the tail runner on the day.

Peel Road Runners meet every Tuesday and Thursday at 7pm at the Snowdome in Tamworth.

New members are always welcome.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Peel Road Runner Robert ‘Bob’ Donovan closes in on his 100 Marathon goal after completing the Worcester Marathon on Sunday 20th May, making it now 87 marathons in total. In what were very hot conditions that are not ideal for long distance running, Bob clocked up a finishing time of 5:54:00hrs for his 26.2miles and now needs only 13 more to reach that 100 personal milestone target.

For other Peel Road Runners, it was the usual Saturday morning Parkrun that got them lacing up the trainers for a little bit of (slightly) competitive running. Robert Hirst & Christine Norris travelled over to the Walsall Arboretum for their Parkrun and clocked up times of 25:08mins & 37:13mins respectively.

Over at Kingsbury Water Park there were a few more Peelers out for their Saturday morning 5k jog and they were lead home by George Hope who was the first Peel Road Runner back through the finish tunnel with his time of 24:33mins and now just 4 more runs away from run No. 100. Behind George was Tim Mudd with his time of 24:57mins just ahead of Stuart Hatton with his time of 25:10mins (his 99th run at Kingsbury) closely followed by Chris Taylor with a time of 25:12mins which was a new PB time, taking 20secs off his previous best time.

Garth Cox was next to finish with a time of 25:43mins ahead of the first Peel Road Runner female finisher Sophie Galloway with her time of 26:32mins & Lisa Fletcher with her finishing time of 33:04mins.

Peel Road Runners meet every Tuesday and Thursday at 7pm at the Snowdome in Tamworth.

New members are always welcome.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]