Lance cleans up at Taunton while Smokes clocks 60 !!!!

On Sunday 25th September 4 trotters took themselves up to The New forest to run the “New Forest Marathon”. The course is mainly on the road but there is a large section “off road” so it is classed as a multi-terrain event.

751 people completed the event in near perfect conditions.Roger Hayes(chair) had a strong run coming in 17th with a good time of 3:11:13 (17th).Next was Roger Hales(smokes) in 4.13.25 and so completing his 60th marathon. Sally Ingledew completed in 4.27.04 closely followed by Marsha Garrard in 4.29.40.

The two Rogers and Marsha were using the race as a training run for the Druids Challenge.
They are all doing it in November and it is an 84 mile race over 3 days.

On Sunday 25th September seven trotters made their way to Taunton to run the annual “Taunton 10km”. It was grey and drizzly at the start. The course was undulating, around the outskirts of Taunton centre and then around country lanes/roads around the neighbouring villages.

Starting and finishing at the Blackbrook Pavilion in Taunton it attracted 330 men and 260 women.

Seven trotters took part in the event and Daryl “Tarquin” Milford was the first trotter to appear in fine style as 7th man.His finishing time of 36.08 gave him his fastest 10km road race to date and shows what strong form he is in.Lance Mason chased him down to clean up the Vet 50 award with a brilliant time of 36.54 and coming in as 17th man.This was his fastest 10km since joining the trotters earlier this year.

Julian Head came 68th and posted a fine 43.18.Derek Blackford was 229th in a time of 53.44 and Keith Anderson completed the trotter men with 57.48 and 268th.
Tracy Elphick back to fine racing form was 10th lady and posted another good time of 43.54 while Katrina Duignan made this race her personal best by nearly two minutes coming in as 58th women and 52.47.
Marion Witham did 1.06.03 185th women and Angela Weekes 198th in 1.07.42 but both ran for the Haldon hash house harriers in the race.

Mark Wotton travelled to Berlin to take part in the "Berlin Marathon" with 48,000 other competitors.The course is very fast and yet again the world marathon record was broken on it this year.At the 41km mark the huge Brandenburg gate can be seen in the distance.The weather was rather warm at 28 degrees but Mark still posted a respectable 4.20.49.

Down in Truro last Sunday the “Truro half marathon” took place with Adrian Mawson completing in 1.39.24 124th and Helen Anthony in her first race as a trotter in 1.47.59 and 217th out of 541 runners.

Report written by Fizz

Photos-top-The "forest"marathon four(thanks chair)Middle-Tracy being chased by Hubby Nathan at Chudleigh(thanks Gary C) Bottom-Lance with his trophy(thanks Lance )