Trotters run hard day (and night) to scoop silverware and complete more miles.

Team Teignbridge gave themselves a little something for the weekend when they did the quadruple and scooped four trophies at the Erme Valley Relays, Ivybridge.

A formidable turn-out ensured the relays, held annually by Erme Valley Harriers, was turned into a sea of Royal Blue with 18 teams rocking up to compete and complete the eyeballs out 2.5-mile undulating loop.

The host club posted a record entry of 107 with 105 teams finishing and the Teignbridge Trotters won the M40, the MV60, F35 and F55 age categories.

Winning teams: M40A: Geoff Davey 13.55, Roger Easterbrook 14.53 Mike Hooper 15mins, Garry Smart 14.06 (total time 57.54 and seventh overall).

MV60: Wilf Taylor 17.30, Tim Hartley 22.29, Mike Eveleigh 16.56, Keith Anderson 19.08 (total time 76.03 71st overall).

F35: Mandy ‘birthday girl’ Wheeler 16.47, Eyvoll Aston 16.58, Helen Anthony 15.13, Tracy Elphick 16.37 (total time 65.35 33rd overall).

F55: Hylda Stewart 19.14, Tina Caunter 21.14, Maggie Anderson 24.21, Eleanor Taylor 20.43 (total time 85.32 96th overall).

Full team results in finishing order:

Trotters A: Ewan Walton 14.44, Tim Pratt 13.48, Iain Large 15.44, Adam Johnson 14.09.

Trotters M40B: Russ Wheeler 15.03, Roger Hayes 14.39, Julian Scanes 16.04, Rob Mann 18.06.

Teignbridge Trotters B: Martin Randall 15.32, Kevin Woodard 16.17, Dave McMorrow 16.59, Craig Churchill 15.50.

Teignbridge Trotters MU18: Tom Besford 15.33, Josh Taylor 15.16, Aiden Reynolds 21.09, Jamie Barnett 15.02.

Teignbridge Trotters: Nigel Barnett 18.04, Stu Moulson 19.16, Tom Besford 15.36, Rog Hayes 15.25.

Trotters M50A: Mark Hutchins 16.13, Pete Hayward 17.47, Roger ‘Smokes’ Hales 16.56, John Tweedie 17.46.

Trotters M40C: Gary Clark 17.30, Neil Pallant 17.40, Dermot Smyth 16.49, Dave Mead 17.44.

Trotters M50B: Rob Mann 16.53, Andrew Watson 20.41, Gary Watson 17.32, Paul Johns 17.59.

Trotters F: Jo Randall 18.23, Abi Smyth 21.14, Hannah Walsh 16.04, Kate Lenthall 18.44.

Trotters M: Richard Keatley 21.04, Ryan Anthony 19.33, Ian Langler 15.42, Kevin Brown 18.09.

Trotters M50C: Jim Donovan 18.18, Alan Boone 17.04, John ‘Skinns’ (welcome back to racing!) Skinner 19.54, Kevin Besford 20.41.

Trotters F45: Jacki Woon 17.41, Sally Ingledew 21.37, Wendy Higginson 22.49, Sharon ‘Fizz’ Bowman 19.07.

Teignbridge Trotters F35: Jennie Roberts 18.57, Melanie Hooper 20.02, Emma Pearcy 20.56, Caroline Clark 21.25.

Trotters F35: Helen Anthony 15.59, Bev Dennis 21.54, Kim Nichols 24.12, Jess Whitehouse 22.40.

There were many notable and formidable individual performances so well done to everyone who made the effort and contributed to what was a great evening of relay racing and socialising. Big thanks, of course, to our captains Zippy and Skippy (Helen Anthony and Lance Mason) who mustered, hustled, encouraged and organised.

*Six Trotters descended on a small corner of Devon to take part in a 9.5-mile off-road race called the Revelstoke Run. It starts beside St Peter’s Church in the pretty Yealm Estuary village of Moss Mayo and finishes in the beer garden of The Ship Inn. In between it takes in the awesome - there really is no other word for it - coastal landscape with panoramic views of Hope Cove, Burgh Island, Mewstone Rock, Wembury Bay and Rame Head near Plymouth.

Jim Donovan led the contingent home clocking 1.20.47. Katrina Zaple and Ruth Johnson posted 1.42 and Sally Ingledew, Lance Mason and Emma Pearcy finished in 1.42.05.

*Just around the corner in Yelverton, a trio of Trotters completed the 6 Moor Miles race, a beautiful one-lap route around the Maristow estate and open moorland. Adam Johnstone was seventh overall in 42.19, Wilf Taylor 47th in 50.29 and Eleanor Taylor was 143rd in 1:02.32. There were 234 finishers.

*Mark ‘Wurzel’ Wotton is on a roll. He ticked another marathon off his list, completing the Dartford Midnight Marathon in 5hours 20secs. This 26.2-mile race takes place at Dartford Bridge Science Park in Kent. It’s nine laps on pavements and gravel tracks. An 8pm start gave runners some respite from the summer sun but it was still a hot night, says Mark. He finished 90th out of 103 runners.

Report by Emma Pearcy

Photos kindly supplied by our in-house photographer extraordinaire and mens’ captain Lance ‘Skippy’ ‘not far to go’, ‘less than a mile to go’ ‘that’s it girls’ Mason.

They show our Erme Valley Relay champs. Mandy Wheeler, Tracy Elphick and Helen Anthony (with Russ bearing cake); Garry Smart, Roger Easterbrook, Geoff Davey and Mike Hooper (no cake but with wine and ale); Mike Eveleigh, Wilf Taylor and Keith Anderson (no ale, no cake but wine and lots of smiles).