Click here for Results from Race 9 - Ryton Proper Five

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A fantastic turnout of 48 runners and numerous marshalls (I lost count!) for this new club league course at Ryton Pools, Bubbenhall. Rich Whiting kindly took on the task of organizing this event, planning the course and arranging food afterwards - I'd like to start with a huge thanks to him, and the team he assembled to ensure the smooth running of the event on the night.

The warm & sweat inducing temperatures were counteracted by what is a reasonably flat course (though not without it's undulations) comparative to other club league race routes. The multi-lap format meant marshalls were located at regular intervals, and served to give runners a good gauge of how far they still had to push themselves for.

A plethora of runners decided to play their 'Joker' for this race, meaning competition was tough at the top for the greatest improvement over predicted time. Top of the list however was Rob Crow, who put in a great performance to improve over his predicted time by 5.17%, and using his joker with great effect to score a whopping 100 points. Close behind was Aidan Keher, pushing himself hard whilst playing his joker to improve by 5.11%, scoring 98 points. Andy Holbrook completes the podium and represents the C-groupers, with a mightily impressive 4.41% improvement, a figure rarely achieved by the C-group runners.

Being a new course, records were set (but no points awarded) across the board by Rich Simkiss (SM), Martin Dorrill (MV), Tina Butler (SL), and Imogen Peace (LV).

Whilst Clive Pearce maintains his place as league leader (and looking ever more difficult to catch), the 9th race sees more runners having completed 7 races in total - making quite a difference in the rest of the league.

Overall Series Leader:
Clive Pearce - 358 points (Joker)

A Group Standings:
1st - Lisa Sears - 314 points (Joker)
2nd - Arthur Smith - 283 points (Joker)
3rd - Liz Hegan - 271 points (Joker)

B Group Standings:
1st - Tom Dable - 302 points (Joker)
2nd - Colin Underhill - 284 points
3rd - Sally Hicks - 278 points (Joker)

C Group Standings:
1st - Rich Simkiss - 332 points (Joker)
2nd - Andy Holbrook - 279 points (Joker)
3rd - Pete Bryan - 259 points

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