Catch up with some of the latest road racing results from around the UK
HEATON MEMORIAL RACES, Jesmond, Tyne & Wear, November 10
Birtley’s Adrian Bailes ran out a winner over Morpeth’s Connor Marshall in 31:13, when moving up from second in this race last year.
In her first outing of the year, Tyne Bridge’s Lucy Crookes added the women’s race in 35:34. Tenth in the 2019 English National Cross-Country Championships, the former City of Leeds regular had three years out after the pandemic before having a few outings last year, the best of which was a victory in the Bridges of the Tyne 5 in August 2023.
Heaton Memorial 10km (l to r) Connor Marshall, Lewis McConnell and Adrian Bailes (David Hewitson)
Overall: 1 A Bailes (Birt) 31;13; 2 C Marshall (Morp) 31:20; 3 L McConnell (Birt) 31:52; 4 M Hedley (Tyne Br) 31;55; 5 J Anderson (NSP, M40) 32:03; 6 C Franks (Gate, M40) 32:05
M40: 3 A Swinburn 32:08
M50: 1 M Dennison (Low Fell) 34:41; 2 J Clifford (Darl) 34:52
M60: 1 R Andrew (Alnw) 38:11
M70: 1 D Nicholson Morp) 44:34
Adrian Bailes (David Hewitson)
Women: 1 L Crookes (Tyne Br) 35:34; 2 H Warburton (Tyne Br) 35:55; 3 A Sneddon (J&H, W35) 36:10
W45: 1 J Heslop (Elsw) 36:40; 2 H Waugh (Alnw) 37:35
W50: 1 S Thew 41:09
W55: 1 S Stephenson (Elsw) 43:44
W60: 1 A Kirtley (Gate) 47;10
W75: 1 S Gibson (Darl) 59;23
Lucy Crookes (123) (David Hewitson)
RUN TATTON HALF-MARATHON, Knutsford, Cheshire, November 9
Overall: 1 D Cliffe (HW) 67:50; 2 H Blackburn (Liv) 71:07; 3 M Chipping 71;40
Women: 1 D Morris (Builth, W40) 82:04
W50: 1 J McCarthy (Ilk) 89:35
W55: 1 N McLachlan 1:40:44
STEBBING REMEMBRANCE DAY 10, Essex, November 10
Overall: 1 S Strange (Ton) 52;50; 2 P Coates (Brain, M40) 52:53; 3 S Boxall (S’end) 54:04; 4 B Adams (Badd R) 54:21; 5 R Gillard (S’end) 54:42; 6 B White (Col H) 54:49
M40: 2 R Williams (Grange F&D) 56:02
M50: 1 C Holmes (S’end) 57:28; 2 B Glasgow (Orion) 58:01; 3 H Mizon (Witham) 58:51
M60: 1 O Dare (Witham) 62;20
M70: 1 D Butler (Bill’cay) 68:04
Women: 1 G Kersey (Bas) 58;14; 2 R Vickers (Col H) 61:23; 3 K Creak (Col H, W40) 62;14
W50: 1 H McIlvenna (Grange F&D) 70:37
W60: 1 C Kennedy (Orion) 73:04
W70: 1 D Wooller (Col H) 85:43
VICTORIA PARK HALF-MARATHON, London, November 10
Overall: 1 H Tibbs 71:05; 2 D Bundred (THH) 71:35; 3 R Hale 71:54
M65: 1 M Lewis 94:54
Women: 1 L Boehm (Belg) 79:00
W65: 1 M Stringer (Sydney) 1:46:10
Ossama Meslek, Robin Hendrix and Phil Sesemann (Will Bowran)
PODIUM 5km, Barrowford, Lancashire, November 9
It was close at the front of the main men’s race as Belgian national Robin Hendrix just got the nod on the City of Leeds’ pair of Italian Ossama Meslek and Phil Sesemann in 13:36 as the event celebrated 10 years of competition.
It was a comfortable personal best for Meslek with his 13:38, whilst Paris Olympian Sesemann was just one second inside his previous mark with a 13:38 clocking.
Ben Connor had been with the leading trio for the first four of the five laps, but got dropped off in the shoot out as Matt Ramsden also tailed off with just over a lap to go.
Connor was just inside his best with 13:47 but Ramsden fell just short of his previous mark.
Hannah Nuttall, the European 5000m 10th placer, was the best of the female runners and wound up six seconds to the good of junior Jess Bailey, with a personal best 15:19, to go equal fifth on the 2024 UK rankings.
It was Bailey who led at the end of laps two, three and four but had no answer to the finishing speed of Nuttall over the last kilometre before winding up with 15:25.
Her time leapfrogged Innes FitzGerald at the top of the junior all-time rankings.
Overall: 1 R Hendrix (BEL) 13;36; 2 O Meslek (Leeds/ITA) 13:38; 3 P Sesemann (Leeds) 13:38; 4 B Connor (Der) 13:47; 5 M Ramsden (B’burn) 13:51; 6 J Lay &R&N) 13;59; 7 R Allen (Leeds) 14:00; 8 L Jagger (Newark) 14:01; 9 J Escalante-Phillips (C&C) 14:02; 10 J Armstrong (Sund) 14:03; 11 F Proffit (Traff) 14:03; 12 H Johnson (Hali) 14:03; 13 S Okrafo-Smart (Abs Tri, U20) 14:04; 14 J Brownlow (Bing) 14:05; 15 S Halstead (Brack) 14:07; 16 J O’Connell (AFD, U20) 14:07; 17 A Coscoran 14:07; 18 M Bostock (Leeds) 14:07; 19 B Pattison (BMH) 14:08; 20 F Kavanagh (Lough) 14;11
M40: 1 C Gidlow (Stoke) 15:25
M50: 1 J Prest (Traff) 15:52
U20: 3 O Conway (Radley) 14:14; 4 S Hodgson (SWEH) 14:17; 5 B Kebede (CleM) 14:17
U17: 1 L Doran (Chilt) 14:49
Jess Bailey and Hannah Nuttall (Will Bowran)
Women: 1 H Nuttall (Charn) 15:19; 2 J Bailey (Leven V, U20) 15:25; 3 E Thorner (Yeo) 15:41; 4 M Davies (Sale) 15:51; 5 E Davies (Border) 15:56; 6 T Brockley-Langford (Salf) 16:09; 7 K Longley (Liv PS, W45) 16:24; 8 J Morgan (Liv) 16:32; 9 D Corradi (Leeds) 16:37; 10 E Revitt (Varnethy) 16:45
W50: 1 S Cumber (Hali) 19:35
EVEN SPLITS YORK 5km SERIES, November 8
English Schools cross-country champion Mikey Bacon won overall in his first outing over the distance in 15:00, as Isla Porter made it an under-17 double.
Porter, a member of the Lincoln Wellington trio that won the under-17 cross-country relay title six days earlier, went seventh on the 5km rankings for the year after improving her previous best by more than a minute with 16:46.
Overall: 1 M Bacon (Roth, U17) 15:00; 2 A Ford (Hav’g) 15:17; 3 R Page (Linc W) 15:24
M45: 1 J Wills (R’hay) 15:39
M55: 1 I Martin (V of York) 18:07
Women: 1 I Porter (Linc W, U17) 16:46; 2 N Drakeford (Barns) 16:59
W40: 1 E Lisowska (Goole) 18:16
W50: 1 H Hall (Knaves) 19:54
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