#clickyourclock before 12 o' clock today if you can take the lead from Gerard Williams
Did you race this weekend? Many of the results are now in. Make sure you #clickyourclock on yours before 12 o' clock to be in with a chance of winning a Polar FT4 heart rate monitor!
From those results that are in, the biggest races were:
Morrisons Great North 10K - 3,370 finishers
Bushy parkrun - 968 finishers
Southport HM - 962 finishers
Wales Marathon - 805 finishers
Eccup 10 - 726 finishers
Bewl 15 - 679 finishers
The second-placed Briton in April’s London Marathon, Matty Hynes (handicap -5.2) had hopes of providing a local success in the Morrisons Great North 10k. The Gateshead Harrier, who hails from Middlesbrough, finished runner up to Uganda’s Olympic marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich in last year’s race and this time he had to settle for third place behind Dutch 10km record holder Abdi Nageeye (29:50) and Ireland’s Mark Christie (30.09). His time of 30:10, however, reduced his handicap score by 0.1.
Ian Hudspith (handicap -4.0), a veteran of the 2002 Commonwealth games 10,000m, was fourth in 31:11, with Scottish 2014 Commonwealth Games marathon man Derek Hawkins (handicap -4.9) fifth in 32:12.
Fionnuala McCormack, from Ireland, was the first woman to finish in 33:19, more than four minutes ahead of Alex Sneddon (handicap 2.6) whose handicap remained the same as she crossed the line in 37:32. Third place was claimed by Michelle Nolan (handicap 2.2) who also didn't manage to change her handicap score. Michelle's time was 37:49.
Did you run the Morrisons Great North 10k or at any other event during the last week?
Gerard Williams (handicap 5.2) ran the Bushy Park parkrun on Saturday and took 1.7 off his previous handicap score, even though his time was slower. However, the course was given a higher SSS and this indicates conditions were tougher on Saturday than they had been on the previous two weeks. Gerard has also been running more regularly. After doing the Virgin Money London Marathon in April he has taken a break and only started doing parkruns again on 20 June. This weekend saw him do his third consecutive run at the Bushy Park parkrun. He has reduced his handicap score by 10.14%.
The competition isn't over until 12 o' clock today though and some of you have yet to #clickyourclock!
Did you improve your % score by more than Gerard? If so, be sure to #clickyourclock before 12 o' clock when the competition finishes for this week!