Weekend results now live
We are pleased to bring you the results from this weekend on our results page
In the last six days we have added 62,559 performances to our database from 261 events.
The big events were:
Bupa Great South Run 10 - 16475 finishers
Worksop Half Marathon (Inc Nottinghamshire Champs) - 1679 finishers
Snowdonia Marathon - 1554 finishers
Stroud Half Marathon - 1259 finishers
Junior Great South Run - 1137 finishers
Bupa Great South Run 5K - 941 finishers
Bushy Park parkrun 5K Event 487 - 862 finishers
Fleet 10K - 503 finishers
Huddersfield parkrun 5K Event 134 - 472 finishers
Coventry parkrun 5K Event 189 - 460 finishers
Emmanuel Bett (handicap MINUS 4.9) won the Bupa Great South Run in very windy conditions that made the going get tough towards the finish. He fought off a strong challenge from defending champion, Stephen Mokoka (handicap MINUS 4.4). Thomas Ayeko (handicap MINUS 4.4) had challenged the two leaders early in the race but struggled to stay with the pace towards the end and he finished 3rd. Andy Vernon (handicap MINUS 6.2) was the first British athlete to finish. He ran a great race to take fourth place just in front of Abdi Abdirahman (handicap MINUS 4.2).
First female was Florence Kiplagat (handicap MINUS 1.4) with Polline Wanjiru in second place. Charlotte Purdue (handicap 1.0) finished 3rd and demonstrated her comeback intentions having not raced since the summer of 2012. Her handicap score has been as low as MINUS 1.6 but because she hasn't raced for more than a year her score had slipped to 1.6 until this weekend. It's good to see her back on the attack!
Meanwhile Grand Prix leaders Nicholas Torry (handicap MINUS 5.3) and Dave Webb (handicap MINUS 4.6) were the first two British finishers at the BMW Frankfurt Marathon and both lowered their handicap scores with superb performances that gave them 18th and 19th positions respectively.
Congratulations to all who ran this weekend. How is your handicap score doing? Don't forget that you can still enter Reward Running and have all of your results from races in October count towards your score at the end of this month. Enter before 31st October!