LAST weekend started early for athletes from Dudley Kingswinford Running Club as they threw off their work clothes and pulled on the vest to compete in the Blakedown Bolt.
The event last Friday is a tough off-road 10k race with the course making full use of trails and tracks across fields and through woods before finishing within stumbling distance of the bar.
Mick Quane was the first hoop home taking 23rd place in 44.49, Daren Thompson was 31st in 46.09, John Andrews finished in 52.14 to take 79th place and Samantha Hemming was 212th in 1.05.50.
Horsepower was replaced by leg power as the inaugural Great Donington Run took place at the Donington Motor Racing Circuit in the East Midlands. The lure of running around the tarmac circuit was enough to tempted Andy Fraser to compete in the 10-mile event finishing in 1.45.39 to take 382nd place.
And after a year’s absence the Shifnal Half Marathon returned to the calendar and was graced with the presence of a handful of blue hoops for a 13.1-mile race along country lanes and footpaths through the Shropshire villages of Ryton, Beckbury and Kemberton before finishing back in Shifnal itself. Dave Norman came home in 13th place in 1.30.49, Graham Wildgoose finished in 1.40.48 to take 30th place.
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