6 laps of 4.8km
Spring finally arrived this weekend and on a breezy but sunny day in Manchester, Chester’s senior women’s squad well and truly emphasised their supremacy over the Northern athletics scene. With an almost perfect team performance, the sextet romped to victory with a huge winning margin of 8mins and 33seconds over Hallamshire (about 2km in distance terms!!).
Melissa Turner ran a competitive first leg recording a time of 16:58 to hand over to Maxine Cznarnecha in 5th place but within touching distance of the leaders. Maxine stormed off, took the lead after about 300m and from this point on, with the win never in much doubt, the emphasis turned to individual time-trialling and extending the lead. Max finished in 16:58 to hand over to Morag McDonnell. With the fastest team time of the day, Morag scorched round in 16:37 to claim the 2nd fastest time of the day overall (Hallamshire’s Hatti Dean who was also on 3rd leg ran the fastest lap of 16:08). With the lead now at nearly three minutes, Angela Hibbs raced the clock and began the process of lapping teams. Her time of 16:53 sets her up nicely for the Wilmslow half marathon next weekend. On leg five, Tracy Laws further extended the lead to over 6 minutes with a solid lap time of 17:02 handing over to Emma Raven who had the pleasant job of bringing the team home to a 5th consecutive Northern 6-Stage Road Relay title! Emma’s time of 16:44 was the 3rd fastest of the day behind Morag.
Report and results on Northern Athletics
http://www.noeaa-athletics.org.uk/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=71&articleid=350
Photos of: Max, Mel
Angela, Tracy
Emma and the Team (Morag ran too quickly and her photo was a big blur!)
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