Royal Signals Relays

6th March 2010, Hetton Country Park

Two superb team efforts ensured that Chester-le-Street's senior women continued to dominate the NE distance running scene after finishing 1st and 3rd in the NE relays on Saturday.

A-team: As expected the A-team ran away with victory after leading from the gun. Emma Raven was first off recording 11:57 around the two lap, 2.2 miles circuit and handing over to Morag McDonnell with a 40sec lead over the rivals. Morag, in her first race in 2010, extended the lead to 2 minutes with a time of 12:30. Also running a leg of 12:30, Maxine Czarnecha pushed the gap to 2nd team Morpeth to almost 4 minutes before passing onto Melissa Turner who blasted round in 12:15, the second fastest of the day. The team finished in 49.22, 4min 2sec ahead of 2nd place.

B-team: Angela Hunter produced another confident run to give the team an excellent start coming home in 12:41 and 4th place. Our youngest team member Dyllan Pickavance-Clarke dug in deep keeping the team in medal contention and completed her leg in 14.54. Next up was Lisa Tweddell who produced a battling performance to maintain a lead over chasing Sunderland running 14.52. Finally, Angela Hibbs, racing outside of her comfort zone and in the midst of high marathon mileage, ran strongly to record 12:29 and comfortably bring the team home 2 minutes ahead of 4th place and 1 minute 40 seconds behind 2nd. Unfortunately for the girls, the rules state only one set of medals per club, so the 4th placed team took the bronze.

A-team: 49:20: Emma (11:57) Morag (12:30) Max(12:30) Mel (12:15)
B-team: 54:53: Angela Hu (12:41) Dyllan (14:54) Lisa (14:52) Angela Hi (12:29)