London Marathon
Running in the 30th London Marathon, Aly Dixon (right - photo by Phil Townsend) made her marathon debut from the elite women’s start and finished in 27th position with 2:43:48 (1:18:06 through half-way). A superb time even if she is a bit disappointed with it. Running with the masses, Keith Robershaw, Nigel Brown and Darren Purvis all recorded suberb new PB’s and were joinged by Phil Coulson and Peter Miller! Darren was first home to complete at least his eighth consecutive London in 2:37:50 (1:17:51 to half) knocking 5 seconds off his best. He was followed home by Phil recording 2:40:31 (1:19.20 to half) who just got the better of Keith whose time of 2:40:45 was a minute faster than last year (half-way in 1:19:01). Nigel followed shortly and took 3 minutes from his previous best set on the fast (slightly downhill) Edinburgh course last year. He recorded 3:01:00 (1:86:16 to halfway). And finally cruising under the 4-hour mark Peter ran 3:56:38.Mini Marathon
Representing the North East, five of our young athletes were also pounding the streets of London covering the last 3-miles of the route. In the 11-12 year old age group, Henry Johnson led the Chester boys home in 27th and 18:25 and was followed by Joe Armstrong and Daniel Pickering who were 41st and 43rd and separated by 4 seconds with 18:54 and 18:58. In the girls race, Anna Fawcett finished 2nd NE athlete and 24th overall in 19:35 and in the age-group above, Chris Peverley finished an excellent 34th in 17:08.
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