Blaydon Races, 9th June

The annual Blaydon Races is a highly anticipated fixture in the NE athletics calendar and the club's turn out this year was superb. In the ladies, Aly Dixon finished an impressive 2nd, only 9seconds behind winner Justina Heslop. Tracy Laws was next female home collecting the first local prize when finishing 5th and together with Claire Simpson in 9th and Angela Hunter in 12th, the girls look to have easily won the first team prize. Vet athlete Heather Robinson was a little further back but looked strong over the last mile - we need to wait for the full results to be published to find out how Heather did in her age group.

Darren Purvis led the men home in 18th position and was quickly followed by James Raven in 20th who worked well with Aly through the second half of the race. Next home in 42nd place was Matty Tomlison with Keith Robershaw just sneaking into the top 50. Although no results are available, Stewy Bell, Richard Ellis also ran and I am sure a few others will pop up in the results.   

Aly, Claire and Angela are picture below:

Leading results:

MEN TOP 50
E Cherop (Kenya) 27:41; 2 J Ndayisenga (Birch) 27:53; 3 I Hudspith (Morp) 28:14; 4 R McLeod (Tipt) 28:44; 5 M Pierson (Holm) 28:58; 6 P Wylie (Brist) 29:09; 7 M Buckingham (Holm) 29:20; 8 S Hepples (Newham) 29:21; 9 P Newton (Morp) 29:34; 10 R Floyd (Morp) 30:08; 11 J Buis (Heat) 30:13; 12 D Kirkland (Alnw) 30:16; 13 M Dawson (Morp) 30:35; 14 A Tatham (NYkMrs) 30:41; 15 M Boucher (Alders) 30:50; 16 I Crampton (V45, DurC) 30:58; 17 I Twaddle (NSP) 31:14; 18 D Purvis (C-le-St) 31:21; 19 C Paton (Gates) 31:31; 20 J Raven (C-le-St) 31:32; 21 D Swinburne (Morp) 31:33; 22 C Franks (Gates) 31:38; 23 G Moore (V40, NSP) 31:42; 24 C Duff (Unatt) 31:49; 25 R Hand (V45, DurC) 31:52; 26 B McMillan (Clare) 31:54; 27 G Bracken (V45, NSP) 31:55; 28 G Bainbridge (V40, SthSh) 31:56; 29 L Buswell (Gosf) 31:56; 30 P Duffy (Crook) 31:57; 31 P Besford (V40, Unatt) 32:01; 32 P Waterston (V40, Morp) 32:08; 33 D Patterson (V40, Unatt) 32:13; 34 A Lawrence (Morp) 32:19; 35 P Walker (V40, Morp) 32:20; 36 J Stephens (LFell) 32:21; 37 D Flint (Blay) 32:22; 38 P Turner (Elsw) 32:27; 39 L Smith (Heat) 32:38; 40 M Slater (Gates) 32:40; 41 M Hudspith (V40, Morp) 32:47; 42 M Tomlinson (V40, Ch-le-St) 32:47; 43 M Likeman (Heat) 32:51; 44 N Camilleri (Gates) 32:52; 45 K Stephenson (V45, Elsw) 32:58; 46 T Griffiths (V45, Tyne) 32:04; 47 V Hemy (V40, NSP) 33:13; 48 I Robinson (Heat) 33:25; 49 L Grant (Unatt) 33:32; 50 K Robertshaw (V45, Ch-le-St) 33:42.


WOMEN TOP 25
1 J Heslop (Clapham) 31:25; 2 A Dixon (Ch-le-St) 31:34; 3 G Tamerate (Belgr) 32:28; 4 Y Taye (Ethiopia) 33:22; 5 T Laws (Ch-le-St) 33:36; 6 J Mooney (Morp) 34:13; 7 A Fox (Morp) 34:26; 8 J Stewart (W50, Ryton Tri) 34:45; 9 C Simpson (Ch-le-St) 35:00; 10 C Summersgill (M&C) 35:09; 11 G Measso (Birch) 35:12; 12 A Hunter (Ch-le-St) 36:00; 13 C Dickie (Morp) 36:23; 14 L Noble (SundStr) 36:44; 15 Y Thiru (W40, Elsw) 36:54; 16 H Reed (Sund) 37:20; 17 V Booth (SundStr) 37:25; 18 V Hindson (Walls) 37:33; 19 S Lister (W35, BhillBnds) 37:40; 20 J Mitchell (W45, Unatt) 37:55; 21 J Mitchell (W45, Tyne) 37:55; 22 C Jackson (W45, Allen Vall) 38:08; 23 L Hayes (NSP) 38:20; 24 O Tindale (DurC) 38:27; 25 H Gertig (Blay) 38:36.