Hot and humid at Chester half-marathon.


*Some of the North Wales Road Running team at the Chester half-marathon (pictured l-r) Stuart Culverhouse, Steve Bozier, Rachel Morris, Cheryl Frost, Kay Hatton and Jon Evans.

Hot and humid at Chester half-marathon.

Report by Don Hale. Chester photos by John Hatton.

 

Fourteen Road Runners competed in the hot and humid Essar Chester half-marathon race on Sunday to commemorate its 40th anniversary, with Martin Green the first NWRRC runner home following an excellent run in this popular event, which recorded nearly 4,000 finishers.

Martin finished 26th overall, and he was 4th in his MV45 age cat in 1 hour 15 minutes and 2 seconds. Jonathan Kettle also ran very well in 58th place in 1.19.08, with Iwan Evans 157th in 1.27.21, and Steve Bozier finished in 211th place in 1.28.58.


*Martin Green (*above left) with Jonathan Kettle at the Chester half-marathon.

Carla Green seems to have recovered from her recent injury and she was the 22nd female finisher, whilst claiming 3rd spot in her FV50 cat, 218th overall in 1.29.08, and Stuart Culverhouse finished in 374th place in 1.36.07.


*Carla Green (*above left) with Cheryl Frost and Kay Hatton (*right), and (*below) Kevin Higgins, who was in form again at Chester last weekend.



Cheryl Frost
 however, had a more problematic run after tripping close to the finish but still managed to record a good result finishing as the 113th female runner, and 634th overall in 1.43.43, with Kay Hatton 675th overall and the 121st female in 1.44.50.

Kelly-Marie Alford and Cai Roberts (*pictured above) ran together and finished in 1.57.26 in 1,368/9th places, with Kevin Higgins in-form once more to record 2.01.39 in 1,635th place, whilst Jon Evans successfully ran the two-hour bus on time again in 1.59.37. Rachel Morris was also pleased with her outing in 2.33.00, and Mandy Owen braved the hot conditions to celebrate finishing in 2.20.39.



*Jon Evans successfully (*above) ran the two-hour bus again at Chester.

*The race was won by Omar Ahmed (Birchfield Harriers) in 1.03.52, with 2nd Tom Merson (Exmouth Harriers) 1.07.45, and 3rd Peter Avent 1.08.22.

 

*Chester half-marathon provisional results:

https://ale.niftyentries.com/Results/Essar-Chester-Half-Marathon-2022?ResultSetupId=6f5d9548-8030-4199-affc-66e611fe38df

 

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