NW Road Running duo ran well in the Chester Marathon.

By Don Hale


*Pictured above -Steve Bozier at the Chester Marathon.

NW Road Running duo ran well in the Chester Marathon.

Special report by Don Hale.

donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2025

 

Two North Wales Road Runners tackled the windswept Chester Marathon on Sunday and they both performed well, especially given the extremely challenging conditions.

Steve Bozier was a little apprehensive about running this distance at first after taking some time out from longer races, but he ran well in chip positions of 844th out of 6,698 entrants in 3 hours 26 minutes and 12 seconds, and afterwards he said: A great day back racing again, my first marathon in a year, and only my second race this year. 

“I really enjoyed that and only entered two weeks ago with just six weeks of training as a warm-up for the Eryri Marathonin three weeks. I took it relatively easy and paced it well to get my second fastest marathon time. Rest now, recover, and onto the next one!" 

Jon Evans (*Pictured right) also celebrated following his fine effort as a 4.45 pacer at the Chester Marathon and confirmed: “Really pleased. I felt super strong today. My heart rate averaged 135. Next up, Conwy Half pacing. 4 hours 43 minutes and 48 seconds, is a long time on your feet, but I really enjoyed it and feel really good now.”


*Chester Metric Marathon: Mandy Owen ran in the associated Chester Metric Marathon and despite some earlier reservations, she ran well overall in those tough conditions and finished in 3 hours 20 minutes and 24 seconds.


*This is a link to the all the provisional results from the Chester races:

https://ale.niftyentries.com/Results/2025-MBNA-Chester-Marathon?#


*Heaton Park 10k: Kevin Higgins travelled to North Manchester for the Heaton Park 10k and despite competing over a hilly course with a buffeting wind, he later spoke his battle, saying: “A bit of a tough one this morning in the Heaton Park 10k Race in Manchester. Very undulating and quite windy. A few puddles to contend with on the way around. My time was a bit down on recent weeks in 61 minutes and 40 seconds, and I was 4th in my VM60 age cat.


Don Hale is a former award winning investigative journalist and now a best-selling author who has created a very popular blog post linked to numerous social media sites. donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2025.

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