Sunday morning saw the 52nd running of the annual Brampton to Carlisle 10 miler, the country’s oldest road race with a prestigious history that includes past winners such as Ron Hill, Steve Cram and Morpeth’s own club President Jim Alder MBE.
With a field of nearly 700 including nine who had travelled across from Morpeth, it was the blue and white vest of a proud Carl Avery that crossed the finishing line first in a time of 49 minutes 22 seconds to add his name to the roll call of winners, some 12 seconds ahead of NE Project’s Kieran Walker in 2nd (49:34). With club colleague and training companion Finn Brodie in 3rd in 50:51, Phil Winkler 7th in 51:47 and Sam Hancox 8th in 51:54, there was no question of where the team prize was going either, while evergreen Gavin Bayne was also the winner of the O/65 category in 1 hour 5 minutes 22 seconds. (Overall, the quality of veteran times on display here was remarkable, perhaps a reflection of how few 10 milers there are around these days and this race being targeted.) Leeds City AC runners were the first two home in the Senior Women, Stephanie Davis winning in 54:51 and club colleague Steph Pennycook 2nd in 55:53 with Durham City’s Jasmine Wood 3rd in 59:15. Also taking part for Morpeth and all having good runs were: Rob Hancox, 146th and 6th O/55 in 1:04:44; Tayla Douglas, 245th and 11th Senior Woman in 1:10:15; David Nicholson, 254th and 4th O/65 in 1:10:44 and Jane Briggs, 352nd and 5th O/55 in 1:16:28. Comments are closed.
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