Umborne Ug 10k and 2.5k Fun Run results 2019
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The Umborne Ug was blessed with a beautiful sunny, warm evening, great for the spectators but slightly sticky for the competitors.The top 3 prizes in the 10k race were all Axe Valley Runners, not surprising as there were 31 runners from this amazing club out of 100 entries.
The race was won by Chet Gillespie in a time of 41:59 followed by Tim Lenton in 43:37 with Rob Collier close behind in 44:03 . Ian Luke of Poole Runners won the MV40 prize in 47.07, Phil Thorne of North Devon RR won MV50 in 44.20 and Graham Newton (AVR) won the MV60+ award in 55:42.
The women’s race was won by Emma Kiernan of Taunton AC in 50:25 , with Karen Eyre 2nd female in 54:17 and Kerry Board 3rd in 55:34 both Axe Valley Runners. Celia Cohen of Chard RR was first FV35 in 57.28, Sharon Wells of Honiton RC 1st FV45 in 58.20 and Judy Davey 1st FV55 in 57.40, also of Honiton RC.
Other AVR results were: 25th Simon Davey 56:58, 28th Andrew Hartnell 57:22, 31st Tony Smith 57:41, 34th Paul Hilder 59:22, 40th Noah Remington 1:00:29, 41st Alan Morbey 1:00:09, 47th Kevin Feeney 1:02:53, 54th Sarah Herfet 1:06:33, 55th Angela Kerr 1:07:22, 56th Vicki Wraight 1:08:04, 58th Wesley Burrough 1:08:46, 67th Henry Smith 1:14:27, 68th Tarcey Chapman 1:15:19, 71st Sam Tooze 1:16:03, 72nd Emma Richardson 1:16:04, 74th Thomasin Mincham 1:16:17, 76th Sandra Mortimer 1:16:22, 77th Shaun Vinnicombe 1:17:03, 79th Jennifer Ford 1:17:56, 80th Amie Sibley 1:20:38, 81st Tim Sibley 1:20:38 and 83rd Robert Kerr 1:25:23. Susan Wall was sadly unable to finish all the race. Full results of the 10k can be found here:
http://axevalleyrunners.org.uk/resultsdir/umborne-ug.2019.htm
The junior 2.5k Fun Run was won by AVRs George Chapman in 10:22 followed by another AVR Sam Eyre 10:27. 3rd was Jacob Holland of Tavistock AC in 11.01. first girl was Holly Partridge of Uffculme School in 11.33, 2nd was Alice Partridge of Taunton AC in 12.57 and 3rd was Lauren Carr of South Devon AC in 13.20. There were 37 runners in this event.
Results here:
http://axevalleyrunners.org.uk/resultsdir/umborne-fun.2019.htm
The evening’s celebrations carried on after the race at Umborne Hall with a BBQ, bar, hot drinks and lots of cakes in a friendly and convivial atmosphere. Thank you to all the AVR members and local Umborne people who helped with this race in so many ways, marking out the course, receiving entries, time keeping, back marking, helping on the finish line, marshalling, catering and Garry for doing all the results – a fantastic combined effort of club and village.
Photos courtesy of Helene Buse, David Vickers, Sue Gush, Dave Thomas and Rick Wood.