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Rudolph’s Romp Race Report
10/12/2005
Rudolph’s Romp, starting and
finishing at Brantingham Village Hall, is organised by the Long Distance Walkers
Association. Their idea of a romp
must be different to mine, for this is a hard 24 mile slog mostly following the
undulations of a very muddy Wolds Way. The
event started at 8.30 am, and by the time the 251st and last person
had come in it had been dark for two hours!
The 16 Viking Striders who took
part weren’t that slow of course. Some
ran the course, others walked it, some did a combination of the two, but all of
us wished we’d hired a Land Rover for the day.
Martin Midgley and Martin Booth were first in for the club, the former
unselfishly sacrificing an even better time by staying with the latter, who in
his first long distance event found the final stages tough going.
Harald Lecher and his son Kris,
running their first race in Striders’ colours, might have wished that they’d
chosen a less arduous alternative but battled to the finish in over five hours.
A group of Striders Ladies brightened the countryside with flashing Santa
hats, looking for all the world as though they were actually enjoying
themselves, Alison Hoggarth and Julie Kaye doing particularly well as they
entered the twilight world of the long distance runner for the first time. Well
done also to Colette Leetham in her continuing comeback from illness and injury.
Striders’ positions and
times:
15th Martin Midgley
and Martin Booth 3 hours 42 minutes, 29th Nigel Warner 4.02, 75th
Craig Taylor 4.46, 87th Dave Pullman 5.03, 93rd Harald and
Kris Lecher 5.12, 125th Alan Burton and Phil Ounsley 5.43, 127th
Julie Kaye, Dot Pullman, Alison Hoggarth, Granny Clark, Karen Mitchell all 5.46,
162nd Ray Smith, Colette Leetham and Patsy Fenelon 6.36.
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