{"id":6797,"date":"2016-11-07T12:52:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T12:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2016-11-07T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T12:52:45","slug":"weekend-roundup-22nd-and-23rd-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6797","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Roundup – 22nd and 23rd October"},"content":{"rendered":"
The first race in the 2016-17 Gwent Cross-Country League was held at Newbridge Fields, Bridgend.\u00a0 Forest of Dean AC’s mens team were 2nd in Division 3, whilst the ladies were 6th, also in Division 3.\u00a0 Star performance was again by Ann Nixon who finished 24th of 311 and 1st FV55.<\/div>\n
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The Club hosted the annual Yorkley Gallop with part of the proceeds going to Great Oaks Hospice.\u00a0 This year saw the introduction of a hillier, more single track route and an increase in the number of races available.\u00a0 In addition to the 6-mile race for runners and canis, there were also a 3.3-mile version for both and a junior run.<\/p>\n

The 6 mile race was won by Daniel Lewis of MMRTin 39.09, followed by Lee Simms (Hereford Ghost Runners) 39.40 and Marcus Bennetto (FODAC) 41.47.\u00a0 First lady was Claire Bunce in 48.14, then Sarah Kellett ( Black Pear Joggers) 48.57 and Laura Lelievre 49.13.\u00a0 The Club presents trophies to the first man and women finisher for the club.\u00a0 The Yorkley Dash Cup was retained by Marcus Bennetto and the Carol Jones Trophy went to Catherine Roberts.\u00a0 Age category prize winners were: Hubert Ashley-Towell (FODAC) MV40; Ian Summers (Gloucester AC) MV50; Chris<\/span> Moore<\/span> (FODAC) MV60; Catherine Williams FV40; Stef Francis (FODAC) FV50.\u00a0 The Cannicross race was won by Kim Mazzucca from FODCC in 36.12.\u00a0 First male was Ian Littlewood (East Cornwall Harriers) 42.01.\u00a0 The 3.3 mile race saw a tie between Briony Bishop and Natalie Ashley-Towell in 29.35.\u00a0 Philip James (FODAC) was first male in 31.34. Neil Smith of Wilshire CC won the shorter canix race in 22.11 with Claire Clark (FODCC) first lady 26.41.<\/div>\n
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9 FODAC runners ran the Stroud Half Marathon.\u00a0 Dave Lowthian was first of these to finish: 44th in 1.25.02.\u00a0 First lady was Cherry Fowler in 1.39.13.\u00a0 Other times: Wayne Bevan 1.32.35; Sherryl Hall 1.42.57; Jacqui Wynds 1.50.35; Anna Bevan 1.52.57; Donna Sheen 2.01.58; Peter Hewitt 2.01.57 and John Bevan 2.04.29.<\/div>\n
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Another 11 migrated south, at least as far as Portsmouth, to take part in the Great South 10 mile Run.\u00a0 First of these was Richard Pegler in 1.04.02 and first lady was Rachel Nash in 1.21.47.\u00a0 Other times: Leyton Fleet 1.06.40; Greg Nash 1.09.51; Claire Morgan 1.28.42; Vanessa Pegler 1.31.20; Ian James 1.31.21; Jo Babij 1.39.51; Sharla Fleet 1.40.31 and Bev James 1.44.49.<\/div>\n
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The first race in the 2016-17 Gwent Cross-Country League was held at Newbridge Fields, Bridgend.\u00a0 Forest of Dean AC’s mens team were 2nd in Division 3, whilst the ladies were 6th, also in Division 3.\u00a0 Star performance was again by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6801,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}