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Our road racing round-up includes action from the Brighton Half, Podium 5km at Battersea and more
ALTRA BRIGHTON HALF-MARATHON, East Sussex, March 2
The consistent London Heathside runner Seyfu Jamaal notched up another race victory, his fifth of the year, with victory by more than three minutes in 64:30. This was over Ed Shepherd’s 67:53 as Hugh Sadler took third.
After a series of second places in road races, Christa Cain was just 17 seconds outside her best when taking the women’s section in 76:19.
Deep in the field, top over-60 Geraldine Moffat posted a personal best 87:06 to go fourth on the all-time W60 ranking list.
Seyfu Jamaal (Luca Sage)
Overall: 1 S Jamaal (Lon H) 64:30; 2 E Shepherd (WG&EL) 67:53; 3 H Sadler 68:15; 4 S Cook 68:47; 5 R Hoyte (Phoe) 68:50; 6 N Bester (Best A) 68:51
M45: 1 J Baker (Chich R) 71:04
M50: 1 N Juba 80:00
M60: 1 J Wade 84:38
M65: 1 J Orden 90:00
M70: 1 S Coman 99:54
Christa Cain (Luca Sage)
Women: 1 C Cain (Best A, W35) 76:19; 2 R Laurie 78:00; 3 R Whyte-Wilding 78:21; 4 I Matthews 79:41; 5 F Gold 80:38
W40: 1 H Tarasewicz 81:32
W45: 1 H Gaunt 83:38
W50: 1 K Sung 89:48
W55: 1 J Livingstone 94:50
W60: 1 G Moffat (P’slade) 87:06
ANGLESEY HALF-MARATHON, North Wales, March 2
Overall: 1 J Morris (W&B) 70:31
Women: 1 E Alfs Cybi) 86:15
BERKHAMPSTEAD HALF-MARATHON, Hertfordshire, March 2
Lynda Hembury, the second ranked all-time W65 veteran with 91:07, was just a few ticks outside her age group best with 91:13.
Overall: 1 J Davis 70:49; 2 A Milne (HW) 71:03; 3 O Hill (Wat J) 71:45
Women: 1 B Rafferty (Tring, W40) 81:11; 2 E Hollis (Thame) 82:05
W50: 1 A Young (Chilt) 91:07
W65: 1 L Hembury (Tring) 91:13
BURGHLEY 7, Lincolnshire, March 3
Overall: 1 A Hampson 36:03; 2 J Janes 36:27; 3 F Rounds 37:05
M40: 1 M Johnson 38:31
M60: 1 M Cann 42:19
Women: 1 L MacNab 42:55
W55: 1 P Taylor 45:30
CHIPPENHAM SPRING 10, Wiltshire, March 2
Overall: 1 S Hull (SW Vets, M45) 55:20
M65: 1 P Reddaway (Ware) 64:04
Women: 1 D Bruce (B&W) 59:49
W40: 1 R Orchard (Corn) 64:44
W65: 1 S Masters (W’bury) 73:25; 2 J Thompson (T Bath) 73:28
CITY OF NEWPORT HALF-MARATHON, South Wales, March 2
Overall: 1 J Williamson (S’burn) 67;18
M60: 1 K Gray (F’water) 88:51
Women: 1 D Morris (Builth, W40) 80:25
W50: 1 M Carpenter (T Bath) 88:39; 2 J Hudson (Caer’ly)92:39
DARTFORD HALF-MARATHON, Kent, March 2
Overall: 1 J Payne (VP&TH) 70:58
M50: 1 S Thornhill (Petts W) 81:28
Women: 1 N Hanekom (S’oaks, W45) 81;29
W50: 1 A Farrell (Tun W) 96:02
W60: 1 T Taylor (Tun W) (6:22; 2 R Baker (Camb H) 1:40;59
GREAT YARMOUTH HALF-MARATHON, Norfolk, March 2
Overall: 1 C Braisher (Ware, W45) 68:42
M50: 1 L Wade (Norw) 77:59
Women: 1 M Bate (W40) 85:18
W50: 1 L Knights (Vegan) 94:34
HAWESWATER HALF-MARATHON, Bampton, Cumbria, March 2
Overall: 1 J Crutchley 69:00
M40: 1 M Emmerson (Border) 72:12
Women: 1 Y Small (Bing) 86:19
W50: 1 K Metcalf (Eden) 93:59
LEICESTER 10km, March 2
Overall: 1 M Scarsbrook (NEB) 31:36
M50: 1 C Nichol (Derb Tri) 34:36
Women: 1 E Wilmers 36:42
LIVERSEDGE HALF-MARATHON, West Yorkshire, March 2
Overall: 1 A Peers (Wake) 71:45
M40: 1 L Athersmith (Wharfe) 73:29
Women: 1 A Stewart (Hali) 87:59
MIDDLESBROUGH HALF-MARATHON, March 2
Doug Musson won overall by 70 metres or so over Dean Williamson in 66:07.
Overall: 1 D Musson (Notts) 66:07; 2 D Williamson (Col H) 66:22; 3 L Gamble-Thompson (N Marske) 68:23; 4 A Theaker (Loftus) 69:11; 5 J Anderson (NSP, M40) 69:29; 6 F Eyob (TS) 69:40
M50: 1 A Grinnell (St Ther) 74:21
M55: 1 R Bellamy 79:11
M60: 1 A Chambers (Ivanhoe) 85:14
Women: 1 J Clark (Tees) 78:22; 2 J Grant (St Ther) 80:22
W50: 1 C Howard (R’hay) 91:56
W55: 1 K Neesam (N Marske) 88:25
W60: 1 R Oberholzer (Blay) 93:29
NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE HALF-MARATHON & 10km, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, March 2
Gavin Chalmers hacked more than three minutes from his best when narrowly winning from Will Strangeway in 66:14.
Women’s champion Charlie Thornton was also in new territory with a 40 second pb improvement to 75:33.
The supporting 10km race saw Sophie Wallis wind up 20 seconds outside her personal best with a 32:22 return.
Overall (13.1M): 1 G Chalmers (Leeds) 66:14; 2 W Strangeway (Linc W) 66:20; 3 J Johnson (Bev) 67:17; 4 D James (Clee) 68:48; 5 S O’Neill (L’lithgow) 68:35; 6 J Straw (Linc W) 69:07
M40: 1 S Garaghty (Scun) 70:30; 2 T Windley (Kesw) 70:35
M50: 1 W Langley-Watts (100 Mara) 78:58; 2 S Spencer (Linc &D) 79:25; 3 D Sharpe (Wolds) 79:35
M55: 1 J Walton (Leeds) 73:59; 2 N Marsh (Linc W) 78:19
M60: 1 P Lane (Danum) 81:41; 2 R Tailford (Tyne Br) 83:11
M75: 1 M Casey (Wolds) 97:51
Women: 1 C Thornton (Linc W) 75:33; 2 K Ballantyne (Leeds) 75:49; 3 E Soanes (Bev) 76:55;
W40: 1 L Skinner (Off Couch) 79;19
W50: 1 A Green (Pensby) 93:05
W55: 1 J Rooney 91:28
W60: 1 C McCarthy (P’fract) 1:42:02
Overall (10km): 1 R Payne (Clee) 30:34; 2 A Baker (Leeds) 30:41; 3 D Garbutt (Durh) 30:47
M40: 1 K Watson (Mansf) 32:12
M55: 1 D Vickers (Scun) 36:53
M65: 1 S Boynton (York A) 40:52
M70: 1 M Rose (N Der) 42:15
Women: 1 S Wallis (Linc W) 32:22; 2 N Drakeford (Barns) 35:42;
W40: 1 N Curtis (Off Couch) 36:04
W55: 1 T Fearn (Roth) 41:25
W60: 1 F Usher (Linc &D) 42;28
W70: 1 L Rowley (Steel) 49:51
OUNDLE 20, Northamptonshire, March 2
Overall: 1 J Chennell (Higham) 1:54:07; 2 B Darlow (W End) 1;56;10
Women: 1 S Barton (Higham) 2:10:45; 2 E Brown (Rutland Tri, W40) 2:13:27
W55: 1 J Martin (Redway) 2:44:51
OULTON PARK RUNNING GP, Cheshire, March 2
Overall (10km): 1 B Sharrock (Hallam) 31:48
Women: 1 N Morrison (W45) 42:21
Overall (13.1M): 1 C Sarsfield (Helsby) 69:29
ST HELENS 10km, Merseyside, March 2
Overall: 1 J Doherty (Liv) 31:17; 2 C Hannon (St Hel) 31:54; 3 H Lupton (Charn) 31:57
M50: 1 S Warr (Liv RC) 35:16
Women: 1 L Fairclough (St Hel Sutt) 35:25
LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH 5km, Hyde Park, London, February 28
In almost perfect sunny spring-like conditions, the 2023 Guernsey Marathon winner Rick Weston and 39-year-old Heather Hann, with a personal best 17:50, gained race victories in the popular monthly event, Steve Smythe reports.
However, the top race performance came from third woman and masters track world record-breaker Clare Elms.
The W40, W45, W50 and W55 course record-holder, improved her W60 mark from 18:51 in December and 18:42 in January to 18:28 here thanks to a 3:30 final kilometre. Elms gained an overall race record of 101.6 per cent on the age-graded tables.
Though she was not targeting any specific times on a far from flat course, her performance fell just six seconds short of Scot Fiona Matheson’s UK W60 best and constituted an unofficial English best.
For much of the race Elms was chasing former overall South of England masters cross-country champion Carole Coulon, who was running her first competition since running a 2:53 marathon in Berlin. Coulon eventually finished fifth and first W50 in 18:37.
Overall: 1 R Weston (Guern) 15:42; 2 G Wilkinson (Orion, M40) 15:50
M50: 1 G Towers (Eton M) 16:37; 2 S Coombes (Herne H) 16:41
M55: 1 T Booth (G&G) 17:47
M60: 1 S Corfield (SoC) 18:03; 2 S Plummer (WESM) 18:29; 3 P Jewell (Read) 18:41
M70: 1 P Millward (Fulham) 20:53
M80: 1 T Rea (H’field) 26:34
Women: 1 H Hann (St Alb, W35) 17:50
W40: 1 E Antcliffe (Harr) 18:24
W45: 1 M Wilkinson (Ealing E) 18:53
W50: 1 C Coulon (B&B) 18:37; 2 A Farrell (Tun W) 19:49; 3 H Pool (Read RR) 19:51
W55: 1 S McDonald (S Lon) 19:28; 2 R Hutton (S Lon) 20:41
W60: 1 C Elms (Dulw R) 18:28; 2 L Woolhouse (Vets) 21:03
W70: 1 P Clarke (Sutt R) 26:53; 2 A Riddell (Serp) 27:42
Podium 5km at Battersea (Cliff Hide)
FRIDAY NIGHT UNDER THE LIGHTS PODIUM 5km, Battersea Park, London, February 27
Jack Kavanagh was ahead for most of the way as the Friday series moved forward a day to avoid a clash of events.
The Holland Sports supremo wound up with a 13:42 personal best clocking and a six second victory margin over Joe Wigfield but was challenged through the half distance by Belgrave Harriers’ Matthew Merrick.
The pair were timed just after the 2.5km mark in 7:22, with Wirral’s Wigfield just behind but ahead of a group of a score or so.
Thereafter it was Kavanagh who took over to preserve his unbeaten 2025 streak and the gaps began to appear before it was Irishman Feargal Curtin who took third as just five were inside 14 minutes.
Before the main event, with its two waves of starters, there were three waves in what was termed Race 1 and it was in the third wave that the top women started and were eventually led home by India Weir who got well away from Lucy Jones and South of England champion Megan Gadsby to win in 15:44.
At that mark just after 5km, the trio had been at the head of affairs a tick of two ahead of a trio led by eventual fourth placer, Russia’s Dina Aleksandrova.
For Weir, back this year from the University of Washington, after many years away, it was a first outing on the roads since her London Marathon Young athletes race outings nearly a decade earlier.
Jones had won both 2025 outings of the Surrey women’s league and her 15:48 was a massive personal best as was Gadsby’s 15:54.
After winning the English National five days earlier, at a muddy Parliament Hill, Jess Gibbon who is always more at home over the country anyway, found the pace a bit nippy and finished down in seventh spot, in 16:19.
Overall (Race 1, wave 1): 1 C Williams (Newp) 14:37; 2 S Lewis (VP&TH) 14:42; 3 J English (Kent) 14:45
(Wave 2): 1 J Crombie (Ton) 14:59
M40: 1 J Poole (Serp) 15:17
Women (Wave 3): 1 I Weir (TVH) 15:44; 2 L Jones (Herne H) 15:48; 3 M Gadsby (Norw) 15:54; 4 D Aleksandrova (RUS) 15:54; 5 V Hopkins (Ton) 16:10; 6 A Eyklebosch (Dac) 16:18; 7 J Gibbon (Read) 16:19; 8 E Ravencroft (Soton) 16:26; 9 A Brooke (Belg) 16:29; 10 M Wilmer (Lough) 16:31; 11 J Hodder (Belg) 16:38; 12 H Marie-Clarke (B&B) 16:41; 13 D Corradi (leeds) 16:43; 14 E Lowery (belg) 16:46; 15 E Carroll (TVH) 16:47
W40: 1 E Wilmers (Win RC) 17:44
Overall (Race 2, wave 1): 1 J Kavanagh (Holl Sp) 13:42; 2 J Wigfield (Wirral) 13:48; 3 F Curtin (IRE) 13:52; 4 L Jagger (Newark) 13:57; 5 M Fyfe (Belg) 13:59; 6 M Merrick (Belg) 14:00; 7 C Brisley (NEB) 14:03; 8 J Armstrong (Sund) 14:03; 9 S Bramwell (Herne H) 14:04; 10 O Hind (Kent) 14:05; 11 D Nolan (Croy) 14:07; 12 A Riley (B&H) 14:08; 13 T Power (Hallam) 14:08; 14 H Hart (belg) 14:09; 15 S Jamaal (Lon H) 14:11; 16 P Chambers (High) 14:11; 17 M Jackson (Liv) 14:11; 18 R Miell-Ingram (Radley) 14:19; 19 R Harvie (Brack) 14:21; 20 A Gruen (MK Dist) 14:21
(Wave 2): 1 R Serif (Belg) 14:27; 2 H Johnson (Lut) 14:28; 3 B Claridge (Abing) 14:31
LEEDS 5km SERIES, Yorkshire, February 26
Overall: 1 J Salt (Border) 15:04
M40: 1 T Adams (Ilk) 15:30
M65: 1 D L’Anson (St Ther) 19:42
Women: 1 C Knowles (Abbey) 17:18
W45: 1 S Lewis (R’hay) 19:09
W50: 1 A Preston (W’hurst) 21:02
W60: 1 L Eadon (R&Z) 22:06
NAIRN 10km, Nairn, March 2
Overall: 1 S Chalmers (A’deen) 30:13; 2 L Oates (Shett) 31:23; 3 F Roberts (HHR) 31:56; 4 S Cumming (E Suth) 32:42; 5 S Gardiner (HHR) 32:51; 6 D MacDonald (I’ness, M40) 32:53
M50: T Hely (Edin) 36:01
M60: R Roulson (Metro) 40:27
M70: D Nicholson (Morp) 46:26
Women: 1 J Bannerman 37:41; 2 Louise McKenzie 38:00; 3 L McLeod (Metro) 39:49
W50: J Barker (Moray) 43:41
W60: J Nicol (Forres) 46:49
VMH SOLICITORS LASSWADE 10, Rosewell, March 2
Overall: 1 J Donald (Dund H) 52:22; 2 C Graham (Lass) 53:10; 3 A Gray (Penic) 54:09; 4 O Newman (C&C) 55:04
M40: D Macqueen (Penic) 57:02
M60: D Cross (Edin) 67:22
M70: T Martin (Fife) 72:07
TEAM: 1 Penic 15; 2 Edin 38; 3 P’bello 52
Women: 1 A Frankland (Lass) 60:34; 2 C Malcolm (Edin) 61:56; 3 J Dickson (Fife, W50) 65:56; 4 H Ross (C’thy) 66:17
W60: Valerie Snell 76:03
TEAM: 1 P’bello 211; 2 Pit 218; 3 HBT 235
ALLAN SCALLY RELAY (inc. Scottish students’ championships), Glasgow Green, March 1
Overall (4x5km): 1 Cambus 60:04 (C McLew 15:31, G Smith 15:07, C Smith 14:49, J Mackinnon 14:37); 2 H-Watt U 60:58 (F Holman 15:27, H Pagett 14:53, L Beagley 15:00, A Thomson 15:38); 3 Shett 61:08 (T Ghafan 14:39, S Lesley 15:42, A Taylor 15:20, C Muir 15:27); 4 Stir U 61:15 (J Marshall 15:01, J Muir 15:46, P Cole 15:08, T Tyler 15:20); 5 Edin U 61:29 (L Edwards 15:01, A Mackenzie 15:18, F Fearn 15:51, A Wright 15:19)
Universities: 1 H-Watt U; 2 Stir U; 3 Edin U
M40: Cors 63:53 (S Livingstone 15:06, D Macaulay 15:42, D McKinnon 16:40, I Hutchinson 16:25)
M50: Cambus 70:17 (M Gallagher 16:57, J Carter 17:13, C Upson 18:00, M King 18:07)
Mixed: 1 Glas U 67:10 (S Dalton Celis 16:55, I McWhinnie 16:31, B Savage 17:09, L Tharme 16:35); 2 Stir U 69:06 (R Williams 16:06, L Brown 18:03, L Louw 18:41, T Bell 16:16); 3 Cambus 69:14 (H Little 17:33, K Crawford 17:27, E MacKinnon 17:17, O Leach 16:57); 4 Edin U 70:14 (E Dowd 16:13, E Dougall 19:28, C Kane 19:03, A Cardno 15:30)
Universities: 1 Glas U; Stir U; 3 Edin U
Fastest: B Sandilands (Fife) 14:22; H Hickey (Centr) 14:32; J Patton (S’clyde U) 14:35; MacKinnon 14:37; Ghafari 14:39
M40: Livingstone 15:06
M50: M Mckenna (Armagh) 16:01
U20: Pagett 14:53
U17: L Thomas (Ross C) 15:26
Women: 1 Cors 72:28 (F Davies 17:45, K Maxwell 18:47, J-W Golder 17:59, K Macaulay 17:57); 2 Glas U 74:10 (E McNichol 16:59, E Nicholson 18:57, K Meiklejohn 19:15, A Daglish 18:59); 3 Edin U 74:38 (C Purcell 17:56, K Purcell 17:48, M Millar 18:26, C Hall 20:28); 4 Kil’k (W40) 76:27 (L Haggarty 18:01, J Beattie 20:06, L O’Connor 19:06, K Kelly 19:14)
Universities: 1 Glas U; 2 Edin U; 3 A’deen U 79:56 (R Ryan 19:19, C Gilfillan 20:16, A Driga-Ferguson 19:56, O Vennard 20:25)
W50: L’gow 89:08 (C Mulholland 20:04, R Evans 21:58, F Wood 23:45, S Jones 23:21)
Fastest: A Simpson (Shett) 16:01; McNichol 16:59; M Blair (Garsc) 17:11; MacKinnon 17:17; G Whelan (S’clyde U) 17:24
W40: Haggarty 18:01
W50: C Heasman (Helen) 18:46
U20: Brown 18:03
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