Last Wednesday night saw the start of Telford AC’s “Sexarathon” series, a popular 6-race series which takes place on Wednesday evenings from April to September. The race distances vary, from 5 kilometres to 5 miles, and people can enter either the whole series or individual races as they wish.

Just some of the NDRC contingent!

The first race each year traditionally takes place at Lilleshall Sport Centre, and is 5 miles long, taking runners down the long drive towards Newport, before doing an anti-clockwise loop around Pitchcroft Lane and Pave Lane, then heading back up the drive to the finish. As ever, the series has a lot of entrants from Newport & District Running Club this year.

Alex Cochrane led the way for NDRC!

In a field of 436 runners, Alex Cochrane was NDRC’s first finisher in 48th place with a time of 31 minutes, 12 seconds, closely followed by Harry Wilmot, who was 51st in a time of 31:21. Robin Guy was in hot pursuit, taking 52nd place in 31:25, as was Darren Waters, who clocked 31:36 in 56th place. Alex Millington finished 72nd with his time of 32:15, whilst David Brown ran a time of 33:39 in 89th place.

Helen Mason and Ola Zbroszczyk

143rd Phil Dolding finished 143rd in a time of 36:30, whilst David Thomas clocked 37:15 in 159th, and David Evans finished 163rd with a time of 37:24. Graham Rogers clocked a time of 38:11 to finish 176th, whilst Oliver Stokes ran a time of 41:10 to finish 235th. Nigel Ingram was 240th with his time of 41:24, just ahead of Emma Glanville, who was 245th on the road, but ran a faster “chip time” of 41:20.

David Evans

Simon Smith finished 277th in 42:56, whilst Helen Mason was 301st in 44:02 and Heather Campbell-Miles ran a time of 44:50 for 312th place. Simon Taylor finished 326th with his time of 45:52, followed by Ola Zbroszczyk, who was 337th in 46:20, and Selwyn Plant, who clocked 48:11 for 351st place. Matthew Humphries was 361st with his time of 48:52, finishing along with Edward Roper, who was 363rd in 48:44. Nick Wylie finished 369th with his time of 49:11, followed by Ralph Humphries, who clocked 51:40 in 398th place, and Liz Holbrook, who finished 409th in 53:25.

Liz Holbrook