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Ladies first team at windy Travellers 6
Penistone ladies packed well to take first ladies team at the Travellers 6 road race held around the undulating windswept roads of Denby Dale on Sunday. The three counters were Suzanne McGill, Jade Crosby and Lois Lopez. As the race was a Penistone club championship race their numbers were significant, with 31 taking part. First runner back for Penistone was James Fryers in an impressive fifth place overall. There were several age group winners: Suzanne McGill (first over45 lady), Lois Lopez (first over50 lady), Bill Phillips (first over75 man), Barbara Haigh (first over75 lady).
The final South Yorkshire Cross Country league fixture took place at Graves Park in Sheffield. Several Penistone runners of all ages took part. Heidi Morley placed 13th in the under11 girls and Flynn Rogers was 8th in the men’s under17 race. There were strong runs also from Jemma Williams (over35 ladies), Andrew Shelbourne (over55 men), Gareth Irvine (over45 men), Mark Law (over55 men), Martyn Goodwin (over65 men) and Nick Whittingham (over70 men).
Husband and wife John and Dawn Broom took part in the Telford 10k which is recognised as one of the fastest in the country. Dawn took second place in the ladies over60 age category in a time of 44-30. John maintained his recent good form to record 41-30.
Harriet Drouin took on the challenging Moors the Merrier fell race which is over 21 miles in distance and involves 4,100 feet of climbing. Harriet finished in 43rd place in a time of 5-12-00.
On the popular parkrun scene there were first gender places for Richard Cottam (Penistone), James Fryers (Barnsley) and Suzanne McGill (Penistone). There were second gender places for Jade Crosby (Penistone) and Lee Nash (Selby). Ian Neville achieved the remarkable feat of running his 600th parkrun at Barnsley and his 591st at that particular venue. Age graded runners of the week were Julia Johnson (84.72%), Ian Neville (78.84%), Suzanne McGill (77.02%), Richard Cottam (76.17%) and James Mumford (75.70%).