Club records and British Fell Relays

The club celebrated two club records at Sunday's Altra Yorkshire Marathon Festival in York. Richard Heppenstall produced an outstanding run in the Yorkshire 10 Mile, finishing 32nd overall and third in the men's over50 category in 59-41. He cut one minute and sixteen seconds from the previous club over50 record of 60-57, set by Shaun Dimelow, and ran a superb negative split, covering the first five miles in 30-04 and the second five in 29-37. At the Altra Yorkshire Marathon, Alan Nutton finished 181st overall and 21st in the men's over45 category in a chip time of 2-54-18, bettering Matthew Robinson's previous club over45 record of 2-55-56 by one minute and thirty-eight seconds. Emily Duckett also completed the marathon in 3-41-34 for 1,923rd place. In the ten-mile race, Alex Harris impressed with a best ten-mile performance of 1-02-58 for 61st, while Rory O'Sullivan finished in 1-17-49 and Gemma Nutton overcame stomach and back discomfort to record 1-20-08.

Abroad, Luke McGuinness represented Penistone at the TCS Amsterdam Marathon, completing the race in a chip time of 4-37-58. The third round of the club's Philip Senior Winter Handicap attracted twenty runners to the testing 4.5-mile route around Penistone. Steve Sanders took the handicap victory in 33-46, beating his predicted time by 2-09, with Becky Parr second in 46-33, just two seconds behind Steve. Jen Holley placed third in 47-58, ahead of Sara Wolstenholme (48-01) and Kim Rogers (48-02), with all five finishing ahead of their handicap predictions. George Parr was the fastest man in 29-00 and Jade Crosby the quickest woman in 33-22. Barbara Haigh topped the age-adjusted WMA standings with 25-42, ahead of Julian Williams and Sanders.

On the fells, Penistone entered two teams in the British Fell and Hill Relay Championships hosted by Todmorden Harriers. The men's over40 team finished 149th overall and 34th in its category in 5-33-48. Martyn Goodwin ran the opening leg in 1-05-48, with Daniel Rushforth and Simon Pike combining for 1-41-41 on leg two. Jon Hallam and Steve Sanders completed the navigation leg in 1-46-21 before Chris Hodgson brought the team home in 59-58. The women's team placed 186th overall and 43rd in its category in 6-35-57. Jill Scrivens opened in 1-10-38 before Josie Smith and Hannah Shaw produced a particularly strong second leg, clocking 1-51-26. Their run was the 32nd fastest on that leg in the open women's category and lifted the team from 47th to 38th. Harriet Drouin and Jemma Williams then tackled the navigation leg in 2-24-59, with Rebecca Timms completing the final stage in 1-08-54.

At Saturday's parkruns, 66 Penistone seniors competed across 24 venues. Richard Cottam won at Selby in 16-35 and James Fryers was first at Carlisle Park in 17-42. At Penistone, where 308 people completed the course, Sean Pitt finished second overall in 18-19, while Suzanne McGill was second female in 22-28. Ryan Duckett won the men's over50 category and Edward Holley ran a personal best of 20-52 to win his junior age category. Dawn Broom was second female at Alvaston in 22-09 and earned the run of the weekend with an exceptional 88.86% age grading. Flynn Rogers took second overall at Hillsborough in 16-54, while Andrea Henson was second female at Etna and Julia Johnson second female at Mansfield. Heather Simpson was third female at Glossop. There were milestones for Lisa Hinchliffe, who completed her 350th parkrun at Glossop, Linda Keelan on her 150th at the University of Western Australia, and Sarah Clough, who made her 100th appearance at Penistone parkrun. The five highest age gradings were Dawn Broom (88.86%), Richard Cottam (84.82%), Julia Johnson (83.83%), Dawn Godley (81.63%) and Flynn Rogers (79.88%).