Parrett Relay

Parrett Trail Relay photos 2012

                         

Teams mis-management/mis-administration: Ferret and Bangkok  

Mis-directions, body malfunctions and other mistakes: Ours

Weather:  Sunny; odd rogue light shower, brisk south-easterly; 12˚C

Ground condition: Soggy (mud); water in hollows on trail

Pleasure rating: High (what else would we be doing?)

Lovely Ladies, Young Guns and Old Boys.

A traditional sunny Parrett Trail day welcomed our 3 teams on Sat 13^th Oct to battle it out among the 34 team entries.

Jackie had a family crisis and was unable to run, leaving our ladies team a member short, but we all send our best wishes to Jackie and the family and hope for good news.

With 10 Parrett Trail virgins in our teams this year, there were bound to be some making mistakes with the route.  I know that Justin went wrong a couple of times, and so did Keith.

There were also a few mistakes with the results; our ‘Old Boys’ team being given one hour more than was correct on their total time.

The over fifties team, strangely called ‘Young Guns’, finished in 23^rd place.  Eleven teams finished between 7:02:00 and 7:36:00, and Keith’s excellent 8^th place in Leg 6 helped put the team into the mix in 7:23:31, only one minute, 52 seconds behind Exmouth Mens B.

For the Ladies, Michelle ran really strongly to claim 18^th place on the 7.7 mile Leg 4 in1:10:28.

Earlier, before the start of Leg 3, Liz received a phone call from Justin.  He and Marcus hadn’t got any drawing pins to fix their numbers.  Liz was lucky not to hurt herself as she fell out of the car laughing, composing herself enough to reassure the lads that we had something much safer to fix their race numbers with.

Leg 1,  9.1m	Leg 2, 5.6m	Leg 3, 7.7m	Leg 4, 7.7m	Leg 5,  9.5m	Leg 6, 8.6	Total
Tony H 1:47:13	Floater 57:03	Marcus 1:11:00	Justin 1:25:42	David B 1:40:31	Paul 1:48:40	8:50:09
WAM 1:32:52	Big Bird 57:32	Liz 1:18:51	Michelle 1:10:28	Just Bull 1:40:31	2:45:00	9:25:14
Grasshopper 1:28:08	Brush Off 50:56	Withy 1:12:52	Dormouse 1:13:20	Martini 1:27:43	Keith 1:10:32	7:23:31

There are professional photos of all our runners on legs 1, 3, 5 and 6 on the CrewkerneRunning Club website.    There are also very good amateur photos of our runners that can be downloaded for free; Ham Hill, Langport, Leg 3, Leg 4 and the finish of Leg 6.  

Leg 2 runners were not photogenic, it seems.

Map of Leg 1 Parrett Relay

Not a bad run .......  weather fairly kind, music helped, long grass trodden down by the time I got there!!