Ekiden Relays – 12 July 2015

On a drizzly morning 21 jags set off (17 in a mini-bus, the rest in cars) down to Woodbridge in Suffolk to compete in the Ekiden Relays. There were four teams entered: Men’s Seniors, Men’s Masters, Ladies Masters and Mixed Gender.  All runners completed in 6 stages for each team a 7.2k, 5k, 10k, 5k, 10k and 5k making up a total of 42.2k or 26.2 miles for a marathon distance run. Three runners namely myself, Andy Mulligan and Scott Shrubsall ran two legs each for different teams everyone else completing the one leg. The Race is set around a School grounds equalling 2.5k laps with 180+ teams taking part on the day.

Coltishall Senior Mens team were first team home finishing in 13th place in Mens Senior category with a combined time of 2hrs 56mins and 45 secs. Next in were the Coltishall Male Vets team finishing in 11th place in Mens Masters category with a combined time of 3hrs 4mins 58secs. Third team was Coltishall Mixed Gender team who finished 14th in their category with a combined time of 3hrs 9mins 43 secs and lastly were Ladies Masters team which finished in 9th place in their category in a time of 3hrs 34mins 8 secs.
All teams competed really well on the day with outstanding performances by all please see attached times.
A Lady who must not be missed out is the well travelled Becky Durant who made her own way down especially to watch and support every runner from Coltishall riding around the field on her Brompton bike ringing her little bell as she was still suffering with Laryngitis and found it extremely hard to shout! Many Thanks for your support from all who ran.
Lastly thanks to Deb Jones and Jackie Gooch for loaning their Gazebos for the day.
Mel
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LADIES VETS
Sonya Wragg
37.31
Jillie Cole
26.43
Deb Jones
49.09
Rosemary Jackson
27.15
Sue Allen
48.13
Heather Hollister
25.15
MENS VETS
Jeremy Lawrence
30.38
Peter Kean-Cockburn
23.48
Mel Porter
42.24
Paul Groves
23.17
Clive Steward
39.40
Paul Taylor
21.42
MIXED
Andy Mulligan
26.50
Nicola John
24.34
Emma Wilcock
47.47
Paul Gerber
25.44
Ellie Bye
43.33
Scott Shrubsall
21.11
MENS SENIOR
Scott Shrubsall
29.42
Ben Gaskins
20.37
Nick Hudson
45.24
James Lambert
20.29
Andy Mulligan
39.34
Mel Porter
20.56
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