ERRA National Road Relay 17-Oct-09

The ERRA National Road Relay Championship at Sutton Park
Birmingham on Saturday 17-Oct-09

Chris Davies gets 2nd fastest leg of the day (16:42) with a storming run to help TAC's A team to finish 22nd overall. Chris' course record of 16:25 (2003) still stands although Mo Farah came close yesterday with his 16:33. Mark Dalkins also had an excellent run on 1st leg battling with UK's finest athletes.

Photo : Mo Farah (Newham) taken by Nellie

Senior six stage -- Team Results -- Provisional

22 Telford AC 'A' 1:50:30

Mark Dalkins (22) 17:36
Chris Rimmer (28) 18:37
Chris Davies (6) 16:42
Chris Bagshaw (19) 19:30
Chris Carter (25) 19:39
Paul Ward (22) 18:26

73 Telford AC 'B' 2:02:35

John Sanders (83) 20:38
Wayne Dashper (83) 20:00
Richard Lucock (76) 19:59
J Hockey (75) 20:13
Paul Williams (76) 21:42
D Mansbridge (73) 20:03

Fastest of all legs
1 Mo Farah Newham And A 16:33
2 Chris Davies Telford Ac A 16:42

Times courtesy of www.race-results.co.uk for full listings please go to
http://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2009/nat609.htm


Women's 4 Stage -- Team Results -- Final

TAC ladies achieved 19th place in the national road relays. Excellent!!!
Our fastest leg of the day was achieved in the B team by a certain Miss Undeclared (14:41) AKA Oxford bum.

19 Telford AC 'A' 1:02:58

Cathy Ansell (24) 15:16
Claire Martin (14) 15:01
M Clarke (15) 16:12
Denise Sanders (19) 16:29


61 Telford AC 'B' 1:13:22

Cheralyn Evans (66) 17:20
Lisa Blagden (70) 19:13
Juliet Hoad (73) 22:08
Undeclared (61) 14:41

Times courtesy of www.race-results.co.uk for full listings please go to
http://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2009/nat409.htm


Background
The AAA 6-Stage Road Relay was inaugurated in 1969 but was not held in Sutton Park until 1986. The venue was again used in1989 and 1992, and from1995 onwards Sutton Park became the race's permanent home. The course length varied due to haphazard positioning of the cone that marks the turning point at the far end of the circuit. In 2001 a permanent marker was put down but it was some distance further out than had recently been the norm, increasing the recent individual times by something approaching 30 seconds. As a result, the best times from 2001 onwards are now recorded as the course records. The distance is described as being 5847m.

Chris Davies (Telford AC) Still holds the course record with 16:25 running on leg 2 25 Oct 2003

More info
http://www.belgraveharriers.com/statistics/AAA_Mens_6-Stage_Road_Relay.pdf