Bourton 10km

Sunday 22nd February 2009

The course for this 10 km road race in the Cotswold village of Bourton-on-the-Water lived up to its reputation for fast time. The route consisted of two ‘pan-flat’ 2-laps of the village followed by an out and back with final 1 ¾ laps of village. The runners were helped by there being perfect racing conditions, circa 9˚C, with a slight headwind on the return.

The first man home was Kevin Skinner from Newham & Essex Beagles in a terrific time of 29.50. There was an equally impressive performance from the winner of the strong women's race Alyson Dixon from Chester-Le-Street who blitzed the course in 32.32

This race is always a sell out and there was a strong contingent from our club who headed south in search of good times. Paul Collins was a late entry benefiting from the transfer of the injured Alan Elsmere's number and clocked his best time for years to be our first finisher and 4th male veteran 40.

B & R Runners

43rd  Paul Collins            35.13

80th  Huw Jenkins           37.30

84th  Mark Graham          37.38

147th Simon Bowen         40.51

337th Jasmin Al-Daftary    50.57

Click here for full results on the Bourton Road Runners web site

There were 459 finishers. Two runners were disqualified in accordance with UK Athletics rules for wearing personnel listening device such as ipods (be warned!).