Johnson’s Handicap Race 2019 Results

 

Big congratulations to David Spencer on his victory. He had to outperform his handicap by some margin to win, especially because Roger was also on a good one. This was only the second of these races that I have missed in 25 years – but I have only actually run 21 of them. The conditions were reportedly bad in terms of energy sapping mud which suggests that it was ‘back to the late nineties’ in terms of weather. I won it in 1996, at that time having a battle in calf-deep mud with Paul Ballinger and Steve Aspey but we only managed 48 minutes, so respect to Owen and Glen (older now than we were then) for their 45 minute runs. Owen stays third on the M50 all-time list but knocked a minute off his previous best, demonstrating a huge improvement given the conditions. Of those new to their age categories, David B moves into third on the M60 list, with Duncan fifth and Arwel seventh; while the outright course record holder, Fred, is into fourth behind Bob as an M65. More amusingly, Katy was one second quicker than her 2016 time (and from the pics couldn’t have gone faster!) and Rhian finished a trifle slower than Tracey was in the frozen conditions of 2002 (when Tracey wore spikes!). Also noteworthy is that Emma improved her F55 leading time by nearly 3 minutes.

1st David Sp …….67:48

2nd Roger ……….62:19

3rd  Peter L………57:08

4th Duncan………52:32

5th Owen…………45:35

6th Glen…………..45:12

7th Arwel………….55:56

8th Emma………..50:10

9th Vic……………..50:10

10th Huw…………48:51

11th Menai………..61:53

12th Tony B……….52:58

13th Katy…………..53:13

14th Rhian ……….49:37

15th Mel……………51:43

16th David B……..50:19

17th Anwen……….68:50

18th Carys…………58:08

19th Tony W………48:41

20th Ian ……………61:41

21st Fred……………59:03

22nd Luke…………66:03.

Particular thanks to Rob for timekeeping.

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