Jenny Murray (left) in the closing stages of the Flora London Marathon
Top performer for the club in Sunday's Flora London Marathon was Jenny Murray knocking a huge 8 minutes off her personal best with a time of 2 hours, 49 minutes and 1 second.
Despite the injuries suffered two weeks ago in the relays and her pre-race plan to "take it steady", she ran a storming race to finish 29th overall and 19th British finisher.
Next home was Jenny Knass, also overcoming recent injury, recording a time of 3.29.24 for her first attempt at the distance.
The ladies team overall had a good day with 9 out of the 15 entered recording personal best times despite a number of non-starters due to illness and one non-finisher.
First home for the men was Kevin Beattie in 2.43.07, closely followed by Jonathan Dabbs in 2.48.05 and Steve Almond in 2.48.55. John Delany, Terry Robson and Clive Luty ran well in the over-60's category, all finishing under 4 hours.
| Name | Overall Place |
Cat. Place |
Age Cat. |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEVIN BEATTIE | 269 | 246 | M30 | 2:43:07 |
| JONATHAN DABBS | 415 | 388 | M30 | 2:48:05 |
| STEVE ALMOND | 459 | 431 | M40 | 2:48:55 |
| JENNY MURRAY | 464 | 29 | W20 | 2:49:01 |
| TONY AUDENSHAW | 1326 | 1238 | M40 | 3:03:07 |
| JOHN DELANY | 2445 | 2285 | M60 | 3:15:17 |
| ERIC MUSGROVE | 2944 | 2732 | M50 | 3:20:23 |
| JENNY KNASS | 4247 | 409 | W20 | 3:29:24 |
| TERRY ROBSON | 4984 | 552 | M60 | 3:34:12 |
| CLIVE LUTY | 6725 | 5861 | M60 | 3:44:25 |
| JAYNE LAWTON | 10081 | 1556 | W30 | 3:58:11 |
| RITA LONG | 10104 | 1563 | W30 | 3:58:15 |
| VICTORIA BUCKLEY | 11940 | 1989 | W30 | 4:05:47 |
| RUTH AUDENSHAW | 11320 | 1827 | W30 | 4:03:11 |
| DAVID FUREY | 15220 | 12417 | M20 | 4:18:24 |
| NICOLA LOGUE | 16200 | 3066 | W40 | 4:21:56 |
| VINCENT HOLLAND | 16961 | 13686 | M60 | 4:24:49 |
| SEAN WHEWELL | 21526 | 16755 | M40 | 4:42:05 |
| JUNE SINNOTT | 24390 | 5746 | W40 | 4:54:19 |
Adidas Mini London Marathon
A number of Stockport's younger athletes were representing Greater Manchester in Adidas Mini London Marathon.
Jess Coulson (right) became the second girl from the Harriers to win the County Challenge in the Mini Marathon following on from Lucy McLoughlin's win last year.
Jess won the girls 13-14 year old's race by over 21 seconds from Laura Condron of Essex, clocking 15 minutes 13 seconds for the 2.5 mile race.
Other Harriers running for Greater Manchester were; Steve Pearson 11th in the 13-14's race; Bryony Pearce 13th in the girls 11-12's in a time of 16.47; Michelle Wiblin 31st in the 12-13's in 16.36. Also Andy Nixon finished 37th in 14.14 in the 16-17's event.