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13 – Unlucky for Some? Reflections on Our First Half (Fiona Holland)

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They say number 13 is unlucky for some; 

But not for those medal craving naughties who completed the Tissington Trail Half-marathon in October 2016.  It was a first for many of us and needless to say we experienced a few close calls along the way. 

It all sounded very simple; especially when we were busy Christmas shopping and neatly submitting our race applications at the end of 2015. We gave the training plan that Tracy had supplied for us a cursory glance and neatly filed it away. So, June 2016  arrives quicker than we could have realised and it’s time to start “the plan”.  Just how difficult could it be to run 4 x parkruns or 2 x 10k? Well here are some of the challenges we faced aside from the actual running! In at no 1…
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Weekend Recap: Tissington World of Adventure, -80 in Peterborough & Everything Else

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Tissington Trail Half Marathon

An invasion they’re calling it. They haven’t seen such a force in Tissington since the English Civil War. The masses of K&D poured into Tissington this weekend. In their clan’s green and gold the troops donned a set of leggings that could have blinded opposition archers from 500 yards.  In psychedelic zebra print they ran; a herd of Zebra is called a Dazzle appropriately enough.

Among many of the brilliant performances were the likes of Jo Tork, Amanda Marklew, and Paul Jeffrey, all of whom ran their first ever half-marathons.

Results:

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[su_column size=”1/2″]Isabel Collins – 1:56:40
Sally Anderson – 2:01:52
Ann Spencer-Dowdeswell – 2:01:53
Victoria Kirby – 2:04:35
Sarah Connors – 2:04:35
Amanda Marklew – 2:04:59
Nigel Collins – 2:05:19
Linda Whitehead – 2:10:19
Louise Taylor – 2:15:59
Jackie Paterson 2:15:54
Fiona Andrews – 2:16:09
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[su_column size=”1/2″]Moshumi Moran – 2:16:15
Kelly Rock – 2:16:39
Jan Hornby – 2:17:29
Frances Ramsden – 2:17:30
Jo Tork – 2:20:12
Penny Garner – 2:20:12
Fiona Holland – 2:24:18
Marie Howarth – 2:36:25
Michelle McHugh – 2:39:09
Isabel Arthur – 2:39:11
Paul Jeffery – 2:39:11 [/su_column]
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Tissington has a second Half on the Sunday. A smaller field ran, however Jane Hunt ran a 1:40:01 Half PB, Jude Mansfield ran 1:52:41. Next up was Geoff Lewis in 1:53:49, Richard Wassell followed in 1:53:49 and Kerry Hobbs in 1:58:44.

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