With a large contingent of Harriers participating in the Islay Half Marathon this weekend, the field for Thursday's Auldhouse 5k time trial was split into those doing a gentle reverse lap to save themselves for Islay and those really going for a time as usual. Once again Julie Beveridge was fastest of all and demonstrated impressive consistency with a time of 19:53. Julie has done all of the time trials this Summer and they have all been within 6 seconds of each other and all significantly faster than last year's best.
It was a night to demonstrate how our young Harriers are developing as proven by Chris McCarron setting the second fastest time (21:38) which was his course best. In third place was our youngest competitor, Lewis Moir who had been set off just 30 seconds behind his granddad, Stuart Waugh, chased him down over the first few km, passed and opened the gap to finish in 21:56, his course best by a minute.
Having only turned up at the Harriers for the first time on Tuesday, Emma Craig was hottly tipped to set a good time, even though this was her first attempt at the Auldhouse 5k time trial. Not only did she make a great effort but it was also a personal best 5k time for Emma, finishing 4th fastest in 22:15. Jim Mearns is gradually getting speed back into his legs after his amazing performance in the West Highland Way Race little over 6 weeks ago. Jim set his fastest time for a couple of years, finishing in 22:22. We then had a very close grouping of runners. Richard Lawton (22:32) set his second fastest time ever on this course, Stuart Waugh was another Mr Consistency with 22:38, all this season's times being within about 30 seconds of each other and all in the 22's. Andy Henderson was our next over 60 with a time of 22:47, another consistent performance, with Paul Rooney only a short time behind in 22:55 which was Paul's fastest of this season by a long way.
Michael Mullen had a list of excuses as long as he is tall before the start but still managed his fastest time on this course (23:28). Julie Thompson had never run this course before (nor a 5k) and wasn't even sure where she was going let alone how to pace it, so did very well to record 25:19, a very good benchmark 5k time. Colin Banks is getting back to running gradually and set his fastest time of this season (25:45). This was Holly Rankine's second Auldhouse Time Trial, so still very new to the course and had the added pressure of being set off first. Holly recorded a good time of 26:31 and would have easily gone faster with someone ahead to chase.
This month's results are here and you can see all previous results using the Auldhouse Time Trial Times link in the menu on the left of the blog.
One more to go this year. The September event will be the first Thursday in September, starting from Auldhouse this time due to the darkness.
Alan
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