John Carr Race 2

18 Hyde Park Harriers were in a field of 376 runners at the 2nd round of the John Carr race series on Wednesday night.

With this being the 2nd of 3 chances to score points in the Road Championship there was 7 new Harriers compared to week 1, so 33 are scoring points so far.  Even with a few having tired legs from the Leeds Half yet again the effort was great to see.

First Harrier home was Anthony Aimon who ran 1 second faster than week 1 in a time of 17.33.  Charlie Jacket followed him home in 19.19 which was slower than week 1 and James Booth was a new scorer with 19.37.

The first 3 Harrier ladies home were all new point scores with Laura Cummings first in 21.10, then Lucy Rider in 22.22 and Clare Lyons in 22.52.

As well as Anthony, Tom Mason, Trevor Raddings and Kay Jefferies were all faster than week 1 which when you read below is a real good effort.

***Important Information Regarding Race 1***

Unfortunately due to an issue on the night the course for race 1 was short of 5k.  The times are not being recognised as PB’s by Run Britain (personally I’m counting mine ha!).  As a club we have an issue as we are counting the best score from the 3 races.  Race 1 was short by 30 yards, an option we have is to amend the times to factor this in.  We have asked our font of all knowledge Mr Fox and he has come back with “Should be straight forward, can just multiply Race 1 times by 5.027/5 = 1.0054”.  At present this is the option we are going with, the other option is you all come and run faster on the 3rd and final race.

Results of Race 2 –