{"id":2299,"date":"2018-07-04T22:47:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T21:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buxtonac.org.uk\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2018-07-04T22:47:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T21:47:57","slug":"the-supermen-superwomen-of-buxton-ac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.buxtonac.org.uk\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"The Supermen & Superwomen of Buxton AC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The racing season is in full swing, both on the fells and on the road and Buxton Athletic Club runners are often undecided which to take part in, especially as over the past week there have been around 10 local races to chose from.\u00a0 And naturally, one or two athletes have pushed themselves to their physical limits by taking part in several!\u00a0 Here\u2019s a selection of results from just a few \u2026.<\/p>\n

At the Tideswell Inter Inns 5K road race, Buxton athletes smashed both the male and female course records last Monday evening, with Jake Fearn taking the overall race lead in an excellent time of 17 minutes and 18 seconds.\u00a0 Helen Thornhill, a fantastic second overall finisher, was not only first female home but broke the ladies\u2019 record in 18.57.\u00a0 Three other \u2018firsts\u2019 by Buxton athletes were claimed too \u2013 Terry Fowler was 1st Male Vet 50 in 20.27, Lucy Bednall was 1st Junior Female in 20.45 while mum Jo was 1st Female Vet 50 in 22.12.<\/p>\n

Fearn\u2019s form was evident last Thursday evening at the Staffordshire Moorlands Summer Series \u201cBuxton Hilly\u201d 4.75 mile race with a 4th overall finishing place in 32.52 minutes.\u00a0 The course includes the climb up to Solomon\u2019s Temple before a fast descent through Grin Low Woods, an undulating dash through the bottom of the woods before the painful ascent up the short & snappy \u201cHeart Attack Hill\u201d, so dubbed by local runners for self-evident reasons!\u00a0 Buxton athletes were out in force that night with 16 runners from over 180 taking part.\u00a0 Fran Bromley, meanwhile, ran a cracking race in searing heat to finish 22nd overall, 2nd female and first in her age category with a time of 36.41.\u00a0 Jo Bednall was second Female Vet 50, Sheila Bradley 2nd Female Vet 60.<\/p>\n

The Alderley 10K road race takes good advantage of the temporary closure of the A34 bypass making it totally closed to traffic for the out and back predominantly flat course with only gentle undulations, promising fast times \u2013 unless of course, temperatures soar into the mid 80\u2019s as they did on race morning!\u00a0 \u00a0 Accordingly, the times of the seven Buxton runners who braved the elements, whilst perfectly respectable, broke no records.\u00a0 First Buxtonian home was Rick Aldred in 38.41, placed 44th from the 1,719 field.\u00a0 Jon Sewell was next up in 57th in 39.33, Amy Clark, returning to form after breaking several ribs, was 109th in 42.03.\u00a0 Fran Ross\u2019s time was 51.47, Adele Thornton\u2019s 53.10, Tim Rolfe 56.20 and Louise Hallows 57.24.<\/p>\n

Tania Wilson was another prolific racer this past weekend, taking in \u201cUp The Nab\u201d fell race on Saturday and the Greak Hucklow 6 mile fell race on Sunday, claiming first Female Vet 50 and 67th place from 113 runners.\u00a0 Jake Fearn\u2019s consistent form was evident yet again at the Great Hucklow race with another fourth placing overall.\u00a0 Tim Aldridge, Richard Bouglas, Dan Latham and Pete Bailey also took part.\u00a0 Bailey had raced at Tideswell only two days before, a race of two parts \u2013 uphill and downhill \u2013 along with fellow Club Member Richard Goff.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Last but by no means least is the remarkable feat of a trio of races undertaken by Ben Light whilst on holiday, culminating in running up and down Skiddaw in the Lake District last Sunday, earning him an amazing 7th place from 99 runners in an outstanding time of under 2 hours for the 3,000 feet of ascent and descent.\u00a0 His 9th placing at the Tebay fell race a few days before was equally remarkable for another 3,000 feet and 8 miler.\u00a0 Not known to rest on his laurels, Light claimed first place in the Whinlatter Forest Parkrun the day before scaling Skiddaw.\u00a0 Superman or what?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The racing season is in full swing, both on the fells and on the road and Buxton Athletic Club runners are often undecided which to take part in, especially as over the past week there have been around 10 local races to chose from.\u00a0 And naturally, one or two athletes have pushed themselves to their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cross-country","category-fell","category-road","category-seniors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.buxtonac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.buxtonac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.buxtonac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.buxtonac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.buxtonac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.buxtonac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.buxtonac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.buxtonac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.buxtonac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.buxtonac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}