Fourteen Buxton AC runners looking for sunshine and warmth made the short trip to Alsager to test themselves at the legendary 5 mile road race, featuring nearly a thousand runners from all over the country.<\/p>\n
Buxton’s stand-out performance came from Kate Ledin who broke the Club’s Female veteran 55+ record by 52 seconds. Kate was 2nd in her age category (50th woman and 288th overall), setting a new mark of 36:25. First home for Buxton’s women in 30:44 was Amy Clark, 9th in the women’s race (95th overall) with Katie Rolfe next in 35:56 (47th woman, 281st overall).<\/p>\n
For the men, Ben Light led the team home in 34th place (time 28:02), with Rob White 37th in 28:14 (4th male over 40). The Buxton team of Ben, Rob and Amy finished an excellent 6th overall.<\/p>\n
The monthly Pavilion Gardens 5k will be held as usual this Saturday, 9th February, at 9am, starting on Broadwalk – timed, accurately measured and free to enter. Run the full 3 laps of our beautiful park, or come and attempt one or two laps. Accompanied children, buggies, wheelchair athletes, visually impaired runners and dogs on leads all very welcome!<\/p>\n
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