Monday 1 April 2013

Fron Four

BENTLEY WINS DESPITE GETTING LOST - AGAIN

Sheer speed compensated for lack of navigational skills for Kent athlete Russell Bentley in the Fron Four mountain race.

 Last month he got lost while leading in the Moel Tryfan race at Fron, and on his blog he later joked that as a predominantly track athlete he was more used to course directions being simply "Left, straight on, left again and repeat".

 However, the same thing happened when he returned to the village for the longer Fron Four race, the course for which was shortened because of the snow.

 At the front of the field, he led a group of runners off-course but, realising his error, was fast enough to get back on-route and go on to win, while the other errant athletes were so far behind they could no longer see him making the correction.

 Results.
1 R Bentley (Kent) 43.15, 2 DW Jones (Eryri, M40) 43.59, 3 J Parkinson (Eryri, M40) 44.04, 4 J Brown (Buckley, M40) 44.46, 5 C Jones (Eryri, M40) 48.29, 6 M Davies (NWRR) 48.33.
 M50: 1 D Soles (Pennine) 49.54, 2 K Hagley (SWRR) 50.24, 3 J Williams (Eryri) 55.40.
 M60: D Owen (Prestatyn) 70.16.
 M70: E Davies (Eryri) 61.25
 Ladies
1 S Cumming (ua) 59.06, 2 K Worthington (Eryri) 59.15, 3 E Salisbury (Eryri, L50) 59.46. L40: A Wilde (ua) 66.55. L50: 2 S Jones (Cybi) 73.10.

 

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