Beverley Annual 10k Race and Fun Run By Mo

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On a beautiful, sunny Sunday morning May 16th, I headed off to the Beverley Annual 10k run to capture some photographs and do my best to find a racer who may write about the experience to accompany them. Clearly as it's me writing this I was unsuccessful, maybe next year, so you'll have to put up with my scribbling of the day.

It was a blisteringly hot day and I felt quite relieved to think I wasn't running out there myself as I parked the motor and headed to the Fun Run Race start. It was packed, teaming with runners lining up and an audience of several hundred. Andy Tate the Race organiser was busily instructing the runners who obediently formed a line 60 feet across and maybe 100 bodies deep. With spare rechargeable batteries and 250 megabytes of space on my Minolta I was up for snapping to my hearts content, so I went for it.

I've added some galleries in case you were there and want to check out the pleasure of the start line to the pain of the finish. As a lad cross country running in school was all part of the sports agenda and brings back memories of the stitch an odd feeling of pain in the hip that seems to be urging you to stop pull over and take a break

Luckily for me Andy had told me to hang on at the start line long enough to capture the Fun run winners coming into the finish line and still have time to make my way to the 10K Starting point. The start of the 10K Race, took place at the base of the beautiful Beverley Minster. Every time I see the Minster my mind wanders to the generations of stone masons, builders and labourers who must have committed their lives to create such a structure. I am always in awe of it and them.

As the start time approached there was tension in the air whilst the 1000 entrants squeezed into position with hardly an inch to spare in the whole street. I reckon it was the Mayor of Beverley who I took blowing the start hooter and they were off. Then it was a brisk walk across the railway line into the centre of Beverley market square to the 10K Finish line. I got the fire brigade chaps to pose (check the gallery) and promise to check the website. If you guys read this then do get in touch.

The winner, Leeds City's Darren Bilton completed the race in 30 minutes, 51 seconds. It was his fourth win in five years of the race. In second place was Stockport Harrier Bashir Hussein finishing the race in 31 minutes, 8 seconds. Birchfiled Harrier, Andy Swearman came in third in 32 minutes, 35 seconds.

Heading the womens field was Melanie Hayward from Beverley who finished the race in 35 minutes, 58 seconds. In second place was Beverley Wilson from CleethorpesAC in 38 Minutes, 22 seconds and third was Daphne Ellmore of Wold Vets AC in 38 Minutes, 41 seconds.

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