9th March 2012

axe VALLEY RUNNERS: Harry�s in a hurry

THERE was great success for Harry Moore in the Combe St Nicholas 10K, not only did he beat last years time by 18 mins, finishing in 1:21:00, but also won an achievement award and the oldest competitor award writes Dave Mutter. 

Dominic Schneiders ran extremely well to finish 10th in 43:44 in a race that was won by Paul Rose of Yeovil. 

Last Sunday Luke Reed took part in the Taunton Aquathlon, the race consists of a 1000m pool swim and a 10k undulation road run. 

He was extremely pleased to swim a PB of 16:47 including transition which he puts down to the persistence of swim coach Pat Parkes. He was also fairly pleased with a solid run of 38:01 which was just slightly down on last year. 

In the end Luke was very pleased; finishing in 54.58 and 15th place overall, in a very high quality field of athletes. 

As proved above, runners don't just run - sometimes they like messing about on the water. So much the better when it's on their own doorstep - Sunday's Rive Axe Race from Whitford to Axmouth was just the thing. 

Jon Day paddled his sit-upon, Andrew Watson and his dad Brian dug out their two-seater kayak, as did Lawrence Power and his mate and Graham Newton invited Garry Perratt into his Canadian. 

Graham's experience reined in Garry's somewhat limited boating ability and the pair were astonished to be not only the first AVRs across the line but third in the C2 class (pairs’ canoe). 

Father and son were next, likewise third in their K2 class (pairs kayak).  

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