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Late December Race reports

James Heaney
Last on our weekly review for December;

**Lee Valley running event**
On the penultimate weekend of December we had 5 WACers travel down to the 🚴‍♀️ Lee Valley VeloPark 🚴‍♀️ in Stratford for the running event hosted by RunThrough.co.uk The event provides races from a Junior event through to the half marathon distance – 4 WACers took on the mile event & 1 WACer in the half marathon. Keith Blake was our soul representative in the half and finished in a time of 1:46:49 to achieve a 1st🥇place M60 finish. Our four in the 1 mile event were Matthew Webster (5:08 – 1st 🏆🥇overall), Mark Armstrong (5:34 – 2nd 🏆🥈overall), Alison Armstrong (CR🏅 – 6:07 – 6th overall) & Kate Gooding (6:12 – 7th overall) – Matt, Mark & Alison all obtaining 1st 🥇place age category finishes with Kate only 2nd🥈 to Alison in the F40 category. Well done everyone! 🙌🏻


**🐕Groggy Doggy🐕**
The popular event on Boxing Day is hosted by Bungay Black Dog Running Club – this year the event was attended by 3 WACers – no official placings however well done to Tony Beales, Keith Blake & Tracy Stevens for taking part! 🙌🏻

Lastly we look at the three New Year’s Eve events attended by our travelling WACers;


**Ely New Year’s Eve 10k**
Our 4 WACers venutred out West to Little Downham, just North of Ely, to attended the Ely Runners 10k event – Adam Baker (37:39) was 1st WAC home followed by Juliette Watkinson (39:46), Billy Wheeler (41:31) & Ignas Gambickas (62:23) – Well done all however congratulations to Adam for his 3rd🥉place M50 & Jet for her 2nd🥈place F40 finishes. 🙌🏻
**Marham Flyers XK New Year’s Eve 10k**

A bit closer to home, however this time in West Norfolk we had 14 WACers attend RAF Marham for the NYE 10k event – First home for WAC was Gareth Seville (PB🎖️ – 37:42) followed by Will Parker (PB🎖️ – 39:02) & Jon Shoots (PB🎖️ – 41:57). First WAC female home was Dani Gilbert (PB🎖️ – 44:41) followed by Kate Gooding (44:42) & Claire Brown (45:41).

We had 7 new shiny Personal bests on the day, firstly our overall PB’ers were; Gareth Seville (PB🎖️), Will Parker (PB🎖️), Jon Shooter (PB🎖️), Dani Gilbert (PB🎖️), Ka Trina Minns (PB🎖️ – 57:29). Age grade Personal bests were achieved by Lyn Lyn Ottaway (AGPB🎖️ – 56:34) & Samantha Grainger (AGPB🎖️ – 59:09) – Well done to everyone celebrating their last day of 2024 with a PB!

Well done to the rest of our runners & congratulations to – Kevin Frazer 2nd🥈 M60-64 (42:11), Kate Gooding 3rd🥉 F40-44 & Claire Brown 1st🥇 F60-64 for their Age category placings. 🙌🏻

**Mizuno Podium Event Battersea**
Our last event of the year was from Battersea for the Mizuno Podium event consisting of a 1 mile race & 5k – 3 WACers travelled to Battersea Park – two member took on the mile race and one the 5k. Matt Webster was our soul representative in the 5k race, completing the course in a time of 16:48 to finish 35th overall & 1st🥇 M35. Both our representatives in the mile race came away with new Club records🏅, doubling their accounts for December! In the female race, Alison Armstrong finished in a time of 5:48 (PB🎖️🏅) in 4th place & 1st🥇F40 with new Personal best from a week and a half ago and a new Club record. Aidan Banfield was our representative in the male field, finishing 9th overall, in a time of 4:34 and his second overall club record 🏅 in the month. Well done you three! 🙌🏻

#TeamWAC 💜🤍💜🤍
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