This Saturday saw many Great Bentley ladies be beside the seaside as we had a parkrun social at Clacton Seafront. Sixteen females joined in the fun, with a few more marshalling. A mention for Deborah Hollidge who ran a parkrun PB of 23:20. I could not verify at time of writing if this was an all time PB. I’d best mention that it wasn’t only ladies who took part at Clacton, with some stirling runs from our men in blue too. Mark Jasper clocked up his 34th first position! The rest of Saturday’s parkrun efforts can be found here.

The sun was shining for Tiptree 10 mile race on Sunday, being raced for the 34th time around the villages north of Tiptree. We had a good turnout of Bentley Blues along with Doug McGillivray and Charlie Keitch who donned pacing vests. We had some great times with PBs from Hien Hoang in 1:22:34 and Lisa Briggs in 1:19:37, well done ladies! The rest of the results can be found here, some superb times and it was lovely spectating too!

Donna Harris went further afield to take part in the Royal Parks Half Marathon which runs through Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens as well as running along the Mall and around the edge of St James’ Park. She got a PB of 2:10:40, well done Donna!