NHC Road Race Champs

Race records tumbled regularly at Saturday's Napier Harrier Club Road Racing Championships on the Atawhai circuit. Although school holidays impacted on the junior grades, the quality of the racing was still of a high standard. Annie Creagh (7.36) displayed her tremendous silky style to lower her own course record by 34 seconds in winning the Girls 12 year old title, ahead of Jasmine Ngan-Sue and Georgia Creagh. Ten year old Jack Smidt (7.38) produced a great run to claim the Boys 12 year old title. He snuck under Brendan Speakman's course record by two seconds, which highlights his exciting development over this season. Laura Nagel enhanced her reputation for consistency with another robust display to take the Womens 16 year old title (McKie Trophy). Nagel (14.38) smashed Danielle Kiely's record by an amazing 76 seconds, while runner up Hannah Drury (15.09) suggested she has a great future in the sport. Brendan Speakman (14.43) claimed the Boys 14 year old title (Kevin Weatherley Cup) in a lively struggle with Charlie Chittenden. Jessica Middleton (15.43) ran strongly to claim the Girls 14 year old title (Finlayson Cup), ahead of Laura Smith. Ben Fulton won his first club title (Duffy Cup) by claiming the Mens 16 year old race. Nationally ranked Eric Speakman (16.13) exploded from the beginning of the 5km Mens 19 year old (Curtis Cup) race and his awesome display was rewarded, by clipping 57 seconds off Daniel Wallis' course record. Aleesha Heywood (26.26) claimed the Womens 19 year old championship. Cheryl Simpson (23.13) celebrated 40 years in the sport by claiming the Masters Women's title (Nichols Trophy), while Shayna Heywood(23.38) took out the Senior Womens title (Jenkins Cup) and recorded a new course record. In the senior mens race over 10km, first home was Gordon Clarke (36.35), a visitor from Wellington Harriers but was ineligible for any title. Therefore, Iain Murray (37.33) won the Masters Mens title (Strachan Trophy), while Craig Mathers (38.29) displayed a steady improvement to claim the senior men's title (Peter Tait Cup) ahead of pre-race favourite James Bell.

Boys and Girls 12 years and under - 2km Place Athlete Grade Grade Place Time H'cap Adj. Time H'cap Place Points 1 Annie Creagh G12 1 07:36* 00:20 07:16 3 18 2 Jack Smidt B12 1 07:38* 00:50 06:48 1 20 3 Jasmine Ngan-Sue G12 2 08:43 01:20 07:23 4 17 4 Georgia Creagh G12 3 08:45 01:40 07:05 2 19 5 Jodi Nagel G12 4 09:19 01:50 07:29 5 16 * Course Record Boys and Girls 14/16 years and under - 4km Place Athlete Grade Grade Place Time H'cap Adj. Time H'cap Place Points 1 Laura Nagel G16 1 14:38* 00:00 14:38 2 13.5 2 Brendan Speakman B14 1 14:43 01:50 12:53 2 14 3 Charlie Chittenden B14 2 15:08 02:05 13:03 3 13 4 Hannah Dury G16 2 15:09 00:30 14:39 4 12 5 Jessica Middleton G14 1 15:43 01:10 14:33 1 15 6 Kris Sweetapple B14 3 16:30 02:30 14:00 4 12 7 Ben Fulton B16 1 16:36 04:10 12:26 1 15 8 Laura Smith G14 2 16:48 02:10 14:38 2 13.5 9 Kaden Hall B14 4 17:32 03:05 14:27 5 11 * Course Record Men and Women 19 yrs and under, Senior and Masters Women - 5km Place Athlete Grade Grade Place Time H'cap Adj. Time H'cap Place Points 1 Eric Speakman M19 1 16:13* 00:00 16:13 1 15 2 Cheryl Simpson W55 1 23:13 00:00 23:13 6 15 3 Shayna Heywood SW 1 23:38* 00:30 23:08 4 17 4 Joan Vyle W50 2 25:00 01:50 23:10 5 16 5 Marion Sherburn W70 3 25:20 02:20 23:00 3 18 6 Diane Barclay W55 4 25:43 03:30 22:13 1 20 7 Gina Finlayson SW 2 26:00 03:30 22:30 2 19 8 Aleesha Heywood W19 1 26:26 01:00 25:26 8 13 9 Ann Marie Earwicker SW 3 29:13 06:00 23:13 7 14 * Course Record Senior and Masters Men - 10km Place Athlete Grade Grade Place Time H'cap Adj. Time H'cap Place Points 1 Gordon Clarke M45 1 36:35 36:35 2 Iain Murray M40 2 37:33 04:20 33:13 1 30 3 Craig Mathers SM 1 38:29 04:40 33:49 3 28 4 Eric Phimister M55 3 38:39 04:40 33:59 4 27 5 James Bell SM 2 39:10 03:40 35:30 10 21 6 Niall McCormack M40 4 39:42 05:20 34:22 6 25 7 Trevor Fulton M50 5 39:46 05:00 34:46 7 24 8 John Craven M50 6 40:15 05:20 34:55 8 23 9 Ron Middleton M40 7 42:20 08:10 34:10 5 26 10 Malcolm Lochrie M45 8 50:38 15:20 35:18 9 22 11 Blair Cunningham SM 3 51:42 15:30 36:12 11 20 12 Frank Price M55 9 51:51 18:30 33:21 2 29 DNF Stephen Lindsay M50 Course Records B12 - 2km Jack Smidt 2007 07:38 G12 - 2km Annie Creagh 2007 07:36 B14 - 4km Jack Needes 2006 14:21 G14 - 4km Laura Nagel 2006 15:24 B16 - 4km Eric Speakman 2006 13:14 G16 - 4km Laura Nagel 2007 14:38 M19 - 4km Stefan Smith 2003 13:36 M19 - 5km Eric Speakman 2007 16:13 G19 - 5km Courtney Jarrat (Brisbane) 2003 20:17 Annika Edmondson (NHC) 2001 21:47 SM - 10km Shane Vincent 2006 33:51 SW - 5km Shayna Heywood 2007 23:38 MM - 10km Darryl Strachan 2003 34:44 MW - 5km Jo Cavanagh 2001 19:54

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