Park Island Cross Country

Over 40 Napier Harriers braved the extremely muddy underfoot conditions at Park Island for their third open handicap series of races with Toby Hall relishing the conditions to start from the second to back mark and come through for a good 4sec win in the boys and girls 2k 12 years and under race. Toby also gained fastest time from Georgia Creagh. Jason Pearson had a generous handicap in the boys 14 years and under 4k race to maintain his lead throughout to win by 57sec, he also must have enjoyed the mud. Jess Middleton had her first race of the season and caught the handicapper napping and secured 1st place followed by "Mum" Michelle with fastest time going to Ni'ia Hothersall with Rita Holmes also having a good run to place 3rd and second fastest time over 6k. The sloppy underfoot conditions also made handicapping the senior men over 10k rather challenging with Mike Lintott securing 1st place off the front mark to hold off all challenges by 49 sec from Matt Somerville and Eric Speakman with Eric gaining fastest time in a solid 36.39 with the next fastest being the ever improving Masters 45 grade runner Ron Middleton being 10min slower than Eric in 46min 17sec, although there is a 24 year age difference. Ron had a faster time than Craig Mathers for the first time with Craig gaining 3rd fastest time in 46min 51sec. report Wayne Smith CUBS - 1km Place Athlete Grade Clock Time H'cap Actual Time Fastest Times 1 Alaska Webb Cubs 06:38 00:00 06:38 1 Boys and Girls 12 - 2.1km Place Athlete Grade Clock Time H'cap Actual Time Fastest Times H'cap Points 1 Toby Hall B12 10:22 01:35 08:47 1 20 2 Mark Butzbach B12 10:26 00:20 10:06 4 19 3 Hayden Fergusson B14 10:42 00:00 10:42 6 - 4 Georgia Creagh G12 10:43 01:45 08:58 2 18 5 Travis Keighley B12 10:46 01:05 09:41 3 17 6 Fraser Pearson B12 10:53 00:10 10:43 7 16 7 Kingston Webb B12 11:04 00:50 10:14 5 15 8 Zara Keighley G12 11:27 00:10 11:17 8 14 9 Scarlett Vowden G12 11:55 00:10 11:45 9 13 Boys 14/16 - 4.2km Place Athlete Grade Clock Time H'cap Actual Time Fastest Times H'cap Points 1 Jason Pearson B14 22:02 02:00 20:02 2 20 2 Devon Beckman B14 22:59 05:15 17:44 1 19 3 Samual Hall B16 26:41 04:00 22:41 3 18 Girls 14/16 - 4.2km Place Athlete Grade Clock Time H'cap Actual Time Fastest Times H'cap Points 1 Annie Creagh G16 24:36 04:40 19:56 1 20 2 Candice Mitchel G14 24:56 00:00 24:56 2 19 Women 19, Senior and Masters Women - 6.3km Place Athlete Grade Clock Time H'cap Actual Time Fastest Times H'cap Points 1 Jess Middleton W19 40:11 08:00 32:11 3 20 2 Michelle Middleton W40 41:03 08:30 32:33 4 19 3 Rita Homes SW 41:36 12:10 29:26 2 18 4 Ni'ia Hothersall SW 42:16 13:00 29:16 1 17 5 Kim Creagh W40 42:19 07:50 34:29 5 16 6 Gina Finlayson W35 44:47 07:15 37:32 6 15 Senior and Masters Men - 10.5km Place Athlete Grade Clock Time H'cap Actual Time Fastest Times H'cap Points 1 Michael Lintott M45 1:02:23 03:50 58:33 18 30 2 Matt Somervell SM 1:03:12 15:00 48:12 6 29 3 Eric Speakman SM 1:03:39 27:00 36:39 1 28 4 Lance Pearson M50 1:03:55 12:00 51:55 12 27 5 Ron Middleton M45 1:04:17 18:00 46:17 2 26 6 Mark Walwyn M55 1:04:19 13:00 51:19 11 25 7 Alister Nunn SM 1:04:22 12:00 52:22 13 - 8 Stephen Lindsay M50 1:04:29 17:00 47:29 4 24 9 Eric Phimister M55 1:05:31 17:00 48:31 7 23 10 Christopher Wong M45 1:05:59 13:00 52:59 14 22 11 Karl Iaveta M45 1:06:06 16:00 50:06 9 21 12 John Craven M50 1:06:10 16:00 50:10 10 20 13 Chris Beckman M40 1:06:13 12:00 54:13 15 19 14 Craig Mathers SM 1:06:51 20:00 46:51 3 18 15 Frank Busch M45 1:07:17 18:00 49:17 8 17 16 Glen Bullock M35 1:07:18 12:00 55:18 17 16 17 Evan Ward M55 1:08:37 14:00 54:37 16 15 18 William Kelsey SM 1:09:24 21:30 47:54 5 14 19 Vern Bennett SM 1:11:41 07:50 1:03:51 19 -