Race Date: 26 Dec 2020 -13 Jan 2021
At a time when traditional road relays aren’t possible owing to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, England Athletics hosted an exciting free-to-enter virtual road relay running competition, to give runners and clubs from across the country the chance to compete against each other with the finalists getting an opportunity to represent England in a battle against the cream of the other Home Countries. Traditionally, road relays have been the bastion of the top-end of running club, with each club having to name their runners to compete on the day, however the virtual competition allowed everyone to have a go at beating their 5-mile PB in the hope of helping their club through to the next round.
The Virtual Road Relay Competition 2020/21 takes place in three rounds with each round open for a number of days in order to give flexibility to runners to complete their runs. The first qualifying round was open from Boxing Day 2020 through to Wednesday 13th January, and was open to all England Athletics registered runners representing their first-claim club.
Clubs were allowed an uncapped number of runners with the overall result calculated by the times of their fastest four men and four women, and the 50 fastest clubs from this round progress to the next round, from which an overall winner will progress to the International Round (Round 3) – gaining the chance to pull on England kit and compete for the title against teams from the other Home Nations.
A massive total of 53 Striders signed up and attempted a 5-mile route, spurring the club on to finish in 34th place in the round and progressing to the next round. The full list of Striders times are given below, with the eight scoring times in bold. Well done to each and every one of you for lacing up and giving it you all for the club – it really is appreciated by the whole of the Striders community that we can turn out in such great numbers to represent the green and gold.
Full results from Round 1 can be found here.
Place |
Name |
Cat |
Cat Pos |
Result |
221 |
Luke TIPPING |
SM |
129 |
27:58.00 |
251 |
Ben JONES |
SM |
144 |
28:12.00 |
257 |
Ashley CROW |
SM |
148 |
28:18.00 |
263 |
Sam BROWN |
SM |
149 |
28:21.00 |
534 |
Richard PEARSON |
SM |
227 |
30:04.00 |
544 |
Abbie PEARSE |
SW |
23 |
30:07.00 |
618 |
Sam NEEDHAM |
M35 |
92 |
30:33.00 |
649 |
Caroline BROCK |
W35 |
5 |
30:44.00 |
765 |
Louis WOOD |
M40 |
108 |
31:27.00 |
846 |
Alex SHEPHERD |
M50 |
38 |
31:56.00 |
898 |
Seth KIRBY |
SM |
285 |
32:15.00 |
909 |
Malcolm BAGGALEY |
M35 |
129 |
32:20.00 |
946 |
Paul JOHNSON |
M40 |
123 |
32:36.00 |
961 |
Tom BASSINDALE |
M45 |
96 |
32:43.00 |
1002 |
Darren BARNETT |
M45 |
102 |
33:05.00 |
1010 |
Warren BROWN |
M50 |
48 |
33:09.00 |
1107 |
Neil SCHOFIELD |
M50 |
61 |
33:44.00 |
1112 |
Frances ROBERTS |
SW |
113 |
33:45.00 |
1130 |
Rachel THORLEY |
SW |
114 |
33:53.00 |
1138 |
James HOGG |
M35 |
150 |
33:55.00 |
1169 |
Jonathan LEGON |
M55 |
24 |
34:06.00 |
1232 |
Gemma WALLACE |
SW |
132 |
34:29.00 |
1248 |
Stephen SCHUBELER |
M35 |
159 |
34:33.00 |
1257 |
Sergei SHKUL |
M40 |
148 |
34:37.00 |
1315 |
Peter MCCOY |
M40 |
153 |
34:59.00 |
1367 |
Robin NELSON |
M45 |
143 |
35:25.00 |
1512 |
Adam MCAULEY |
M50 |
89 |
36:33.00 |
1574 |
Russell STEVENSON |
M45 |
170 |
37:02.00 |
1587 |
Jeni HARVEY |
W35 |
68 |
37:08.00 |
1604 |
Jacqui HERRING |
W45 |
58 |
37:18.00 |
1611 |
Richard PEGG |
M60 |
18 |
37:22.00 |
1649 |
Jim DANSON |
M40 |
174 |
37:42.00 |
1651 |
Peter BROWN |
M60 |
21 |
37:43.00 |
1741 |
Charlotte CIVICO |
SW |
199 |
38:47.00 |
1863 |
David BOCKING |
M55 |
55 |
40:05.00 |
1879 |
Letitia HANCOCK |
SW |
212 |
40:14.00 |
1894 |
Ryan TALLEY |
M50 |
114 |
40:31.00 |
1948 |
Catherine MCKEOWN |
W50 |
50 |
41:11.00 |
1966 |
Christopher SMITH |
M45 |
202 |
41:26.00 |
1998 |
Jemma ANDERSON |
W35 |
99 |
41:55.00 |
2003 |
Tim HOLT |
M40 |
191 |
41:57.00 |
2110 |
Peter BRASH |
M50 |
121 |
43:43.00 |
2113 |
Laura RANGELEY |
SW |
243 |
43:44.00 |
2154 |
Christine BOOTH |
W45 |
134 |
44:31.00 |
2157 |
Sarah PERCIVAL |
W40 |
144 |
44:34.00 |
2185 |
Zoe DICKINSON |
W45 |
139 |
45:06.00 |
2249 |
Caroline BRASH |
W45 |
148 |
46:27.00 |
2290 |
Catherine NEEDHAM |
W35 |
129 |
47:24.00 |
2293 |
Corinne HOWSE |
W45 |
152 |
47:31.00 |
2295 |
Nancy STUART |
W40 |
166 |
47:35.00 |
2302 |
Vikki MCAULEY |
W50 |
78 |
47:42.00 |
2345 |
Stuart JONES |
M60 |
54 |
49:06.00 |
2449 |
Gary ROCHE |
M50 |
140 |
1:01:36.00 |