Thursday 13 August 2009

NEAR MISS FOR CHRIS


Eryri's Chris Near missed out on the Gladstone 9 course record by a mere 9 seconds on Saturday 8th August when he won the 9m/2800ft event in 1:16:45 with club mate Tim Higginbottom (still feeling the effects of his superb Paddy Buckley record run) 2nd in 1:18:31 with Scott Butterworth making it a clean sweep for Eryri in 3rd in a time of 1:21:12 followed by 4th (1st M/V) Arwel lewis 1:21:19. Other notable Eryri results were: 7th (1st S/W) Andrea Rowlands in a new course record time of 1:24:45. 2nd S/W Ruth Metcalfe 1:30:14. 2nd MV/50 Eilir Evans 1:28:55. 1st MV/60 Don Williams 1:33:23. 2nd MV60 Mike Blake 1:41:42. 3rd S/W Pilar Near 1:50:09 and 3rd MV/60 Emyr Davies 1:53:09.

There were 57 finishers.

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