A Club night event with a difference.
A relay race for teams of 3 people of different standards, eg a level 1, a level 3 and a level 4 make up a team.
Wednesday 29 June 2022
The infamous Northbrook GBU has been run another year. According to chairman Bob it has been going for 10 years and he is still quick to remind everybody that Steve got lost on the first event. This year 14 brave teams lined up to battle the Hawkes Mill Lane hill. Some runners are seasoned veterans, for others this was their first attempt and some have just joined the club.
The teams went off in small groups as a handicap had been apllied to try and get everybody round in a magic 1 hour 15 minutes and 30 seconds.
In the first Leg for ‘The Golden Guys’ team Albert McCosker had a cracking first run of the GBU course hotly followed by The Good Hawks with Mark Parker and Sarah Mac finished in 3rd for The Spirit Express. All the teams had differing strategies which was fantastic to see.
The top 3 quickly changed for the 2nd leg as Kyle Beddoe came home first for iRobots, followed by Spencer and Mark Dalton as the Good Hawks and Spirit Express swapped places.
The final leg saw Mark Parker out for his second leg as he overtook Spirit express’s Kevin Erne to finish in 3rd place. Glen Guyver-Fletcher blitzed his own expectations as he beat his 5km time by a massive 3 minutes to bring home iRobots into 2nd place. Meanwhile, out of nowhere the Smoking Secret Agents blitzed the field with Chris Archer putting in a huge season’s best 5km time in the 1st leg and Pete Stafford putting a monstrous performance to finish in under 18 minutes around this notorously tough GBU course.
Congratulations to Glen Guyver-Fletcher, Albert McCosker, Jan Watson, Tom Cox and Amy Peters all completing the GBU course for the very first time.
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