REPORT ON THE 2008 BMAF
This excellently
organised marathon, gave our masters a really warm Welsh welcome.
In return our masters
gave the organisers the bonus of a higher quality field.
As at Hexham the previous
week, the undulating course would not be conducive to British Best attempts.
This did not stop prolific road racer Dennis Walmsley (Bourton Road Runners). He broke the
existing course record in a time of 2hrs.39mins.07secs. His closest competitor, also in the same age
group o/45 was newly joined member, Dave Walmsley (not related) in a time of
2hrs.46mins.10secs. There was a great battle between o/50 Doug Brisco (Andover
A.C.) and o/55 Philip Johnson (Cleethorpes AC.) with just 1min-27secs between
them. Both had the satisfaction of taking Gold in their age groups for their
efforts though.
Course records were
not exclusive to the male section, Angie Sadler (Tewksbury AC) got into the
act, breaking the women’s course record in a time of 3hrs.10mins.27secs whilst
winning the o/45 section.
I would like to extend
my thanks, on behalf of the BMAF, to Menter Mon at
Mel James. Road Race Secretary.