The Darlington Harriers annual Pitstop 10K took place last Wednesday evening at the Croft Racing Circuit.
This event was ably supported by Darlington Building Sociaty and Darlington Up&Running.
A record 167 Runners made the effort to get to the race track for the 7:30pm start, the weather remained bright and clear for the race with a late burst of rain and thunder to signal a end to the race just as the last two runners crossed the line !
Very early racing from the eventual first and second placed men, James Askew and the evergreen Terry Wall opened a 3 minute gap on Scotland International Lady Rosie Smith , with the next group of men some 75 secs down on Rosie who was running a strong but lonely race in 3rd position.
James Askew is a junior man who's last 3 years running as a junior have placed him in the top 5 of all the local 10k events, this year will be very differant for the young man, as he demonstrated on lap-2 of the race by passing Terry Wall and pulling away steadly to open up a 10 second gap: great front running kept this gap until he crossed the line some 32mins and 35secs after the starters whistle.
Rosie had a lonely night of racing but finished 3rd overall in an excellant time of 35.08 some 70 seconds ahead of 4th man home Gareth Wilson from the North York Moors Posse'.
1st Ladies Team went to a very strong turn-out from the local Darlington Quakers, with the Mens team result seeing a keen North York Moors AC team take the honours.
Speaking with the event director Ian Barnes the Darlington Harriers Chairman, Ian expressed his pleasure at the number of athletes supporting the event, and the distance that some of the runners had traveled, with Sunderland and Whitby being the furthest locations that runner had a trip back home to.
Mic Doughty
Manager, Up&Running Darlington
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