Mounts Bay Harriers

An early start for us this week as a trip to Saltash for the 11th running of the vey hilly Mag 7 - 7 miles of ‘undulating’ (you’re ‘aving a laugh!) through and around the country road of Saltash. It was pretty warm and humid as 17 Harriers met at Saltash Rugby club and prepared for the off.
We were missing Zoe, who we think went to a kick boxing thing? and Helen K who had transport problems? but to the rescue came Richard B who managed to blag an entry on Friday!
A group photo was at first gate crashed by an over enthusiastic St Austell chappy! funny moment was he was trying to stand at the back unnoticed when one of our clan spotted him - a swift double back creeping up behind him saw his running shorts suddenly end up around his ankles! He’ll be looking behind him next time he tries that one!

At the end of the day a Big Well Done to all Harriers who competed today in what were very warm and humid conditions, not to mention those bloody hills!!

402 runners in total - fantastic runs from everyone (apart from me and Sam! 2 cripples together!)

Age group placings for Mike Robinson 3rd male under 40 (5th overall) and a fantastic return to form for Rachel Tresidder, 2nd in the under 35 females, Mhairi in 4th, Andrew just missed out with a 4th in the 45-49 as did Clive, also a 4th in the 65-69. Tammy smashed her PB by over 5 minutes for this course, Richard Savage is running like a hero at the moment and I’m wandering what Jason would have done if he didn’t get in till 3am after drinking those pink cocktails only hours before the start - I think everyone managed some sort of sprint finish! so the training is paying off Viv!

Brilliant Day out - nice technical T and Unique medal, chocolate and drink, all for a tenner - can’t be bad

Big Thanks to Dean, Rachels hubby, for taking the photos) you can see them on the MBH Facebook pages

and Mhairi makes the best raspberry cake - Clive says so (he did have 5 pieces just make sure!)

Didn’t you just feel for that bloke who ran it in full gorilla suit including full mask / head!! looney

PLACE TIME NAME
5 00:42:30 ROBINSON, Michael
28 00:46:11 WALKER, Jason
30 00:46:17 HICKSON, Andrew
33 00:46:28 SAVAGE, Rich
60 00:49:24 TRESIDDER, Rachel
71 00:50:22 SAVILLE, Mhairi
87 00:51:30 MATTHEWS, Ian
98 00:51:59 PERKIN, Sam
186 00:57:47 ANGOVE, Paul
202 00:58:56 BOUCHER, Richard
207 00:59:10 MCCLAY, Karen
227 01:00:23 HIBBERT, Clive
238 01:01:21 MCNEVIN, Philip
250 01:02:01 ROSEWALL, Tammy
254 01:02:16 MARSTON, David
335 01:10:55 MATTHEWS, Susan
343 01:11:43 WATKINS, Yvonne

As for team placings we didn’t finish in the top 3 on the day, as there were a couple of Devon teams which won’t feature in the Cornish GP placings - but one thing I know for sure is both mens and ladies teams were in front of our local nearest rivals Hayle :-)

Full results here

I’ll start this as best I can but will probably go in note form as I got a plane to catch!

Anybody remember this – ‘yeh, that’s a good idea, let’s do a club trip in 2010?’ When I came back last year with Phil and Sam, telling everyone about the 2009 event, I was to tell everyone when entries opened and we were going to take a group – well, what happened? I was the only MBH entered!

Read the rest of Ian’s exploits HERE

We’ve been invited to enter the Devon League Athletics meeting, there’s something for everyone, minimum age is 8 years on day of event.
Please click the link below or contact Kevin for more details, returns to Kevin required by Friday 21st at the latest.

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Well…………….interesting! I didn’t intend on doing this race at all, I’m personally not a big fan of ‘off road’ races due to having really week ankles and turning them even a little hurts like hell. Having realised that 70.3 is now only 6 weeks away and I’ve done very little cycling I hatched a plan to cycle the 32 miles to Holywell Bay and cheer on the MBH contingent as my legs were still feeling a bit tired after London.
I gave myself a good 2 hours to get there but I didn’t take account of the ‘in yer face’ wind all the way from Penzance and arrived with only moments to spare, meeting up with the others inside registration we had a number spare! (that’s gonna cost you Mr Boucher!) and having packed my shirt, vest and trainers I thought why not - I’ll just trot around to get the T shirt (my original plan was to watch the start, do a gentle 5, and get back for the finish)
Lining up I sort of felt kind of itchy to get going, I haven’t felt that in a long time (since Jamie put that powder in my shorts!) and still really peeved at not hitting that 3.15 at London -
A quick blast of the hooter and off we went…………….

The first mile or so was very deceptive as it seemed to weeve it’s way through the holiday park on nice grass tracks that had been cut to follow the course but soon it was out onto the coastal path / dunes, even so I felt OK, catching Ricky Hitchens from Newquay, who shouted a warning - something like ‘be careful, save some as it’ll bite you in the ass in a minute!
Then…….hill after hill, some big, some small, but you always had to keep an eye on the floor because of all the rabbit holes and the strange camber you had to run at.
Over a narrow bridge presented a massive steep incline, where even ‘close to front’ runners were having to walk. Along the cliff paths and down onto the beach! yes sandy beach, even with a couple of rivers to jump / run through (I did my best to jump ‘em as had a new pair of trainers on)
on the 7 mile point I managed to catch Anthony Burrows and Craig from HRR and congratulated them again on their London times, next was Doug from St Austell - all 3 had done sub 3.15 at London - I obviously hadn’t pushed myself hard enough in the capital! The last 2 miles were spent chasing my old school buddy Jimmy (also from Hayle, how’d he end up in the AG below me?!?) but to no avail as he came into the finish about 50 metres ahead.
I thought the finish came up pretty unexpected but was a greatful sight. Lots of Powerade to be had at the finish and a nice red T shirt - One hiccup however was unfortunately the marshals at the end of the race decided to go walkabout apparently, so poor Mr Toher, who was leading, carried on when he should have been directed to turn left!! giving Pete Ellis his second win in 2 weeks in 1.00.24 - bad luck Kevin!
So how’d we do?  there were a total of 313 finishers
Fantastic runs from everyone on very hard and difficult technical course -
Clive running in his first race as a 65 year old (now officially a full time athlete) came an impressive 2nd in his age group with Dave Austin 3rd, the ever improving Mhairi is going from strength to strength and overhauled Rachel (6th in AG) to take the under 35 4th place, and of course Nancy who, once again, ran a great race to finish 2nd female vet over 40 (only 4 seconds behind winner Sharon Daw) Thea Barlow, suffering with a calf injury, an amazing 5th in AG, Laura Shaw 4th and Liz Prady 7th in AG

35 1:12:37 MATTHEWS, Ian

46 1:13:55 PERKIN, Sam

47 1:13:56 SAVAGE, Rich

55 1:14:31 HILL, Nancy

58 1:14:40 HOLDEN, Charlie

77 1:16:39 RICHARDS, Steven (PB)

79 1:16:53 SAVILLE, Mhairi

92 1:17:44 TRESIDDER, Rachel

115 1:22:16 HOOPER, Paul

141 1:25:35 KANE, Duncan

151 1:26:55 ANGOVE, Paul

169 1:28:51 HIBBERT, Clive

175 1:29:15 AUSTIN, David

176 1:29:27 BARLOW, Thea

182 1:30:42 MCNEVIN, Philip

203 1:34:06 SQUIRE, Mark

211 1:34:27 SHAW, Laura

219 1:35:28 CLARKE, Joanne

247 1:40:12 PRADY, Liz

273 1:47:57 SQUIRE, Helen

Download full results HERE

Next GP race Cubert 5 TUESDAY 8 JUNE - but don’t forget our aquathlons kicking off at The Jubilee Pool - the first of the 5 on SATURDAY 29 MAY

I am looking for marshals to cover 9am-6pm on friday 21st and Sat 22nd May, for the forthcoming powerboat weekend in Penzance. Even if people can only cover a few hours then that would be great - I totally understand that this is last minute and that there are other fixtures on! Unfortunately, the person who was meant to be arranging this has only just informed the group that they haven’t!

I am looking for 12 people each day, 6 groups of two, so if people want to be paired with a friend then that is fine!

If anyone can help then they can either call me on 07967 614096 or pop into The Green Bean Coffee Company on Market Jew Street.

Thanks again for all your help!

Pheona Lowell