Will Whitmore

A busy, cold and blustery Easter weekend of races saw 21 Avon Valley Runners take part in eight different events.

First up on Good Friday, four runners travelled to Maidenhead to take part in the Maidenhead Easter 10.

First back for AVR was Chris Atkinson, in a new personal best time of 1:05:06 for ten miles, followed by Danny Gard in 1:09:30, then Ali Atkinson with a personal best time of 1:16:33 and Liz Gard in 1:27:37.

On Easter Sunday, three Avon Valley Runners took on the gruelling off-road Hanham Horror near Bristol. Tina Vivian finished second in the female veteran 50 category in 1:01:24, followed by Anthony Hickson in 1:07:14 and Denise Ellis in 1:14:48.

On the same day, Tony Griffith ran the Joe Cox half-marathon in 2:23:37 and James Hart added cycling to his running at the Goodwood Duathlon with a 4k run, 40k bike and 8k run race.

Hart finished in sixth place overall with the second fastest bike leg of the day, despite the atrocious weather conditions.

Will Whitmore also opted for duathlon, making the trip to West Sussex for the Steyning Duathlon and doing enough to qualify for the European Duathlon Championships in Greece in May.

The Easter Bunny 10k at Yeovil proved to be the most popular race of the weekend, with 15 AVR members making the journey to Somerset to compete.

Kevin Sparey finished 22nd overall in 36:20 and Vojtech Hadju was just behind in 36:52. Carl Davies finished 39th in a new personal best time of 38:06 and Chris Atkinson completed a hat-trick of personal best in just a week, adding his new 10k time of 38:34 to his Bath half-marathon and Maidenhead 10 mile personal bests.

Rosemary Barber also ran well to take first place in the FV55 category in 46:47.

Other finishers for Avon Valley Runners were:

38th Tom Frost 38:01, 48th Peter Bryant 38:34, 55th Chris Stevens 39:08, 92nd Danny Gard 41:03,148th Melanie Nicholls 44:03, 173rd Andrew Hoddinott 45:17, 186th Ali Atkinson 46:06, 209th Kay Middleton 47:22, 261st Anthony Hickson 50:43 and 272nd Liz Gard 51:14.

9:00am Friday 28th March 2008

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