SANTA POLA HALF MARATHON

Four members of Running Wild A.C. braved the extreme windy conditions to join the 7,000 plus entrants at this year´s annual event.

The Club´s present youngest competitor, Helen Giles (Vet A, Over 35 category) was well pleased to achieve a “pb” with 2hrs. 01´ 18” following a recent good spell of distance training.

Newcomer, Craig James (Vet B) completed the 21.1 K course in 2hrs. 13´ 29”, while Julia Skinner (Vet C) was only 61 secs. behind him.

Vet E, Helen Mitford, one of the Club´s quicker lady runners, had failed to recover from recent health problems & subsequently took just over 2hrs. 20mins. to finish. She hopes to be back to strength for the Torrevieja race in 5 weeks´ time.

Jim Gavin, was unable to run in Santa Pola, due to a thigh-strain but attended as support and hopes to resume training shortly in order to compete along with Helen Giles, Julia Skinner, Howard Bednall & Ingrid Patursson at the prestigious Paris Marathon in April.

The Club also hopes for a good turn-out for both the 10K & the Half Marathon, jointly run events in Torrevieja on 24th. February.