By Rob | May 10, 2012
Sixteen Sphinx AC runners (plus Martin Judge) ran this popular opener to this season’s East Midlands Grand Prix series, with Ashley Miles and Andrejs Blakunovs both taking their respective category prizes.
Official results are here:
mcs.open.ac.uk/mkac/12emgpsilverall.htm
Pos GPos CPos No. Name Cat Gun Club Chip Chip Chip5k Gun5k
10 10 1 1249 Ashley Miles M40 34:14 Sphinx 10 34:13 16:56 16:57 (Category winner)
32 32 23 1228 Alex Keenan MS 36:26 Sphinx 32 36:23 17:41 17:44
36 36 7 1233 Justin Smith M40 36:58 Sphinx 36 36:56 17:45 17:48
78 77 1 1272 Andrejs Blakunovs M20 38:29 Sphinx 78 38:26 18:32 18:34 (Category winner)
81 80 48 1231 Andy Wilkinson MS 38:36 Sphinx 83 38:33 18:38 18:42
199 186 11 1285 Kevin Naughton M55 42:06 Sphinx 200 42:04 20:30 20:33
242 222 18 122 Mitch Timms M50 43:17 Sphinx 243 43:12 21:05 21:10
258 237 108 1147 Martin Judge MS 43:41 Massey 262 43:38 21:39 21:42 *
332 300 136 1226 Wayne Broadbent MS 45:22 Sphinx 339 45:17 22:03 22:08
410 365 167 1266 Quentin Henry MS 47:12 Sphinx 412 46:56 23:34 23:49
543 474 89 1176 Charlie Foster M40 49:49 Sphinx 545 49:39 24:23 24:33
619 530 79 1262 Peter Morgan M45 51:21 Sphinx 623 51:11 24:52 25:02
680 104 37 1211 Laura Pibworth FS 52:41 Sphinx 688 52:31 25:29 25:39 (PB)
699 110 17 435 Mary Bench F45 53:08 Sphinx 699 52:51 25:55 26:13 (PB)
798 154 53 723 Darina Brejtrova FS 55:42 Sphinx 803 55:33 27:21 27:30
820 163 28 246 Julie Cozens F45 56:33 Sphinx 824 56:23 27:14 27:23
1030 267 56 1261 Janine Miles F35 65:18 Sphinx 1032 65:03 30:47 31:02
* Martin’s first-claim club is Massey but he trains with Sphinx
Mitch Timms provided this narrative:
The first EMGP event of the season and, as usual, the most popular, saw 16 Sphinx runners take on the home of British motor-racing. Definitely a night for ‘slicks’ with a damp circuit, but fortunately the rain held off for the event itself. Windy on the back-straight and a deceptive climb back to the pits where the race started and finished. PB’s were scarce (even Justin didn’t get one!) as disappointingly the Garmins were unanimous in their display of a course 10.1+ kilometres in length. Well done to Laura Pibworth and Mary Bench though, both confirming their PBs (and apologies if there were others). Congratulations to Ashley Miles (first old git) and to Andrejs Blakunovs, first new kid on the block, hopefully the start of things to come as the series progresses. Final thanks to all the drivers on the night who encountered horrendous conditions on the journey back and apologies for the navigational disaster en route. Rugby 6 next Wednesday, Bring it on!
George Wilkinson (Janine’s dad) took lots and lots of photos. This page will be updated when they’re available.