NINETEEN DRC athletes were at the DB Max Chilly event at Castle Coombe on Sunday, with six DRC-Tri team were competing the Duathlon, with Nigel Burford showing he has got the multi-discipline bug, coming in first for DRC, placing 6th Supervet in just over 52 minutes.

Paul Breen was next home with Fran Amigoni 3rd finsher for the club. Amigoni was 6th female overall, with a strong ride placing her 5th woman in that discipline and she was 4th senior woman to finish. Teresa Walton was on the podium 3rd in the Supervet60 Category with Annette Heylings 4th. Another great outing for the DRC Tri-Team.

Duathlon Results Run 1 T1 Bike T2 Run 2: Nigel Burford, 33rd ,52:33 (6th supvet) 12:24.4 1:05.9 24:43.8 1:07.0 13:12.0; Paul Breen, 62nd ,55:39, ((27th Sen) 13:13.8 1:24.9 26:27.7 59.8 13:33.4

Francesca Amigoni, 66th, 56:12, (4th SenW) 13:30.8 1:16.6 26:39.0 54.0 13:51.5

Andrew Oborne, 74th, 57:04, (14th vet) 13:30.7 1:15.3 27:10.2 1:07.5 14:00.5

Shane Bond, 110th, 59:28, (21st vet) 14:14.6 2:02.0 25:58.4 1:29.8 15:43.5

Teresa Walton, 225th, 01:11:34, (3rd supvet 60) 17:53.1 1:37.8 32:59.0 1:05.3 17:59.1

Annette Heylings, 252nd, 01:15:24, (4th supvet60) 18:03.0 1:43.7 34:54.7 1:27.8 19:15.0

Nigel Sankey led the thirteen DRC runners home in a time of 40:13, just five seconds ahead of Mark Sprigings, with Margaret Johnson returning to race on the road for the first time since her injury. No change with Johnson despite the layoff, her pacing was exemplary, lap 1, 13:11 lap2, 13.12 and lap 3 13.12, albeit she was seven-tenths of a second slower on her last lap! Ellen Efford and Jude Rugman also showed exemplary pacing with their efforts, with Efford knocking around 90 seconds of her personal best

Results: Chilly10K: Nigel Sankey, 58th , 40:13.6, (43rd Sen); Mark Sprigings, 60th , 40:18.1, (45th Sen); Margaret Johnson, 179th , 44:57.4, (3rd Supvet); Andrew Eades , 327th , 50:32.5, (133rd Sen); Tara Truman, 336th , 51:03.5, (29th Vet); Steve Barnes, 519th , 57:23.9, (23rd Supvet60); Sarah Newall, 524th , 57:35.6, (61st Vet); Sue Carter, 525th , 57:42.7, (11th Supvet60); Adrian Carter, 573rd , 59:30.4, (25th Supvet60); Ellen Efford, 606th , 1:00:26.9, (84th vet); Jude Rugman, 726, 1:07:33.2, (36th Supvet); Steve Rugman, 743, 1:08:38.0, (7th Supvet); Sam Stevens, 778, 1:13:29.8, (138th Sen).

Caroline Jones and Sam Martin headed to the Northern Cotswolds to take part in the Broadway Marathon, Martin’s first marathon.

They were accompanied by another 11 DRC athletes doing the Half. The race starts in Broadway, and the route quickly turns to climb up to Broadway Tower, where runners “enjoy” excellent views of The Vale of Evesham. Then, it crosses to Snowshill and Stanway before reaching half way in Winchcombe. Taking in Sudeley Castle just after the half way mark before taking on the final big hill of the route. After spending a few miles on the escarpment, it's back down the hill to cross the undulating fields from Stanway to Broadway.

The half marathon is the top half of the figure-of-eight, so once you reach Stanway, the big hills are all behind the runners. Marton was over the moon to complete the race.

Jones and Martin took a team approach both finishing on 05 hours and 29 minutes (Strava-time pending results), both very happy with their effort and accomplishment! The half marathon saw a big turnout with Julie Gowing. Louise Biddell, Janet Matthews, Tony Ball, Dave Halford, Kris Rymer, Annie Harris, Catherine Faye,and Immi Testa all lining up for DRC.

Twenty-Seven DRC athletes were out at parkrun in Saturday with a number of members helping ensure Wotton had enough volunteers on the day.

Plenty of DRC parkrun tourists near and far, Darren Carter popped down to Severn Bridge with Nicola Christopher for a new course, Alan and Tania Honey were up at Newby Bridge, Veronica Higgins, Wythenshaw, Julie Frogatt, Panshanger in Hertfordshire but Carl Fivey achieved the most exotic location with a parkrun at Mudjimba Beach in Sunshine Coast near Melbourne.

Four athletes achieved PBs/Course bests, Charlie Palmer with 24:51 at Kingsway, Tania Honey, 37:37, Julie Froggatt, 28:39 and Veronica Higgings 30:16. Matt Hazell Livall ran the quickest of the weekend at Wotton, 20 minutes dead on, just seven seconds ahead of new dad Louis Rummer-Downing. Nigel Burford warming up for his duathlon posted the highest men’s Age Grade of 78.52%. Shona Darley just pipped Alice Lewis for the quickest parkrun for the DRC women, with 24:20 at Kingsway, with Alice running 24:22 at Wotton, walking away with the highest age grading of 78.52%.