ERRA Women’s National 6-Stage Road Relay, Sutton Park

Belles in the top ten at Sutton Park

It was a successful day for the Belles in Sutton Park as we ended up fourth Southern team and tenth overall in our second best ever time.

Birhan Dagne impressively came home third on the opening stage, her 16:23 being our best ever for the circuit apart from her own 16:19 in 2002. Great running followed from Vicky Clarke who was soon past Shaftesbury, dropping away dramatically on this stage, but was then overtaken by Winchester.

Sarah Gailey had the unenviable job of taking over for the third stage while in the frame – and not surprisingly had to give way – but we were still in the top ten and Tilly Heaton, Juliette Clark and Catherine Bryson kept us at this level to the end. Catherine became our third fastest ever for the course with a time a full minute faster than her previous best.

Belgrave: B Dagne (3) 16:23; V Clarke (3) 17:47; S Gailey (9) 19:04; M Heaton (10) 18:18; J Clark (10) 18:27; C Bryson (10) 17:16.

Teams: 1 Charnwood AC 1:41:14; 2 Aldershot F&DAC 1:41:23; 3 Chester-le-Street &D 1:41:56; 4 Winchester &DAC 1:42:18; 5 Leeds City AC 1:45:04; 6 Bingley H&AC 1:45:11; 7 Bristol &WAC 1:45:37; 8 Windsor SE&H 1:45:40; 9 Telford AC 1:46:24; 10 Belgrave H 1:47:15; … 56 teams started; 45 teams finished.

Fastest legs (2.995 miles): 1 S Twell (Aldershot F&DAC) 15:57; 2 S Morris (Windsor SE&H) 15:58; 3 H Yelling (Windsor SE&H) 16:05; 4= S Bush (Aldershot F&DAC) and J Potter (Charnwood) 16:10; 6 S Murray (Chester-le-Street) 16:15 ... 9 B Dagne (Belgrave H) 16:23.

Restored from the club's earlier website, belgraveharriers.com, and published here as originally written.