3rd Jack Fitzgerald Memorial Walks Tilgate Park, Crawley, 13 June 2015
Veterans AC 10.325km road and supporting race
Veterans AC were pleased to host the third running of this event on a lakeside course once used as the test bed for Britain's
water speed record round popular beauty spot Campbell's lake with mostly cloud cover and little wind.
Times were a little down on the previous year, however in the longer 10.325 km event 2014 overall and men's winner
Malcolm Martin from Surrey Walking Club maintained his position, and Penelope Cummings from AFD improved her 2013
position to female winner and second overall.
For VAC veteran supervet Arthur Thomson of Enfield led the way with a time very little over that of Richard Emsley in third
place.
On the shorter event of 5.9 km the Young Athletes Group appeared for the first time, and once again the day appeared to
belong to AFD, as in the shorter race brothers Tim & Chris Snook had a joint win with a huge margin over any competition.
The ladies' race was comfortably won by experienced triathlete Joan Lennon, who had won the longer race in 2013.
5.9 km [5 km times for juniors in brackets]
1. = T. Snook (AFD U20M) 28 min 43 sec [24 mins 5 secs]
1. = C. Snook (AFD U17M) 28 min 43 sec [24 mins 5 secs]
3. K. Pedley (AFD M60) 35 min 41 sec [30 mins 20 secs]
4. O. Hopkins (Lewes U17M) 35 min 56 sec [30 mins 20 secs]
5. Joan Lennon (Steyning W55) 36 min 45 sec
6. Abigail Jennings (AFD U17W) 37 min 8 sec [31 mins 30 secs]
7. D. Stevens (Steyning M75) 45 min 20 sec
8. D. Sutcliffe (Steyning M80) 50 min 49 sec
10.325 km
1. M. Martin (Sy WC M60) 58 min 10 sec
2. Penelope Cummings (AFD W35) 61 min 56 sec
3. R. Emsley (unattached M60) 1 hr 4 min 3 sec
4. C. Cobo Corrales (SWC M35) 1 hr 4 min 33 sec
5. A. Thomson (E&H M75) 1 hr 6 min 33 sec
6. D. Maskell (Sy WC M65) 1 hr 6 min 56 sec
7. S. Lightman (Sy WC M70) 1 hr 7 min 51 sec
8. S. Pender (E&H M60) 1 hr 12 min 53 sec
9. D. Hoben (Sy WC M60) 1 hr 15 min 14 sec
10. D. Delaney (Sy WC M70) 1 hr 15 min 21 sec
11. M. Ford Dunn (Steyning M70) 1 hr 20 min 39 sec
DNF P. Hannell (Sy WC M70)