Race Report

What a weekend for our wonderful club; Athletes representing Newquay in a plethora of Marathons as well as an extended half marathon. Not to mention a Sunny Cornish Triathlon.

All of this weekend’s events had an unusual obstacle for our athletes, HEAT. After all those winter training miles getting ready for the spring marathon season, the sun came out and temperatures steadily rose throughout the day for all of our racers. Luckily most came away unscathed but many were not so fortunate with the London and Manchester marathons having to deal with large numbers of dehydrated runners.

London Marathon 2025

This years TCS Marathon was won by Kenyan Sabastian Sawe in an incredible 2:02:27

Tigst Assafa picking up a new world record in 2:15:50 in the women's race.

We had 12 runners competing and completing, in the centrepiece event of the British road running races.

First for Newquay was Matt Murt in a great time of 2:40:58 with our first lady being Rose Harvie in 3:25:01.

As well as these two we had our own ballot entries, our club has a two entry allocation which we hold a ballot for from the unsuccessful applicants, Neill Furlonger, 4:40:25 and Lisa Taper, 4:34:41

Jamie Edwards 2:44:34

Paul Florin-Trifanov 3:00:01

Andy Davis 3:13:18

Martin Davis 4:10:56

Nikki Edwards 4:41:53 PR

Phil Bunt 4:49:17 PR

Jessica Gallienne 5:55:58 PR

Michelle Barriball 6:38:04

Manchester Marathon 2025

There was a proud contingent of Newquay athletes running this years Manchester marathon in aid of the Air Ambulance, Donna Fisher, Dellen Carroll, Sarah Wilkinson and Mandy Watts. Joining them were Sarah Strippel running for Mind and Jonathan Hicks who finished in 5:31:49 running for MS:UK

Donna Fisher 5:07:39 PR

Dellen Carroll 4:41:03 PR

Sarah Strippel 4:07:29 PR

Sarah Wlikinson delayed result

Mandy Watts 4:14:24 PB

New Forest Marathon

Lisa Player opted for a more country feel trail marathon set in the beautiful New Forest. Unfortunately for Lisa, whilst the conditions were favourable, at mile 5 she took a tumble badly bruising her knee and potentially cracking a rib too. Due to the nature of the conditions runners were able to peel off at 13.1 for a Half marathon finishers medal, which tempted many but not Lisa, although this temptation unsettled her, negatively affecting her pace further.

Nevertheless, she soldiered on and completed the race in 4:35:53 which is amazing considering the way the race panned out for her. The prize for the day was one of mental constitution and resilience.

Bodmin Beast Marathon and Beast Half

Part of the Cornish MTRS, Newquay had athletes running both disciplines. First up, the Marathon, starting 45 mins before the ‘half’ at 9am. Will Kivell was our first runner back in 4:24:36 in 11th place with Jason Elliott completing it in 4:54:25 In the big half, which constituted just under 15 miles rather than the usual 13.1, Jonny Calaco led us home in 1:46:05 finishing 5th overall and picking up 1st in his age cat. Our sole lady representative, Jenny Bowden, finished in 3:50:57

10th Neil Carter 1:48:51

76th Peter Allen 2:29:48 2nd in age cat

106th Carl Williams 2:42:39

145th John Beard 2:56:46

176th Des Evans 3:19:59 1st in age cat

Wadebridge Triathlon

Three Newquay athletes packed up their bikes, goggles and running shoes to take part in TRi Series event. Mele Kent took part in the Sprint Tri; 400m swim, 29k bike & 5k run completing it in 1:56:41, (3rd in age cat) with Amy Gregory coming in just a little after her in 2:02:20. Anna Carter took part in the super sprint Tri; 200m swim, 13.6km bike & 2.5k run and completed it in 50:46 finishing 1st in her age cat.

31 fantastic athletes, out doing their best and flying the flag all over the county and country.

Well done to you all, each of you have made the club proud.