28th July 2002

While a number of the club were watching a marathon in the Manchester Commonwealth Games, a few poor souls were running one in Woodbridge.

It seems like a curse for those who run this race.  You wait all year for a nice summer hot day and when it turns up, you are doomed to a run around the hilly Woodbridge 2.5k course in temperatures of between 28 - 30^oC.  Wow it was hot and it certainly affected many peoples times.  Did anyone else get home to find their back a bronzed salmon colour..?

We only managed to get a single men's team put together from all running abilities.  Certainly it wasn't looking good for us when we first started being low down in the pecking order.  However the team effort pulled through together with a few good performances and we worked our way back up the league ending 8th overall and 7th in the Men's Open category out of 14 teams.

Given all the factors, it was a very pleasing result.  However, it still amazes me that club runners like Nick, Colin & Malcolm can run faster individually than our team overall finishing time of 2hours 59minutes & 24seconds. 

The Stowmarket Striders results are:-

8th overall out of 32 teams [7th in Men's Open out of 14 teams]