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MAIDSTONE HALF MARATHON - OCTOBER 2005

Sunday 23rd October saw the challenging and very hilly Maidstone Half Marathon. (thank goodness they didn't hold it in July!!!) Seven of Harvel's elite took up the challenge of taking on some of Kent's finest. PB's from Duracell, Shaggy, Mole and Iron Man plus a fantastic performance from Fish who ran his first Half Marathon dipping under the two hour mark. Maidstone also saw a titanic battle between Popeye and one of our new recruits fireman Steve Dunn (Club name to be Hose-a). After Popeye led for much of the 13 miles, Hose-a gradually reeled (nice pun – Ed) Popeye in and made his move sprinting past him over last 100 metres. However, as the line drew nearer Popeye made once last kick and pipped Hose-a on the line - what drama!!! (Obviously didn't try hard enough over the last 13 miles if they had that much energy at the end - Ed). An excellent club turnout and performance for a local race - well done to everyone who took part!! Results below:-

        125       1:40:46      Popeye
        126       1:40:48      Hose-a
        311       1:57:26      Duracell (PB)
        312       1:57:27      Fish (PB)
        437     2:22:10      Shaggy (PB)
        439     2:22:20      Mole (PB)
        444     2:24:23      Iron Man (PB)
        463     Runners

 Ironman was well happy with his performance at Maidstone managing to run the first 10 miles without stopping in 1:46 (10.5 minutes miles), a PB for that distance.  The last three miles were a killer and the pace dropped to over 12 minutes miles!  Considering he was drinking until 2.30am in the morning and only had a few hours sleep it was not a bad effort!