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Snowdon Race Results

Thu 4 August 2005 - Ian Taylor

Congratulations to the NI team at The Snowdon Home International at the end of July.

A great performance was put in by Eddie Hanna, especially on the climb, to finish in 24th overall and 16th international in a time of 1:15:45.  Eddies climb took 48:27 but he paid for it a bit on the descent with 27:15 - there were 14 athletes faster than this behind Eddie.

The overall winner was Tim Davies in 1:06:37 in first place at the summit and with fastest descent time of 22:59, beating even the descent time, 23:17 of previous winner Ian Holmes

Second team member was Des Woods in 1:16:10 (27th), improving with every race this year.  He finished less than half a minute behind Eddie but was gaining with his descent in 26:20.  Third was Gary Bailey (39th), less suited to the smooth running of Snowdon compared to the roughness of Flagstaff but nevertheless not far behind with a descent of 26:29 and 1:18:59 overall.  Steve Cunningham had been recovering from various bugs so was unable to demonstrate his full potential, finishing in 64th place overall and a time of 1:24:09.

New team member Clare McKenna finished 6th female international in 1:38:56.  Her climbing, in 1:05:32, was not quite as strong as Alwynnes 1:04:43, but she made up 1:26 on the descent, passing Alwynne on the way.  The latter has perhaps not built up endurance for longer events after being off earlier in the season and finished in 1:39:32.  The third team member, Anne Sandford, did not do justice to her recent performances with a time of 1:48:00, perhaps suffering from races in the European Championship earlier in July and Donard-Commedagh the previous weekend.

We should also congratulate Richard Rodgers on an excellent result in 31st place overall, in 1:16:54 - almost four minutes faster than last year but not quite his best ever.  Nevertheless he did manage to finish 3rd in the vet 40 category, after Mark Roberts and Mark Croasdale, with about 110 vet40s behind him.