St Pirans day was celebrated by 155 runners taking part in the 5-Tors Moorland Race. This is a well organised race put on annually by the Common Moor Village Group, there was a new venue this year with the race starting and finishing near the Hurlers at Minions, and Lisa and Nigel Drew of Minions Post Office kindly gave up their tea room for the registration and prize giving.
The route followed the same testing course over five tors of Bodmin moor. The weather was perfect for the runners this year, but the recent rain made the going quite tough in places. The winner of the event was Phil Pollard in a time of 1:06. Second was Nigel Jenkins, from Dartmoor Runners, in 1:07:40, and third was N Ratcliffe, from Falmouth Road Runners, in a time of 1:09:02. The first lady back was Jacky Tyler, from East Cornwall Harriers, in a time of 1:24:15, second was Jennifer Mills from Bideford AC in 1:28:22, and Jess Hoskins, also from ECH, finished in third place in a time 1:29:57. The third member of the ECH ladies team, Jenny Nash finished in fourth in 1:31:23.
In the veterans categories; H Marsden won won the male 040, 045 Keith Rolphe (ECH) 1:22:04, 050 Pat Lockett (NqRR) 1:17:10. Female vets; 035 Jenny Nash, 040 Jacky Tyler, 045 Jennifer Mills.
Newquay Road Runners won the male team trophy with Raymond Rogers 1:09:23 (4), Nigel Doyle 1:12:04 (6) and Tony Wright 1:12:46 (8). ECH retained the ladies team trophy with Jacky Tyler, Jess Hoskins and Jenny Nash.
Other ECH; Mark Andrews 1:24:39, Bill Muller 1:24:39, A Cord 1:26:17, Alan Smith 1:26:37, Rob Pick 1:28:01, Anton Luiton 1:28:17, Len White 1:28:43, Jan Riley 1:37:34.
Tamar Trotters; D Waterhouse 1:15:09, P Browne 1:34:31, Pat Penney 1:40:29, J Bremmer 1:42:28.
On Sunday 12th March it's the Lux Park 1/2 Marathon and 20 mile race. Registration is at Lux Park Leisure Centre, the race starts at 10.30am. If you are training for the London Marathon come and test your fittest with one of these races.