James Mee and Stuart King led the way to make it a Heanor RC 1-2 at the Worksop Half Marathon this weekend.

James carried on his great run of form to take the victory – and Nottinghamshire Half Marathon title – by over two minutes in 69:01, just half a minute off his best set last month at the Robin Hood Half.

Stuart, more used to three and three quarter laps of the track rather than 13.1 miles, followed up his 10k PB in Yorkshire last month by finishing second in a new PB of 71:36.

In the penultimate club championship event of the year, with only the November Dave Denton 5k and 1 mile double-header to come, ten others picked up valuable points and some still clocked PBs.

Two of those PBs came from Paul Harpham, who finished 84^th in 1:25:30, and Paul Mercer, who ran 1:38:52 on the undulating course just seven days on from the Valencia Half Marathon.

Also in action just a week after the sunshine in Spain was the HRC women’s trio of Lizzie Poole (1:45:54), Jo Potter (1:54:42) – who both ran quicker than last weekend – and Rose Leivers (1:58:03).

Ashley Deeming (1:26:01), Andy Marriott (1:30:14), Dominic Beresford (1:31:42) – in his second-coming in the yellow and blue – Paul Winfield (1:39:44) and Jeff Everitt (1:45:54) completed the team’s efforts.

Out of a total of 235 runners, four Heanor RC juniors put in top efforts in the fun run. Lily Winfield and Danielle Smith repeated James and Stuart’s feat in the main race by making it a yellow and blue 1-2 in the girls’ race with Phoebe Winfield also crossing the line 101^st. Dylan George crossed the line a super 7^th.

Full results

Just twenty four hours before, the HRC juniors were in action in the first Derbyshire Cross Country Mini League fixture of the season at Tupton.

Phoebe Winfield and Abbie Deeming finished 16^th and 20^th respectively in the U11G event whilst Lily Winfield followed up her fourth place last weekend in the North Midlands XC League with 2^nd place this weekend in the U13G event.

Dylan George finished 4^th in the U13B race as two of our junior girls finished inside the top-4 in the U15G race. Danielle Smith won the race impressively as Emily Deeming came home fourth.