08/12/2025
Team Blizard Race Report
Once again the results keep coming both thick and fast with another week of excellent results from the Team Blizard community.
What is so impressive week in and out is the rich vein of quality regardless of the distance/surface keeps showing up in the results and it really has been a fantastic year of performances.
To kick off the week we jump for the first of our overseas events and we had an excellent run from one of Coach Tune’s longest serving coached athletes in Brenda King who raced in the Lanzarote 10k and put in a fine performance and is a shining example to us all and placed excellently in the V75 age group category.
Changing surfaces to the cross country saw Romany Tune compete in the Leeds Universities relays at West Park on a very muddy course.
There was a couple of notable shorter races this week over 5k and there were two fine performances from regular training partners to many of you in Matt Whitewood and Lee Davies who both ran well in the Shrewsbury 5k road race.
A little nearer home was the next round of the North Derbyshire No Walk In The Park 5k and a brand new personal best from another coached athlete in Mark Trolley while he was supported by recent lactate threshold tested athlete Wayne Church and Portugal attendee Shaun Johnson both who ran very well.
Always held on the first Sunday in December the ever popular Sheffield race in the Percy Pud 10k took place and there really were far too many of you to name everyone so let’s just say a massive well done to everyone and we hope you enjoy your pudding as it was well earnt!
The final race to report from and one that is turning into a “must do race” because of the incredible times the race produces is the Valencia marathon.
Caistor athlete and showing that it isn’t just other members of the family who are speedy was Nigel Fearn who smashed his marathon personal best.
Coached athlete Shane Grace despite taking a tumble just after half way through the race carried on with his shorts all torn and bloody foot to register a fantastic 2.32hrs at the age of 47 and any other week would have won “ROTW” but he was outdone by his club team mate and fellow coached athlete Elle Warren.
Elle first came to the clinic in January 2022 with the aim of trying to just break 3.00hrs in the coming Edinburgh marathon ( which she just did ) and then has worked so hard over the next few years and it was nothing short of delight when she stopped the clock on Sunday in an impressive 2.48hrs and take the title for this week of “Run of the Week”!
As always many thanks to all those who sent in their results and it really helps us to pull this report together and until next week…..keep training!
