Honiton Running Club’s annual trip was to Salisbury this year to take part in a series of races organised by Tri-Counties Trail Running, with three different distance races on offer.

First off was the Marathon, which was won by Mara Malt in 3 hours 42 minutes and 2nd was HRC’s Kevin Hawker in 3:55. HRC’s Steve Page was 3rd male and 4th overall finishing in 4:01. Johnny Bennett came 6th in 4:15 and first lady back for HRC and 4th lady overall was Rebecca Stevens in 15th place in 5:01. Will Davies followed coming 18th in 5:03 and Gareth Henwood, who had completed an Ultra-marathon in Nice the previous weekend, came 19th in 5:05.

Next to set off were the Half Marathon runners. This race was won by Stuart Ashford in 1:38 and first back for HRC was Nick Couch who came 8th in 1:57. He was followed by Russ Kingdon who came 2 places and 2 minutes later. Tim Pepper had a great race coming 11th in 2:01 and Judy Davey was the first lady back for HRC coming 4th lady overall in 15th place. She finished in 2:08.

Unfortunately, Esme Moffett tripped up and fell hurting her knee very badly, which resulted in a trip to hospital by ambulance. Team-mates Louise Bennett and Anna Drake stopped to help, so sadly none of them actually finished the race.

Other Half Marathon HRC runners: 20th Rachel Hennessey 2:17, 21st Martin Killick 2:19, 23rd Jennie Sleeman 2:19 (3 seconds after Martin), 24th Richard Jarman 2:23, 32nd Sarah Ryerson 2:43 , 35th Sarah Yates 2:51 and finishing together in 42nd place in 3:16 were Helen Williams, Tina Duckitt and Victoria Henwood.

Half an hour later, the 10k runners were released and the winner was Shaun Mochan in 44:19. First back for HRC was Roger Saunders who came 19th in 1:04. Jo Buxton and Howard Bidmead had run together and finished 32nd in 1:11. They were followed just a few seconds later by Steve George in 38th place and Sally Bowey in 39th place.

Other HRC 10k runners: 41st Sue Jones 1:13, 45th Sarah Quick 1:16, 47th Sammy Chaffey and George Oldfield 1:16, 66th Kathy Layzell 1:23 and running in together in 69th place were Asilah Jarrald and Becky Tydd in 1:26.