Bournemouth AC News - Dorset County Marathon

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Report and results from the Dorset County Marathon

Mike Jordan rolled back a few years and ran his quickest marathon since London in 2004 on the rolling and occasionally hilly terrain. Entering the race in the winter with a sub four hour target, Mike ran over 15 minutes faster getting under 3:45 thanks to a strong final push on the 3k 'finishing straight'.

Mike Hoey crept under three and a half hours. Although that sort of time is usually reserved for the end of an iron man for Mike, he achieved his performance on an average of just 10 miles a week.

Jon Sharkey led the team home ensuring a sub 2:45 clocking having gone through 10k in nearly 40 minutes in a lead group of four runners. Jon and second claim BAC member John Broom upped the pace at eight miles and ran together until beyond 16 miles before a lonely pursuit of the finishing line.

Jon, Mike and Mike were second team on the day. Congratulations to Wimborne whose team was led home by Jerry Shield running his second sub three hour marathon in just one week.

A number of pictures from this race and London can be found on in the photo album section of this web site.

North Dorset Marathon: BAC Results
1 Jon Sharkey 2:44:20, 2 John Broom (running for new first claim club Holmfirth, 2:48:18), 22 Mike Hoey 3:29:00, 35 Mike Jordan 3:43:58.

Andy Jennings blew away some London cobwebs by taking part in Portland's Round The Rock 10k finished third male in a time of 37:34.

More marathon news from last week. Club members Janie Chapman and Graeme Miller both set personal bests. Janie took two minutes off her best running 3:24:19 at London. Graeme Miller ran 3:01:33 in Padova and for someone of his quality the three hour milestone is surely a case of when rather than if.

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