Peterborough & Nene Valley AC provided team and age group winners at the Deeping 10k, while other club athletes ran up mountains
Tom North and Holly Haywood of Lincoln Wellington AC were the male and female winners of Sunday's Deeping 10k.
However, the top 10 was dominated by local runners with Peterborough & Nene Valley AC winning both the men's and ladies team prizes.
North won in a time of 33:23 and 2nd place went to Yaxley’s Danny Snipe who crossed the line in 35:02.
Haywood clocked 39:12 to win the ladies race, with Josie Knight of PANVAC 2nd in a time of 40:42. Jennifer Teachey of Werrington Joggers grabbed 3rd place crossing the line in 41:37.
Three PANVAC men made the top 10. John Pike was the first of the trio home finishing 6th in 35:43. Harry Ledger finished 7th 12 seconds further back. Alex Curtis placed 9th with a 36:39 clocking. A fourth PANVAC man, Kai Chilvers, was 16th in 37:31.
Michael Moore of Helpston placed 10th with a time of 36:42, with Yaxley’s Jason Kwan 15th in 37:16. Sam Pepper was the leading Werrington man finishing 17th with a 37:43 clocking.
Gabby Needham of Yaxley was the 5th lady home, crossing the line in 43:17. Thorney’s Grace Randall placed 8th in 44:35 with Elena Olik of Bushfield 9th in 44:49.
PANVAC’s Elisabeth Sennitt Clough was 10th in 45:28 and 1st over 50. Her daughter Rebekah Clough was the first under 20 finishing just two seconds behind in 12th place.
There were several other local age group winners, and PANVAC’s Paul Larkins was the first over 60 in 40:28. Eye’s Keith Stanley clocked 51:22 to finish as the first over 70. Bob Nitsch of Werrington Joggers won the over 75 category in 52:20.
Eye Community Runner Toby Carnaffan won the junior 3km race with a time of 10:22. Werrington’s Sebastian Freeman finished 4th in 11:30.
Monica Stuart of PANVAC was the leading girl with a time of 12:14.Thorney’s Elena Faulkner was runner up in 12:55.
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Bushfield’s Brian Corleys finished 5th in the Fighter 5k at Great Massingham in Norfolk in a time of 16:39.
Nigel Sunman of Eye ran 1:37.04 in the Chester Half Marathon.
Helpston Harrier Tim Bradley finished 10th in the Snowdonia Ultra Trail Race at the weekend.
The event starts and finishes in Llanberis, and the 50km route includes an ascent and descent of Mt Snowdon. It attracts some of the best trail runners in the world, but Bradley was a match for them completing the course in 6:23.13.
Claire Piercey of Yaxley also headed for the mountains finishing as 1st female over 50 in the 25km race at the Keswick Mountain Festival with a time of 3:09.47. Kerry Goymour, also of Yaxley, finished as first over 40 in the Skiddaw Mountain Race at Keswick, covering the 20km course in 2:39.52