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North West Counties Road Relays - Men - Delamere Forest - Men

Open Races

Day - Saturday

Date - 08/09/2018

Distance - 6 Km

Connor McArdle
The North West Road Relays incorporated the county championships of Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria and were hosted by Cheshire County AA at Delamere Forest. The rain poured down all day long, the men's race consisted of four 6.2km legs. Wallasey A.C. had two teams the men's A team finished 17th in 01:27:45, Joe Boden was off first and returned in 20:55, this run being the fifth fastest indivdual run overall for a Merseyside runner, that left the team in eleventh place overall. Rob Pearse was off next and returned in 21:22 losing one place. Greg Jones ran the third leg in 22:32 leaving the team in fifteenth and Connor McArdle ran the anchor leg in 22:56. The A team finished 4th Merseyside team. The B team had Tom Bibby startng proceedings with a 24:38, second was Tom Gillbanks (24:30), follwed by Alex Norton 24:08 and Pete Clarke 23:30. The B team finished in 42nd place and 10th Merseyside team.