Deal Castle 5-mile 2025 Race
Despite the start to the day with grey sky’s and rain it finished very differently with blue sky’s and sunshine to welcome our 259 runners over the finish line who took part in the 2025 Deal Castle 5-mile race.
We welcomed 10 more Deal Tri members to this years race with some great performances.
Congratulations to the overall winner Toby Smith who also took the club record which was held by Phil Anthony for 20 years in an amazing time of 00:25:35 he was also around 3 minutes faster than his nearest rival. Leading our ladies home for the club was Abbie Kirkham who finished first in age with a time of 00:33:15. Well done also, to Ashley Robert-Moyles who took the male senior price in 00:30:36.
Well done to; Richard Devereux 00:31:49, Mark Baker 00:32:27, Martin O’Grady 00:33:02, Graeme Rawlings 00:33:39, Verity Hodges 00:33:47, Chris Jones 00:33:55, Anita Pollard 00:34:21, Mark Baldock 00:35:33, Katie Hinkins 00:35:44, Stuart Comlay 00:36:37, Andy Stewart 00:36:38, Rich Heath 00:36:57, Ian Haigh 00:36:59, Alena Smith 00:37:01, Jenny Rayment 00:38:04, Tina Barton 00:39:20, Bronwen Lafferty 00:40:30, Samantha Waterhouse 00:40:25, Kev Brown 00:40:58, Nicola Carter 00:41:06, Sally Russell 00:41:20, Gaynor Bunn 00:41:57, Maria Harrington 00:42:25, Lauren Dorling 00:43:26, Martin Thomsett 00:43:40, Helen Hill 00:44:44, David Gill 00:44:54, Malcolm Smith 00:45:23, Bea Phillips 00:47:46, Amy Harrington 00:48:29, Kim Latham 00:50:15, Sharon Taylor 00:51:17, Karen Price 00:52:13, Yisselda Joyce 00:53:08, Jane Povey 00:53:53, Beatrice Fox 00:54:01, Rebecca Simcox 01:05:23 and Jayne Gill 01:05:26 our very own birthday girl celebrating a very special birthday.
Junior 1500m Run
The true stars of this morning events would have to be the 30 juniors who ran the 1500m in somewhat challenging and very wet conditions and most of them crossed the finish line with a great big smile. We had 2 of our juniors racing they were Gryffin Messenger who came 3rd place overall in 00:06:31 and Macy Godden was 4th overall and winning the 9/10yrs category in 00:06:34.
Full Results
https://live.sportsystems.co.uk/results.aspx?CId=20246&RId=12276
I would like to take this opportunity in thanking all our wonderful marshals without you the race would not have been able to take place. Thanks also, to all that helped with setting up in the rain and taking down in the sunshine!
Thanks to, Kate and her amazing team at Hut 55 for supplying us all with hot drinks again this year. To our man on the mike Kevin Daly with his fabulous race commentary, Margate Ambulance and of course to the Sea Scouts for the use of their hall. Last but not least to my man with a van Simon Read and Gloria Riley for the support they both gave me…