Local record holders, Richard Bartram and visiting Olympian Steph Twell took the top honours at the EY Easter Running Festival.
Hundreds of runners took part, tackling a 5k road race on Good Friday, the full-course cross country on Saturday, a 4x1mile relay race on Easter Sunday, and a 10k road race on Easter Monday.
Bartram and Twell were challenged for their titles over the long weekend with victories shared across the races.
Bartram won the men’s 5k in 14:57, followed by Jersey’s Luke Holmes in 15:00, and visitor Harry Wells in 15:08.
Wells runs under the colours of Victoria Park Harriers and Tower Hamlets – which is Bartram’s team when he is in London, and not representing Guernsey.
In the women’s 5k race, local runner Eloise Scholes came first in 18.09, followed by fellow Sarnians Nix Petit in 18:13 and Sarah Roe in 18:25. Twell came fourth in 18:28.
Saturday morning’s ‘full-course’ saw three Victoria Park Harriers and Tower Hamlets runners claim the men’s top three places, with Bartram and Wells followed home by Greg Divall in 24:28, 25:16, and 25:17 respectively.
Twell won the women’s race in 30:01, followed by Petit in 30:33, and teenager Lauren Mitchell of Medway Tri club in 30:44.
Easter Sunday’s relay race was won by ‘The Sandbaggers’ with Richard Bartram setting the pace with a 4:56 first leg run.
‘The Good, the Bad, and the Rogers’, featuring Guernsey’s own Olympian Lee Merrien, came second, with Twell’s mixed team ‘Smuggle the Muggles’ in third.
Jersey teenager Bradley Andrews-Callec won the 10k on Easter Monday, with a 31:26 run from Grandes Rocques to North Side, followed by fellow visitors Joseph Moorwood (Aldershot, Farnham & District) in 31:32, and Wells in 32:01.
Twell won the women’s race in 38:07, followed by Petit in 39:05, and fellow Sarnian Vanessa King in 39:15.
Pictures: All images with thanks to event sponsor EY and Peter Frankland.
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