Round Cumbrae 10 Mile Road Race

Round Cumbrae 10mile road race

A number of athletes showed great form at the race today running personal best times for the race around the island. Top performance of the day goes to Jacqueline Neil who showed her hard work on the track doing coach Ken Wales’s training sessions are paying massive dividends. Going through the 10k mark in around 48minutes,not far off her p.b for that distance, pushed on by her boyfriend Dan McConnell for the rest of the race she smashed her personal best time by a massive 8 minutes finishing in 1hr 18mins 55secs. Close to the front of the race Keith Haining had a steady run finishing in 8th position and in a time of 59.40,one place behind Stewart Ferguson showed that his marathon training is going well with a course best time by over one minute.

Another runner improving his time by over a minute was Gerry Dodds,who was next Kilmarnock runner to finish. Strong runs also came from Stewart McAllister,Kate Todd and Matt Ferguson who all ran inside 1hr 20mins,Darren Rideout and Emmy Dodds also eased inside their pre race target times,with Jackie Mcculloch happy to beat her course best time from few years ago by several minutes. Final mention goes to Brian Darroch who not content with running 10miles also cycled from and to his home in Ardrossan before and after the race with a lap of the island thrown in too.

As far as we know Brian made the journey home safely and enjoyed the Killie drivers waving and peeping as they drove past in their nice warm cars
Provisional times –

Keith Haining – 59mins 40 seconds

Stewart Ferguson  – 60mins 25seconds

Gerry Dodds  – 69mins 30seconds (1minute pb)

Stewart McAllister  -75mins

Matt ferguson  (Approx) 77.30

Jacqueline Neil  -78mins 55seconds(8minute pb)

Dan McConnell  – 1second behind Jacqueline

Kate Todd  – (Approx) 79.45 (target time was 85mins)

Brian Darroch  – 81mins 22sec

Darren Ridout  – 89mins 32        (target time was 90mins)

Jackie McCulloch – 91mins 45sec

Emmy Dodds  – 93mins 47secs (4min pb)