Westbury Harrier's Matt Ellis finished an outstanding 6th place in the 27th annual Race the Train event, held in Tywyn this past weekend. Ellis finished in 1.26.26, just six minutes adrift of race winner, British mountain runner Gareth Raven. Ellis' time was all the more impressive as he only owns one pair of trainers, and they are more at home in a 10k or a half marathon, rather than the 14 mile off road course he was faced with on Saturday. Unfortunately for Matt he narrowly missed out on two prizes, with individual prizes to the first five men only and then in the team event Westbury missed out by two points to Kenilworth runners. Matt in 6th, John Terry 17th in 1.32.22 and Gregg Ward 23rd in 1.33.34 completed the team. Chris Palmer was not far behind, 29th in 1.34.53 and with Ian Ruck, 1.45.32 also beating the train it was a great day for the Westbury men's team. Although we should pass on our commiserations to Phil Court, who narrowly missed beating the train, running 1.53.51. Our ladies were also well represented with Laura Tanna running 2.10.55, Jane Goodwin 2.17.25 and Jane Thornton 2.32.46.
In the morning 10k, Debbie Marsden came out on top, winning the ladies title and a cheque for £70 in a time of 46.02.
Full results should be available here.
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