Boar's Head Race Results 2008

Wednesday 11th June.

A very good field of 170 runners turned up on an excellent evening for
racing, cool with a bit of a breeze and very dry underfoot - in fact
ideal for record-breaking. However, this did not happen, largely
because the hugely experienced trio of Phil Winskill, Malcolm Fowler
and Lloyd Taggart took the evening as a golden, not-to-be-missed
opportunity to try out a hitherto unknown and experimental route and
hence spent some time wandering uphill through the woodland communing
with the deer, badgers and squirrels. It is proof of their considerable
collective ability that they still managed to stay ahead of the rest
of the field and take the first three places. Jackie Lee took a more
conventional route and had a fine run to finish as first lady in 28th
place overall, although not quite managing to lower her own impressive
record set last year - congratulations to her and to Phil.

A notable feature this year was the presence of no fewer than five V70
runners, led home in fine style by Bryan Gane with twenty-four people
behind him - well done, gentlemen, there's hope for us all yet !!

Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, including the marshalling/
registration/results team (many thanks to all of them) who managed to
unravel such cunning tricks as Geoff Hodges of Cheshire Hill Racers
trying to pass himself off as a lady on his registration form and
35-year old Jeff Capper of Wilmslow trying to worm his way into the
prizes by ticking the V50 box (it very nearly worked as well!) and
the least said about Jeff Kettle's debit card, the better !!*!

Thanks for coming and we look forward to seeing you next year.

Dave Jones