Jubilee ~ 18th June '08

The wet weather failed to daunt prospective entrants, and 173 runners completed the course in what was both the second Jubilee of the year and the second race in the 2008 "Tour".

Tour participants were identifiable by wearing their tour number on their back, so if you could see such a number you were behind a runner who had raced the day before!

Horwich had a virtual whitewash with 1st and second men overall (Gareth Booth and James Kevan) first O50 (Paul Muller) and 1st team, courtesy of these three plus Steve Nolan. We also took the men's vets' (discuss placing of apostrophes) award and a scattering of individual vets' awards. Horwich ladies took both the open and the vets' team awards.

Further down the field T'Yorkshireman clocked 37:17, YJ exactly one minute behind in 38:17, followed by Chrissie (the Whippet) Sweatman (1st F50) in 40:36 with, as has become the norm, Yours Truly trailing in in 42:08 (Things Can Only Get Better).

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