Friday night it was all go at the annual Erme Valley relays located at Ivybridge Rugby Club. The Erme Valley RC races are always a good laugh with a decent turn out of 80 teams, a real mix of age, youth, speed and participation for the team! The Trotters as usual turn up in force, and this year we had a number of 1st timers who did well, and looked good in the vest cheered on by comrades. 

A special welcome and congratulations to our new members Caitlin Moss, George Tranckle, and Jon Pressling who all took part and performed brilliantly in their debut Relay outing for the club. 

RESULTS

Ben & Deb Elphick said "It was great to see everyone enjoying both the racing and the social side of the event. Erme Valley always delivers a challenging course that pushes you to your limits, and this year was no exception. There were some truly outstanding performances across the board, and as Captains, we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who stepped up and gave it their all."

Our fastest Trotter was Alex Sparks in 12:48 3rd overall, 2nd Oli Reynolds 13:17 in 9th place, 3rd Ben Akyol 14:22 26th. 1st female Chloe Olford 15:41 74th, 2nd Chloe Weeks 16:51 124th 3rd Freya Morrissey 17:23 140th, 

In 8th place the 1st MV40 team, time of 60:25 included Ben Akyol, Jon Pressling, Ian Langler, & Ben Elphick. The 2nd place Mixed team of Alex Sparks, Freya Morrissey, Greg Cook, & Chloe Alford were 11th overall in 61:30. Our 1st place FV55 team included Lucy Payne, Sharon Sharples, Claire Gilard, & Deb Hart in 89:10, 74th overall.

As Del reported "With the cloudy conditions and slight temperature drop it was perfect for two and half mile not so flat relay race…very well organised again by the Erme Valley harriers. If you do this regularly some years you can find this really tough as I did last year being in between marathons and all that but this one seemed to fly by which was great…also nice to see a permanent big corporation tent set up where you can chill and much more space for the prize giving than in the upstairs bar.

A great relay night, and the next one comes soon at the Paignton Velopark August1st, only 3k, hardly time to get out of breath ! Get your names down early to help our Captain's who do a super job, and surely we can bring home some more prizes / wine. Full results from Erme Valley are on their club website. 

www.ermevalleyharriers.co.uk/erme-valley-relays/