Hoppers lead the way for Scarborough Athletic Club at Great North Run

The first fastest time achieved by a club member, as the runners start in waves, was Jack Hopper who finished in a Personal Best (PB) time of 83.54. He was followed by his father Andrew Hopper, who ran an excellent Over-55 time of 87.51 and Joe Kelly with a PB 100.35.

All other results; Simon Neal 105.56, Andy Southwick 112.57, Lesley Lester 146.58, Kayleigh Hall with an event PB time of 161.00, Leah Harper 163.09 PB, Jean Fish 146.20, Andrew Doody 206.30.

Five club members competed in the Vale of York half marathon, which starts and finishes near Wistow.

Harry Butterworth took full advantage of favourable race conditions to improve his PB time by over 5 minutes, and his 70.14 time resulted in third place overall of 1017.

Tracey Brenton made a notable club debut after finishing 36th Female overall and 4th Over-50 in 97.01, close to her time of 95.52 posted last year.

Annie Wood competed in a debut distance event in 5th Over-60 to record a PB of 1.54.42 and Catherine Moran was 5th Over-55 in 1.59.56 and Caroline Metcalf came close to a PB with 2.14.01.

Rhona Marshall competed in the Yorkshireman Off Road Marathon, which consisted of a testing Multi-Terrain course based around Howarth, with 3,065 feet of climb.

Rhona finished 12th Overall of 230 plus 10 others who failed to complete the course. She was also 2nd Female and 1st Over-40 in 3.57.08.

Mike Hinchliffe joined 17,000 runners at the Budapest Half Marathon.

On crowded streets and hot weather conditions for the race, he finished in 2.10.17.

Eleven members competed in Wolds Tops Brewery Trail Races, and featured a 5K and a 10K race.

The 10K with 64 finishers was the most popular, especially for Daniel Bateson who achieved a clear winning performance in 38.03.

Provisional results, 10K: 39= Hilary Casey 65.37, Nicola Doody 65.37 & Ruth Frank 65.37, 54. Julia Webb 70.54, 55. Linda Hinchliffe 71.46, 62. Julie Macey-Hewitt 80.08, 63. Nicki Edmond 81.39, 64. Jean Fish 86.36.

5K: 5. Robert Glover 25.45, 22. Melanie D’Eath 35.45.

Fifty-four SAC members competed in the seventh and final race of the Summer Handicap Series, on Scarborough seafront.

Mike Padgham was the first finisher on handicap, Abi Bateson was second and Sharon Houghton third.

Harry Butterworth was the fastest male finisher, Daniel Bateson was second and Paul Lawton third.

Anna Giddings was the fastest female, Josie Colpitts was second and Sue Haslam third.

James Ledner made his debut at the Even Splits 5K Race Series at York Sports Village and set a PB for his 5K League total count after finishing 53rd overall of 93 in 18.05.

Paul Lawton and Robert Glover competed in the 12th race of the Esk Valley Fell Club Summer Series of races, a traditional fell race event which started and finished at the Castleton Show.

The course, described as undulating, was 9.6 kilometres long with 244 metres of climb.

With so many events involving club members over the same period Lawton was the only club member in the race.

He greatly increased his overall standing in the league with a third place overall of 72 and 1st Over-40 Male.

Glover took part as an unattached competitor. He finished 38th Male and 6th Over-50.

Tanya Mace competed in the Mansfield 10K Road Race and finished 3rd Over-60 in 77.49.

Twenty-one club members took part in the Woodlands Scarborough parkrun.

For a second consecutive week Xabier Unanue was the club’s first finisher with 13th overall of 181 and 1st Junior 11-14.

Fay Hethershaw led the club’s females with 3rd Female overall of 65 and 1st Over-55.

All other Male results; J.Hopper 26th, C.Bourne 1st Over-55, D.Koekemoer 4th Over-40, D.Field 5th Over-60, A.Padgham 41st, A.Unanue 3rd 11-14, P.Barnard 7th Over-60, H.Whitehouse 2nd Over-75.

All other Female results; T.Koekemoer 1st JW 10, N.Doody 1st Over-50, S.Sayers 1st Over-60, J.Kelly 2nd Over-60, K.Koekemoer 5th JW10, L.Koekemoer 2nd Over-40, K.Rawlinson 2nd Over-55, M.Hutchinson 5th Over-55, K.Wills 8th Over-40, D.Trown 3rd Over-50, J.Trown 6th Over-45.

Twenty-two club members took part in the Wykeham parkrun.

The first finisher for the club was Christian Brown with 15th overall of 196 and 2nd Over-50.

Jayne Graves led the club’s females with 11th Female overall of 92 and 1st Over-60.

All other Male results; C.Clayton 2nd Over-60, D.Lester 5th Over-50, P.Shepherdson 4th Over-55, N.Kilroe 3rd 11-14, M.Bowes 6th Over-55, M.Padgham 5th Over-70.

All other Female results; S.Shepherdson 2nd Over-55, J.Clayton 4th Over-60, J.Colpitts 32nd, S.Houghton 1st Over-70, V.O’Neil 10th Over-45, S.Vaughan 11th Over-45, N.Edmond 7th Over-55, J.Barnett 6th Over-50, K,Hodgson 7th Over-50, R.Clifford 9th Over-55, E.Amos 7th Over-40, C.Bilton 13th Over-45, S.Peaker 10th Over-55.