HUTTON MAN IN HALF MARATHON GLORY


Concentrating as Huttonian was on cheering on Paula Radcliffe I had completely forgotten that Hutton had a distinguished entrant in the Great North Run half marathon last weekend. Although not quite squeezing into the first three he had a reasonable time. In his own words:

I finished in 02:15:54
My position was 20,642
Really enjoyed the race, will do it again next, highly recommend the challenge, I think it is a hard Half Marathon compared to others I have done (Sheffield / Nottingham) although I was 15 or so years younger, and I was really impressed by very slick organisation of the event.
Perhaps a Hutton / Paxton team for next year can be got together, as I know the Cross Inn manageress / owner (sorry name passes me by just now) is keen for next year, any other takers?
I have raised in the region of £100.00, big thanks to all who sponsored me, the funds go the British Red Cross (Northern Region) who also did a great job in aftercare with tea, biscuits, malt cake, bananas etc.

You can get more detail on my performance etc. via http://secure.greatrun.org/results/quickresults.php and just enter my race number 6415

His name his quite misleading in this context and I will never refer to him again as 'Neil Couch Potato' Not that I ever did. Actually.

Next year I hope he at least will run for Cerebral Palsy Africa (www.cerebralpalsyafrica.org )

You may or may not be able to see the Hutton runner amongst the crowds streaming past at the bottom of the image. Presumably the lead aircraft won?

Labels: Couch Potatos, Great North Run, Hutton

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