Half-marathon date is unveiled by City Council

Running round-up

Bristol City Council have announced that the date for the 2010 Bristol half-marathon will be Sunday, September 5.

The organisers had the choice of either that date or September 19 and eventually plumped for the earlier option.

Race director Georgette van Hoof said: "Both of these dates clashed with other events in either the national running calendar or the Bristol Festival calendar, which is why it has taken so long to agree it."

Entry details are on the website www.bristolhalfmarathon.com.

*Hogweed Trotters' Alan Wilcox was 53rd in the latest Street 5k road race in a time of 22mins 27secs, while Mark Spkye finished 24th overall and third veteran Over-40 from a record field of 517 finishers in the Castle Drogo 10-mile multi-terrain race just outside Exeter.

*Kevin Movat completed the Druid Ridgeway 82-mile Ultra Challenge, held over three days, in 13hrs 37mins 33secs.

Fellow Bitton Road Runner Phil Westlake was 15th in the Financial Services Cross-Country Championships, while Chris Malthouse clocked 1:41.24 in the Gosport half-marathon.

* Multi-terrain specialist Tom Fisher smashed the course record as he won the Avebury eight-mile event organised by Marlborough Running Club.

*The landscape gardener from Bradford-on-Avon, who has yet to join a club, beat Swindon's Heath Bampton after a tough duel to add victory to his recent triumph in the Over The Hills 12k in Bradford-on-Avon.

*Youngster George Brown, who is a member of Bitton Road Runners, won the minor boys' title at the Bath & North East Somerset Cross-Country Championships on Thursday.

*The next Bridge Inn 5k road race in Shortwood, east Bristol, will be held this Tuesday, November 24, with entries taken on the night.

For further information see the race website at www.bristolandwestac.org.

*Becky Harris, who finished third in the junior girls' race at the Bristol Schools' Championships, was being cheered on by dad Mark, a former member of Westbury Harriers, who is now keeping fit by joining the growing band of ex-runners who have taken to their cycles.

*Performance of the week: Competing in the Bristol Schools' Cross-Country Championships, 13-year-old St Bedes School runner David McMillan was determined to prove a point in the junior boys' race.

He said: "Last year I was tripped up and could only finish 10th, I was so disappointed. I was really fired up to win this time."

*Quote of the week: "It was a proper cross-country course, ankle-deep in mud in places and two big, long hills every lap. We had to go up them five times in total. I loved it." – Bristol & West AC's British international duathlete Phil Wylie after finishing 11th at the McCain Challenge in Gateshead.