George leads Road Runners home

Members of Sospan Road Runners again did Llanelli proud in this year’s Flora London Marathon, with exceptional times and personal achievement evident in all performances.

In changeable weather conditions that both helped and hindered runners in equal measure, the club was able to field nine members amongst the 35,000 entrants. Leading the club home was Martin George with an outstanding personal best time of 2 hours, 54 minutes and 43 seconds. A personal best was also achieved by Martin Hooper, shaving almost 9 minutes off his previous fastest with a finish of 3 hours, 22minutes and 56 seconds. The club’s only female representative this year, Joanne Brewster, ran a debut London marathon to be proud of in 4 hours, 29 minutes and 24 seconds, crossing the line to finish near the top 4000 in the female category.

Sospan Road Runners men’s club captain Andrew Thomas summed up the club’s pride in its runners successful performances; “Yet again the club’s representatives have come to London and shown their determination in completing the course. All of us can take great pride in our finishing times and effort in what was a fantastic overall team performance”.

The club’s official results are:

Overall position	Name	Time
683	Martin George	2:54:43
774	Scott Evans	2:56:15
1606	Andrew Thomas	3:07:33
2249	Clive Davies	3:14:06
3199	Martin Hooper	3:22:56
3273	Malcolm Howells	3:23:32
8188	John Cook	3:53:44
12823	David Hatto	4:16:59
19253	Joanne Brewster	4:29:24

The focus for many of the club’s runners now turns to the forthcoming summer programme, including the many 5k and 10k runs across South and West Wales.