Big Foot Sprints VIII - The Big Show, St Ives

A gripping tussle between defending champion Andy Hill and perennial bridesmaid Robbie "the perennial bridesmaid" Preston was played out over the two-leg contest. After the first leg the two were dead-level. As the first runners away in the chasing start, the rest of the field got to watch them diverge around a bush and disappear from sight. Simon Errington had a comfortable gap behind him, and held off Mike Burton on the second leg, but didn't make an impact on the leaders. Andy eventually got away from Robbie at the last control, finishing just after Carol Osborne took off leading the women's field. Carol increased her lead over the rest of the field, with last year's champion Jo Parr crashing to last.

 

    Blue 1.2km
       1 Matthew Osborne   BF       18:20
       2 Rachel Osborne    BF       22:52
       3 Annika Mounty     BF       26:53
       4 Kristina Murphy            37:05
       5 Taylor                     40:22
       6 Hawkes                     41:25
       7 Idan Kotzen                47:25

        Green           1.7km
       1 Janet & Tim Mill           36:03
       2 Justine Brindley  GO       39:52

        Orange          2.2km
       1 Jim Wells          GO       27:44
       2 Terry Donohue               35:23
       3 Dabreo/Hawkes               40:56
       4 Betty Chen                  44:54
       5 Mark Brindley      GO       45:59
       6 David & Dean                48:55
       7 Marryn Horrocks             49:52
       8 Sue Thomson        GO       56:00
       9 Michael Banham              62:25
      10 Bev Johnson        GO       74:59
      11 Mark & Jack Bennett         97:12
         Cheryl Bluett      BN       dnf

                                Sprint 1 2.1km   Sprint 2 1.9km
       1 Andrew Hill     WHO       11:46 (1)      10:55 (1)     22:41
       2 Rob Preston     NC        11:46 (2)      11:04 (2)     22:50
       3 Simon Errington GBR       13:01 (3)      13:47 (4)     26:48
       4 Mike Burton     BF        14:05 (4)      13:40 (3)     27:45
       5 Glen Horrocks   GO        15:30 (6)      13:53 (5)     29:23
       6 Matt Hely       WHO       14:36 (5)      14:56 (6)     29:32
       7 Wayne Pepper    BN        15:32 (7)      16:25 (9)     31:57
       8 Albert T. Moose BF        17:51 (9)      15:16 (7)     33:07
       9 Terry Bluett    BN        17:41 (8)      15:37 (8)     33:18
      10 Carol Osborne   BF        22:04 (13)     17:32 (10)    39:36
      11 Peter Thomson   BF        20:59 (12)     20:53 (12)    41:52
      12 Julie Gooding             22:42 (14)     19:23 (11)    42:05
      13 Helen Errington GBR       23:30 (15)     21:28 (14)    44:58
      14 Jo Parr         BF        25:33 (16)     21:06 (13)    46:39
      15 Ian Miller      WHO       19:26 (10)     27:13 (15)    46:39
      16 Brian Johnson   GO        36:02 (19)     33:00 (16)    69:02
         Andrew Lumsden  BF        20:10 (11)     dns           dnf
         Dave Lotty      UR        25:42 (17)     dns           dnf
         Shaun Anderson            26:31 (18)     dns           dnf

 

Date: 
Friday, August 5, 2005