Hosted by native membership CSI Morbegno, the race is now twinned with the International Snowdon Race and has an amazing historical past, the lads’s race having been contested for 66 years.
It was the fortieth working of the ladies’s occasion, a relay for groups of two, run over a difficult 5k blended terrain course with a climb of 248 metres from begin to summit, situations made worse by 10 days of heavy rain – though race day proved to be dry and delicate.
Taking over from lead-out runner Alice Goodall, the European U23 10,000m champion, Macdonald moved Scotland as much as fourth with a time of 24 minutes 56 seconds, the tenth quickest time of the day and solely 22 seconds slower than Goodall. Italian outfits Valtellina and Recastello completed first and second, and Ireland got here third.
Closer to home, there have been greater than 5,000 finishers on the annual Leeds Abbey Dash on Sunday morning, a race which continues to draw a high quality subject for its quick and flat out and again course from town’s city corridor to Kirkstall Abbey.
In a race gained by Icelandic U23 worldwide Baldvin Magnusson in a time of 28 minutes 51 seconds, simply forward of previous winner Jonny Mellor in 28:53, Lawrence McCourt was the primary of the six Morpeth Harriers who travelled down the A1, ending in seventeenth place in a time of half-hour 7 seconds.
Only six seconds again was Finn Brodie in 30:13, with common customer to the race Sam Hancox thirty fourth in 30:51.
Leeds-based Phil Winkler was forty third in 31:15, George Lowry 68th in 31:58 and Rob Hancox 481st in 39:29 and in addition eleventh Over-55.
Lincoln Wellington’s Abbie Donnelly gained the ladies’s race in 32:05, with Herne Hill Harrier Georgie Grgec second in 32:25 and Lincoln Wellington’s Sophie Wallis third in 32:41.
