Carroll leads the way
Date published: 30 June 2009
OVER 500 athletes completed the popular Freckleton Half Marathon. Stuart Carroll was the first of 21 Royton Road Runners to cross the line in 21st place, recording a time of 1:23:56.
He was pushed all the way with his clubmates Dave Kershaw 22nd (1:24:03) and Bernard Cassidy 25th (1:24:39). These three won third prize in the team event, while the next three home - Stuart Hulme 26th (1:24:40pb), Barry Greaves 31st (1:25:53) and David Emanuel 32nd (1:26:12) finished high enough for fourth place.
David Hall and Bryan Lawton had times of 54th (1:29:47) and 53rd (1:29:51) respectively.
The next Royton runner home was Robert Kellett 79th (1:33:22) followed by Michael Harrison 102nd (1:37:18), Dave Phillips 105th (1:37:35), Lewis Shaw 141st (1:41:16), David Smith 149th (1:42:08) and Andrew Nuttall 165th (1:42:33).
Other finishers were:- Tony Kane 216th (1:47:21), George Meynell 221st (1:47:50),James Holdaway 243rd (1:50:06), Teresa Hollins 250th (1:52:02), Jeff Cordwell 259th (1:51:41), Tony Hunking 420th (2:08:06) and Neil Barker 480th (2:18:24).
