Endurance round-up

As the summer season ends and with the winter season soon to begin, some of our endurance athletes have been involved in good-quality action.

Update: Stephan Wenk was a superb 8th in Switzerland's Jungfrau Marathon. A full marathon, labelled the "world's most beautiful", which starts at 567m altitude and ascends, especially over the last 10 miles, to 2091m. Stephan's marvellous time of 3 hours 11 minutes on his Jungfrau debut was 10 minutes behind the winner, and Stephan was the first Swiss national home in this popular international event. Stephan will be back in the UK any day now looking forward to the CC season.

Lauren Stewart (18.05) and Bernie Pritchett (18.38) were 5th and 8th respectively in the biggest women-only race in the UK, the adidas Women's 5K Challenge, run by thousands in Hyde Park last Sunday. Further down the field, U17 Isobel Moss showed very good promise in running 21.18 for 46th place. The race was won in 15.59 by Justina Heslop, 45" ahead of Olympian Liz Yelling.

Daniel Agustus travelled to the Cardiff 10K and finished 13th in 31.18 in a race won in a world-class time of 27.46 by Kenyan Milton Kiplagat Rotich. The first British athlete home was Sale's Stuart Stokes in 29.40. Agustus was "satisfied" with his run. Squad-mate Hywel Care raced the Bristol Half-Marathon (again won by a Kenyan, Edwin Kipyego, in 63.20; first British athlete James Connor of Kent in 66.17) and will, perhaps, have been mildly disappointed with his time of 70.52 for 23rd place.

Triathlete (and 42-year old!) Matt Molloy, who earlier this summer qualified for the World Ironman Championships in Hawaii in October, first won the Dublin City Triathlon and then finished first non-professional and 6th overall in the Galway 70.3 (half ironman distance). Matt will end his season with the World Long Distance Championships in Henderson, Nevada, in November before getting stuck into the club's cross country season.

Meanwhile, fellow multi-eventer Matt Gunby, a beneficiary of triathlon's elite TriGold scheme, has gone out to Font Romeu for 3 weeks' training ahead of the World Duathlon Championships to be held in Gijon, Spain, on 25th September. We wish him well in that.