KATE Sackett demonstrated her fitness and versatility in two challenging events last week.

Firstly she ran the hilly Bugatti 10K race which starts and finishes at the foot of the Prescott Hill Climb. She convincingly won her age category to finish 62nd of the 248 finishers in a time of 47m5s.

Also competing were Barbara Thomas (58m29s) and Ruth Fulford (66m24s) to complete the trio of regular Cirencester AC senior lady racers.

A few days later Kate took on the even greater challenge of the Cotswold Classic Triathlon based around the Cotswold Water Park.

The race consisted of a 2.1 mile lake swim, 56 mile cycle and half marathon run. She crossed the line a creditable 582nd out of over 800 finishers in a total time of 6hrs4m40s.

Another to run a half marathon last weekend was Martin Croucher who enjoyed the picturesque surroundings of Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire.

Martin’s prolific long distance training runs and races served him well as he finished strongly in 1hr33m20s for 45th place out of nearly 600 finishers.

Also racing through the woods were four club members competing in the 10 mile Standish Woodland Chase.

Taking a break from triathlons and ultra distance races were Bill Leggate who was first in his age category and third overall in 58m21s and Andy Hindson 39th in 1h20m10s. Pleased to be running again after recent injuries was Rupert Chesmore, 85th in 1h30m56s, followed by age category winner Liza Darroch 119th out of 143 finishers in 1h40m07s.

Cirencester AC’s only representative in the recent Gloucester Marathon was Leo Crawford who was using this, his third marathon, as a training run for 42 mile race in Wales later this month. He avoided many of the reported problems incurred by some runners to finish 50th in 3h20m28s, well inside his three and a half hour target.

As usual the club colours were in evidence in several 5k park runs in the UK and abroad.

The McAdam family joined over 1200 runners in Bushy Park London, the birthplace of the park run movement.

Isaac finished ninth in 7m16s, followed close behind by brother Jacob, 27th in 18m35s and then Alan 453rd in 25m37s.

Closer to home Nick Holliday, Caroline Cotterell and Barbara Thomas ran at Swindon where Nick won his age category in 19m57s to finish 16th out of 512 finishers Caroline was next home in 25m45s for 166th place followed by Barbara 212th in 27m09s.

Gordon and Rachel Jones were in Scotland so took the opportunity of a Saturday morning race in Inverness.

Gordon finished 30th (21m46s) and Rachel 104th (27m05s) out of 182 runners.

Meanwhile David Lattimore continued the trend of age category winners with his regular run at Toulouse, clocking 32m24s on this occasion.