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Start of Grand Prix 4,Stamford, 5K, 15.07.09
Venue - Rugby Club Hambleton Road (round the corner from the Danish Invader Pub) Stamford, hosted by Stamford Striders. The Rugby Club is a few hundred meters further along from the Danish Invader where the race was hosted from in the previous years. It will be sign posted. Parking will be available at the club and also on Empingham Road, there is a small car park on entry to the rugby field. The course is the same, only the venue and the finish are different, finishing on the field.
Report
Blunden brushes his rivals aside
Published Date: 18 July 2009, Bob Frank, Peterborough Evening Telegraph
AFTER a day spent painting his new home, Deeping athlete Matt Blunden brushed aside his rivals to win the penultimate race of the Peterborough 5k Series at Stamford.
Blunden recorded his third 5k win at Stamford, having also succeeded in 2006 and 2007 when the  race finished outside the Danish Invader pub.
On Wednesday night the race reverted to the old course, finishing on the field of the rugby club, and Blunden came home with 24 seconds to spare over Neil Addison.
With a steep descent followed immediately by a very tight turn and a long uphill drag on each of the two laps, Stamford is a course where good pace judgment is important and Blunden never looked in danger. He went through the opening kilometre in 2.52 and was always in control.
Blunden was 10 seconds ahead of fellow Royal Air Force runner Tom Bailey at halfway, followed by Charnwood triathlete Peter Swaine, Addison, Spalding’s John Pike and Bourne’s Matt Grace but he pulled further away to win in 15.35.
He said: “I felt strong. I wanted a hard run and I felt better than I did in the Great North 10k (three days earlier, where he ran 32.28).”
With two wins and a second, Blunden is virtually assured of the title as only Addison – with a win and a second so far – can stop him.
Blunden will seek further glory in the Inter-Services Championships 5,000m on Wednesday and may run the Notts 5 two days later hoping to break 25 minutes for the first time.
He added: “My best is 25.15 (set in 2004) although I must have broken 25 minutes for five miles during a 10k. It would be nice to get under that barrier.”
Addison, after a month of no running whatsoever and then one week of steady running, finished second in the Bushfield 10k last Sunday but felt much better at Stamford.
He said: “I’m happy with that. I didn’t want to go off with the leaders because Matt put in a fast opening kilometre but I got to halfway feeling okay, better than I had felt at halfway in the Bushy 10k, and then I gradually pulled clear in second.”
Philippa Taylor of host club Stamford won the women’s race in 18.18, making it four wins out of four. She is now in two minds whether to go for the full set at Werrington, where potentially she could  challenge her personal best of 17.57 on a flatter course.
Becky Cousins of Fenland Running Club came through well to take second.
She was alongside Nene Valley Harrier Amelia Susulowsky at halfway but went 10 seconds ahead on the second circuit to finish runner-up while Susulowsky just held off Wittering-based Stacey Kirby for third.
Jack Moore sealed the junior 3k title in a repeat of the previous race at Eye.
Just as three weeks earlier, Ross Huskisson led coming onto the grass field for the finish and this time it looked as though he may have a big enough lead to hold on.
But Moore outsprinted his Nene Valley clubmate to win by four seconds – his third win of the series. Steph Burton maintained her 100 per cent winning record to give Nene Valley a boys and girls double.
PETERBOROUGH 5K GRAND PRIX
RACE SERIES 2009
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3K Junior race for under 15 and under 13
Free T-shirt to all entrants competing in 3 out of 5 races.
Sponsored by Advance Performance
The series will be run over five events as follows, all on Wednesdays: -
- 3rd June 2009 - Ferry Meadows (Water Sports Centre), hosted by NVH
- 17th June 2009 -Ferry Meadows (Water Sport Centre), hosted by Thorney RC
- 24th June 2009- Lindisfarne Road Eye, hosted by Eye Community Runners
- 15th July 2009 - Rugby Club Hambleton Road (round the corner from the Danish Invader Pub) Stamford, hosted by Stamford Striders
- 29th July 2009 - Werrington Sports Centre hosted by Werrington Joggers
Entry Details:
- 5 K £4.00 attached £ 6.00 unattached
- 3 K £3.00
- Entries will taken on the night, therefore please allow plenty of time (30 minutes) to collect your number and get to the start
- All races are accurately measured, permitted and run under UK Athletics or ARC rules
- Start Time: - 3K 19:00 5K 19:30 at all events
Event Prizes:
5K - Each event will attract on the night a £10 voucher for the first Man and the first Woman
3K -Each event will attract on the night a £5 voucher for the first boy and the first girl
Series prizes will consist of Boots vouchers and will be awarded at the Nene Valley 5k in August, or sent in the post to those unable to attend. These will be based on the runner's best three results out of the five events, and will be as follows: -
Prizes:
Men - First £35, Second £25, Third £15.
First place in the following categories: U17 and U20, Vets 40, 45, 50, 55, 60 & 65 all £15. Second place in each category will receive £10.00, third place £5.
Women - First £35, Second £25, Third £15.
First place in the following categories: U17 and U20, Vets 35, 40, 45 all £15. Second place in each category will receive £10.00, third place £5.
Juniors - Boys under 13 and under 15 - First place £15, second place £10.00, third place £5
Girls under 13 and under 15 - First Place £15, second place £10.00, third place £5
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