OKEHAMPTON Running Club’s Geoff Hill made the journey to south Wales last weekend to run the Great Welsh Marathon.

Since running his first marathon last September in Loch Ness, Geoff has been plagued by injuries and only returned to training eight weeks ago. Starting and finishing in Llanelli Festival Fields, the fast and flat route along the Millennium Coast Path is a scenic double out and back looking out to the Gower Peninsula. Despite his lack of preparation he ran an excellent race to finish in 3 hours 23 minutes 43 seconds to come 19th overall and set a new PB by more than 20 minutes.

On Saturday evening ORC Katie Littlejohns took part in the Ivybrige 10k. This scenic race is over a fast course with just one steep hill, but the last 6k is all downhill making for a quick second half. Katie ran well to finish in 43 mins 18 secs.

Okehampton runner Christine Fritsch set herself another huge challenge on Sunday, becoming the second member in the club to run the Dartmoor 600’s. This is not a race, but a run between the five Dartmoor hills over 600 metres —needing competent navigational skills. The five summits she ran were Yes Tor, High Wilhays, Cut Hill, Hangingstone Hill and Whitehorse Hill.

Oke’s Fell running specialist Rob Hicks completed this challenge a few weeks ago and on Sunday Christine’s route took her 4.45.16 to complete nearly 19 miles of rough terrain with 2,900ft of elevation.