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CROXBY CRAWL: A FEW TWO-LAP FACTS AND FIGURES
Revised 17^th April 2008  

2 Lap all time lists MALE     FEMALE

This year sees the Cleethorpes Athletic Club Croxby Crawl reach its 26^th year, with local support from the running community showing no sign of abating.

The first race in 2008 will be the 95^th race on this undulating, Lincolnshire Wolds Course.

 Part of the attraction to the event is that all runners’ best times are recorded on the “All Time List” and times can be compared with the “Great’s” of Yesteryear. Rankings are also recorded in the various age groups. These times are maintained and updated by Steve Green.

 The races have also been a barometer on the current decline of running times in general with no one going sub 50 minutes since William Gristwood in 1999 with the interesting fact that the 2002 winning time of 57.20 would have only placed that year’s winner in 28th position in the 1985 event. Could 2008 be the year we see an improvement in overall race times?

The first ever race on the Croxby circuit was first staged on Saturday 26th November 1983 . This was a club only event over two-laps and was won by track specialist Jon Ireland in a creditable time of 50.45, the turn out was 32 runners with the ladies electing to run one lap which was won by the current race organiser, Jenny Clark.

Interestingly only two month’s earlier Louth AC organised a road race ( Wolds Dash ) from Hubbards Hills in the Lincolnshire Wolds and that year also saw the first race in the annual  Rothwell 10 ( Now Lincolnshire Wolds 10 ) take place, and after 26 years all three of these events on the Lincolnshire Wolds are still going strong.

The race was thrown open the following year when Grimsby Harrier Nick Goodwin recording 51.26 on Easter Monday, with Jane Knights from the host club winning the ladies one lap race.

November of the same year (1985) saw Diana Otley of Louth harriers win the inaugural Ladies Race recording 63.34

The following year (1985) saw a unique double, as husband and wife Dennis and Barbara Brown of Grimsby Harriers, both won in course record times. Dennis Brown was the first runner to go sub 50 minutes with his 49.27 course record, with Humber Marathon winner Barbara Brown reducing the ladies course record to 60.10.

On August of the same year Liverpool Harrier Kevin Capper set a new course record, which still stands to this day of 46.15, knocking 2 minutes 13 seconds off the time set only the previous month. Kevin finished 3 minutes 34 seconds in front of runner-up Chris Bromfield, with John Haines setting the host club record of 49.53. The first and only time 3 runners in the same event have gone sub 50 minutes.

Kevin Capper's opening lap during his 46.15 course record was clocked at 22.42; only 6 seconds shy of George Reynolds one-lap course record.

The current Ladies course record was set in 1992 when Lisa Mawer then running for Cleethorpes AC, recorded 53.55, knocking 27 seconds off Kim Bennett’s course record

In 1999 William Gristwood of Ealing, Southall and Middlesex, was the first veteran to win the two-lap event, knocking 1 minute 24 seconds off Alf Woods' 12 year veterans course record. In fact veterans filled the first 3 places.

The record turnout for the two-lap event is 97 in 1987, with 141 lining up for the start of the 1988 one-lap event.

Vanessa Aisthorpe holder of the W35 course record is undoubtedly the most successful runner on the Croxby Circuit, winning the two-lap event no less than 15 times, with 11 of these in a row. This sequence runs from 1993 to 1998.

Ian Chidwick is the only runner to have won Croxby over three decades, his first win was in 1989 and his latest set in June 2000. He is the fifth fastest on the all time list with 48.21 (1992 and has a record six two-lap wins to his credit.

In June of 2005 Neil Farquharson clocked 53.51, the fastest time by an unattached runner, not previously a member of an athletics club.

Since the sequence of four races every year, started in 1987, only Vanessa Aisthorpe in 1997 has won all four events in the same year.

The youngest winners of the two-lap event are: John Stephenson when on 3rd June 1987 he recorded 48.57, aged 19 years 4 months and 14 days, and Diana Otley on 25th November 1984 , when she recorded 63.34 aged 18 years 5 months 4 days

The most prolific runners at Croxby are Tony Dann ,John Hudson and Barry Dodge who have each competed in over 50 races each whilst Glenys Hudson is the leading lady with 38 events. 

Colin Wright. April 17^th 2008

All time lists and age records collated by Steve Green

2008 Race Dates

All races are £3.00 each and entry is on the night only

Race 1     7th May            1 Lap                     TOP
Race 2     4th June             1 Lap
Race 3     2nd July            2 Lap
Race 4     6th August       1 Lap
Race 5     27th August     1 Lap

1 Lap is 4.44 miles = 4 miles 780yds.  UKA measured by Steve Green

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