Team CRY - Race results:

NAME Category Race# position time

SIMON HALLIDAY Vet Men 40-44 8729 5099 2:22:41

JOHN INVERDALE Vet Men 40-44 8715 3433 2:02:34

MICHAEL LYNAGH Vet Men 40-44 8696 5587 2:36:32

JASON LEONARD Vet Men 40-44 9634 DNF DNF

MIKE TEAGUE Senior Men 9639 4771 2:17:24

DAVID EGERTON Vet Men 40-44 8690 4298 2:11:37

TONY SWIFT Vet Men 40-44 8693 3225 2:00:51

RICHARD HILL Vet Men 40-44 8708 5356 2:29:02

JONATHAN WEBB Vet Men 40-44 9613 5346 2:28:46

PAUL ACKFORD Vet Men 40-44 8710 3676 2:04:48

WILL CARLING Vet Men 40-44 - UTC UTC

  

Jason Leonard, Paul Ackford, Mark Jackson, David Egerton and Will Carling

Simon Halliday

 

Jason Leonard and Michael Lynagh

 

 

Team CRY

Will Carling, though present, was unable to take part due to a torn muscle in his leg. Jason Leonard, ran one lap of the race, but not the second as he had a chest infection.

I spoke to Simon Halliday earlier, who said he thinks it's likely that Sunday's run raised more like £150-200k if not more, which is pretty fantastic for the charity. He knows that the reunion held after and a sportsman's dinner last week raised £40k, he has raised £35k in sponsorship personally, and with 71 runners from CRY in total, it could be as high as £250k, but neither he, nor CRY want to give definite figures. The run was also intended primarily to raise awareness of SADs and CRY, and not as a fund raiser.

I asked him for a comment on how it went: "I think we achieved everything we set out to do - we raised the profile of CRY. We all felt that Rugby Union should try and promote cardiac screening in young people. The fact that eight  young people (under the age of 35) die a week of cardiac conditions  is unbelievable".

He said "It was a great day, a great reunion, and fantastic to see the guys who didn't run too, like [Gareth] Chilcott, [Stuart] Barnes and [Graham] Dawe." (At the reunion held in the afternoon after the race). "The Bath Half is so exciting, and it was brilliant to see 70 runners, all running in the same gear, all really passionate about CRY".

I asked him (as he sounded so excited) - it went well then? "Well, I'm still hurting now - I haven't run properly for 9 years! It was a shame that Will [Carling] couldn't run. He was really disappointed, and had been training for ages. The same for Rob Andrews, though he new a bit earlier. I didn't think Jason Leonard would run with his chest infection either, but he insisted he wanted to do it, he was so determined. For all of the guys, who aren't really athletic at all any more, to do a run like this is really impressive."

"The only time I was worried was when I sent some people down to the [Bath] ground with kit for 70 people. They were all like school kids in a sweet shop. I arrived and it was all over the place. I tried to get it sorted, and someone had wandered off in Tony Swift's kit. He was never going to fit in a pair of small shorts!"

He capped it off by saying the whole day was "unforgettable".

For further information on CRY, please see http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/

 or for information about the event see http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/simon_halliday_bath_half_marathon.htm.

 

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