Turners Beach runner, Kim Reader, started one of the main fancies in Sunday’s AJL Leisure/AJL Yamaha half marathon and she did not disappoint, having a narrow but strong win.
A good field of forty-seven started the race, some runners being deterred by the possibility of heavy rain which didn’t eventuate.
Reader had three co-markers for the race and two of them, in Chris Purton and Owen Thomas, ran second and third respectively. They ran the outward leg to Turners Beach together and on the return to Ulverstone it appeared that the two men would fight out the finish, but Reader finished the better and after taking the lead from Eric Hughes with about three kilometres to run hung on for a great win.
This was Reader’s third win, the last being over five kilometres, at Devonport four years ago.
Kelly Baxter and Kim Steven ran into the top ten and look like coming winners, while backmarker, Brad Taylor, stormed into sixth place and ran the fastest time.
Reader had the fastest time of the women.
Nominated time winners were Kelsey and Eimear Anderson, Selwyn Maxwell, and Lucy van Rooyen.
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