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I have attached a photo of Matt and Emma Hammerton from the Itchen Valley Country Park RR10 race. Matt and Emma have only recently joined the club and are already making their mark in their races (see text below).

It was another big turnout for the Romsey Road Runners for the RR10 race at the Itchen Valley Country Park with 28 runners. Matt Hammerton was the star of the team, just missing out on victory to Lee Rodriguez again, this time in a sprint finish. Wife Emma Hammerton continued to improve each race finishing 50th out of the135 lady finishers. Also continuing to improve with every race was Julia Abab with a very impressive run to finish 37th.

Other lady finishers were 19 Tamatha Ryan, 20 Jane Field, 25 Penny Jennings, 31 Irisha Cross, 39 Mary Corbett, 71 Andrea Markham, 74 Karen Keane, 79 Charlotte Maslen, 82 June Lees, 93 Ruth Page and 111 Wendy Couper. For the men; 54 Jim Wright, 91 Steve Reed, 98 Christopher Brown, 107 Ian Whyton, 114 Paul Bradley, 119 Steve Edwards, 131 Paul Cross, 133 Andrew Archibald, 136 Paul Baldieri, 164 David Page, 168 Greg Roulston, 172 Paul Slaughter, 181 Derek Kelly and 194 David Nixon.

Due to hosting the Braishfield Beer race, very few of the Road Runners were competing this weekend. Details of the race are in a separate article.