HARBOUR WALLBANGER – Race Report –
Harbour Wallbanger Beach Race 2024
What a beautiful day for everyone’s favourite beach race! Blue skies and minimal coastal wind, with the tide freshly out and lots of wet sand available, PB’s were up for grabs.
A fantastic turnout with runners travelling from far and wide to take part in a unique and fun race from the picturesque Viking Bay Broadstairs to the Harbour Wall in Ramsgate and back. Pick your own route and navigate through the seaweed and sand as best you can! With amazing scenery along the entire route with the sea on one side and the white cliffs and proms on the other. And knowing at the end you will be rewarded with a unique medal and delicious ice cream.
Thank you to all the Team TRAC marshalls and behind the scenes volunteers and especially Anna Harrison who made the event so enjoyable and gave fantastic encouragement to the runners along the way. You are all very much appreciated. And congrats to Matt McCarthy who won the raffle prize shopping voucher.
There was a fantastic team TRAC presence today and amazing running by you all – you did us proud!
All results and times can be found on the Sporting Events website.
https://www.sportingeventsuk.com/race-results/harbour-wallbanger-2024
Team Winners!
TRAC again won the team trophies for both the Mens and Ladies races!
Congratulations to Louis Eldred, Oliver Regan (Both from TRAC juniors) and Jude Wood, who were the 1st three back for the men’s team.
And well done to Asmaa Hatim, Jo Kemp and Julie Williams for bringing home the ladies team prize.
Well done and special mention to top 10 finishers in the men’s competition:
Louis Eldred 1st
Oliver Regan 5th
Jude Wood 6th
Jay Bailey 7th
Mark Croucher 10th
And to Philip Morton 14th overall but 1st in the M50 age category!
And brilliant running for the top 10 finishers in women’s competition:
Asmaa Hatim 2nd
Jo Kemp 6th
Julie Williams 8th
Sam Hastie 9th
What an enjoyable event, we look forward to doing it all again next year!
TRAC full team result:
1 – Louis Eldred – 26:38
5 – Oli Regan – 27:42
6 – Jude Wood – 28:24
7 – Jay Bailey – 29:03
10 – Mark Croucher – 31:05
12 – Jamie Hipgrave – 31:17
13 – Jim Allen – 31:19
14 – Phil Morton – 31:29
17 – Andy Jones – 32:32
30 – Asmaa Hatim – 34:08
43 – Scot Haggarty – 35:56
47 – Stephen Forshaw – 36:15
52 – Joanne Kemp – 36:50
53 – Matthew Perin – 37:06
55 – Julie Williams – 37:07
69 – Harry Higgs – 38:42
76 – Samantha Hastie – 39:27
77 – Chris Brown – 39:29
80 – Peter Heath – 39:51
84 – Charlotte Barton – 40:13
85 – Georgia Hughes – 40:14
90 – Hannah Mills – 40:27
94 – Elizabeth Brown – 41:02
105 – Royston Robertson – 41:57
136 – Jon Holl – 44:17
139 – Janet Morgan – 44:29
165 – Lainey Carter – 46:42
166 – Cathy Beddoes – 46:47
180 – Tamasin Drumm – 48:28
182 – Ray Roby – 48:52
194 – Ugendran Padiachey – 50:02
247 – Simon Cowdery – 1:04:49
257 – Gaynor Shelvey – 1:27:38
Thanks very much Jo Kemp for a great race report and to everyone who sent in photos. What a great day !!!!
Let me know if I’ve missed anyone of the results. Sooo many of us 🙂
TRAC would like to say a further Thank You to Philip Thorley (Thorley Taverns) who kindly provide TRAC each year with use of ‘The Pavilion’.
Both Philip and Lorraine Thorley ran the race too.
*** ALSO DON’T FORGET ***
The next TRAC BBQ is at Anna and Richards house in Broadstairs on 19th July. Book on the ‘Run Together’ app to get full detail…..
….. Anna said that there will be a 5 mile (also a 4 mile option) run before. The train station is a 5 min walk from the house and the loop bus to Broadstairs Station is near the bottom of their road.