Lancashire Constabulary Sports & Social Club - PSUK Marathon Championships

Just three members of the Athletics Section entered the 2005 PSUK Championships. Steve Broadbent (Northern Division) Simon Banfield (Eastern Division) and Michael Horne (Retired Northern) travelled to Cardiff to take part in the annual Cardiff City Marathon event.

The police race was incorporated within the City Marathon and some 60 police entries joined the 1300 other marathon runners in this event.

The race started at 9am in the Cardiff High street and followed a two lap course around the City, down to the Cardiff Bay and back in and around the Pontcanna Park and along the banks of the River Taff.

The route was nice and flat. It was well marshalled with plenty of drinks stations and three Lucozade Power drink points. The weather was fine and sunny and temperatures did rise as the morning progressed.

The race followed the Cardiff Marathon that started at 8.15 am. Many of the lead marathon runners caught up with the tail end of the half marathon runners that caused a little congestion but at the same time we were able to use the slower runners as a pace.

The race finished with a lap of the football field inside the Millennium Stadium. The 400 meter finishing lap made a spectacular end to what was a very enjoyable race.

Lancashire Police Results

PC Steve Broadbent finished in 3 hours 14 minutes being placed 2nd in the PSUK Veteran 45+ category - 11th overall.

Mr Simon Banfield ran his 3rd marathon knocking 30 minutes off his previous best finishing in 3 hours 23 minutes - 16th overall.

Mr Michael Horne was running well to 16 miles but then developed a calf injury and dropped out of the race soon after.

The 2005 Club marathon team - Steve Broadbent, Simon Banfield, Michael Horne

PSUK Results

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Lothian and Borders Police, Steve Cairns ran a tremendous race finishing in 2.29.29 and was PSUK men's champion. He was 2nd in the main event only 15 seconds behind the overall winner.

Derbyshire Police, Lisa Knights was PSUK ladies champion finishing in 3.06.12.

Pos	Race#	Forename	Surname	Gender	Category	Club	Pos O/All	Gun Time	Chip Time
1	1897	Steve	Cairns	Male	MSEN	Lothian & Borders	3	02:29:29	02:29:28
2	1921	Peter	Murtagh	Male	M40-44	PSNI	11	02:42:54	02:42:52
3	1859	Peter	Orme	Male	M45-49	Derbyshire Constabulary	37	02:54:11	02:54:07
4	1927	Andy	Lakeland	Male	MSEN	South Yorkshire Police	57	02:59:14	02:59:02
5	1889	Mark	King	Male	MSEN		59	02:59:27	02:59:18
6	1890	Duncan	Malloy	Male	M40-44		69	03:01:20	03:01:10
7	1860	Lisa	Knight	Female	FSEN	Derbyshire Constabulary	90	03:06:21	03:06:12
8	1882	Tim	Kelly	Male	M50-54		104	03:09:41	03:09:32
9	1891	Mike	Brookshaw	Male	M40-44		126	03:11:56	03:11:47
10	1854	Sid	Pask	Male	M55-59	Central Scotland Police	132	03:12:19	03:12:06
11	1886	Steven	Broadbent	Male	M45-49	Lancashire Constabulary	148	03:14:31	03:14:16
12	1918	Amanda	Clarke	Female	F35-39		161	03:17:22	03:17:02
13	1898	Donald	Sandeman	Male	TBC		181	03:19:37	03:19:29
14	1916	Craig	Jones	Male	M40-44	North Wales Police	217	03:22:22	03:21:21
15	1884	Veronica	Singleton	Female	F45-49		229	03:23:45	03:23:25
16	1887	Simon	Banfield	Male	MSEN	Lancashire Constabulary	237	03:24:22	03:23:38
17	1922	Kieran	McKeown	Male	MSEN		269	03:27:13	03:25:07
18	1867	Darrell	Harrison	Male	MSEN	Dyfed Powys Police	259	03:25:54	03:25:46
19	1885	John	Cooper	Male	M45-49		267	03:27:00	03:26:45
20	1861	Nick	Davies	Male	M45-49	Dyfed Powys Police	305	03:30:43	03:30:10
21	1923	John	Diffey	Male	M40-44		306	03:30:45	03:30:39
22	1933	Michelle	Greatrex	Female	FSEN	Gwent Police	338	03:34:03	03:33:24
23	1913	Gerwyn	Lloyd	Male	M40-44	North Wales Police	356	03:36:08	03:35:29
24	1912	Ian	Roberts	Male	M40-44		371	03:37:03	03:35:40
25	1895	Steven	Laurie	Male	MSEN		363	03:36:44	03:36:40
26	1896	Rachel	Hurst	Female	TBC