1 June 2012

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TOWN Clerk Julie Holden took up the Three Towns Marathon challenge to run the 10k Burgess Hill leg in aid of her local church on Bank holiday Monday.

Julie,  a fun-runner who had never attempted more than 5k before, set herself a personal target of an hour-and-a-half and was delighted to make it in just 84 minutes.

The winner of the Burgess Hill leg, Russ Mullen from the Haywards Heath Harriers, romped home in an impressively brisk 36 minutes, but Julie was well ahead of the last-placed runner who took 98 minutes.

As Julie crossed the line, wearing her distinctive East Grinstead Town Council Queen’s Diamond Jubilee t-shirt, she was welcomed by Town Mayor John Saull, and Mid Sussex District Council chairman Cllr Mandy Thomas-Atkin, who presented the top runners with their prizes.