Christa Cain has broken Brenda Walker’s 31-year-old Isle of Man record for the women’s Marathon in Valencia at the weekend.
She ran a superbly judged race to cross the line in a time of 2:39:10, beating the time set by Brenda in Rotterdam in 1993 by 26 seconds.
Christa’s pace judgement was spot-on, with her 5km split times being 18:32, 18:53, 18:57, 18:50, 18:56, 18:49, 19:07, 19:01 and her time to the finish was 8:07.
Her Half Marathon split was 1:19:20. She finished in 57th place out of more than 8,000 women in the field.
Marathon Record
It was very nervous watching the live tracking in the later stages, as Christa was about one minute inside schedule for much of the way before slowing very slightly.
At the 40km mark it really was touch and go, but she absolutely nailed the last 2km, picking up several places in the process.
This is without doubt the highlight of what has been an incredible running career since Christa took up the sport a few years ago in her early 30s, and she has well and truly written her name into the history books of Manx athletics.
Congratulations Christa on a fantastic achievement!
Valencia
Also in action with superb times were Eamon Farrell with 2:44:25 and Lewis Crowe with 2:53:42.
Both were new personal bests. I’m sure all these performances are being suitably celebrated in Valencia this evening – congratulations all!
Addition – well done also to Liverpool-based Richard Costain for an excellent time of 3:09:35.
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