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Saturday, 17th May, 2008

Published: Friday, 9th May, 2008 09:00

Dunbar team winners

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DUNBAR RUNNING CLUB won the team event at the 22-mile Edinburgh to North Berwick road race last Sunday.

The 2006 and 2007 winner John McMillan from Kilbarchan was out to try and make it a hat trick of wins.

But Hugh McInnes, a former cyclist, struck out early on and by five miles had already established a comfortable lead over Brian Turner of Arbroath, Dunbar’s veteran Ian Sills, and club mate Stuart Symington who finished third in 2007 among the chasing group.

At both 10 miles and 15 miles, McInnes had a lead of over one minute, but Sills, who was having his last ‘long run’ before the Edinburgh Marathon in three weeks, gradually gained ground on the leader, overtaking Turner and only failing to catch the winner by 12 seconds.

McInnes clocked twohours 14minutes 46seconds. Turner held on for third place and McMillan finished fifth. Dunbar also had Stuart Symington finish in sixth.

Veteran Stuart Hay, who had competed in a five mile race the previous day, finished ninth in 2:23:13 which gave the Dunbar Club the team trophy by a wide margin over Portobello RC. Ian Sills was awarded the over-40s veterans’ trophy and Stuart Symington the over 50s’ trophy.

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