OVER a dozen runners from the Post area completed the brutal Cornish Marathon on Sunday, November 1.

Organised by East Cornwall Harriers, the 26.2-mile race, which is the final event of the 2026 Cornwall Grand Prix, starts and finishes in the South East Cornwall village of Pensilva and takes competitors around local villages and the edge of Bodmin Moor.

Tom Murrin – a newcomer to Bude RATs – was the fastest local in 13th overall in a rapid time of three hours, eight minutes and 46 seconds, which was also enough for second in the M40-44 section. Fellow club-mates Charlotte Clifton, Lisa Tame and Karen Hilton all ran the race together finishing in just over five hours and two minutes.

Steve Hudson from Bude Wellness Warriors finished in under three and a half hours in 3:29:15 for seventh in Murrin’s age-group, with Bradworthy Runners member Ian Blythe not far behind (3:33:32) which secured fifth in the M45-59 category.

Camelford Up and Running duo Matt Allan and Daniel Risdon also went around together for an impressive time of 3:43:33, while they were joined by Elliott Perrin (5:45:27) and the trio of Emma Grigg, Holly Hutchins and Emma Deanes, all of whom completed it in 5:58:08.

Launceston Road Runners saw three members – Andy Corbett (3:41:20), David Thomson (3:53:32) and Lewis Halliday (4:28:30) – take part with Thomson’s time enough to secure fourth in the M60-65 section.

Local runners also finished the Rosemullion 10K in Mawnan just outside of Falmouth a week earlier.

Launceston were represented in the Cornish Multi-Terrain Race Series event by Michaela Barron (58:01), Ian Grimes (1:09:03), Linda Pickard (1:09:49) and Jackie Chapman (1:25:20), while Bude saw Kevin Edlin (53:12), Stuart Colwill (1:01:20) and Stephen Hutchinson (1:08:46) get around.

Eldin was the fastest male home in the M60-64 age-group, while Hutchison secured second in the M75-79 section, as did Launceston’s Grimes in the M70-74 category.