It’s raining on the day of the Tresco Marathon. Good luck to the runners.

Chris McQuillen-Wright of St Column Minor won the men’s race in three hours four minutes and fifty-seven seconds.

Ian Howard of Long Sutton won the men’s veteran race in a time of 3:17:43.

Ruth Bevan of Chepstow won the women’s veteran race (3:37:47); Ali Hirst of Newton Abbott won the women’s race (3:39:34).

Ros Hicks of St Mary’s was the first Islander to finish (fourth in the ladies’ veteran race, eighteenth overall. Louise Tobin-Dougan second Islander home, Toby Tobin-Dougan third. Only nine Islanders competed in this year’s event.

As normal, funds raised in the ?2003 Southern Finance Tresco Marathon? are going to the CF Trust (Cystic Fibrosis).

The Tresco marathon did not make it to the Isles of Scilly pages of the following week’s Cornishman, but had it’s own page.

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