A trifle late but find below the full results of our now annual January Virtual 5km event. Your anecdotes and photos were much appreciated. The bets are off as to who might win the 2026 Literary Award. It was especially pleasing to receive the clockings from Bill and Shirley of the Scotia club, Marco, our loyal German contributor and our own David Lamb, now shadowed by illness, who I raced against as a young stripling back in the early 1960s.

Virtual 5km Scratch

1. Bill McFadden [Scotia RWC] 27:22
2. Ken Connor 31:02
3. Nigel Shaw 31:17
4. Tony Bell 31:56
5. John Gordon 33:36
6. Marco Bernatzki 33:47
7. Greg Smith 36:14
8. Martin Payne 36:15
9. Joe Hardy 36:31
10. Pat Evans [F] 37:53
11. Roy Gunnett 38:10
12. Shirley Simpson [Scotia RWC] [F] 38:20
13. Steven Wilde 38:26
14. Phil McCullagh 39:24
15. Andrea Lennon [F] 46:18
16. David Lamb 52:15

Virtual 5km Handicap

1. Joe Hardy 29:01
2. Greg Smith 30:16
3. Pat Evans 30:23
4. Nigel Shaw 30:47
5. Ken Connor 31:02
6. Marco Bernatzki 31:03
7. Andrea Lennon 31:18
8. Tony Bell 31:41
9. Phil McCullagh 33:24
10. Roy Gunnett 33:55
11. Steve Wilde 33:56
12. Martin Payne 35:30

Virtual 5km Age-Graded

1. Bill McFadden [ScotiaRWC] 82.75%
2. Joe Hardy 81.33%
3. Pat Evans [F] 79.23%
4. Andrea Lennon [F] 78.62%
5. Nigel Shaw 73.95%
6. Ken Connor 73.74%
7. Roy Gunnett 73.10%
8. Greg Smith 71.80%
9. Tony Bell 71.66%
10. Shirley Simpson [ScotiaRWC] [F] 71.48%
11. Steven Wilde 66.00%
12. Marco Bernatzki [SuS Schalke] 65.94%
13. Martin Payne 65.20%
14. Phil McCullagh 62.06%
15. David Lamb 53.40%