Guernsey Island Amateur Athletic Club
RBC All Terrain Challenge
4km Road Race - Sausmarez Park
29th July 2006
Race 1 of this year's RBC All Terrain Challenge took place on Saturday evening on the roads and paths of Saumarez Park as a record field of 70 greeted the starter.
The 4km race boasted three previous winners but it was the young pretender to the crown, Mark Mercier who showed his rivals a clean pair of heels. Mercier broke away immediately from the start setting a searing pace which his rivals were unable to match and led from gun to tape. Multiple previous winner, Paul Ingrouille came through stongly to take second place ahead of last year's winner Dave Dyke.
In the ladies race, Martine Scholes won quite confortably from triathlete Gail Merrien but there was a good battle for third as Elyse Dandeker narrowly held off Colette Andrews.
Race 2 on Sunday is the gruelling 8 mile cliff path race froom Icart, featuring in last 3 km the steps at Moulin Huet and Saints Harbour.
| Pos | Bib | Sex | Athlete | Time | ||
| 1 | 4 | M | Mercier | Mark | 12:39 | |
| 2 | 2 | M | Ingrouille | Paul | 13:26 | |
| 3 | 1 | M | Dyke | Dave | 13:29 | |
| 4 | 5 | M | Holmes | Dave | 13:37 | |
| 5 | 3 | M | Kehoe | Francis | 13:43 | |
| 6 | 48 | M | Bailey | Jon | 14:05 | |
| 7 | 36 | M | Wilen | Ben | 14:08 | |
| 8 | 32 | M | Ingrouille | Simon | 14:13 | |
| 9 | 75 | M | Wickens | Peter | 14:20 | |
| 10 | 67 | M | de la Mare | Martin | 14:30 | |
| 11 | 47 | M | Streek | Simon | 14:33 | |
| 12 | 39 | M | Hooker | Paul | 14:38 | |
| 13 | 56 | M | Bienvenu | Steve | 14:42 | |
| 14 | 34 | M | Wright | Terry | 14:46 | |
| 15 | 20 | M | Bates | Terry | 14:49 | |
| 16 | 31 | M | Mercier | Gordon | 14:50 | |
| 17 | 6 | F | Scholes | Martine | 14:51 | |
| 18 | 65 | M | Holden | Brian | 14:53 | |
| 19 | 12 | M | Le Huray | Ben | 15:01 | * |
| 20 | 13 | M | Elliott | Jim | 15:01 | * |
| 21 | 73 | M | West | Markus | 15:04 | |
| 22 | 63 | M | Le Noury | Leigh | 15:05 | |
| 23 | 23 | M | Collins | Sean | 15:08 | |
| 24 | 14 | M | Stapley | Richard | 15:13 | |
| 25 | 74 | M | Young | Ian | 15:16 | |
| 26 | 54 | M | Peel | Dave | 15:17 | |
| 27 | 24 | M | Robert | Greg | 15:25 | |
| 28 | 7 | F | Merrien | Gail | 15:27 | |
| 29 | 27 | M | Fierdepied | Christophe | 15:37 | |
| 30 | 33 | M | Creasey | Tim | 15:43 | * |
| 31 | 28 | M | Bailey | Iain | 15:45 | |
| 32 | 62 | M | Guilbert | Phil | 15:52 | |
| 33 | 29 | M | Murphy | Sean | 15:58 | |
| 34 | 50 | M | Elliott | Andrew | 16:04 | |
| 35 | 70 | M | Heighton-Jackson | Andy | 16:10 | |
| 36 | 18 | M | Mew | Jeremy | 16:11 | |
| 37 | 44 | M | Cunningham | David | 16:15 | |
| 38 | 55 | M | Pickett | Brett | 16:16 | |
| 39 | 53 | M | Falla | Stephen | 16:19 | |
| 40 | 40 | M | Gallienne | Glen | 16:22 | |
| 41 | 45 | M | Beausire | Peter | 16:30 | |
| 42 | 46 | M | Smith | Lee | 16:34 | |
| 43 | 30 | M | Tetlow | Marc | 16:38 | |
| 44 | 8 | F | Dandeker | Elyse | 16:39 | |
| 45 | 38 | M | Naftel | Roger | 16:48 | |
| 46 | 25 | F | Andrews | Colette | 16:58 | |
| 47 | 52 | M | Bailey | Andrew | 17:13 | |
| 48 | 11 | F | Wray | Shanine | 17:22 | |
| 49 | 49 | M | Evans | Paul | 17:23 | |
| 50 | 58 | M | Legg | Danny | 17:26 | |
| 51 | 17 | M | Babbe | Mark | 17:30 | * |
| 52 | 57 | M | Bougourd | Nick | 17:35 | |
| 53 | 16 | F | Mauger | Gemma | 17:38 | |
| 54 | 9 | F | Adamcova | Misha | 17:52 | |
| 55 | 51 | M | Steer | Doric | 17:52 | |
| 56 | 37 | M | Wallen | Damian | 18:30 | |
| 57 | 61 | M | Damant | Patrick | 18:38 | |
| 58 | 19 | F | Elliott | Laura | 18:41 | * |
| 59 | 72 | M | Litten | Mark | 18:41 | |
| 60 | 35 | F | Stapley | Carol-Anne | 18:44 | |
| 61 | 42 | F | Preston | Laura | 18:57 | |
| 62 | 21 | F | Hudson | Claire | 19:05 | * |
| 63 | 60 | F | Sauvage | Rachel | 19:08 | |
| 64 | 68 | F | Sumpter | Shirley | 20:16 | |
| 65 | 22 | F | Le Marquand | Sam | 20:26 | |
| 66 | 59 | F | Siviter | Sadie | 21:39 | |
| 67 | 66 | M | Besnard | Bernie | 24:14 |
Athletes marked with a * indicates that they completed the race in on Saturady morning.