WILLIARD Chinhanhu completed a spectacular month's road-racing campaign with fifth place in the Great South Run.
The former Zimbabwe international clocked 48 min 36 sec for his 10-mile tour of Portsmouth.
Just four weeks earlier, Chinhanhu had finished eighth in the Great North Run. His 63:55 half marathon journey from Newcastle to South Shields was four minutes faster than Paula Radcliffe's second-placed comeback run in the women's race.
In between these two remarkable performances against world class opposition, the Poole Runner notched a hat-trick of wins on successive weekends. He captured the UK, AAA and South of England 10k titles with a 29:18 victory at Chichester.
A 49:34 run secured a £600 first prize at the Cabbage Patch 10 miles in Twickenham, before he won the notoriously difficult Stroud half marathon by two-and-a-half minutes in 66:52.
Louise Damen suffered contrasting fortune as she was floored by an overturned crash barrier in the chaotic start of the Chichester event.
Although she bravely took her place in the British team in the World Half Marathon Championships at Udine, Italy the following week, she found herself below par and dropped out before half-way.
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