Official websites for links to results:  Easter Athletics Festival   Manx Mountain Marathon Friday road races Saturday hill races Sunday promenade races Manx Mountain Marathon Photos:  Murray Lambden    Ian Astin     Stan Hall men    Stan Hall women     Other websites: BBC    Manx Radio   (   Emma Raven sets the pace from Abi Lucas (7) and runner up in the festival, Katie Good (orange). Rosy Craine (blue) was the best local overall in 11th position. (IA) Emma Raven: dominant on Peel Hill and throughout the Easter Festival (ML) Lloyd Taggart: well clear on Peel Hill but only clinched victory by 2 seconds (ML) and the photo below shows (IA) Chris Busaileh skirts the side of Peel Hill on his way to second overall in the 2011 Easter Athletics Festival (SH) Dominic Mills appears to have arranged his own drinks station! (SH) Not the Olympics: Please come back for more of this in 2012

 

Coverage of the amazing range of events that we stage on the Isle of Man every Easter has now finished. It fails to recognise every outstanding effort by visiting or local athletes, friends and strangers or the hundreds of officials who made it possible. But it does attempt to highlight a few. Murray Lambden 27 April 2011