1983 – Manx Airlines 10km Run

 

Bernie Plain, who finished 4th in the 1974 European Championship Marathon, paid his first visit to the Isle of Man and vowed it wouldn’t be his last. It was largely his idea to promote a world record attempt the following year on the (then 880 yard) perimeter roadway of the King George V Park (National Sports Centre from 1991). It was to be his only visit however as the following year, his first as a veteran, he was injured and unable to compete.

 

Still hoarse from shouting at his friend Steve Barry during the earlier record breaking 20km, he ran steadily for the first mile before dropping the local opposition leaving the Isle of Man’s 1978 Commonwealth Games marathon runner Dave Newton a minute behind. Chris Quine in third place ran within a second of the time he was to run nearly 20 years later!

 

 

Position

Christian Name

Surname

Time

Club / Country

1

Bernie

Plain

00:31:19

Cardiff

2

Dave

Newton

00:32:19

Manx AC

3

Chris

Quine

00:33:00

Manx AC

4

Paul

Clarke

00:33:49

Manx AC

5

Phil

Cain

00:34:50

Boundary Harriers

6

Steve

Parkinson

00:35:11

Boundary Harriers

7

Ian

Callister

00:35:27

Manx AC

8

John

Comaish

00:35:33

Southern AC

9

Colin

Halsall

00:35:46

Manx AC

10

Richie

Stephenson

00:36:42

Boundary Harriers

11

Tony

Rowley

00:36:54

Manx AC

12

John

Wilkinson

00:37:01

Boundary Harriers

13

Doug

Corkill

00:37:33

Boundary Harriers

14

Tony

Conway

00:37:59

Boundary Harriers

15

Norman

Neilson

00:39:00

Manx AC

16

Alan

Pilling

00:40:05

Manx AC

17

Ann

Kelly

00:53:18

Boundary Harriers