1983 – Manx Airlines 10km Run

 

Bernie Plain, who finished 4^th 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