Northern ten-mile champion Sarah Jarvis from Addingham has added another title to her cv.

Despite understandably having to slow the pace over the final six miles, she still won the Lochaber Marathon in 2hr 51min 33sec, beating the nearest woman by almost 30 minutes and breaking the Bingley Harriers’ club record for women to boot.

The course started in Fort William and headed out for 13.1 miles along the edge of Loch Eil before turning around and retracing its steps along the slightly undulating waterside road.

Jarvis, who has previously represented England at half-marathon, deliberately chose a fairly low-key race for her first experience of this testing longer event.

With road gradients dictating a slightly slower second half of the course, the plan was to reach the turn in around 82 minutes, with an eye on an overall time of 2hr 45 min.

This would give her one of the fastest debut marathon times for women ever recorded in the UK.

However, the strong winds and unexpected heat, with temperatures over 20C, combined with an 11am start that saw the runners competing through the warmest part of the day, were going to present an unwanted challenge.

Sure enough, Jarvis was concerned to find her initial pace feeling more uncomfortable than it should have done and reached the turn at halfway about a minute down on her scheduled time.

Already with an unassailable lead in the women’s race, it seemed that the win was no longer in question but the finishing time certainly was.

Spurred on by her halfway split and despite tiring legs, Jarvis worked her way up to fourth place in the overall race at the 20-mile point with 2:07:20 on the clock, with only three men ahead of her.

However, her efforts in the hot and windy conditions up to that point finally caught up with her and she was forced to gradually slow the pace over the final section.

Nevertheless this impressive debut has whetted her appetite for future mara-thons and indicates significant potential over this distance in the longer term.

Skyrac athletes travelled to Wakefield on Sunday, and their results were: Under-11 girls, Georgia Pexton, 3rd long jump 3.11, 8th 80m; Natalie Green 5th 80m 12.89, 7th long jump; Adel Watt 6th 600m 2.18.69, 7th 80m, 4th long jump; Abbie Cotton 10th 80m 13.58. Under-11 boys, Ben Thompson 3rd shot put, 5th 800m 2.37, 9th 100m. Under-15 girls, Beth Thomas 1st hammer 33.94 (pb), 2nd shot; Beth Cotton 8th 200m 28.82, 9th 100m. Under-17 ladies, Daisy Agar 800m 12th 2.49 (pb), 300m 8th; Lizzy Garnett 6th javelin, 300 m 8th 49.55 (pb); Ellie Barker 3rd 80m hurdles 17.26 (pb), 100m 9th; Jaye Riley 7th 1500m. Senior ladies: Fiona Thomas 4th shot, 4th discus 27.47. Senior men: Adam Brooks 2nd 400m hurdles 61.6 (pb), 800m 5th.

Baildon Boundary Way: Duncan Asquith 25th (6th vet 50) 1.36.55; Rebecca Caesar De Sa 4th lady 141.14; Nigel Batty 85th 1.46.48; Neil Bloor 115th 1.50.37; Pete Rawnsley 124th (6th vet 60) 1.51.25.

Anyone wishing to join Skyrac should contact Lynda (014943-461383, e-mail skyrac.a.c@hotmail.co.uk) or just come along on a Tuesday or Thursday (7.15pm).

Airecentre Pacers’ John Tate followed up his recent series of long-distance races with a fine performance of 44th in the Blubberhouses Moor 25-mile fell race in a good time of 4.31.

Several runners and one walker from the Pacers also took part in the Baildon Boundary run over an off- road half-marathon in dry and sunny conditions on Sunday.

First home was Tony Pfeiffer in 1.57.09, followed by Rob Grafton in 1.57.21 and Richard Archer in 1.58.28. Jenny Beaumont completed the course in 2.00.21. Carmen Dojahn-Wood entered as a walker and took 5.53.

After months of hard training, Skyrac’s Elizabeth Grayson took on the Glasgow to Edinburgh Ultra Double Marathon – a 56-mile course following the course of the Union Canal between the cities.

With a 13-hour time limit, the pressure was always on but Liz finished in a magnificent 11hr 10min.

Skyrac’s Debbie Bland, Alan Bye, Frank Glass and Nicola Francis are gearing up for the London Marathon on Sunday.

There were three Ilkley Harriers at the 35th Marathon de Paris.

In 7,339th place David Howe ran a personal best of 3hr 39min 18sec and, in their first marathons, Gaenor Coy was 16,287th in 4-13-18 and Donna Jackson 26,341th in 4-51-59.