Buis and Maisch take marathon honours
LESS than 24 hours after first stepping on island soil at the start of a family holiday, Carlisle's James Buis eased to a comfortable victory in yesterday's Canaccord Genuity Guernsey Marathon.
The Border Harriers runner burnt off the challenge of Poland's Marcin Soszca just before halfway on the Vazon coast road and dug in to clock 2hrs 38min. 29sec. and triumph by fully five minutes from the Pole. Frenchman Eric Le Bouvier was third a further 10 minutes back.
But arguably the performance of the day came from new island resident Ulrike Maisch, who in placing fourth overall was by a long way the leading woman runner in the field, finishing in 2-59-19.
Maisch, who moved to the island this June nine years after she won the European Championship marathon in Gothenburg, sat exhausted on the tarmac alongside the Victoria Pier finishing line and said: 'It is the hardest race I've ever run.'
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