26.2 Road Runners Club

On a lovely sunny but very cold day our ladies did us proud, full results are on www.southlondonharriers.org but team results are not up yet.  This was the first of the 2 longer races supposed to be 8k max, but it was 8.8k, two laps and quite hilly, with a very steep muddy hill on each lap.  Well done to everyone, commiserations to Nikki who had to pull out with a hamstring strain but stayed to cheer us all on.  Thanks too to Peter Tozer for being Place recorder for the host club. 

"A" team: Maggie Stacey 39.21, Jane Claderbank 39.48, Alice Tozer 42.25, Laura Roberts 43.20, Libby Marchant 45.59,  "B" team Jo Newstead 52.11, Ann Bath 52.38, Maria Celenamor 52.56

Last one is Sat Feb 11th at noon, West End, Esher, 8k.

32 members, including 3 'first timers' (FRs), braved the rain and wind to compete in the first Club Handicap of 2012.

Matthew Pengelly finished first with a PB time of 22:59, nearly 3 mins. faster than his first run last March.  Jane Calderbank, fastest lady, was second with a PB of 20:12, just 5 secs. ahead of Sue Esslemont in third.  John Matthews, in finishing fifth, was fastest man of the evening with an SB of 17:39, and the only runner to do a sub 6:00 min/mile pace.  There were also PBs for Natalie Randell and James Thurston.

Apologies from me for not posting the analysis for the December race and the latest League Table, but I fell victim to not quite understanding the posting on the new website.  I did, however, get your start times right for this race, but  despite giving everybody their start times when they registered, and despite calling them out again at the start, three of you (you know who you were!) still went off at incorrect times. Your finish times have been adjusted in the results.

My thanks to volunteers Steve Ramek, Neil Sunderland, Don Esslemont and Pegs with his HD camera, without whose help we would not have been able to produce the results so quickly.

Now, if I get this posting right, the results are attached.