31 runners took part in the opening race of the 2011/12 Club Handicap Season. The field included 3 ‘first timers’, one of whom, Rick Emery, first ran with the Club in the early 80’s. He recorded a very creditable time of 22:42 finishing in 2nd. position and clocking the same finish time as Club Captain Chris Coghlan who ran an 18:12 PB. Greg Whiteman was 3rd., 12 secs. behind with Pete Tozer a further 6 secs away in 4th.
This was a great result for Pete, whose PB time of 22:30 was his second in consecutive races, when you consider that his previous PB was set in April 2003! Simon Gerrard, 21:21, was the 3rd. runner to PB, but, it being the first run of the season, everybody else had an SB.
Read on for the results.
| RACE ORDER | TIME ORDER | |||||||||
| Position | NAME | Start Time | Recorded Time | Position | NAME | Race Time | Pace | SB? | PB? | |
| 1 | Coghlan,Chris | 15:40 | 3352 | 1 | Holland,Jack | 17:16 | 5:45 | SB | ||
| 2 | Emery,Ricky | 11:10 | 3352 | 2 | Flynn,Declan | 17:50 | 5:57 | SB | ||
| 3 | Whiteman,Greg | 11:40 | 3404 | 3 | Collier,Dominic | 17:50 | 5:57 | SB | ||
| 4 | Tozer,Peter | 11:40 | 3410 | 4 | Coghlan,Chris | 18:12 | 6:04 | PB | ||
| 5 | Dodds,Elaine | 09:30 | 3419 | 5 | Brunskill,Ed | 19:03 | 6:21 | SB | ||
| 6 | Randell,Natalie | 11:30 | 3425 | 6 | Downe,Ben | 19:58 | 6:39 | SB | ||
| 7 | Guler,Melissa | 07:40 | 3426 | 7 | Fawzy,Mustafa | 20:39 | 6:53 | SB | ||
| 8 | Furlong,Kevin | 11:10 | 3434 | 8 | Esslemont,Don | 20:54 | 6:58 | SB | ||
| 9 | Webb,Oliver | 11:20 | 3435 | 9 | Ashby,Graham | 21:09 | 7:03 | SB | ||
| 10 | Holland,Jack | 17:20 | 3436 | 10 | Gerrard,Simon | 21:21 | 7:07 | PB | ||
| 11 | Davison,Grant | 12:10 | 3438 | 11 | Pritchard, Matthew | 22:18 | 7:26 | SB | ||
| 12 | Downe,Ben | 14:40 | 3438 | 12 | Whiteman,Greg | 22:24 | 7:28 | SB | ||
| 13 | Fawzy,Mustafa | 14:00 | 3439 | 13 | Davison,Grant | 22:28 | 7:29 | SB | ||
| 14 | Flynn,Declan | 16:50 | 3440 | 14 | Tozer,Peter | 22:30 | 7:30 | PB | ||
| 15 | Wilkie,Derick | 08:40 | 3447 | 15 | Emery,Ricky | 22:42 | 7:34 | FR | ||
| 16 | Collier,Dominic | 17:10 | 3500 | 16 | Marchant,Libby | 22:51 | 7:37 | SB | ||
| 17 | Gerrard,Simon | 13:40 | 3501 | 17 | Randell,Natalie | 22:55 | 7:38 | SB | ||
| 18 | Esslemont,Don | 14:10 | 3504 | 18 | Webb,Oliver | 23:15 | 7:45 | SB | ||
| 19 | Wingfield,Zoe | 10:30 | 3510 | 19 | Furlong,Kevin | 23:24 | 7:48 | SB | ||
| 20 | Ashby,Graham | 14:10 | 3519 | 20 | Stone,Kevin | 23:26 | 7:49 | SB | ||
| 21 | Brunskill,Ed | 16:20 | 3523 | 21 | Luke,Steve | 24:02 | 8:01 | FR | ||
| 22 | Pritchard, Matthew | 13:10 | 3528 | 22 | Garnish,Sue | 24:17 | 8:06 | SB | ||
| 23 | Marchant,Libby | 12:40 | 3531 | 23 | Wingfield,Zoe | 24:40 | 8:13 | SB | ||
| 24 | Garnish,Sue | 11:20 | 3537 | 24 | Grossman,Linda | 24:47 | 8:16 | SB | ||
| 25 | Brinkworth,Howard | 08:10 | 3604 | 25 | Dodds,Elaine | 24:49 | 8:16 | SB | ||
| 26 | Stone,Kevin | 12:40 | 3606 | 26 | Wilkie,Derick | 26:07 | 8:42 | SB | ||
| 27 | Grossman,Linda | 11:20 | 3607 | 27 | Guler,Melissa | 26:46 | 8:55 | SB | ||
| 28 | Luke,Steve | 12:10 | 3612 | 28 | Brinkworth,Howard | 27:54 | 9:18 | SB | ||
| 29 | Esslemont,Sue | 09:20 | 3731 | 29 | Esslemont,Sue | 28:11 | 9:24 | SB | ||
| 30 | Wilson,Lizzie | 06:00 | 3745 | 30 | Randall,David | 30:51 | 10:17 | FR | ||
| 31 | Randall,David | 11:10 | 4201 | 31 | Wilson,Lizzie | 31:45 | 10:35 | SB |