The results from the third week of Kingston parkruns and updated aggregated April result times are set out below:
Continue reading Grand Prix 12: Kingston parkrun#3 21st April 2012
The results from the third week of Kingston parkruns and updated aggregated April result times are set out below:
Continue reading Grand Prix 12: Kingston parkrun#3 21st April 2012
This is one 26.2 gathering when you don’t even have to run. No reps. No hills. But it won’t be a flat night out. The 2012 awards evening is on Saturday 12th May, 7.30pm at the Holiday Inn, Portsmouth Road, Surbiton. This is when we celebrate our successes or (perhaps!) commiserate with any among us who feel they might have done better in that last handicap! Besides the race trophies (from a mile to marathon) including the Handicap and Grand Prix races, there are the traditional discretionary awards. Who will win Best Newcomers (male and female), Most Improved (male and female), the coveted President’s Trophy, the Achievement Award or Special Merit Cup? It might be YOU! Be there! Three-course dinner and a great disco by none other than Neil Long of Radio Jackie. All for £30. Family and friends welcome to accompany you, of course. We’ve sold more than seventy tickets so far but we can squeeze in a few more. Download a booking form from this site or pick up one from the 26.2 envelope at the club.
Saturday saw the second leg of the April finale to this years Grand Prix. It was also Kevin Furlong’s 100th parkrun, so it was good to see 19 club members running and a few spectating. Results for the day and current best scoring grand prix times over the two runs so far are set out below:
Continue reading Grand Prix 12: Kingston parkrun#2 14th April 2012
Ed Brunskill led the 26.2 contingent home in the third Brighton Marathon, seeming to relish the bright ‘n’ breezy conditions. His excellent time of 2:55:37 was a PB by 17 minutes and, unsurprisingly, he announced himself “very pleased” after having worried that he might gave gone off too quickly. He passed the halfway mark in 1:27, so ran more or less even splits, just slowing a little after 20 miles…”I tried to treat the last six like a training run.”
Athletics Weekly results today (April 12) confirm that 26.2 ladies were third team at the Maidenhead 10 miles on Good Friday. Scorers were Libby Marchant (gun 76:29, chip 76:22), Jane Calderbank (71:0,70:57) and Alice Tozer (65:06, 65:00)
I have never been on a training camp for social runners before so this was a new experience for me although I been with the ‘Running Crazy’ organisation previously to Benidorm and Barcelona to run half marathons. As I landed at Palma (Majorca) I didn’t see a cloud in the sky and was looking forward to eight days of sunshine with the thought of running every other morning, swimming/sunbathing every afternoon and socialising every evening. Running Crazy has a reputation for putting on some great post race parties and having enjoyed those that I had previously attended I knew that I could expect more of the same as far as the social aspect was concerned.
Continue reading Training Camp & The Hell’s Angels of Running?
The final grand prix is contested over each Kingston parkrun in April, with your best time and age-grading counting. 17 club members had a go at the first chance they got, with 3 others adding to their karma by volunteering, and some welcome support. Tired legs from Maidenhead meant few course pbs, but everyone who ran now has a marker to aim for – though many will have just been slotting in a run before putting their feet up in anticipation of looming marathons. Sorry, not looming – eagerly anticipated…
Continue reading Grand Prix#12-Kingston parkrun#1, 7th April 2012
13 26.2 racers finished the 10 miler in glorious, if chilly, sunshine, and those who are marathoning later in the month will be praying for similar conditions then, so good was it for running.
28 finishers, 10 PBs and 3 SBs, but the performance of the evening must go to Alice Tozer, whose third position and PB time of 18:53, set exactly 8 years after her original PB, lifts her to 2nd in the top fifteen Ladies times, and only 4 secs. slower than record holder Maryka Sennema.
James Thurston was first runner home in a PB time of 20:10, 1:24 better than his previous best set in February this year. He was 6 secs ahead of Howard Brinkworth who achieved an SB of 27:46. Greg Whiteman ran a PB of 20:15 in fourth ahead of ‘first-timer’ Richard Bergmann in fifth and Steve Ramek, sixth, with a PB time of 19:26.
It was good to see that there was no ‘Changing’ amonst those runners who were down to run the Maidenhead Easter 10 Miles where, apart fom Alice, Grant Davison, Richard Goulder and Libby Marchant all ran PBs.
Thanks to Neil Sunderland, David Pimm and Peter Tozer (both saving themselves!) for their assistance for our first daylight run of the year. Continue reading Club Handicap Result – April 2012
I can confirm that Berrylands Special is on this Bank Holiday Monday. Please meet at the club at 7pm sharp so we can head down to some of the local fields whilst it is still light.
As per usual other various runs are on too.
A good chance to work off those Easter Eggs
See you Monday