Archive for Cross Country
Kent Cross Country Champs 2012
Posted by Nolan in Cross Country on January 7th, 2012
We had a great turn out at Wilmington for the Kent XC championships and some great individual performances from the guys and the gals. Overall the mens team came another crediable 7th overall in the 6 to score, and a great 4th in the 12 to score. The ladies matched the men with a 7th place. Mens results & Ladies Results
Click on photo for link to more taken on the day
Kent Masters Cross Country
Posted by Nolan in Cross Country on December 12th, 2011
Well done to Carl Ferri who ran the Kent Master Cross Country race at the weekend and came 3rd in the V40 race! Maybe next year it could be a race for the vets at the club to target, as I’m sure we’d do well in the team stakes….
Kent League XC Race 3 Sparrows Den
Posted by Nolan in Cross Country on December 5th, 2011
A great turn out of 16 runners took part in the latest round of the Kent League Cross Country. In the four to score competition strong runs from Chris Minns, Stephen Thackeray, Carl Ferri and Jim Addison collected a score of 105 points, just beating the previous best of 108 from last months race. It was enough for 5th place on the day, and put’s Beckenham 6th overall. We also had enough runners out to qualify for the 12 man competition, coming 4th out of 6 teams. All in all a very pleasing day, long may the new enthusiasm for cross country continue…… next up, the Kent Championships 7/1, I’m sending off the form at the end of the week. If you want to put your name down contact me ASAP! Full results
Kent League Race 2 Tonbridge
Posted by Nolan in Cross Country on November 1st, 2011
Beckenham’s senior mens team finished a highly respectable 5th place at Saturdays 2nd Kent League race, scoring 107 points. We finished sandwiched between Blackheath and Bromley and Cambridge Harriers. The result probably ranks as one of our better outings in recent years thanks to a strong turn out for the men and the welcome addition of Carl Ferri and Stephen Thackeray to our ranks. The four scorers were also backed up by strong runs from Stuart and Will. It all bodes well for the future and hopefully a good showing at this years Kent Championships, please get back to me if you can run! Full Results
9. Chris Minns 35:27
26. Jim Addison 37:39
32: Stephen Thackeray 38:06
40: Carl Ferri 39:01
65: Will Withecombe 40:32
67: Stuart Scott 40:38
109: Simon Carter 43:08
120: Ed Osbourne 43:46
157: Neil Barnes: 47:28
And last but not least…fresh from his euro playboy adventures around the med
170: Ben Calascione 50:23
The next race is the womens only at Danson Park 12 November, with the next mens race at Sparrows Den 3 December.
Club Championship – Petts Wood & Cross Country
Posted by Nolan in Cross Country, Grand Prix, Races & Reports on October 10th, 2011
Petts Wood 10k
For the second GP in a row, Jim finished in another impressive 2nd place, however the burning question on everyone’s lips, who was Stuart Slot? It seems abit of a misunderstanding meant that the men’s team prize slipped from under our noses thanks to registration problems. You win some you lose some. But in any case the ladies had a good turn out and won the women’s team prize with Helen maintaining her good form and finishing in 5th and 1st V45. Club Championship age grading results will be announced at the Christmas Dinner! Results
Kent League Cross Country Race 1.
Due to the ladies and most of the men, saving themselves for Sundays club championship at Petts Wood, there was a poor turnout for the 1st Kent League XC race in Swanley. But at least we were able to field a 4 man mens team. The course was fairly tame for a cross country race, ie pretty flat with no mud. The standard was very high so a 16th place for Chris Minns was a good run. Next up is the slightly more challenging hills of Tonbridge on the 29/10/11. Results
Orion 15
Posted by Nolan in Cross Country, Everything Else, Races & Reports on March 20th, 2011
This weekend I took the place of Sophie and Anika’s usual long run partner Ben (while he was in Lisbon), and escorted them to Chingford for the Orion 15. Thanks to Sophies 10 year old who programed her cars inbuilt sat nav, we made it in good time to arrive in a parallel universe. A cricket ground club house doubling up as a race HQ… which also had problems with providing ladies with a hot shower(sound familiar?), ha, at least we have ladies showers. To be fair, it is only Orion’s temporary home while they build a new one…onto the race.
Have to say, the Orion 15 is my new favorite race! It had everything you could want, mud, bogs, trails, countryside, woods, roads…golf course..and hills, hills, hills and then a very steep hill at mile 11 which was enough to make you cry at the top and shuffle along like 9o year old who’s put their hip out. It was proper old school cross country only marked by saw dust. Running along the trails you could just imagine gentleman in their leather shoes and baggy shorts and vest whatever the weather running this race back in the good old days! With trail shoes weighing a ton with all the accumulated mud, it’s an achievement just to finish, so the plastic cup of champagne at the end was a really nice touch. And the cost of this great race…nothing. All they ask for is a donation. The only downside was a mini load of chavy t@%ts who ignored the marshals at a road crossing honking their horn at all the runners… but thanks to Orion and the marshalls, superb job.
| 27 | Nolan Wilkens | Beckenham RC | M | 1 | 48 | 10 | ||||
| 183 | Anika Jones | Beckenham RC | F | V 35 | 2 | 14 | 0 | |||
| 184 | Sophie Bishop | Beckenham RC | F | V 35 | 2 | 14 | 1 |
Anika and Sophie
Kent League Cross Country: Round 4
Posted by Nolan in Cross Country on March 14th, 2011
Results are in from the Kent League, congratuations to Mel for finishing 3rd overall vet, and Anika for 5th overall vet…. and Beckenham Ladies finishing a fantastic 4th overall. The men fared not so well, but were able to get a team out thanks to Wills efforts so creditability wasn’t lost with an overall finish in 8th place. Hopefully there won’t be so many fixture clashes next year, so more people will want to get involved….including myself in that (ahem)
All the results can be found here Kent League 2010-11
Kent Cross Country Mens Race 3.
Posted by Nolan in Cross Country on February 14th, 2011
And one more race to report about, phew!…. Saturday was the penultimate mens Kent League Race, rearranged from December. Thanks to Will a team was scrabbled together and did well.
Chris writes.
We were 7th team at Swanley: 8 (Chris M) / 37 (Ali) / 41 (Stu) / 65 (Will) / 100 (Paul B). I spent most of the race dragging the second group around as we chased “Dan” from Tonbridge in 4th as he fell off the back of the leaders. Didn’t want to kill myself like at Southerns trying to drop everyone, but also wanted to get a bit of work in rather than sit at the back. Thought the race was going to end one lap earlier which didn’t help!
Pirie 10
Posted by Nolan in Cross Country, Races & Reports on February 7th, 2011
Jim writes:
Simon Harris and Jim Addison turned out for South London Harrier’s Pirie 10m cross-country on Sunday, rearranged after the snow before Xmas. We were one short of a team but Herne Hill would have won easily anyway. It was a windswept Farthing Common for a small but cheery field of about 120. Despite the lack of rain the course was very muddy in the lower field and Jim fell over once trying to keep up with a guy with studs. Jim also survived a 6 inch nail going clean through his shoe and between two toes in the warm up! Despite that we came in 11th (Jim, 1:05:20) and 18th (Simon 1:08:53) which was very respectable given the conditions. It was a lovely course, two laps of a figure of eight, and great marshals and it’s certainly an option for the December grand prix fixture when it should return to its usual date, though we do have a large number of trail races already.
(what Jim didn’t mention is that went on to run more miles ending up with 22 for the day, nice training!)
Southern Cross Country Champs
Posted by Nolan in Cross Country, Everything Else, Races & Reports on January 30th, 2011
The Southern Cross Country Championships were held on Saturday on the notorious Parliament Hill Course which is fabled for it’s hills, mud, extra long distance and high standard of club runner. On show were 3 Beckenham representatives, Chris Minns, Stuart Scott (running for Kent) and our favourite 2nd claimer Clare Elms in her Dulwich Vest. Chris last ran this race back in 98 and shares the following race report.
Chris writes…..
A quick report from Saturdays race at Parliament Hill fields:
Chaos at the start (no one expecting the gun to go off) meant that I was in the rare position of being at the front of a pen and well up the field at the top of the first hill. I kept going in this style for the first lap, and sat in about 60th coming into the last stetch of the first lap.
After the first set of hills on the second lap (7km in) I was in so much trouble I thought I was going to have to drop out. I tried to relax and use all that stamina training to ride it out and not lose too many places. This sort of worked until about the 12k mark, when I realized I couldn’t feel my arms anymore. I kept trying to hang in there, but got caught by a few familiar faces. Still managed to finish up 78th, 5 places inside my last attempt on this course in 1998! I wanted to push myself to test my fitness today, but top 60 at 5k was too early to be that far up the field. I really suffered trying not to go backwards the last half of the race.
Saw Stuart before and after, but don’t know how he got on. Claire Elms had an excellent race, finishing 14th or 15th. Great to have Mel, Will, and the dogs for support. I heard a few others cheering for Beckenham as well – maybe we could get a contingent out next time?
Chris
| 77 | 4939 | 00:54:02 | Chris Minns |
| 334 | 4080 | 01:02:50 | Stuart Scott |
| 16 | 2724 | 00:31:28 | Clare Elms |
