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Grand Prix Dulwich 5k
Posted by Admin2 in Grand Prix, Races & Reports on July 14th, 2010
Going back a race, here’s a link to an article about the Dulwich 5k by the Streatham Guardian with a couple of Beckenham mentions…
Who’s Anita?
Winner Keith Tickner and runner up James Trapmore
Grand Prix Cliffe Woods 10k: Beckenham Team Hat Trick
Posted by Admin2 in Grand Prix, Races & Reports on July 12th, 2010
Now that Wills wetted your appetite, now for the results in all their racemaster 98 glory…
Numbers were down for this one thanks to holidays, mates weddings (I’m not boycotting the Grand Prix Honest!) and maybe the very hot weather…. But for those that went and for the for the third GP race in a row the mens and ladies teams took the team prizes, with a number of highly respectable performances. Welcomes and well dones to David Scrimshaw (41:25) and Amy Bhandari (58:10) who made their Beckenham racing debuts.
There’s abit of a summer break with the next road race on the 5th September at the Weald 10k (Sevenoaks) followed a week later by the Eridge 10 (voted Runners World no1 race for 2009!) and is part of the Cross Country Prix.
Grand Prix Latest June 2010
Posted by Admin2 in Grand Prix, Races & Reports on July 4th, 2010
Jim writes…..
Here’s the Grand Prix 2010 tables End June 2010 updated following the Eltham and Dulwich events (Eltham also counting to the cross country grand prix). Next event is Cliffe Woods on Sunday. More people turned out for the June events so hopefully that will continue.
Headlines in terms of the latest standings following the June events are:
Main grand prix
* no changes to the leaders with Jim, Richard S and Gail leading the 3 divisions, but…
* first division – Simon stormed up to second giving Richard S some competition
* second division – Ken moved smartly up to second and Ian just moved ahead of Ameet
Age grading
* better % all round with now 14 rather than 11 club members in the average 70-80% range
* Craig with a rare 80+% for the club puts him above Richard S into third
* Helen first lady now ahead of Marc into 6th (and Stuart a new entry between the two of them)
Cross country grand prix
* Mel consolidating her lead in the ladies with Gail and Helen fighting it out for second
* Jim leading the men’s with Ben just behind and Simon in a safe third
I’ve not included the age % for the cross-country as the races vary so much in terms of terrain that a % is not really comparable. It works fine though for the main grand prix. And it means only 3 leagues to think about. If you want me to reinstate it though please say
Grand Prix Dulwich 5k: Beckenham Win Again!!
Posted by Admin2 in Beckenham Photo's, Grand Prix, Races & Reports on June 24th, 2010
Beckenham showed great strength in depth at the Dulwich 5k to claim both mens and ladies team prizes, and also 3rd lady & 1st lady v40.
A long list of injuries, football drunks (ahem) and Dog Sitters made it look like there were more spectators than those taking part, but Beckenham still had enough to take a fair share of the prizes. And here they all are posing with their ….lovely envelopes!
There are some more Photo’s here, only taken with a phone so not up to Tom and Steve standard!
Next Grand Prix Cliffe Woods so get in your entry
Anika 3rd Lady
Kate 1st V40
Jim, Craig & Ben 1st Mens Team
Anika, Kate & Gail 1st Ladies Team
Grand Prix Eltham 5
Posted by Admin2 in Beckenham Photo's, Grand Prix, Races & Reports on June 13th, 2010
| Mens Team Winners | Mel 2nd Lady |
The 1st race of a June double header was at the Eltham 5. A huge turnout of Beckenham‘s finest meant that most of the prizes came back to Foxgrove Road…….. Eventually!
1st V40 Craig Williamson.
1st FV40 Helen Garrett.
2nd Lady Mel Burdett – Awarded after a stewards enquiry that determined that Mel is indeed a lady and not a gent!
3rd Lady Anika Jones .
1st Mens Team – Craig, Ally & Jim.
1st Ladies Team – Mel, Anika & Helen.
Well done to all the prize winners – and Eltham Joggers.
The Results & Steve F photos of the race, and there’s also even more photo’s from Elthams race photographer Dawn Rosie by clicking on her photo of the winning Ladies team – sort of!
Grand Prix Update May 2010
Posted by Admin2 in Grand Prix on May 10th, 2010
Grand Prix tables May 2010 following Ted Pepper last Sunday which was the 5th race out of 12 (remember best 8 to count for points and age grading).
23 runners took part, best turnout since first grand prix event at Blackheath & Bromley.
In the main points competition – Premier, Chris up to 3rd with another impressive win and Craig up 2 places as well. In Div 1 Paul Booth up to 3rd, Mel up 2 to 4th, Andy Hinds up 3 to 9th. With Helen, Kate, Mel and Anika in the top 6 there that bodes well for a mixed Premier League next season. In Div 2, Ameet has closed the gap on Gail to 1 point, Ian McCarthy up one to 3rd, Ken Baksh up 2 places.
In the age grading, Chris M still the only person to have scored above 80%. A flat fastish course so everyone improved their average except for 1. No change at the top but Andy Small has moved up 8 places. Andy H, Toni and Andrew Rees have moved up 5 places each, Mel B and Paul Gay have moved up 3 places, Nolan and Ian have moved up 2, Chris L, Ruth, Ken B, Ameet all up 1 place.
Next races are two short ones close together – the Eltham 5 mile on 13th June and then Dulwich midsummer 5k on 23rd June.
Jim.
Ted Pepper 10k, 2010
Posted by Admin2 in Beckenham Photo's, Grand Prix, Races & Reports on May 3rd, 2010
The Beckenham Grand Prix road show rolled into Langley Park on Bank Holiday Monday for the Ted Pepper 10k. An impressive turn out saw around 26 maroon vests (actually that should be 25, and Wills only clean blue T shirt) taking on the fast 3 lap course. Many congratulations to Chris Minns who won the men’s race in 33:52 ensuring that a Beckenham runners name is inscribed on to the Edward Pepper Memorial trophy for another year. Even with some people absent there were still 7 men under 40 minutes. Not bad eh?
The other most important prize of the day was the prestigious ‘Marshalls Award’, which was won by Nicky (not sure what she did /promised the marshalls) but congratulations all the same!
Click here for the results and on the photo below to see Tom’s pictures of the race.
Darent Valley 10k
Posted by Admin2 in Beckenham Photo's, Everything Else, Grand Prix, Races & Reports on April 18th, 2010
The latest Beckenham Grand Prix race took in the the picturesque race the Swanley & Districts, Darent Valley 10k. The main results are here Darent Valley 10k results, and Team results are here won by Beckenham. Whilst those at the sharp end pretended to take it “easy” before the marathon, there were some excellent times on a tough course….. or so I’m told as I stayed with my bike at the HQ 
I also tried my hand at taking photos with varing success so sorry to those missed….just click on the image below.
Grand Prix First Event
Posted by Site Admin in Grand Prix on February 21st, 2010
Im catching up! here’s the grand prix after one event!
Grand Prix 2010
Posted by Jim in Grand Prix on December 28th, 2009