Beckenham sent an elite squad of vets to the Bromley vets 5 mile race this weekend, as modesty prevents Andy from bragging… I’m pleased to inform you all that the spritely trio of Stuart Scott, Andy Hinds and Ken Baksh won the team prize! Gail also took 2nd place in the lady race. Congratulations.
Elsewhere Will and Mel ran the Great Bentley Half marathon 1:25 and 1:34, I think Will has been lying to us about his age…he’s clearly 37! Results
Anyone else race?
The entry forms and online entry for this years race, which is to be held on Wednesday 9th May at 7:30pm can be found by clicking this link
We look forward to seeing you all again soon, and thank you in advance for your great support for this race in advance.
Alot to record for the history books this weekend!
Starting with Saturday and thanks to Chris Lydon who organised a crack volunteer squad of runners who were resting ahead of the Knole Park 10k. They helped out at the Bromley parkrun giving the usual voulunteers a well earned rest/hand.
And to the racing…
Knole Park – Well done to al the prize winners.
Ladies
3rd overall and 2nd V35 Mel Burdett
1st v45 Helen Garrett
1st Ladies Team
Mel Burdett
Helen Garrett
Isobel Finnie
Men
1st V50 Chris Lydon
1st Mens Team
Chris Lydon
Toni Merola
Stuart Scott
Half Marathons
Over in Bath, Jim Addison notched up a solid 1:16 at the Bath Half Marathon, whilst down south in deepest darkest Kent, Kate Marchant produced an excellent PB of 1:34 at the Lydd Half Marathon, fair reward for all the manic hill running she’s done of late! Also running at Lydd was
Daniel Bently – Gouldstone 1:22
& Sophie Bishop 1:37.
A weekend round up….
Three notable runs from Beckenham Runners to tell you about this week!
Congratulations to Will who only went and won his first race!
Will managed to hold off Dulwich’s Tony Tuohy and Clare Elms to win the Henfield 9 in 58:28.
Mel also had a good run as she get’s back to full fitness finishing 3rd lady. Here are the results.
Stephen Thackeray also had an impressive run out at the Tunbridge Wells half marathon. On a hard course he finished in a very impressive 1:14:40 and 9th place. Things are looking good for London! Results
If you’ve never run before, or want to start running again in the company of others then this could be for you.
We are pleased to announce another one of our beginners running courses, details as below, or you can down load a copy from here. Our experienced and very friendly runners will be on hand to guide you along and help you get going over an 8 week period starting on the 23 January. If you have got any questions then please feel free to contact Chris. Good Luck!
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
Happy New Year to everyone!
Here’s a list of races to take us up to the summer. Please note the races highlighted in green which are the Grand Prix races. First up is the B&B mob match, hope to have as many of you there as possible…. more details to be circulated on the club email soon.
Sorry for the short notice, but the 2nd Grand Prix will be the Ashford 10k 5/2, which you can enter online and is in four weeks time, so get in your entries!
The provisional plan for the second half of the year is:
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….
A final round up of this years Grand Prix….
Following on from the Brighton 10k results which included PB’s for Chris Minns and Helen Garrett, the final Grand Prix of the year took place at Bromley parkrun. Click here for event 118 results, Kate Marchant took her turn to get a 5k pb beating the 21:00 minute mark in 20:53.
Anyways, results are now in for the final Grand Prix standings as follows… (I’ll add the full table when I can get it off Jim)
Premier League
1 Stuart Scott, 2 Jim Addison, 3 Chris Lydon
Division One
1 Mel Burdett, 2 Simon Carter, 3 Steve Ferra
Division Two
1 Ed Osbourne, 2 Georgina Selway, 3 Nicky Howard
Congratulations to everyone, details of next years racing to be announced soon.
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
