Weekend Round Up, Mel Wins, Edgar goes sub 3, Jim 2nd & Ameet shocker!

Posted on 26/09/2010 by Simon

Congratulations Mel Burdett who won the Quicksand 15 down in windy Margate, Results and finished 8th overall!

Congratulations Edgar Sequeria for achieving a sub 3 2:59 at a wet Berlin Marathon looks like a perfectly judged effort to me 🙂 and also check out the Video, mainly of Ed drinking, chasing a banana and that sweet moment of crossing the line in under 3 hours!

Congratulations Jim Addison for finishing 2nd at the Switchback 5 in 28:29 (Switchback 2010 Results Ameet and Helen also in racing attendance)

Jim Addison 2nd Place

Helen Garrett

Ameet Patel....You have some explaining to do!!!!!!

Congratulations to Hockey Debs, (ok Deborah Sawyer) for breaking the 2hr mark in 1:58 at the Run to the Beat Half Marathon, ably paced by Gail Arnott who finished in 1:56. photo evidence and and more evidence

……………. finally commiserations to Simon, who came off 2nd best in a game of chicken with a 4×4 last week so had to miss Berlin… hope the injuries are healing ok and that you make a speedy recovery mate.

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WAVA and stuff

Posted on 24/09/2010 by Simon

If you’re confused about what on earth WAVA ratings are all about then click on the picture below for an explanation from the Beeb….

Racing season has started in earnest….Good luck to this weekends runners whether it’s Running to the Beat in Greenwich or struggling thro quicksand in Thanet… and all the best to Edgar at the Berlin Marathon*.

*Simon has a story to tell

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Will Bolton Relay

Posted on 19/09/2010 by Simon

Posted by Jim

Results are up for the  Will Bolton Relay

Well done everyone. Great to get 5 teams out and to do well compared to last couple of years. Out of 54 teams the mens teams 7th (only beaten by Tonbridge A-D and BandB AandB) and 18th and 38th and the women’s teams 45th and 51st (9th and 14th out of 15 women’s teams).

Looking at the last couple of years each of, Chris L, Ben, Stuart, Gail, me all did a minute quicker than our last outing.

Edit: It should also be noted that mens A team beat a fair number of other clubs A teams, and also well done to Hazel and Rachel who lost their cross county cherry.

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Handicap September 2010

Posted on 14/09/2010 by Simon

Septembers handicap results are now up, thanks Andy H for your swift work. Click here

Overall points table to follow….

Next race is the 13th October.

EDIT 23/9: Handicap page updated with overall points table following Septembers race.

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Eridge 10 Trail Race

Posted on 13/09/2010 by Simon
Flippen eck that was hard, but well worth it. If you haven’t done it before then you should, it’s a great race over the hills, mud and bogs of the Eridge Estate…I think we got off lightly this year as it’s been relatively dry so it wasn’t as muddy as it could have been. Saying that I still managed to lose my shoe in ‘Cheeky’s Bog’…. and thanks to Will for the great support… (he only turned up after we’d finished to grab some free cake!)
Results can be found here..

2010 Results

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Cross Country

Posted on 11/09/2010 by Simon

Two things:

1) Next week, Saturday 18/9 2:45pm is the Will Bolton memorial 4x4k at Sparrows Den. Please email me by Monday 13/9 noon to let me know if you can run. Had a good response from the men but need more ladies!

2) Also please let me know if you’d like to be registered for the Kent League XC races even if you don’t think you’ll make it to all of them. Cost is £2 per runner which covers all the races, bargain! Races listed under the fixtures tab above.

Thanks

Nolan.wilkens@yahoo.com

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Assembly League Race 6 of 6 Beckenham 2010.

Posted on 06/09/2010 by Simon

Here are the results from the final Assembly League race of 2010.  Overall the men finished 8th and the ladies finished 7th, we could have done much better had we full strength teams out for all the fixtures. But well done to Clare Elms (everyones favourite 2nd claimer) for taking the ladies title… but at least Beckenham finished with a flourish thanks to a good turn out for the final fixture, as evident below…

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Weald 10k results

Posted on 06/09/2010 by Simon

are here

A warm sunny day greeted the runners in the village of the Weald.  Times where down as the course had a big hill at the end.

Well done Mel, our only prize winner with top vet.  We also hope Ken has recovered from his collision with a cyclist on the course.  Eridge next week – who will get injured there?

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Run Britain’s New Handicap System

Posted on 02/09/2010 by Simon

Whilst munching on my lunchtime sarnies, I stumbled across this Run Britain. Thought it quite interesting. Run Britain in association with everyones favourite running/stalking website Power of 10, has developed a handicap ranking system which takes into account the runners, races, and times over a the year and gives them a handicap score. (Don’t think it does age and gender) Here’s the official blurb….

‘The runbritain handicap scoring system is a unique way of measuring your progress and comparing yourself with other runners.

As in golf, handicaps go from scratch (zero, or even slightly negative for elite runners) to 36 with increments of 0.1.

To compute your handicap we take a combination of your recent best performances at 5K, 10K, Half Marathon & Marathon but adjusted for course difficulty and weather conditions using our special formulae.

This means that you can improve your handicap at any race as on harder courses you won’t need to run quite as quickly as on faster ones.’

I had a quick look at the results for some of us, there’s loads more but haven’t time to list everyone…for now. Plus if you log in you have a chance to add some of your races that don’t automatically show up which may effect your scores…….Happy stalking!

Chris Minns 0.9
Jim Addison 1.4
Clare Elms 3.2
Nolan Wilkens 3.9
Richard Selway 4.9
Will Withecombe 5.3
Marc Clayton 5.5
Mel Burdett 8.2
Helen Garrett 10.0
Anika Jones 10.2
Kate Marchant 11.3

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Beckenham Charity 10k Trail Race

Posted on 27/08/2010 by Simon

An entry form has now been added to the race details page which can be found here, along with details of the race, how to enter, prizes, course info and tea & cakes.

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