October 2012

 

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Featured events this month:

• Staffordshire Trail Marathon
• Great South Run
• Snowdonia Marathon
• Warwick Relays
• Abingdon Marathon
• Daventry 10
• Stroud Half-Marathon
• Birmingham Half-Marathon
• Round Rotherham 50 Mile
• Rugby 10
• Runrider Bristol Duathlon
• Leicester Marathon
• Coventry Half-Marathon
• Isle of Wight Marathon
• Vanguard Way
• Chester Marathon
• Midland Counties Cross-Country Relays

Staffordshire Trail Marathon - 31 October

2

Mark Baker

3:25:47

After a surprise win at last year’s inaugural event, I returned to Staffordshire to try and defend my title. This year, the organisers had 2 events on consecutive days, but I was only running on the first day.
The course is based in Penkridge, and features 4 laps of an out and back course along a canal tow path for about 3.3 miles. This totals just over a marathon. There is a water station at the turn, and another at the start/finish. The route is flat apart from 5 locks where there are short upward inclines on the way out, and downward inclines on the way back. The path is very narrow and muddy in places, which is difficult when passing people in the opposite direction. This year there was an angling event taking place, so the fishing rods across the towpath were unexpected obstacles early on. However, it was dry on the day and everyone was in good spirits throughout the race.
Before the race, I was announced as the defending champion and was invited to walk up to the start line! About 30 runners lined up, and I started strongly, leading 2 other runners along the first leg. This group stayed together until halfway, until one of the runners dropped back a few yards. I was struggling to stay with the leader on the 5th leg, but we turned together for the 6th leg. The leader then increased the pace dramatically, and I had no answer. There was soon a big gap, and I was now just trying to hold second place. The last few miles were very tough, but I just about held on to be runner-up. The times were a bit quicker than last year in the drier conditions.
Following tradition, the top 3 posed for a finish photo before retiring to the Boat Inn for some welcome hot chocolate.

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Great South Run - 28 October

1968

Mark Dalton

1:17:26

PB

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Snowdonia Marathon - 28 October

929	Tony Bowe		4:33:14
941	Claudie Combelas		4:34:01

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Warwick Relays - 27 October

Northbrook Men's Team Black- 21st position
total time: 56:28

	Paul Robbins		13:57	leg 1
	Kevin Coughlan		15:11	leg 2
	Rob Barry		13:37	leg 3
	Rob Barry		13:43	leg 4

Northbrook Ladies Team Yellow - 1st position
total time 40:33

	Amanda Deavy		12:24	leg 1
	Alix Critchley		14:04	leg 2
	Lyn McDonald		14:05	leg 3

Northbrook Ladies Team Green - 13th position
total time 54:43

	Lee Hill		21:34	leg 1
	Amy Burdis		16:20	leg 2
	Corinna O'Connor		16:49	leg 3

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Abingdon Marathon - 21 October

	Tony Hughes		3:28:20	PB
	Anne Hughes		4:09:00

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Daventry 10 - 21 October

25	Peter Fellows		1:05:36
30	Jonathan Seed		1:06:57	PB*
40	Lyn McDonald		1:08:44	PB
59	Chris Jones		1:14:08	PB
88	Sarah McNaney		1:18:47
150	Linda Richards		1:33:18	PB

*debut event at this distance

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Stroud Half-Marathon - 21 October

Paul Robbins

1:36:58

PB

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Birmingham Half-Marathon - 21 October

209	Amanda Deavy		1:23:58	PB
229	Martin Winch		1:24:33	PB
236	John Wilson		1:24:42	PB
2799	Mark Dalton		1:45:54	PB
3429	Gemma Nash		1:48:53	PB
3514	Liz Pharoah		1:49:17	PB
3629	Amy Burdis		1:49:49
5361	Tony Bowe		1:56:51
5400	Martin Gavin		1:57:01
8705	Charlotte Hamil		2:12:32
11150	Lee Hill		2:31:04

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Rowbotham's Round Rotherham 50 mile Trail Race - 20 October

Paul Stead

10h 08m 15s

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Rugby 10 - 14 October

40	Tony Hughes		1:10:38	PB
42	Robert Simpson		1:11:10
57	Richard Hands		1:14:23
68	Kevin Coughlan		1:18:56	PB
71	Mark Dalton		1:20:03	PB
78	Gemma Nash		1:23:25
81	Liz Pharoah		1:23:53	PB
85	Anne Hughes		1:26:06	PB

After the finish at The Rugby 10m, hot sausage rolls, carrot cake & chocolate cake plus coffee. Lots of sun after the fog had cleared, a great run for us all with a more than healthy dose of Warwickshire hills.
Just picture undulating lanes, foggy meadows and the sun beaming down! A great morning run!! - Kevin

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Runrider Bristol Duathlon - 14 October

Jonathan Seed

3:08:39

2nd vet

This was an off road duathlon with 2 laps of a 5.5km run course followed by 3 laps of a really fun 9km bike course then 1 more run lap.
The run was pretty hilly, mostly downhill 1st half, mostly up the 2nd. There was also a shorter race option so from the start I was behind quite a lot of the field and didn't know where I was in my category. I managed to catch a few people on the bike course and avoided being caught on the last run despite resorting to a run/walk on some of the steeper climbs.
To say I was surprised to find I'd bagged 2nd place in the vets was an understatement!

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Leicester Marathon - 14 October

Tony Bowe

3:54:59

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Coventry Half-Marathon - 14 October

26	Mark Baker		1:25:06	3rd V40
33	Chris Delaney		1:26:02
124	Dave Halford		1:31:28
151	Tony Forde		1:36:18
193	Tommy Dempsey		1:39:01	PB
196	Paul Robbins		1:39:06
296	Nigel McCann		1:43:23	PB
436	Jack Langman		1:49:32	2nd V60
449	Clare Owen		1:49:46
537	Tony Williams		1:52:23
596	Robert Pool		1:54:40
629	Helen Corden		1:55:42
951	Peter Kirkhope		2:08:22

Full results at: http://bit.ly/RpxEbO

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Isle of Wight Marathon - 7 October

11

Dave Halford

3:20:31

1st V50

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Vanguard Way - 7 - 8 October

Day 1	Corinna O'Connor		10:40:30	35 miles, Croydon to Crowborough
Day 2			10:11:52	35 miles, Crowborough to Newhaven

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Chester Marathon - 7 October

This was a debut Marathon for Chris therefore a PB.
My attempt to go sub 3.00 didn’t quite go to plan. Just outside target of 1.28 for first half due to slow start but completely blew up at 15 miles and had to jog/walk to the finish. Should have had what the marshals/volunteers had for breakfast because I’ve never had such enthusiastic support in a race before - Peter

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Midland Counties Cross-Country Relays - West Bromwich - 6 October

Northbrook Men's A Team - 23rd position
total time: 1:43:09