May 2013

 

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Featured events this month:

Corby 5 - East Midlands Grand Prix Race 4 - 29 May

Pos   Cat     M/F Cat Pos
122 Eddie Simmonds M55 35:36   104 7
277 Angela Hands F45 50:56   82 14

Standings after four races:

    Cat       Cat Pos  
  Richard Hands M40       19  
  Dave Cooper M45       42  
  Eddie Simmonds M55       5  
  Charles Jones M60       15  
  Angela Hands F45       5  

Leicestershire Sprint Triathlon - 27 May

  Linda Richards   1:32:01

BUPA London 10k - 27 May

2608 Richard Hands   50:05
6783 Angela Hands   62:01

Marshman Plus Triathlon - 26 May

  Tony Bowe   8:59:59

2600m swim, 130k bike, 30k run, 1 snake, 2 punctures

Coventry Sprint Triathlon - 26 May

20 Keith Burdett   1:11:32 2nd M50
47 Paul Robbins   1:15:59  
94 Brian Knox   1:24:11  
109 Lyn McDonald   1:27:00 1st F35

  400m swim, 20k bike, 5k run

Edinburgh Marathon - 25 May

  Claudie Combelas   3:57:54

Blisworth Friday 5 - East Midlands Grand Prix Race 3 - 24 May

Pos   Cat     M/F Cat Pos
108 Richard Hands M40   34:05 101 23
144 Eddie Simmonds M55   35:20 127 8
341 Angela Hands F45   50:12 106 18

Cotswold Hilly 100, 10-Stage Relay - 19 May

Team Northbrook Yellow - total time: 11:28

Leg      
1 William Kirk-Wilson   01:06:50
2 Dave Almond   01:07:25
3 Mike Wheeler   01:15:00
4 Martin Winch   01:13:23
5 Mark Baker   01:07:16
6 Pete Fellows   01:07:45
7 Richard French   01:13:11
8 Steven Turvey   01:04:13
9 John Wilson   01:04:59
10 Amanda Deavy   01:08:13

Team Northbrook Sunburst - total time: 14:12

Leg      
1 Tony French   01:45:00
2 Bob Adams   01:28:42
3 Joe Kelly   01:13:45
4 Peter Kirkhope   01:21:48
5 Cath Fenn   01:18:36
6 Andrew Pitt   01:28:24
7 Tommy Dempsey   01:22:09
8 Amy Burdis   01:20:59
9 Jack Langman   01:23:40
10 Keith Burdett   01:29:22

Team Northbrook Green - total time: 14:53

Leg      
1 Liz Pharoah   01:21:30
2 Gemma Nash   01:25:35
3 Corinna O'Connor   01:25:02
4 Tony Hughes   01:27:18
5 Katy Davies   01:25:06
6 Anne Hughes   01:35:08
7 Spencer Davies   01:27:38
8 Fraser Barrett   01:40:04
9 Paul Robbins   01:25:00
10 Jason Brannigan   01:41:00

Team Northbrook Black - total time: 15:24

Leg      
1 Claudie Combelas   01:23:00
2 John Gibbons   01:34:00
3 Linda Richards   01:42:00
4 Lyn McDonald   01:22:00
5 Sarah McNaney   01:15:00
6 Craig McNaney   01:23:00
7 Tony Forde   02:13:00
8 Mark Dalton   01:25:00
9 Steve Handy   01:23:00
10 Lee Hill   01:44:00

The day for the Yellow team started at 5:30am, when I decided that I couldn't be sure whether Will would get to the start on time, and therefore I needed to get to Stratford before 7am! I needn't have worried, as Will was doing his customary 'use the local shop toilet' before the start of the race. It took a bit of persuading but they relented eventually!

The next difficult moment was Will realising that his first time wearing his Northbrook vest (as a second claim member) meant he had to explain to his first claim club (Leamington) why he wasn't running for them! Needless to say he acted like the true man. Lied and hid at the back of the field!

The race started at a tremendous pace with all starters representing an 'A' team with the exception of Kenilworth and Northbrook who had a male 'B' and a mixed team respectively. Kenilworth, Bourton and Leamington quickly created a lead from the rest of the pack. My attempted support of the Kenilworth B team runner clearly wasn't appreciated as a reply of 'B team my a**e!' resulted from my encouraging cheering. Clearly not happy with the team selection! The first handover went without a hitch after a modest 1:07 from a 'returning from injury' Will and Dave Almond was off.

Despite excuses about lack of fitness Dave still managed a very respectable 1:07 for arguably the hardest leg of the day (apart from leg 9 of course). At this point I was at home, having breakfast, cutting the lawn, and generally getting more and more nervous as some decent leg times started coming through on the phone, Wheeler - 1:15, Winch 1:13 (with an excuse relating to too much alcohol a couple of evenings previous), Baker - 1:07, Fellows 1:07, Vinny - 1:13.

By this time the temperature was up to a nice 18 degrees and I was waiting very impatiently for Steve to arrive at the start of leg 9. News had come through of the disappearance of TTT. Where was he? Had he been abducted by aliens? Had a magical absence of black on yellow arrows appeared just for the Black team's leg 7 runner? Would we ever see him again?

Steve came flying around the corner to the changeover point of leg 9 and handed over to me. The leg started well, catching up a Massey Ferguson B team runner within a few hundred metres and a Sphinx B team runner on the first hill. It was going well. I like going uphill. We train going uphill. We DON'T train going downhill. The 1.5 mile downhill stretch started off OK, it was nice, a great view, not too steep. Then the gradient increased, and my quads started tightening, and suddenly going downhill was painful and not nice. Thankfully the bottom of the hill quickly appeared (after a 5m 30s mile) and 5 mile run in to the finish of the leg commenced. But it suddenly wasn't quite as easy as it was before. The quads that had been ripped to shreds on the vertical 1.5 mile drop suddenly had to try and power the body horizontally. Which they did significantly slower than they had before the drop! The rest of the leg went fairly painfully and suddenly the end was in sight, and the handover to Amanda was in sight. A quick check of the watch showed 1:04! Quite pleased with that! On closer inspection it showed 1:04:59……and a distance of 9.8 miles. Best not tell anyone that then. But there was good news!

We had found the Tall Teacher called Tony. A note was made on the mobile phone in preparation for the next Northbrook Awards Night, right under the 'Marathon Sick Bin' entry.

Amanda set off like a bat out of hell ably support by me, Julie, Mark, Vinny and Pete. She quickly made up ground on the Sphinx A runner and started to close on the next A team runner, but she was rapidly running out of time. The leg ended in the car park in Stratford with the now familiar 'Deavy Gurn'. A great run of 1:08 on a 10.2 mile leg had secured Northbrook a B team second place trophy (or glass paperweight). We were beaten only by a Kenilworth B team that had enough talent to come 3rd overall.

A fantastic day for Northbrook, with an unprecedented 4 teams and 40 runners taking part without a hitch (a little lie maybe). Places will be hard to come by next year as there were a number of comments from supporters who wanted to take part next year. a 5th team perhaps?

Well that's my report over with. The paperweight has joined the cross country plaque, and the technical T-shirt (small was OK) has already got tonight's dinner on it. Success - John.

White Peaks Marathon - 18 May

  Tony Bowe   3:46:04

Rugby 6 - East Midlands Grand Prix Race 2 - 15 May

Pos   Cat     M/F Cat Pos  
110 Richard Hands M40 40:45   104 27  
157 Eddie Simmonds M55 42:56   141 10  
163 Dave Cooper M45 43:10   147 20 PB
237 Charles Jones M60 47:27   196 7  
319 Lee Hill F35 59:00   236 84  
322 Angela Hands F45 59:13   86 15  
324 Ros Myers F60 59:47   88 10  
328 Tony French M65 62:41   237 8  

Full results at www.mcs.open.ac.uk/mkac/the_emgp

Bosworth Half-Marathon - 12 May

123 Tommy Dempsey   1:38:45
246 Spencer Davies   1:50:36

Sheffield Half-Marathon - 12 May

  Claudie Combelas   1:51:15 PB

Coventry Parkrun - 11 May

13 Amanda Deavy   19:25 1st lady
14 Steve Turvey   19:43  
25 Peter Kirkhope   20:17  
31 Mark Baker   20:51  
33 Jonathan Seed   20:57  
49 Paul Robbins   21:37  
65 Tony Hughes   22:33  
75 Damian Pharoah   22:51  
76 Steve Handy   22:52  
77 Keith Burdett   22:55  
91 Tony Mackness   23:20  
105 Kevin Coughlan   23:53  
122 Andrew Pitt   24:33  
142 Mark Dalton   25:10  
145 Richard Hodge   25:17  
146 Steve Bottomley   25:18  
189 Joanne Moyse   27:15  
211 John Ralph   27:58  
214 Brian Hewetson   28:03  
210 Sylvia Guthrie   28:10  
238 Richard Wise   28:59  
272 Harry Miles   30:04  
328 Tony French   32:01  
391 Spencer Davies   37:57  

Silverstone 10k - East Midlands Grand Prix Race 1 - 8 May

Pos   Cat Chip   M/F Cat Pos  
172 Richard Hands M40 40:57   163 29 PB
267 Eddie Simmonds M55 43:20   243 8  
286 Lyn McDonald F35 43:46   28 6  
375 Dave Cooper M45 45:23   333 49 PB
441 Gemma Nash FS 46:44   59 20 PB
589 Charles Jones M60 49:27   497 10  
943 Lee Hill F35 61:07   239 46  
964 Angela Hands F45 62:04   250 42  

Full results at www.mcs.open.ac.uk/mkac/the_emgp

Milton Keynes Marathon - 6 May

585 Tony Bowe   3:57:57
1014 Chris Jones   4:24:42

Brueton Parkrun, Solihull - 4 May

  Tony Hughes   22:02  
  Gemma Nash   22:06 PB
  Corinna O'Connor   22:45 PB
  Lee Hill   28:10 PB

DK 10k - 1 May

  Richard Hands   42:20
  Angela Hands   64:06