March 2014

 

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Featured events this month:

Coventry Half-Marathon - 23 March

42 Stuart Lumsden   1:24:09  
48 Amanda Deavy   1:25:44 1st F35
59 Mark Baker   1:26:16  
61 John Wilson   1:27:01  
75 Steve Turvey   1:28:12  
97 Jonathan Seed   1:30:21  
114 Tony Forde   1:31:36  
127 Richard French   1:31:15  
182 Dave Halford   1:35:53  
191 Steve Handy   1:36:06  
198 Peter Kirkhope   1:36:05  
199 Paul Robbins   1:36:35  
338 Bob Adamsa   1:41:42  
383 Nigel McCann   1:42:50  
433 Spencer Davies   1:44:41  
464 Clare Rowntree   1:45:25  
608 Jack Langman   1:48:50  
628 Mark Dalton   1:49:30  
666 Kieran Prescott   1:50:21  
688 Aaron Dreelan   1:50:54  
689 Alex McBain   1:50:54  
690 Richard Wise   1:50:54  
709 Rebecca Jarvis   1:51:14  
753 Keith Burdett   1:52:38  
904 Joanne Moyse   1:55:36  
977 Sharon Thompson   1:59:55  
1221 Fraser Barrett   2:05:53  
1253 Robert Dimbleby   2:07:26  
1330 Kevin Coughlan   2:08:09  
1383 Jo Webb   2:11:00  
1455 Clare Weston   2:12:35  
1456 Lee Hill   2:12:35  
1496 Kirsty Mee   2:15:09  
1668 Donna Mutch   2:26:01  
1673 Ros Myers   2:25:56  

Run for Tomorrow Marathons - 15/16 March

Day 1 - 15 March

  Tony Bowe   4:20:25  

Day 2 - 16 March

  Tony Bowe   4:44:15  

Midland Counties Road Relays - Sutton Park - 16 March

Ladies 6-stage

Northbrook Ladies A Team
 18th team in 1:57:16

1 Amanda Deavy 13 16:32
2 Liz Pharoah 20 19:55
3 Lyn McDonald 19 18:23
4 Sarah McNaney 23 22:51
5 Amy Burdis 20 19:36
6 Clare Rowntree 18 19:59

Northbrook Ladies B Team
36th team in 2:32:19

1 Linda Richards 48 24:23
2 Abbe Humphreys 43 23:56
3 Lee Hill 42 25:36
4 Clare Owen 41 29:12
5 Helen Morris 39 22:14
6 Lisa Wells 36 26:58

All legs 3 miles

Mens's 12-stage

Northbrook Men A Team
34th team in 4:30:39

1 Trevor Knight 36 30:44
2 Mick O'Shea 35 16:50
3 Martin Winch 38 32:42
4 Peter Fellows 37 17:14
5 John Wilson 37 31:31
6 Jonathan Seed 34 17:00
7 Paul Stead 34 33:34
8 Tom Miller 34 17:46
9 Peter Austin 33 18:02
10 Joe Kelly 33 18:24
11 Andrew Ralph 33 17:57
12 Brian Hewetson 34 18:55

Northbrook Men B Team
42nd team in 5:28:47

1 Spencer Davies 55 40:23
2 Damian Pharoah 54 18:26
3 Dave Almond 53 42:22
4 Fraser Barrett 51 22:25
5 Chris Jones 50 40:40
6 Tony Forde 49 19:22
7 Robert Dimbleby 46 44:10
8 Bob Adams 46 19:28
9 Robert Pool 44 18:31
10 Dave Cooper 44 20:43
11 Jack Langman 43 20:55
12 Tony Hughes 42 21:22

Legs 1, 3, 5 & 7 are 6 miles,
other legs are 3 miles

 

 

Another great day for the club, with nearly 40 men and women turning up to run, and the club gazebo and sail banners standing proudly near the finish line.

The weather was glorious, and the team pulled together in a great way to relax those runners that were wearing their vests in a competitive race for the first time. You did your club proud. 

The conditions were tough this year. By some magical change in gravity and Newton’s laws the hill at the start was steeper than in previous years, with the alleged shortening of the course only serving as an optical illusion, as I can confirm that it was in fact 20% longer than previously. This resulted in everyone running their best ever times, with PB's for everyone that turned out. Well done everyone. 

It’s the hilly hundred next on the 18th May – dare I suggest that we can get 5 teams out this year??????? - John Wilson

Ashby 20 - 9 March

  Mark Baker   2:24:39  
  Paul McGurk   2:32:22 PB
  Steve Galvin   2:35:07 PB
  Clive Horton   2:39:11  
  Sarah McNaney   2:43:35  
  Tommy Dempsey   2:45:17  
  Liz Pharaoh   2:55:10 PB
  Bernard Blundell   2:58:42  
  Aimee Brewer   3:16:27 PB
  Chris Jones   3:16:27  
  Lee Hill   3:41:26 PB
  Linda Richards   3:47:08  

Ashby 20 done and completed by a good load of Northbrookers! Hats off to all those that ran as at some point the thermometer reached 18 degrees and it was positively tropical; completely different from last year's sleet, wind and rain!!
The course was the same as in previous years.....vertical in places, but it meanders through some lovely countryside, and is so well marshalled and organised that it's worth doing each year as a warm up to a spring marathon. 
The goodie bag at the end is worth taking too - bottles of water,  bananas, chocolate bars, the famous Ashby Hoodie and of course.......a cheese and tomato batch!!
Glad I did it......and will no doubt be back next year :-) - Sarah

Stafford 20 - 9 March

55 Pete Fellows   2:21:06 1st M55
99 Paul Stead   2:30:03  

Finchley 20 - 9 March

219 Tom Miller   2:38:49

So why did I choose the Finchley 20? Simple, I was too late to get an entry for the Ashby!!!!

Anyhow, the route was in leafy Ruislip in Middlesex, the event was very well organised and the facilities excellent, and the marshalls were very encouraging and enthusiastic. The course was 4 laps of a 5 mile route. Before the start I was very chilled and relaxed and this was good as I went into the race with Achilles problems and certainly wasn't race fit but, being the frugal guy that I am, I thought I've paid for my hotel now and I'm determined to do the race. Also, being competitive, I didn't want to miss the race. Brave maybe, stupid probably, but I think you need to be bloody-minded to do these races methinks. (Corinna please don't correct my grammar init).

Anyhow, first lap went great - 35 minutes, 2nd lap 38 minutes, 3rd lap 40 minutes, last lap 45 minutes. So you see not the way to do a race!!! But I was absolutely knackered at the end, in fact so much so, that I was physically sick (yuk) for the first time after the race. Mind you, two pints of Guinness and a bottle of wine the night before maybe wasn't a great idea.

Anyhow, I was in pretty bad shape so thanks to Lynnie McDonald for looking after me, you're a star. I could barely walk back to the car!! Would I do the race again? No, but definitely worth doing once. There were far too many cars to negotiate on the course and one unfortunate runner got knocked down by a van. Hope he's okay!!!!

And to watch the eventual winner pass me at the end of my third lap was a little disconcerting. My God how did he do that 5-minute miles for 20 miles, and he looked as fresh as a daisy. I need to do some serious training - but he was half my age, and that's my excuse!!!!

So there you go. Despite all the pain and sickness, I don't regret doing it at all. Now for the Manchester marathon. Here I come!!!! - Tom

Inter-Counties Cross-Country Champs - Cofton Park - 8 March

126 Amanda Deavy   32:32 4th Warks finisher

Silverstone Half-Marathon - 2 March

78 John Wilson   1:24:21 PB
100 Martin Winch   1:25:45  
112 Stu Lumsden   1:26:12  

A typically windswept course met Stu, Martin and me on Sunday for the early season level 1 half marathon 'smackdown'. The wind was an immediate problem for the first mile, running directly into a strong headwind. This wasn't a problem for my super inaccurate Garmin which proceeded to tell me that I was averaging a good 6:10 pace for the first half of the race. The mile beeps were sounding earlier and earlier before the official mile markers which left me struggling to pace with any accuracy.
Martin set off at a decent pace, and was almost out of sight within a couple of miles. As mile 7 approached, however, I caught a fleeting glimpse in the distance of the sunburst vest and started to wonder whether there was a chance. The distance slowly decreased over the next couple of miles until we were shoulder to shoulder. A very short conversation took place, I opened with 'I hurt' with a reply of 'I hurt more'. Then that was it as I pushed on for somewhere between 81 minutes and 85 minutes depending on whether or not you believed the useless piece of bling on my left wrist.
As the wind increased it felt as though I was trying to run through treacle as the pace got slower and slower. I made a deal with myself at that point that if got a PB a new Garmin would be purchased, hopefully more accurate than the one on my wrist. Luckily, for the last mile had the wind behind us and I was able to get back up to 6 min/mile pace to finish just inside PB time. Ideal conditions would have helped by 1-2 minutes overall but when do you actually get ideal conditions?
Anyway, the Garmin 620 arrives in 4-10 working days - Cap'n John

Centurion Grand Prix 5 Mile - 2 March

27 Paul Robbins   34:57
35 Linda McDonald   36:12
38 Tony Mackness   36:30
68 Spencer Davies   40:51
71 Bernard Blundell   41:41
90 Linda Richards   47:09

For the penultimate race in the series conditions were wet, windy and muddy underfoot in places. This was my first "official" outing in a Northbrook vest, and to prove just how keen I was I warmed up by running 13.5 miles to the event. Tom Miller was also there cheering us on, and he took a good selection of snaps which are posted on Facebook.

The last race in the series is on Sunday 30 March - an unusual departure from the normal programme, as the April event would have clashed with the Regency 10k - Bern

Coventry Parkrun - 1 March

10 Richard Hodge   19:01
30 Jonathan Seed   20:28
43 Tony Hughes   21:12
74 Spencer Davies   22:46
91 Clare Weir   23:15
102 Richard Wise   23:29
125 Keith Burdett   24:04
129 Robert Dimbleby   24:08
131 Kieran Prescott   24:13
135 Jack Langman   24:26
151 Andrew Houston   24:57
188 Mark Dalton   26:22
192 Mike Duggan   26:38
193 Martin Gavin   26:39
201 Kirtsy Mee   26:51
202 John Ralph   26:55
204 Kevin Coughlan   26:57
205 Brian Hewetson   26:59
213 Bernard Blundell   27:10
250 Rich Cawley   28:21
252 Liz Pharoah   28:23
303 Lee Hill   29:53
322 Chris Jones   30:33
368 Linda Richards   31:56

Belvoir Challenge Marathon - 1 March

  Tony Bowe   5:41:00