May 10K Handicap Results and Tony's Report

Danny Mahoney		37.53
Pete Mannion		39.51
Dave Mclean		41.32
Russell Conaway		45.58
Katie Pearce		46.43
Robert Littlejohn		50.05
Gordon Trout		50.53
Anne-Marie MacLaren		52.57
Christelle Gental		53.21
Jim Brown		53.32
Chris Dent		53.50
Mark Coxhead		55.09
Pam Berriman		55.30
Yvonne Fossey		60.07

A great turn out by all and some good times even with a very hot morning!

Looking at some of the finishing faces, I think a sigh of relief was written over some

A big thanks to all our helpers this morning, Dave Pearce, Tony Sheridan and Dave Smith

Forthcoming Race Series

Hi everyone,

I am sure many of you have these events in your diaries already, however just in case......

 

Woodland 5 series
3 race series - last Wednesday in May, June and July - around the trails and paths of Crowthorne Woods

http://www.finchcoasters.org.uk/index.php/races/woodland-5

 

 

Yateley 10K series

Consists of three 10K road races, held on the first Wednesday of June, July and August at 7:30 pm from Yateley Centre
http://www.yateley10kseries.info/

 

It would be good to know if we have some WV folk entering these events - do let us know via comments option below.

 

Cheers

Dee

 

 

Edinburgh Marathon this weekend

Hi All,
This weekend coming is the Edinburgh Marathon Festival.  I'm running the marathon on the Sunday, along with Kayleigh Epton and Pete Hansen.  I'm travelling up there with Pete (our wives are running the 10k on the Saturday too!), so we hope to meet up with Kayleigh and her family before the start.  The weather is meant to be around 15 degrees, so not bad conditions…..and on that subject, I thought it might (or might not) be interesting to take a look at my past marathons.  I always go on about how I don't like running in the heat, like most runners I think, so I thought I would go back and record the average daily temperature for all the marathons I've taken part in.  Here are the results, showing times against temperature

so quite a close match between my finishing times and how hot it was!  The very hot one in the middle was actually in Stockholm, which started at 2pm, when the temperature was already in the high 20s!!  Anyway, all other things being equal, and based on the figures, I should do Edinburgh in around 4:15, so watch this space.  Race Report to follow in the next week or so, hopefully with a photo or two!
Have a great 10k on Sunday - we'll be thinking of you!
Cheers, Robin

More Weekend Updates

Kayleigh Epton ran the Alton 10 Mile, as part of her preparation for the Edinburgh Marathon later this month, and came home in a cracking 1.25.32. Looking good for Edinburgh now.
If you want to support Kayleigh in raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support, her page is here: http://www.justgiving.com/Kayleigh-Epton

Bonkers!

Maybe our next Captains' Challenge race should be one of the Kamikaze race series by those crazy people at VO2 :-)

Here are just a few pictures from last Sunday's race at Pippingford Park in Sussex:

We mention this for two reasons - firstly because the ladies' race was won by recently joined WVR member Ros Viner, and because there's another version of the race coming up in September! Ros' time was 1.24.18. Have you got all the mud out of your ears yet Ros?

You can see the full race gallery by clicking here

And if you're feeling brave enough then click here to enter the September race in Dorset!

More From Last Week:

Laura Hales was third lady and first Vet 35 in the Staines 10K in 40.04, comfortably beating her time from the same race last year.

Paul Butler set a huge PB in the Shinfield 10K, going under 40 minutes for the first time with 36.38. That is a big improvement! And in the same race, Julia Robinson did 41.08 in her first ever race over the distance. 

Congratulations to Ros, Laura, Paul and Julia

Race Updates - Prizes and PB's

Congratulations to Anne-Marie McLaren for her impressive run in the Richmond Half Marathon. Anne-Marie finished in 1.55.47, betaing her PB by several minutes.

Who's going to win....

Well done also to our runners in the Staines 10K on Sunday. The race saw Simon Edwards in a close race to the finish with Keith Hull. According to the official results, they had the same clock time of 41.40, with Simon's chip time being 41.37 to Keith's 41.38.

Keith won the trophy for first Men's 60+, and Geoff Williams was second place in the same category with 42.35. Richard Sherlock followed up his two recent half marathons with a good time of 52.53.

It was good to see Ross MacLagan back to racing, after a long spell on the sidelines through injury, at Saturday's Parkrun 5K at Frimley Lodge.

Robert Littlejohn ran the Shinfield 10K on May Day, two days after running the Frimley Park 10K, and showed great consistency as he came home in 47.02, after his 47.01 two days earlier.

Keith and Geoff, 1st and 2nd in the V60 category at Staines

Endurancelife Festival - Report and photo's from Sabine

Jo Obertell, Lorayne Hockin, Charlie Ward and myself went to Devon for a sport festival this week end. 
It was the Endurancelife Festival, and sounded great from their website: "This weekend festival of endurance and adventure is essentially a mashup of sporting challenges including Coastal Trail Series trail runs, Adventure Racing, a brand new Aquatrail event plus a great selection of taster activities and two inspirational evenings of talks from athletes and adventurers with extraordinary stories to tell.

Throw in some cool live music, a buzzing event village and a campsite that overlooks the beach and we think you've got the makings of a pretty awesome weekend which the whole family will enjoy."

I'm sure they said there was a race round here somewhere......

We did an adventure race on Saturday, Jo and Charlie did an aquatrail on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning we all did an 8 miles coastal trail. We didn't have any rain apart from Friday night, but we all froze in our tents! Which means that on Saturday night a lot of us decided to sleep in our car where it was slightly warmer!!
I did the run part only of the adventure race with my daughter Nina, who loved it, and ran for 2h15 without getting tired. She then did the kayak part with a friend.
Jo did the bike part of the adventure race with her daughter Abbey and Charlie's daughter Sarah.
Lorayne did the adventure race with her sister, and a member of the endurance life team, which gave her the chance to learn how to do adventure racing professionally.
Jo and Charlie then did the aquatrail, which is a new format of racing where you run and swim in very quick succession for 10km. Fine in August, but this weekend the sea was freezing!!
Sunday morning the sun was out for our coastal trail run of 8 miles, which had stunning scenery.
All in all it was a great week end with lots of camaraderie and fun. Hopefully more will come next year!
Some pictures from the event are here.

Frimley Park Hospital 10K Photo's and Results

The first of the new series of Captains' Challenge Races was certainly challenging, as the Frimley Park Hospital 10K saw twenty Windle Valley Runners take on the hills of Camberley, on a route that took them out along the Portsmouth Road and then over a switchback of Crawley Hill and its side roads, before finishing back at the hospital. There were some excellent performances which saw club members picking up trophies in both the men's and the women's races.

Jenny Livesey was first senior lady home, Keith Hull won the Men's 60+ category with Geoff Williams second, Danny Mahoney was third in the Men's 40+, Laura Hales was 2nd in the Ladies' vets (running for Woking, not us, boo hiss).

There were plenty of other fine performances too, as the table of results shows.

Captains' Spot Prize
Jenny Livesey was the 7th WVR finisher, so is the winner of the Marks and Spencer's voucher donated by captains Dee and Steve.

Jenny heads for Marks and Spencers

There is a set of photo's taken by Tony Sheridan here