Monday, 29 July 2013

July 10K handicap

Another great turnout this month and some good performances - well done to all 21 runners!
Our thanks to Geoff, Dave and Bob for timing.
 
 
 
Thanks Mark C for the photographs...
     

Sunday, 14 July 2013

Runnymede Relay results


The results from the Runnymede Relay are now available (http://www.runnymederunners.com/relay_13/rrr_team_13.html ). Thanks again to all our runners who took part - it was a very hot afternoon. I thought Nathan had 'over-egged' it on the water however we cleared the 36 bottles, and Keith's homemade cake went down a treat too.

WV team finished in 10th position (out of 58 teams)
Ali McGeoch-Williams
Pete Mannion
Miles Cudmore
Rob Batchelor
Mike Hewison
Steven Handley

WV team finished in 27th positionJenny Livesey
Wendy Cudmore
Laura Hales
Lisa Norman
Jo Obertell
Dee Green

WV team finished in 42nd position
Kevin Pedley
Nigel Williams
Keith Hull
Nathan Green
Geoff Williams
Andrew Scowcroft

Our reserve runner: Becky Hughes (thanks!)

A few photos from the day (some good caption material).....

Saturday, 13 July 2013

Farewell Chris Dent

As Chris Dent heads off to pastures new (Devon pastures, very nice!), 20 of us turned out to give him a 9.00am send off at this morning's parkrun at Frimley Lodge.


Even at nine, it was really warm with the temperature in the mid 20's, and the sun blazing down on the park. The shady parts of the course offered some relief, and with the course nice and firm underfoot, there were some good performances. It was good to see Pip Webster-Smith return after a long injury break, and she smashed her PB, getting under 25 minutes for the first time. Steven Handley's rapid improvement continues, and he set a new PB of 20.06! Steven's times a mere six months ago were around the 23 minute mark, so that's a huge improvement. Now for sub-20........... Well done too to Jon Payne with a top ten finish, and to Laura Hales who came within 5 seconds of her PB, finishing as 2nd lady. Pete Hansen has been finding it all too easy lately, so decided to do this one pushing a baby buggy with attached baby - which did slow him down a bit!

Chris duly completed his 92nd parkrun, after a goodbye speech by the parkrun organisers. We wish you all the best at the Barnstaple parkruns from now on Chris. We'll look out for your times.

Friday, 12 July 2013

Pete Mannion wins Dinton Pastures 5K Series

Hats off to Pete Mannion.

Last night Pete completed the Dinton Pastures 5K series, following up his times of 19.02 and 19.06 in races 1 and 2 with an impressive 18.57 in race 3.

He won the V50 trophy last night, and his aggregated times made him the overall winner of the race series!

Thanks to Sophie Mannion for sharing the picture of Pete weighed down by his trophies:



Thursday, 11 July 2013

Runnymede Relay - How Did We Do?

There was a good turnout from the club at the Runnymede Relay in Windsor Great Park last weekend. We fielded three teams of six runners each.

How did they do? Good question!

We are asking the same thing ourselves, as the event website still doesn't have the results on........

Dee will no doubt be letting us have a race report soon however!

Meanwhile, thank you to Jenny Livesey for sending us this photo of a happy-looking bunch of runners in the sunshine:

We will keep you updated as we get further news.

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

We won an award :)

Windle Valley Runners has been voted as Athletics Weekly "Club Of The Month" and is featured in a two page article in the July 4th edition.


Athletics Weekly - July 4th 2013 Edition
Now we need a trophy cabinet!