August 10K Handicap Race results

August Bank Holiday weekend gave us a smaller field than recently, with 15 runners taking on the club 10K Handicap.

There were three members running it for the first time ever, so well done to our debutants Dave Goldsmith, Andrew Scowcroft and Ali McGeogh-Williams, who all made it round without getting lost :)

Pride of place this month goes to Ali, who ran a 10K PB of 35.57, which was also the fastest time in this race since January 2006 - which was 34.48 by Nathan Aspinall, I know someone's bound to ask.

First across the line (and worst prediction of the day) was Andy Stevens, and the best prediction of the day was from Sachiko Dixon, 4 seconds faster than her forecast of 45 minutes.

Tony Hatch registered his fastest time of 2013 so far, while Lyn Taylor struggled with a sore back to her slowest, but well done to Lyn for making it round! The physio awaits.....

Welcome back to Dave Pearce after a long period of injury, returning with a fine 57.12 after many months stuck helping with the timing.

Full Results:

Alastair McGeoch-Williams	35.57
Laura Hales	40.57
Keith Hull	42.43
Sachiko Dixon	44.56
Pete Jones	46.03
Andrew Scowcroft	51.00
Mark Coxhead	51.12
Tony Sheridan	51.48
Nick Cook	52.58
Nick Askem	53.25
Tony Hatch	54.17
Andy Stevens	56.13
Dave Pearce	57.12
Dave Goldsmith	66.07
Lyn Taylor	67.02

Thanks to the scoring team of Dee, Nathan, Dave and Steve.

I'll add photos once we get them from Mark.

WV runners spotted in Skiathos

Dee and Nathan have just spent a week on the beautiful Greek island of Skiathos and discovered some interesting and challenging hilly runs.
Coincidentally the Dennison's were on the island too for their vacation so it was too good an opportunity to meet up for 'happy hour' cocktails and some lovely Greek food and wine.

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.

 

Link to results here: http://www.windlevalley.com/index.php?node=results-archive

 

 

Thanks Mark C for the photographs...

     

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).....

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.

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:

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.

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!

June 2013 10K Handicap - Results and Photos

Once again the sun shone on our monthly 10K Handicap.

Hot sunny days may not be ideal for fast times, but they usually produce a good turnout for the races and today was no exception. We had several guest runners, plus first time appearances from Sam Dennison, Catriona Cairns and Ann Keefe.

First runner home with the worst prediction of the day was Jo Obertell, running five minutes quicker than she predicted! Fastest time was by Keith Hull. Most accurate prediction of the day was by Robert Littlejohn, coming home within 10 seconds of his forecast. Well done to Chris Phillips for running a new PB on a day when times were generally a bit slower than they were in the cool spring months.

Full times were as follows:

Keith Hull	43.08
Chris Phillips	43.21	PB
Sachiko Dixon	46.36
Sam Dennison	47.06
Giles Blackham	47.07
Mark Wye	47.36
Robert Littlejohn	47.50
Karim Jaser	47.51
Jo Obertell	48.03
Ed Butler	48.28
Christelle Gental	51.15
Gordon Trout	51.45
Gregory Brett	53.25
Catriona Cairns	53.51
Adam Donaldson	54.05
Anna Holland	55.27
Robin Wakefield	55.30
Alex Brett	56.18
Lyn Taylor	56.41
Tony Hatch	58.11
Barbara Rodriguez	58.30
Lisa Norman	60.52
Amanda Borthwick	66.10
Hadley King	66.10
Ann Keefe	70.06

Finish line photographer Chris "I'm no David Bailey" Dent took a fine set of photos which can be found by clicking the image at the top, or this link: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.519223874809381.1073741826.109710435760729&type=1&l=5f559116e4

Many thanks to Bob Webb for doing a water station out at the halfway point, we know many of the runners appreciated that. Also to the start/finish team of the two Daves and Steve. 

Kracking parkrun by Pete

Peter Mannion 'Krakow parkrun in Poland which I did with my daughter Sophie on Saturday. The other 2 in the pics were the only others from England there. Would have been a nice fast course if it hadn't been 30 degrees!'