Helsby RC Racing News 16th – 22nd March 2015

Lots of road running to get through this week. Please remember to send any race reports to helsby-race-reports@outlook.com otherwise it is unlikely to get into the news!

Road Running

Coniston 14
The Coniston 14 saw 3 Helsby vest out in glorious spring conditions for the annual run around Lake Coniston.

Adrian 165th 1:42:49 Excellent times as its fairly undulating and we didn’t warn Adrian of the big hill at 11 miles!
Lesley 475th 1:58:44 Great sub 2 hour for this course.
Jackie 643th 2:05:47 Legs still very tired from the Haworth Hobble

Fantastic runs all around from what I can see!

Wilmslow Half

Five runners headed out for the Wilmslow half. Unfortunately I don’t have any details apart from the times.

Place	Name	Clock time	Chip Time
246	Ivan Davies	01:26:18	01:26:08
1127	David Madders	01:42:33	01:42:22
1253	Mike Searle	01:44:20	01:44:09
1550	James Gray	01:48:43	01:47:22
2015	Elizabeth Thomas	01:54:54	01:52:50

Rome Marathon

Tanya Meredith took a tough mission for the Green Army – jetting off to Rome for the marathon! Despite feeling rotten with a throat infection Tanya delivered a 5 minute PB running at “50%” – clearly a lot of room to smash that PB then! In Tanya’s words: It’s the most amazing course you will ever see. I’m not religious but the Vatican blew me away it was breathtaking

Borders League

Colin T gives us the breakdown from the border league, however before we go there I’d like to highlight that the men’s team are close to the promotion they have been chasing for the past couple of seasons, if we get a good turn out at the final two races we should see that happen this year:

Round 5 of the Borders League saw a bright and sunny Sunday morning in Mold and an excellent turn out from the green vests. With various races on at the weekend we expected to have a slightly depleted team, but the new members turned up in droves to ensure we had a strong squad for the 5 mile undulating course and the Green Army really stole the show! Excellent running once again from Colin Bishop saw him storm around for an 11th placed run and 1st in his age category. Adam Gordon had another strong run showing his consistency in the league and Jim O’Hara, who is back from injury, didn’t disappoint with an excellent 58th. New member Neil Finegan, in his Borders League debut, had a superb race to grab 62nd place showing what great potential he has along with Darren O’Connor and Ian Rutherford who both produced some fantastic running. New member Chris Murray donned the green vest and found himself entangled in a close fought battle with Ade Jackson (who had ran the Coniston 14 the previous day!) and just pipped him to the finish line. Great stuff guys. Ben Williams is really starting to show some good form this year and a strong debut run from John Whitehead along with Graham Lloyd ensured the men’s team secured 2nd in Division 2 on the day. Well done chaps!

The ladies team had a brilliant day, star of the show award has to go to June Swift who ran a blistering race to secure 1st back for the Helsby ladies and 1st in her age category. Well done June, I’m sure there is plenty more to come! Jo Lacking and Jane Ashbrook both ran their compression socks off to break the top 10 & 15 and Carol Shaw showed her class once again to secure 2nd in her age category. Excellent running from Vanessa and Janet Robertson saw them both inside the 40 minute mark and Sue Buck and Rhea Thomas had a close race to push each other to the finish line. Emily Smith just keeps getting quicker and had a beaming smile at the finish to show how much she enjoys the pain of Borders League racing! Jo Farwell and Shan McCarthy both ran well to help the ladies team top division 1 on the day. Big well done ladies!

Rank	Rank M	Rank F	Name	Time	Category	Category Rank
11	11		Colin BISHOP	28:18	MV50	1
22	22		Colin THOMPSON	29:31	SM	13
52	51		Adam GORDON	31:28	MV40	11
58	56		Jim O’HARA	31:50	SM	22
62	60		Neil FINEGAN	31:55	MV40	15
72	68		Darren O’CONNOR	32:36	SM	25
75		5	June SWIFT	32:53	SF	1
78	73		Ian RUTHERFORD	33:10	MV40	19
100		9	Joanne LACKING	34:38	SF	4
103	94		Chris MURRAY	34:41	SM	32
105	96		Adrian JACKSON	34:48	MV40	22
124		15	Jane ASHBROOK	35:47	FV35	5
137	119		Benjamin WILLIAMS	36:32	SM	38
141		19	Carol SHAW	36:43	FV50	2
150	130		John WHITEHEAD	37:09	SM	41
155		23	Vanessa GRIFFITHS	37:21	FV45	4
181		34	Janet ROBERTSON	39:20	FV45	7
204		43	Sue BUCK	41:34	FV45	10
206		44	Rhea THOMAS	41:44	SF	11
211		48	Emily SMITH	42:21	SF	13
228		56	Jo FARWELL	44:13	FV40	8
229	173		Graham LLOYD	44:15	MV45	29
233		60	Shan MCCARTHY	44:48	FV40	9

Full results here: http://tinyurl.com/nzgphul
The men are currently 2nd overall in Division 2 and the ladies 4th  in Division 1. The men are placed very well for promotion although unlikely to catch West Cheshire now who have had a fabulous season, however, it’s important to get a good turn out for the final 2 races in April to cement our promotion and celebrate an excellent season. Likewise for the ladies who could continue their winning ways and finish the season on a high!

Fell Running 

Nice to see the fell section are getting out so frequently – certainly inspiration to me and I can’t wait to finish the road training to finish so I can join in!

Max Wainwright, Phil Roberts and myself ran the Ras Yr Aran Fell Race on Saturday and finished 17th, 79th and 80th respectively. We all agreed that this was one of the tougher 10 mile races we’d done.

The route has a series of steep rocky climbs to the summit of Aran Fawddwy and returns the same way. The last of the clouds made way to glorious sunshine as we set off, and a few of us discovered we had too many layers on. Some fantastic views of Bala and the surrounding area if you were confident enough to take your eyes of where you was putting your feet.

Full results here:
http://www.run-meirionnydd.co.uk/results/RyA%202015%20resultPage2.html

Park Run

Park run is still proving popular with the Green army – quite rightly so! Look after the 5 & 10 Ks and the rest looks after itself!

 

 

 

 

Position	Gender Position	Name	Club	Run Time
Delamere
8	8	Neil FINEGAN	Helsby RC	00:19:42
13	13	Darren O’CONNOR	Helsby RC	00:20:41
14	1	Jenny ILLIDGE	Helsby RC	00:20:46
20	19	Christopher MURRAY	Helsby RC	00:21:03
51	49	David MADDERS	Helsby RC	00:23:19
191	136	Paul BULMER	Helsby RC	00:33:22
192	137	Stephen WIGGINS	Helsby RC	00:33:23
Ellesmere Port
19	18	Benjamin John WILLIAMS	Helsby RC	00:22:33
Widnes
64	49	Chris HATTON	Helsby RC	00:27:49

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Upcoming races and reminders

No counters this week, but There are some races in the NCC (Non-Club Counters) calendars. These calendars are there for you to add to. If you see a race you fancy or think others might then add it into the calendar, they are all open. It’s easiest to use google calendar to update these, but you can do so from any other web connected application; e.g., outlook. I’ll try to pull together a user guide for the most common ones.

In the mean time there is the Liverpool half this weekend as well as two fell races: Caused Pike on Saturday and Lad’s leap on the Sunday – both are in the NCC – Fell calendar.

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Helsby RC weekly update (8-3-15 to 15-3-15)

It was a relatively quiet week for Helsby members at the various local Parkruns

Ade Jackson and Neil Finegan were the sole Helsby representatives at St Helens and Ormskirk Parkruns respectively while Louise McEveley, Paul Gillard, Ste Wiggins, Paul Bulmer, Clare Morton, and Helen Gillard turned out at Delamere.

Full Helsby Parkrun results are below:

http://tinyurl.com/kvq2x25

On the same day was the 20 mile time trial kindly organized by Colin Thompson to help people with their spring marathon training. The result are below and special thanks go to Louise Spruce, Jo Farwell and Carol Shaw for helping out with the timing, marshalling and tail running duties. Cheers!!

Also on Saturday was the Masters Cross Country at Ruthin where Colin Bishop secured second place in the V55 category. Well done Col!!

Jackie Keasley kindly sent in the following report from the Haworth Hobble Ultra.

“Saturday was the first race in the Run Further Series; remember Andy Robinson’s talk just after Xmas advertising the Ultra series Andy helps organise?! Inspired by his enthusiastic talk, the opportunity of running around parts of Yorkshire and even Lancashire I have never been too, and it being one of the shortest races in the series, a mere 32 miles, I entered!  Its simple to enter, just click that button and pay the price, a bargain £13 for a full day out with food & drinks all inclusive!!! A long March race was always going to be difficult particularly with going away on holiday for 3 weeks in Feb and before good conditioning races like Coniston 14 to start the legs rolling.

After 4 hours sleep,( Friday was the CWAC awards in Chester), I met Andy & Max in Frodsham at 5am.  A fast journey over the Pennines with the temperature gauge hovering between 1 degree C and zero on the approach to Haworth. The skies were overcast but the moors were mist free which was a relief.   Time for coffee and museli bars before putting on warmer clothing and lining up at the bottom of the steep cobbled Haworth main street. A parade through the deserted town and onto the moors towards the flagstoned Pennine Way. Past a succession of reservoirs and wind turbines on good  gritstone tracks, followed by a cross country type muddy section. We dropped steeply down stepped pathways (that looked like entering someone’s private garden) into Hebden Bridge. Past Mankinhole YHA and up to the imposing Stoodley Pike before starting the roller coaster part of the race with steep drops through woodland and cobbled roads into the Calder Valley. Then straight back up again to Hepstonstall, straight back down again to Horse bridge then up again to onto the high open moors. Then, having completed a marathon it was a mere 6 mile undulating high level track back to Haworth.

Amazing running by Max to secure 23rd place in a field of the country’s top ultra runners; Marcus Scotney & Jez Bragg in 6th & 7th place says it all! (quote from Andy) . Despite running with a broken wrist Andy finished in 112th place, having fallen 3 times, each time managing to role onto his good side. I came 264th out of 390 runners.

Winner   Chris Singleton     4:09:10

23rd        Max Wainwright  5:00:08

112th      Andy Robinson    5:48:51

234th      Jackie Keasley     7:21:14

Highlights  –  The check points along the way were amazing; freezing cold water (suspect stored in marshall’s cars overnight) but plenty of hot drinks, hot dogs (no thanks!), doughnuts, posh biscuits & even whisky (no thanks again)!  I was expecting to be at the back of the field navigating all day as the route was not flagged. But there were runners around me all the race and a majority of them had done it before so were worth following especially passing through the towns and villages en-route. It was worth mapping the route out in advance (thanks Andy for taking Max and me through the whole route last Wed eve) but in the end didn’t look at the map once! It was comforting to know that at the back of the field there were a few walkers too with an 11 hour cut-off time.

Lowlights – Toughest race I have ever done; stumbled at 6 miles and wrenched left leg and hip which made the rest very uncomfortable. Chuckled many times during the last 2/3 of the race as miraculously every part of my body with the exception of my head ached and given the previous evening and lack of sleep this was incredible! Also chuckled about it being the “Hobble” as that certainly what it looked like. As the tail end of the field made their way through a country park full of strollers the last mile into Haworth, understandably they stared at us in disbelief! Have scoured the map for Wuthering Heights but it’s a myth so have decided to rename the whole area Withering Heights! “

Thanks for the report Jackie.

Just a couple of announcements to finish off with. This Sunday is Race 5 in the Border League with both the mens and womens teams doing very well in their divisions, the race is held in Mold and good turn out could really set up an exciting climax to the season with 3 races left so please attend if at all possible.

Also, the following reminder from Jackie.

Thursday 19th March, CWAC’s Chester HQ (facing the Roodee car park)
Venue: Room G1, HQ Building, 58 Nicholas Street, Chester, CH1 2NP
Strategic Planning Committee – 4:00 pm

I know its mid-week but for those who can spare the time, it would be great to have some green army presence at the meeting, so please wear your club hoody. The plan is for some Helsby Runners to run from the Helsby Clubhouse to attend the meeting in Chester and we’ll get the press to record the “Green Army” assault! We need to be at the Chester HQ at 3:30, so for those who want to run the whole distance, meet at the club at 2pm. For those who would like a shorter option (4.5miles), meet at the layby on the main road in Mickle Trafford (just before Dee Road goes off right) at 2:30. From Guilden Sutton we will take the greenway into Chester. Bill will be able to take our kit from the start into Chester and supply drinks. There will be enough cars available to give lifts back to Helsby after the meeting.

Cheers

Gaz

Helsby Race News 4th-10th March 2015

Hi everyone

Once again, thank you for all the reports this week. It’s been another busy one for the Helsby contingent so I’ll get started with the weekly parkrun report:

Parkrun

With a few big races taking precedence this weekend it was expected to be a quiet Saturday at the parkruns, but we had 11 runners lining up at the various courses with some doing the double and racing the next day! Delamere had the biggest turn out with 9 Helsby runners, Laura Baynham Hughes flew around the course for a podium finish and Donna Geer and Tim Palmer both obtained new PBs! Nice one folks!

Helsby results below:

St Helens parkrun

A total of 121 runners took part.

View full results for St Helens parkrun event #37

 

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
5	5	Adrian JACKSON	Helsby RC	00:20:35

Warrington parkrun

A total of 250 runners took part.

View full results for Warrington parkrun event #61

 

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
67	11	Rhea THOMAS	Helsby RC	00:25:01

 

Delamere parkrun

A total of 275 runners took part.

View full results for Delamere parkrun event #101

 

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
28	28	Tim PALMER	Helsby RC	00:21:47
35	34	David MADDERS	Helsby RC	00:22:14
42	2	Laura BAYNHAM-HUGHES	Helsby RC	00:22:42
101	11	Lesley FEAKES	Helsby RC	00:25:54
120	18	Donna GEER	Helsby RC	00:26:35
126	22	Jackie KEASLEY	Helsby RC	00:27:11
245	161	Stephen WIGGINS	Helsby RC	00:35:14
247	162	Paul BULMER	Helsby RC	00:35:15
246	85	Louise MCEVELEY	Helsby RC	00:35:15

Road Running

Borders League Race #4 (Prestatyn) 8.8km (approx.)

Sunday saw our 4th borders league race at Ffrith Beach Arena in Prestatyn which is a brand new race in the Border League calendar. A 2 lap course with an out and back section along the promenade and a loop around the park arena would have made this a very fast course, if only the weather gods were looking out for us (it did make it good to spot the other Helsby runners and shout encouragement on the way though!) The conditions were quite challenging from the start with heavy rain and wind present for most of the race but the 15 Green Army members braved the weather and ran their socks off to produce some brilliant results.

Congratulations to Colin Bishop on another fantastic run for 8^th place and first Helsby runner home (also 1^st in his age category) with Colin Thompson close behind in 9^th. Chris Baynham Hughes ditched his fell shoes this time to partake in some tarmac slapping and whizzed around to secure a top 50 position with Adam following in 55^th. Ian Rutherford slipped into the green vest for his maiden club race and had a stormer to secure 69^th and the ever improving Adrian Jackson having a brilliant run to break into the top 100 for the first time and secure 71^st. Andy Smith and Ben Williams both had a good race with Graham Lloyd running strong to chase down the Helsby pack. The men finished 2^nd in division 2 on the day, well done guys!

In the ladies corner, Joanne Lacking was in good form once again to take the chequered flag for the Helsby ladies and secure 3^rd in her age group. Well done Jo! Vanessa and Carol both had solid runs with Carol securing 3^rd in her age category. Sue Buck, Shan McCarthy and Jackie Keasley all produced some great running to round up the Helsby pack and secure some valuable points for the club. The ladies team finished 5^th on the day.

Helsby results:

8^th       Colin BISHOP                                  29:10 (1^st in age cat)
9^th        Colin THOMPSON                         29:11
46^th     Chris BAYNHAM HUGHES         32:05
55^th      Adam GORDON                              32:27
69^th     Ian RUTHERFORD                        33:25
71^st       Adrian JACKSON                           33:39
139^th    Andy SMITH                                   37:34
157^th    Benjamin WILLIAMS                   38:29
232th Graham LLOYD                               45:44

105^th   Joanne LACKING                            35:43 (3^rd in age cat)
129^th   Vanessa GRIFFITHS                      37:02
156^th    Carol SHAW                                     38:25 (3^rd in age cat)
209^th   Sue BUCK                                         42:13
223th Shan MCCARTHY                           43:58
228^th   Jackie KEASLEY                              44:52

Full results here: http://www.bordersleague.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/results2014-15R41.html

The men are currently 2^nd overall in division 2 and the ladies 5^th in division 1. We still have 3 races left so we need to try and get a good turn out for these final races folks! The next race is more local (hosted by Wrexham Tri) and approx. 5 miles. Final details are still to be announced but the date to put in your diaries is March 22^nd.

Wrexham Half Marathon

On Sunday 3 Helsby vests ventured to Wrexham for the inaugural Wrexham half marathon, a new event by Run Wales. Gaz O’Connor has sent the following match report:

“3 Helsby runners, Darren O’Connor, Scot Steel and Gary O’Connor braved the wind and rain to take part in the inaugral Wrexham Half Marathon (not to be confused with the Village Bakery Half Marathon that also takes part in Wrexham). The course starts and ends in the town centre but the majority of the race takes part on undulating rural and A roads on the outskirts of Wrexham. The standout Helsby performance of the day was from Darren who made light of the conditions to take 2 minutes off his PB, taking it down to 1:32:48.”

Well done guys, some great running there. Nice to see new members Darren and Scot running so well.

Helsby results:

18^th      Gary O’Connor         1:24:08
49^th     Darren O’connor     1:32:48
81^st      Scot Steel                  1:39:47

Full results can be found here: http://www.runwales.com/content/general-downloads/Half_Marathon_Results_1823_080315.pdf

Fell Running

Stan Bradshaw Pendle Round

On Saturday there was a good turn out at the Stan Bradshaw Pendle Round. Looking at the results it’s clear to see what an astonishing run Max Wainwright had to secure 3^rd overall and win a prize. Good going Max to mix it with some of the best fell runners in the business. A comment from Jim read “It was great to see so many green vests at one of the further afield fell races today. Decent finishes were had by all too – well done guys. And special congratulations to Max who came 3^rd today in a massive field of over 175 runners!”

Good stuff guys!

Upcoming races and reminders

20 Mile TT Sat 14 MAR. Don’t forget it’s the 20 mile time trial this Saturday. The main event will be at 10am at Silverdale Park in Mickle Trafford CH2 4TA. An earlier one is at 7am for the speedier folk.

7am – Group 1 (sub 3 hour pace) – there are a small number of runners in the club aiming for the magical sub 3 hour mark. This group will cater for those who wish to run at 6:50 min miles or faster.

10am – Group 2 (any pace) – this is the main event and this group will cater for any pace and is inclusive of all abilities.

Jackie has also sent the following reminder:

We wish Jane Ashbrook and the whole of Helsby Community Sports Club good luck in CWAC annual sports awards which will be announced at the annual CWAC sports award dinner this Friday in Chester. Jane, Chris, Colin and Jackie will be there to support along with representatives from the club.

The following week, the long awaited planning for the new club house build will be considered at a CWAC council planning meeting.  It would be great if we can have some green army club hoodies there at the meeting to emphasise the importance of the case for continuing sport in the area. The plan is to run there from Helsby.  Meet at the club to leave at 2:15pm for the 8 mile run to Guilden Sutton, then along the green lane into Chester.  We will have a photo shot for the Chronicle as we arrive.   I know its a work day so time is limited for most but if you can run, or meet us part way along or just in Chester that would be great.  For those not wanting to run as far, Bill can give a partial lift, provide water and carry our sweatshirts to Chester.   Plus give us a lift home!

Details of the meeting are:

Thursday 19th March, CWaC’s Chester HQ
Venue:   Room G1, HQ Building, 58 Nicholas Street, Chester, CH1 2NP
Strategic Planning Committee – 4:00 pm

That’s all this week folks, if I have missed anything please let me know at helsby-race-reports@outlook.com or col808@hotmail.com and I will update the blog.

Cheers
Colin

 

 

Helsby Race News 23rd Feb to 1st Mar 2015

Hi everyone

Another busy week of racing for the Green Army, and lots of new PBs too! Thank you for all the reports this week, please keep them coming, it adds so much variety to the blog each week. All reports can be sent to helsby-race-reports@outlook.com.

Parkrun

Parkrun just seems to get bigger each week! Saturday saw Helsby RC members in 5 different parkrun locations and a few new PBs to boot! Congratulations to Tim Palmer for storming to a new PB at Newbury, Rhea Thomas and Donna Geer for new PBs at Delamere and Jo Lacking for a podium finish at Widnes. Well done to everyone else who ran at these events.
Helsby results below:

Newbury parkrun

A total of 360 runners took part.

View full results for Newbury parkrun event #167

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
26	26	Tim PALMER	Helsby RC	00:21:27
201	42	Jenny PALMER	Helsby RC	00:28:22

Princes parkrun, Liverpool

A total of 235 runners took part.

View full results for Princes parkrun, Liverpool event #206

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
2	2	Colin THOMPSON	Helsby RC	00:17:39

Delamere parkrun

A total of 242 runners took part.

View full results for Delamere parkrun event #100

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
47	42	David MADDERS	Helsby RC	00:22:29
120	17	Rhea THOMAS	Helsby RC	00:26:43
136	24	Jane ASHBROOK	Helsby RC	00:27:46
142	27	Donna GEER	Helsby RC	00:28:12
141	26	Louise MCEVELEY	Helsby RC	00:28:12

Ellesmere Port parkrun

A total of 77 runners took part.

View full results for Ellesmere Port parkrun event #20

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
25	20	Benjamin John WILLIAMS	Helsby RC	00:24:05

Widnes parkrun

A total of 187 runners took part.

View full results for Widnes parkrun event #7

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
20	2	Joanne LACKING	Helsby RC	00:20:56
32	6	Helen OWENS	Helsby RC	00:23:22
44	7	Lesley FEAKES	Helsby RC	00:24:40

Road Running

High Legh 10k (road counter #2)

Sunday saw our 2nd road counter of the season with 8 green vests toeing the start line at High Legh. Over to Gaz O’Connor for a full match report:

“The Cheshire village of High Legh was the venue for the 2nd Helsby road racing club counter. The forcasted bad weather and high winds failed to materialize and runners set off along the mostly flat course in dry conditions with only the occasional gust of high wind.

Colin Bishop was first Helsby male runner to finish, managing 7^th place overall, with Jane Ashbrook first Helsby female, also 7^th in the ladies race. PBs were recorded by Ade Jackson, Gary O’Connor and Adam Gordon with Jo Farwell, ably paced by Donna Geer, also taking nearly a minute off her course PB.

High Legh 10K is a small, friendly, well organized race run on a fast course with plenty of PB potential and I’d definitely recommend people give it a try if they get the chance. Also thank you to Joe and Mario for their support!”

Well done Gaz and all who took part.

Helsby results below:

Pos	Name			Chip Time	Gun Time
7	Colin BISHOP	M		00:35:00	00:35:02
25	Gary O’Connor	M		00:38:48	00:38:52
29	Adam GORDON	M		00:39:42	00:39:46
43	Adrian JACKSON	M		00:41:06	00:41:11
53	Ian LANDUCCI	M		00:41:59	00:42:02
92	Jane ASHBROOK	F		00:44:27	00:44:35
146	Geoff SHAW	M		00:47:48	00:47:53
304	Jo Farwell	F		00:54:55	00:55:30

Full results here: http://www.stuweb.co.uk/events/2015/03/01/1931/

Port Sunlight 10k

Ivan was out for the BTR Port Sunlight 10k on Sunday and was flying solo for the green vests. Although he forgot his vest he still shouted the war cry of “Green Army!” much to the bemusement of the other runners! He certainly made it count though, storming around the course to a sub 38 minute time and new PB. Massive well done Ivan!

First Name	Surname	Gun Time	Overall Position	Chip Time
Ivan	Davies	00:37:56	20	00:37:54

Full results here: http://www.tdl.ltd.uk/race-results.php?event=1826

Fell Running

Pipe Dream Fell Race

Also on Saturday the 3 fell running Amigos travelled to Dolgarrog for the Pipe Dream Fell Race. Phil Roberts has sent the following report in:

“Hi me Phil Gillard jim jones did the pipe dream fell race on Saturday, theses are a times and positions:

Phil Roberts time 42:43 position 29th
Phil Gillard time 46:56 position 56
Jim jones time 47:31 position 59th

Nice one. Tough climb at start and fast technical finish but bit in middle is good- will remind you of days on mega drive playing super mario😄”

Well done chaps!

Upcoming races and reminders

Races
Sun 8 MAR. 11am
Name: Borders League Race #4
Where: Ffrith Beach Arena, Victoria Road West, Prestatyn, Denbighshire, LL19 7AR
Further Details: With the mens team so close to promotion it would be nice to get a good turn out for this. The Green Army needs you! Car sharing is usually from the club house, please check our Facebook page for updates.

20 Mile TT
Sat 14 MAR. 7am (group 1) 10am (group 2)
Where: Silverdale Park, Station Ln, Mickle Trafford, Chester, CH2 4TA
Details: Similar in concept to the 10k time trial we hold each month, this will be a 20 mile timed run from Mickle Trafford to Shotton and back using the Millennium Greenway cycle route. This is tailored for those doing spring marathons, but anybody is welcome to have a go and you can turn back at any point along the route if 20 miles is too much. The course is flat and traffic free and we will have a lead bike, tail runner and marshall so nobody will get left behind. All times will be recorded and uploaded to the blog.

The run will be split into 2 groups:

7am – Group 1 (sub 3 hour pace) – there are a small number of runners in the club aiming for the magical sub 3 hour mark. This group will cater for those who wish to run at 6:50 min miles or faster.

10am – Group 2 (any pace) – this is the main event and this group will cater for any pace and is inclusive of all abilities.

More details to follow.

Cheers
Colin