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18 JUNE - HILLS
19 JUNE - PUB RUN- WINDMILL, CHATHAM GREEN
20 JUNE - TAJ MAHAL
Southend and Great Easton
A total of 18 Striders made the trip to a cool and breezy Shoebury East Beach yesterday for the Southend Half marathon, run by Havens Hospices.
The course is a 2 looper; starting around Shoebury and making its way to the Seafront, all the way to the Southend Sealife centre, back, then back to the Sealife centre and then back to Shoebury – hence not the most interesting course in the world ;-) The advantage of the “out and back” are the words of encouragement to fellow Striders!
With a start which funnels all 1900 odd starters spread out on the field to a 10 foot wide “start”, it was difficult to get into a “estimated time zone”. However the runners soon spread out.
First strider and second man home was Mark Newton, followed by James Wright in 16th. Nikki Brockbank came in as first lady Strider and 4th lady overall.
PBs were obtained by Anna Luff, who seems to get faster with every race; Christopher Sewell, Sharon Bannister, Rebecca Charlton-Weedy and Laura deAlwis. Well done to you all, especially you ladies
Full results
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Mark Newton |
1.13.19 |
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James Wright |
1.18.48 |
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Nikki Brockbank |
1.28.28 |
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Sarah Gill |
1.39.52 |
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Mark Steadman |
1.42.16 |
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Anna Luff |
1.44.40 |
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Laurie Ellingham |
1.44.27 |
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Paul Weston |
1.46.13 |
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Christopher Sewell |
1.49.33 |
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Sharon Bannister |
1.50.08 |
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David Mason |
1.50.58 |
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Paul Probert |
1.51.23 |
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Caroline Adlem |
1.51.19 |
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Liz Irvine |
1.54.19 |
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Rebecca Charlton-Weedy |
1.53.44 |
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Laura deAlwis |
1.56.41 |
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Sarah Goodwin |
2.08.03 |
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Sarah Newton |
2.18.30 |
Elsewhere in Essex the Great Easton 5 mile race (previously known as “Tilty Hilly”) took place, as organised by Grange Farm Trotters. From the results, only 3 Striders took part in this:
Paul Jeggo 6th in 30.18 and 1st male 50+
Nichola Hands 37.39
Pippa Rowe-Wakering 42.08
Baddow 10
A fine turnout of 39 (22 men and 17 women) striders took part in the local Great Baddow 10 road race. First Strider home was Mark Newton, who was 2nd overall, closely followed by Chris Burgoyne in 8th and Lee Martin in 9th, gaining the men Team Silver. Gary Chandler in 11th and James Smith in 19th made up the top 5 Strider men. Other mens teams finished 4th 11th and 13th. The female team was led by Sarah Gill, followed by Nichola Hands and Polly Bridgman. Some confusion with Nikki/Ian meant that Nikki/Ian made up the third member of the women's team (According to the results), although Polly should have been the third member of this team. The women overall gained 5th, 8th and 11th teams. Full results are available at http://www.baddowraces.org.uk/2013Results-TITLE.htm
Settle Hills, Inter Counties Fell Race & Bollington 3 Peaks
A number of Striders travelled North to the fells at the weekend. As a warm up to the main event, Janet Hill, Tim Brockington, Paul Jeggo & John Williams ran the Bollington 3 Paeks on Saturday, a reasonably gentle fell race, 9k with 370m of climb. Paul settled straight back into winning ways, with his second Vet 50 award in 2 weeks; Janet & John both narrowly missed missed prizes, 2nd in their repective categories. Full results at http://mh.k313.com/mh/fell/Boll%203%20Peaks%202013%20Results.xls
The main event was the Settle Hills Race on Sunday, with a number of Striders running for the county; the ladies team, Nikki Brockbank (20th lady), Lynn Higgs (Colchester, 27th) and Janet Hill (42nd), finishing a highly creditable 6th; the men also ran well, finishing 10th out of 15 teams, despite the absence of a number of our stars. Tristan Windley was 1st home in 21st place, the other scorers being Chris Sellens of Colchester (33rd) & Paul Jeggo (58th). Also enjoying a fine day out on 11.3k course over the limestone hills of Yorkshire were Jamie Woodyard (95th), Julian Catmull (105th), Jon Legge (110th), Tim Brockington (119th) & John Williams (102nd). Full results at http://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2013/settle.htm and some photos at https://plus.google.com/photos/110439573756197443848/albums/5879978470464936257?banner=pwa
There are a number of fell races in the coming weeks. The Orion Fell Race in Epping Forest is on Friday 22nd June. Midsummer Madness weekend, 3 races in 3 days in the Calder Valley in Yorkshire is 22nd to 24th June. This is an excellent introduction to fell running. 30th June is Callow. This is for the more hardcore fell runner, and is not recommended for novice runners. 13th & 14th July is the Brecon Fans weekend; Pen-y-Fan (5.8k/588m) is on Saturday, , Fan-y-Big (16.5k/670m) on Sunday. A good weekend. There will be more about these races on the chatboard for anyone wishing to join in the fun.
Halstead part 2 - the results
Finally the results are available – see below for Striders times. First Strider in was Tom Cammack in 6th place, and I beleive that this was his first marathon. Tom was closely followed by James Wright in 8th. The Essex winning mens team was completed by Jon Byford. On the mens side, PBs were won by Ian Brazier, Paul Probert and Andy Hind. First Strider lady was Nikki Brockbank and although not 1st Lady overall, Nikki was awarded the honour of Essex Lady champion, so well done Nikki. Elaine Tribley was first V50 woman with a PB time. The silver Essex ladies team was completed by Kirsty Williams. 02:51:33 Tom Cammack 02:53:11 James Wright 03:11:35 Nikki Brockbank 03:12:42 Jon Byford 03:24:48 Rob Mills 03:26:58 Tom Coen 03:52:42 Malcolm Savage 03:55:13 Ian Brazier 03:57:53 David Moxon 03:58:26 Paul Bridges 04:13:16 Elaine Tribley 04:16:49 Sarah Williams 04:17:58 Caroline Adlem 04:26:57 Paul Probert 04:27:25 Honor Wood 04:33:39 Liz Irvine 04:34:30 Sarah Goodwin 04:37:02 Andy Hind
County medal haul at Halstead:
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