Monthly archives: December 2014

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Results Round Up – 16/12/14

CC6 Results
CC6 - December 2014
CC6 – December 2014

Race 4 of the Winter Cross Country 2014-15 season took place last Sunday.  A proper muddy, undulating 4 and a bit mile route organised by Lordshill and Wessex Clubs took runners from Janesmoor Pond, Stoney Cross through plenty of muddy trails and damp, waterlogged ground.

Romsey sported a good turn out and managed a top 10 runner in each of the women’s and men’s top 10 placings.  Despite the damp, dull morning a lucky 13 RRR’s headed for Janesmoor Pond to slide about in the mud until exhaustion, hopefully somewhere near the finish.

Men’s Individual Results

9 Neil Jennings
44 Jim Wright
45 Jonathan Williams
50 Christopher Brown
60 Steve Reed
61 John Quayle

Women’s Individual Results

9 Tam Ryan
16 Jo Weguelin
18 Hannah Shutt
25 Di Cross
30 Julia Abab
32 Penny Jennings
52 Deborah Rees

There is a break now, with the next CC6 taking place on the 11th January 2015 at Badger Farm, Winchester.

CC6 Update

CC6 Results

Race 4 of the current CC6 Series took place at Fritham on Sunday.

Men’s Individual Results

9 Neil Jennings
44 Jim Wright
45 Jonathan Williams
50 Christopher Brown
60 Steve Reed
61 John Quayle

Women’s Individual Results

9 Tam Ryan
16 Jo Weguelin
18 Hannah Shutt
25 Di Cross
30 Julia Abab
32 Penny Jennings
52 Deborah Rees

Results Round Up – 08/12/14

Results

Ups and Downs in Dorset

Several Romsey Road Runners headed down to Lulworth in Dorset for stage three of Endurance Life’s Coastal Trail Series on 6 December.  Endurance Life specialise in organising tough, challenging races in incredibly beautiful locations. It was a bright but chilly winter’s day – and perfect conditions to enjoy the stunningly course along the Jurassic Coast Path, with a calm, royal blue sea as the backdrop.

Starting with ultra distance was Romsey runner, Duncan Walling. He bravely completed a distance of 45 miles including 10,500 feet of ascent in a time of 10 hours and 57 minutes. He was placed 79th out the 110 finishers. A total of runners 166 started the event and presumably the others are still tackling those hills!

Becks Marriner was the next to start, completing her second marathon of the series; she finished in 5:19:16.

Romsey was then represented by three runners in the half marathon, the extreme-grade course – extending to more than 16 miles – looping from Lulworth Cove, past Durdle Door then back to Lulworth and along the beach before leading eastwards on a longer loop through Bindon Hillfort, past Worbarrow Bay and through deserted Tyneham Village and the army ranges back to Lulworth. With an ascent of more than 3,500 feet, it was a testing course. “It’s survival!” said one of the team, faced with stiff climb on the return leg. Jade Rolfe was the first home in 3:22:44, 174th overall, followed by Di Cross in 3:58:57 (first in her age category) and Alice Lane in 3:59:16, who ran together.

In the 10k event, Anna Duigan finished in 1:28:30 and Wendy Couper in 1:31:40.

Away from the Endurance Life, but also in Dorset, on 23rd November, John Quayle completed the Boscombe 10k in a time of 45:12.

Urgent Message from the Chairman

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As you know we usually have two London Marathon places each year. The number of places is based on the number of members the club has. More than 50 members entitles us to two places. Unfortunately we didn’t realise it was the number of people affiilated to England Athletics rather than the number of members in the club that counts towards the number used when allocating marathon places. Due to the EA membership price rising to £10 we have seen those opting in to affiliating with EA drop from nearly all members to only 39 this year. This has put us in the awkward position of only having one marathon place after having drawn for two places at the AGM.

The RRR committee met last night and decided that we would appeal to club members to see if anyone would voluntarily agree to sign up to England Athletics and pay the £10. We need 11 members willing to join, and we need to do it before the 5th December. (Webmaster’s note. For those joining, the affiliation would run to 31st March 2015)

If you haven’t affiliated and would be willing to do so within the next two days please email me at [email protected].uk.