November 2015 - Romsey Road Runners

Results Round Up – 24/11/15

Results

Julie Shanker and Francesca Hough completed the Riverside Marathon in Walton-on-Thames on 22nd November.

The route is run along the Thames River towpath between Walton-on-Thames and Hampton Court with the runners of the full marathon having to do four laps.

Both ladies finished together in a time of 4:51:55. Well done to both!

Last month, on 11th October, Steve Reed, Paul Burnage and Brenda Topliss ran the Chalke Valley Challenge 10k in times of 44:52, 46:00 and 54:11 respectively. This race is run on quiet, undulating country roads through some magnificent scenery, starting and finishing at Broadchalke sports field south west of Salisbury. A small, very friendly race, it comes recommended, albeit not for PBs. Congratulations to Brenda for winning her age category.

Message from the Session Leaders

Training

Just a reminder from the session leaders that it may be necessary, from time to time, to make late changes to the advertised training session. This is usually for safety reasons – a recent example of this was changing the Industrial Estate session following the opening of the new climbing wall. Our usual congregation point for this session is now a car park.

While changes are rare, they are more likely to happen in winter months so please be aware of this if you are planning to join the group at the session itself (rather than at Woodley Hall or the Sports Centre).

Results Round Up – 16/11/15

Results

Romsey Road Runners Brave the Elements

The bad weather didn’t put off our intrepid RRRs last weekend. Anna Duignan and Wendy Couper smashed the 10k Endurance Life event on the Gower Coast. Hurricane Kate meant that the event came very close to being cancelled but, as with all Endurance Life events, giving up is not an option and the event went ahead.

To say the conditions were pretty awful is an understatement but Anna and Wendy ran together and were delighted to finish first and second in their age category with times of 2:13:49 and 2:13:52 respectively. The event was described as strenuous – very hilly with lots of mud and rivers to run through – and actually measured 7.7 miles which is good bit longer than a 10k. Well done to both ladies.

In Gosport, three RRRs took part in the 30th running of the Gosport Half Marathon which was run in very challenging conditions with some mighty headwinds to contend with. The Gosport Half is part of the Hampshire Road Race League and attracts a strong field. The three Romsey finishers were Sue Sleath, who won her age category in 1:33:02; Tony Peelo whose time of 1:45:04 was only 26s off his effort four years ago and finally Brenda Topliss who also won her age category in a time of 1:58:18.

Well done to everyone that ran last weekend. Don’t forget to send your results in to [email protected].