Newsletter March ‘15
IMPORTANT
Please will you let me know if your details have changed since filling in your membership form, especially your emergency contact number.
Individual England Athletics Registration
Renewal date for this is April 1st. £12 to Eddie. Anyone wishing to take part in Essex League events should have an individual England Athletics affiliation.
Hi Folks
Welcome to new members Christopher Cousens, Karina Ludtke, Serena Alexis, Lindsey Kennett and Laura Boyle.
Members out and about at races
**Saturday 21st February. 6 girls and 4 chaps took part in the English National Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields. Although the weather was kind the conditions underfoot were appalling with many runners having difficulty staying upright!!! The senior women ran 5miles with the first crossing the line in 30mins 07secs and the last over an hour later in 1:31:11. Danielle Hu was first PS coming in at 49:25, she was followed by Ruth 50:02, Claire K 53:00, Debbie S 53:50, Nicola M 57:24 and Adele 1:01:00.
The senior men had to cover 7.5miles, with the first runner taking 39mins 12secs and the last 1:49:46. Carl was first PS in 56:56 followed by Robert V 1:00:33, Chris 1:04:44 and Eddie 1:20:13. Brilliant running from all of them. Well done and a special ‘thank you’ to all the cross country teams for the chocolates and the beautiful flowers.
**Sunday 22nd February Fords Dunton Test Track 10miles in aid of St Luke’s Hospice. On a bright, but cold and frosty morning the first runner, out of 307, came in at 55mins 53secs and the last 2hrs 19mins 48secs. First PS home in 5th place was Dan C taking 59mins 30secs. He was followed by Robert V 1:12:02 and Danielle Hu 1:21:33 both of whom had run a 7.5 and 5 mile (respectively) gruelling cross country the day before!!!! Next PS came Matthew R 1:29:07 followed 2secs later by Beryl 1:29:09. They were followed by Mark C 1:30:36, Nicola H 1:31:08, Ben L 1:35:16, Carl (keeping his partner Diana company) 1:36:22, Natalie 1:39:29, Liz C 1:51:21 and Rhys 1:55:11. Well done guys. Hope I haven’t missed anyone; when they don’t put club names in the results it’s difficult trawling through all the individual names.
Forthcoming Runs and Races
When you’re filling in the race forms please enter your club name
Sunday 15th March ‘The Essex 20’ (miles) Good ‘try out’ for the marathon!!!
Cut off time 4hrs www.essexroadrunning.org.uk
Sunday 22nd March Brentwood Half www.brentwoodhalf.com
Saturday 28th March Road Relays, Chelmsford. No details yet
Saturday 28th Mar Orion Harriers 15m cross country race. Testing 1lap course,
winding through the beautiful, medieval forest boasting views of the
city of London. www.orionharriers.org.uk/fif15.htm
Sunday 29th March Skyline 120 Braintree 5 (miles) road race www.runbritain.com or
Braintree 5 website
Friday 3rd April ‘Crown to Crown’ Westley Height
‘Specially for our walkers but open to all
Sunday 10th May ‘Walk for Life’ Farleigh Hospice 22K or 10.5K
www.farleighhospice.org/walkforlife/register
Sunday 10th May ‘Bluebell 5’ (miles) lovely run, great cakes!!! Castle Point Joggers
Sunday 17th May The Edmund Carr Great Baddow Charity Races On line entry is http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/events/registrationinfo.asp?sp=&v=2&EN=88663&ms details of the race are available at www.baddowraces.org.uk
Tuesday 19th May ‘Summer Series’ see www.phoenixstriders.org.uk
Tuesday 16th June ‘Summer Series’ see www.phoenixstriders.org.uk
Sunday 12th July British 10K London Run www.thebritish10klondon.co.uk
Tuesday 21st July ‘Summer Series’ see www.phoenixstriders.org.uk
Sunday 16th Aug Stanford le Hope Community 5K see PS website
Tuesday 18th Aug ‘Summer Series’ see www.phoenixstriders.org.uk
Sunday 6th Sept Langham 10K www.langham10km.org.uk
Sunday 27th Sept ‘Dunton Demon 5’ see PS website
For local runs and races Google Essex Road Running and click on running calendar
London Marathon Runners
We have several members running in the London Marathon this year and raising money for various charities. If your name isn’t here please let me know.
Mark Childs is running for "Great Ormond Street Children With Cancer"
Uk.virginmoneygiving.com/markchilds1966
Club Kit
Looking forward to summer meetings? The club vests £13.50 and T-shirts £16 are really comfortable wear for warm summer evenings. Please let Sue V know if you would like one as she may need to order and they take 28 days to come. She also has polo shirts £13.50 and sweat shirts £16. or 07909 778695.
Finally Birthday Wishes to Martyn C, Nicola C, Helen H, Jim, Stacy R, Lorraine, Eddy T, Cornel and Stephanie Z.
Judy