Full Results from Race 6 - Not The Chesterton Chafer

Once again the Kenilworth Runners Summer League Club Race was greeted with bloomin' miserable weather, with rain throughout the day and into the early evening the race seemed destined for a small turnout - particularly with no pub to hide and warm up in afterwards. Yet the members were eager as ever to punish themselves and 30 runners turned up, along with 4 Marshalls and a few supporters to boot.

During the race, weather varied from light drizzle to showers of rain and blustery winds offering quite a contrast to the comparitively scorching running temperatures of last month. The first mile saw runners progressively climb around 100ft before entering a reasonably flat second mile. Miles 1 & 2 were run through the grounds of Thwaites Farms (similar to the Inter-Club 2009 race) before joining the normal roads again and steadily descending to 3 miles whilst heading back towards the well known Chesterton Windmill. The fourth mile included a long descent past the windmill before entering the final undulating mile.

Owing to the weather, no results were calculated on the evening (laptops aren't so great in the rain apparently!), but it was a Joker frenzy with 9 members opting to play their joker. Having only just handed Sonia Birch her box of Cadbury's Roses for her high scoring effort in the University Challenge, Sonia is now owed ANOTHER box of choccies after playing her joker and collecting a maximum possible 100points through running a hefty 20 seconds per mile faster than her target pace. Also scoring highly was Rod Goodwin, who played his joker to double his 49 points up to 98, and Laura Gould, who was one of the most improved at the University Challenge, and managed to improve once again in her first scoring race of the league, to take the 3rd spot for the evening of 48 points.

Rich Simkiss was able to continue his run of breaking club race records to set a new record of 28.19, Pete Bryan adding another Male Vets record to his collection (30.03), and Ros Matthews was able to break the female record by over 8 minutes, coming home in 36.10.

Ros Matthews has edged her way into the overall series lead on 273 points.

Joan Mason leads the A group with 270 points
Rod Goodwin now sits at the top of the B group on 249 points
Pete Matthews sits frustratingly close behind wife Ros to lead the C group with 272 points.