Full Results from Race 8 - Old Town Eight

There was food aplenty for runners and marshalls attending the final club race of the 2010 summer league, whilst glycogen stores were replenished, the evenings results were tallied up and the league final standings confirmed.

Date clashes with other local races (inlcuding our own Kenilworth Half Marathon) meant that race 8 was to be run under streetlit conditions. Before the race got underway, members and guests held a minutes silence in memory of Matthew Harris who sadly died competing in Sunday's Half Marathon. The short nature of the course ensured a fast pace was required from start to finish, but the course's undulations certainly didn't go unnoticed.

The top performance of the evening, rewarded with 50 points and a box of chocs, went to Paul Buchan. Matthew Kingston-Lee followed with 48 points, and Rod Goodwin put in a strong performance to take third spot. Any runner's who had not yet played their 'joker' automatically had their joker played for the final race of the season, which proved most beneficial for Paul and Matthew, who doubled their points to 100 & 98 points respectively.

Whilst Rich Simkiss recorded the fastest time of the evening, ahead of course record pace, the course measured slightly short (3.9miles) and therefore no course records have been awarded. The results show re-calculated 'predicted' times to reflect the 3.9mile course distance.

With many runners scoring double points on the last race of the season, there was quite a shake up in the league standings...

Overall Series Winner:
Richard Simkiss - 289 points

A Group Standings:
1st - Joan Mason - 275 points
2nd - Liz Hegan - 274 points
3rd - Martin Broomfield - 272 points

B Group Standings:
= 1st - Ros Matthews - 286 points
= 1st - Rod Goodwin - 286 points
3rd - Colin Underhill - 276 points

C Group Standings:
1st - Pete Matthews - 285 points
2nd - Pete Bryan - 271 points
3rd - Mick Williams - 212 points

The 5 points per course record proved vital to Rich Simkiss over the course of the league and enable him to take the overall title in the last race. Joan Mason managed to hang onto top spot in the A group despite not running in the league finale. A last minute surge from Rod Goodwin put him on level peggings with Ros Matthews to share 1st place in the B group, and Pete Matthews led the way in the C-group with a comfortable margin over 2nd place.

 A big thank you to all club members who supported the summer league this year, both running and marshalling.