| Race
Results - for September 2000
05/09/2000
- Kenilworth lose to Stratford in annual Club
Race!
Kenilworth have finally
been beaten by Stratford in the Club race after
several years of victories. But it was close.
More details will follow when I can bear to
write it up!
12/09/2000
- Mixed fortunes in Nuneaton.
Kenilworth Runners had to
field an understrengh side for the fifth race
in the Warwickshire Road Race Series at Wolvey
today. However, when you consider that the race
was also host to the Warwickshire 10 mile championship,
the Midland Vets 10 mile Championship and a Leicester
League Road Race we did remarkably well to finish
fourth overall in the team event.
With Martin Dorrill, Sam
Kincaid, Matthew Kingston, Simon Vine and Richard
Elliot all missing through injury or illness
the Club still put in a good performance.
The race at Wolvey was
a two lap undulating course that proved very
deceptive. Wayne, Mick and Roland could all
have done better, but I suppose you cannot always
perform to your expectations - e.g. Simon Lessing
in todays triathlon. That being said, Lou Frondella
still manages to confound the critics and put
in a storming run and break the hour in 59:15.
That time was good enough to give him 25 place
out of a field of just under 300. He was just
behind Wayne Oakes who completed the course
in 58:48 and 23rd place. Richard Steel came
in next in a time of 60:59 (42nd); followed
by Mick Williams 61:43 (50th); John McNally
64:30 (86th); Roland Smythe 68:42 (142nd); Angus
McIntyre - preparing for the New York Marathon
- 70:53 (175th); Richard Greenhalf 71:57 (186th);
John Woodrow 77:53 (246th) and Mick Morris 82:10
(270th).
(Many thanks also goes
to Jane McNally for taking the photographs)
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Getting
ready for the off. Mick Morris taking it
all in his stride, even has time to fall
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Wayne
Oakes, leading the way at the end of the
first lap. |
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toughs it out on the first lap. |
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Richard
still smiling with 5 more miles to go. |
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John
McNally - flying with both feet off the
ground |
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Angus
striding out at the end of lap 1 |
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| John
Woodrow, feeling the pain after 5 miles |
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Wayne
in the home straight |
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Mick
Williams just pips Massey's to the line |
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Having
beaten the train 2 weeks ago, Roland takes
on a car this time! |
24/09/2000
- Lou smashes 1:20 barrier at today's Nottingham
Half Marathon.
Lou Frondella ran a superbly
tactical race in today's half marathon at Nottingham
by not only beating the 1:20 barrier, but also
setting himself up for a personal best of 1:17:38.
Not even Mick Williams, who normally keeps place
with him could keep up with Lou's blistering pace.
A total of 8 runners completed in the half marathon
with two going the full distance.
For those of us who tackled
the half, the rain held off, but for those doing
the marathon, the heavens opened some three
hours into the race and resulted in all athletes
getting thoroughly soaked.
Apart from Lou's excellent
time, there were also good performances from
John McNally, running his best time for three
years, and from Roger Wilkes, who, making a
return after a back injury forced him to take
a back seat, ran a steady race and was thoroughly
pleased with his time. Perhaps the only minus
point in an otherwise well organised race was
the positioning of the mile markers. Mile marker
9 was on the wrong side of the road, whilst
all of the runners would have run a mile in
a world record time between 10 and 11 - the
signs being less than half a mile apart! From
12 to the finish was also short. Towards the
end of the race, this is the last thing you
need.
Perhaps a few other people
will have noticed the errors and bent the organisers
ears. So I suppose we will all just have to
back again next year to see if they are in the
right place!
The full list of results is as
follows:
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| Lou
Frondella |
1:17:38 |
| Mick
Williams |
1:22:25 |
| John
McNally |
1:25:53 |
| Terry
Dyer |
1:32:25 |
| Roland
Smythe |
1:32:49 |
| Roger
Wilkes |
1:43:53 |
| John
Woodrow |
1:46:03 |
| Karen
Carter |
2:13:00 |
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Marathon |
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| Martin
Carter |
4:02:00 |
| John
Jones |
4:10:00 |
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| Lou
powering home in 1:17:38 |
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Waiting
for the start |
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start of this years race |
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Mick
Williams, finishing behind Lou........for
a change |
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John
McNally, heading for the line in a time
of 1:25 |
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| Terry
Dyer, struggles to the finish |
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Roland
Smythe, finishing strongly, but not quick
enough to take Terry on the line |
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You
just can't keep a good man down...............and
you can't shut him up either!! |
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Wednesday 5th September
