Race Results - for March 2008

Sunday 2nd March	Gloucester 20
Sunday 2nd March	Milton Keynes - Half Marathon
Sunday 2nd March	Reading - Half Marathon
Sunday 9th March	Crackly Cracker - Winter League
Sunday 9th March	Ash by de la Ouch - 20 Miles
Sunday 9th March	Ban bury - 15 Miles
Sunday 9th March	Iron bridge - Half Marathon
Sunday 23rd March	Massey Ferguson - Easter 5
Sunday 30th March	Josh's Last Jaunt - Winter League

02/03/08 Gloucester - 20 Mile Road Race

Club member Joan Mason competed in the Gloucester 20 Mile Race, a popular event for those training for April's London Marathon. Joan completed the course in 507th position in a time of 3:32:45.

02/03/08 Milton Keynes - Half Marathon

Rob Thompson and Gwyn Davies competed in the Nike Milton Keynes Half Marathon. Making full use of the footpaths and underpasses within the Orthophosphate city, it was Rob who beat his team mate home in a new personal best time of 1:22:35, a time good for 54th position out of the 2500 entrants. Gwyn finished in a fine 1:31:43, which earned him 187th position.

02/03/08 Reading - Half Marathon

Three Kenilworth Runners took part in the Asics Reading Half Marathon which, with over 16,000 entrants, is the second largest half marathon in the country. In a highly competitive race run on entirely closed roads and featuring a spectacular Olympic race style finish into the Maddens stadium, Matthew Kingston-Lee beat home his team mate Sam Kincaid with a time of 1:21:30 to claim 198th position. Sam finished just a minute behind in 1:22:33 for 229th place and Helen Herniman broke the two hour barrier with a time of 1:58:53, which saw her finish in 6173rd position.

09/03/08 Crackly Cracker - Winter League

On a very pleasant cold but sunny Sunday morning Keniworth Runners met in Crackly Lane just a short distance from Keniworth to take part in the sixth of the Winter Handicap Races. This race is known to club members as 'Crackley Cracker' because it involves a lot of tough hills and is by no means an easy run.

The race starts and finishes by the rough car park at Crackley Woods, Kenilworth and is composed of two almost equal laps. Each lap takes the runners from the corner and up the hill by the Tennis Club and so to the Coventry Road. A sharp turn into Upper Spring Lane gives a little breathing space before the right turn into Hollies lane and the long drag up to and past Duns Pit Farm, under the disused Railway Bridge in Crackly Lane to face the imposing hill up to the start line and with the perturbing thought that it all has to be done again! to reach the race distance of 5 miles.

Long standing club member Laurence Copeland lead the field home to take the full 50 points, closely followed by newish member Hilary Smith to take 49 points. Joan Mason retains the overall position with 276 points

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09/03/08 Ash by de la Ouch - 20 Miles

Club runners Stuart Hopkins and Ken Edwards traveled to Ash by for this very popular race which is always well attended.

The old course established a reputation as a thoroughly testing route and was used by many to gauge their fitness level in the London Marathon build-up.

Rural and undulating will be how most of you will no doubt remember it, with fond (or not so fond!) memories of Pistern Hill at 17 miles. Following the opening of the Ash by bypass, a new route had to be found. We hope and believe that the new course captures much of the spirit of the previous one and also adds something extra; there are still several inclines to test your stamina!

The course proved no difficulty for Stuart Hopkins who came a creditable 15th in 2hours 5 minutes in his lead up to the London Marathon, not to be out done Ken Edwards put in a good performance to finish in 330 place in 2:49:42, very good results from the 648 finishers.

09/03/08 Banbury - 15 Miles

The Banbury Run which is held every year in March, consists of three separate events that regularly attracts 800 runners taking part in either the 15 mile road race, the two mile fun-run or the one mile junior fun-run. The 15-mile race is the opening event in the Oxfordshire Grand Prix Series.

Five members of the club took part in this event, Mike Johnson star of the day finished a very creditable 3rd overall and 1st Vet 40 category, (well done Mike) followed by Martin Dorrill in 11th place from the 294 finishers

09/03/08 Iron bridge - Half Marathon

Off road race starting at Telford Town park, taking in Caboodle, crossing the famous Ronnie and following the course of the River Severn to Coalport where the course climbs back for the last 4 miles past List Hill back to Telford. Conditions bright but very muddy in places underfoot.

Tom Dable in his first open race as a vet 60 was thrilled to be placed 3rd in his category 1 hr 44mins 47 sec's. Pauline Dable 2.09.08

23/03/08 Massey Ferguson - Easter 5

Five members on a cold with a bitter wind Easter Sunday Morning joined over 100 other athletes in the annual Easter 5 promoted by Massey Ferguson and held at Warwick University.

With conditions under foot being far from ideal Richard Simkiss put in a fine performance to finish in 30:47 and taking ninth place overall.

Our ladies took the hon ours with Helen Wilkes winning the Female V35 and Pam Wilkes winning the Female V65, Helen with Mick Morris also won spot prizes.

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30/03/08 Josh's Last Jaunt - Winter League

On a very pleasant cold windy but sunny Sunday morning 22 members and visitors assembled at the Waterman for the race known as Josh's Last Jaunt, an old favourite which is much enjoyed for the spectacular veiws to be found on the course.

Starting at Hatton Locks the runners followed the towpath of the Grand Union Canal towards Hatton before leaving it at the first road bridge to join the road and head towards Hatton Country World which they passed and continued past Nunhold Farm until they turned left onto the footpath that lead past Home Farm and so on to Hampton on the Hill where a left turn into the Budbrooke Road which lead downhill to the minor lane and so back to the canal which was gained at Ugly Bridge. A short run took the runners to the finish climbing up the magnificent locks to the finish.

On this pleasant but demanding course new member Colin Underhill took the 50 points for the best handicap of the day, but Paul Buchan putting in a fine performance came second and with him playing his joker had 98 points to add to his tally which took him to overall lead.

With one race to go in the series the positions at the top of the groups can still change, so it is difficult to predict who will win.

Group positions are:-