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 RANELAGH HARRIERS E-NEWS # 444             20 February 2015
 Editor: Steve Rowland
 mailto: steverowland@ranelagh-harriers.com  
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 HEADLINE NEWS
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 *  Surrey League - we finish the season in 9th place (women) and 7th (men)  
 *  Estelle Damant and Eirin McDaid lead our teams
 *  Ranelagh wins the fourth mob match this season - our first ever Grand
     Slam
 *  Blackheath & Bromley are the victims - we win the Pelling-Ratcliff Cup by
     nearly 600 points
 *  Jon Pepper and Becky Hall lead our mob 
 *  62.24 10 miles by Megan de Silva
 *  parkrun placings for Wiebke Kortum, Lydia Louw, Nick Twomey, Jordan
     Mungovan, Duncan Mallison, Peter Faull, Julia Bailey and David Rowe
 *  Book now for the Baker Cup Supper and Prize Presentations
 *  National Championships this Saturday
 *  MABAC League in Richmond Park this Sunday 
 *  Club Junior Championships next Saturday
 *  Subsidised track sessions at Osterley are under way 

 ATTENTION PLEASE
 ****************
 NATIONAL CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS  Saturday 21st February at Parliament
 Hill.
 We have a pretty good entry for the "National" this Saturday - good luck to
 all taking part. 

 CLUB TROPHY HOLDERS
 If you are the current holder of one of our trophies, please return it to
 Alan Hedger as soon as possible so that it can be engraved with this year's
 winner in time for our Presentations evening on March 28th. You can arrange
 to pass it over to Alan, or else leave it in the safe at the clubhouse -
 either way, please let Alan know what you're going to do. You can get him on
 01372 740626 or by e-mail alanhedger@talktalk.net . 

 BAKER CUP SUPPER and PRIZEGIVING
 You are invited to our annual presentations supper. All are welcome,
 especially if you have a trophy or medal to collect. 
 Date - Saturday 28th March @ 7.00pm.
 Location - The Roebuck Pub (upstairs),  130 Richmond Hill, TW10 6RN
 Tel 0208 948 2329
 Dress - Smart Casual

 Price to be confirmed but similar to last year's (£23.00 per person) to
 include welcome drink, free beer (while stocks  last) and buffet dinner.
 Places are limited to 60 people, so please reserve your place early!!! Your
 glass of sparkly awaits you!!
 R.S.V.P.
 Please Contact:-  Michele Gibson:-Email:- micheleagibson@hotmail.com,
 mobile:- 07703 518956
 Cheques payable to :- Ranelagh Harriers and posted / handed to Ms Michele
 Gibson, c/o Baker Cup Supper, 79 Thames Side, Staines upon Thames TW18 2HF
 or leave in the club safe with the name Michele Gibson on the envelope.
 Cash:- payable to Michele Gibson @ the Club - Tuesday & Wednesday nights.

 CLUB JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
 These will be incorporated with our inter-club race on Saturday March 7th.
 It's over one lap of our mob match course - 3.8 miles. 

 MEMBERS SURVEY INITIAL REPORT
 You should have received a few days ago the initial report on the members
 survey which was carried out by Trevor Maguire and Becky Hall. If you have
 not received it and would like to, please reply to this e-news. If you have
 any comments or feedback on the report itself, please contact Trevor
 trevor.maguire@bt.com . 

 CAU INTER-COUNTIES CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS  Sunday 7th March at Cofton
 Park, Birmingham
 Estelle Damant and Megan de Silva have both been named as reserves for the
 Surrey team.

 THURSDAY NIGHT TRACK TRAINING AT OSTERLEY
 The club is subsidising for an experimental period track sessions on
 Thursday evenings at the Osterley track. All groups and all abilities are
 welcome! The sessions are under way and will run for three months, every
 Thursday 7.30-8.30pm.  Link to the map is here:.

 MABAC LEAGUE IN RICHMOND PARK
 It's our turn to host a MABAC League race in the Park on Sunday 22nd
 February. It's 5 miles, and starts at 11am near the Broomfield Hill car park
 (the one near the top end of the Isabella Plantation). Helpers will be
 needed - please contact Heather Martingell  heathermartingell@hotmail.co.uk  or Bev Ali
 beviscosmicali@gmail.com . 

 BANK OF ENGLAND RACE
 Our annual visit to the Bank's HQ just outside Roehampton Gate was cancelled
 back in January and has now been rescheduled for Saturday 21st March. It
 will be over a new 6 miles course starting at 2.30pm. All welcome. 

 RANELAGH HARRIERS RICHMOND HALF MARATHON  Sunday 3rd May
 Entries are coming in for our Half Marathon on May 3rd. Over 800 have
 already been received, and the race usually fills up well before the closing
 date. So if you're planning to run, don't delay in submitting your entry. If
 you're not running, note the date anyway - we need large numbers of marshals
 on the day.

 GREEN BELT RELAY
 Michelle Davies writes:
 "Hello all, I am in the process of arranging teams for the Green Belt Relay
 taking place over the weekend of 16 / 17 May. I am currently three short of
 two full teams of eleven. More info about the race here:.
  If you are interested can you email me michelle.davies@richmond.gov.uk  please." 

 MARATHON FOCUS WINTER WORKSHOPS at St Mary's University Clinic.
 Wednesday 25th February 2015, 7pm - TBC      Warm-ups, injury prevention and
 recovery 
 Wednesday 25th March 2015, 7pm - TBC          Race Day Preparation
 £10 per workshop. Both are to be held at St Mary's University on campus. To
 book your place please call 0208 240 4070 or email clinic@smuc.ac.uk. 

 LAST WEEK'S 'FINALLY'
 John Pratt writes:
 "Cam Levins - huh! In the 1970s he used to run for LSE (where I worked) in
 the Southern League Div 4 and we often had only four or five runners, but we
 managed to put out two in pretty well all events, so I often did the 200,
 400, 800, 1500 and 3000 steeplechase, plus a bit of shot put and long jump.
 On one occasion I ran the 1500 and had to carry on jogging through the
 finish round the track calling out to the officials to hold the start of the
 steeplechase (at the 200m mark) as I came round. Unfortunately unlike
 Levins, I won neither event."

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WHAT'S COMING
**********************
More details of the following from the men's Captains ( e-mail Phil, Duncan
or Trevor ) ranelagh.men@gmail.com
 or the women's Captain / Team Manager ( e-mail Becky or Phil ranelagh.women@gmail.com  )

 Saturday 21st February        National Cross-Country Championships at
 Parliament Hill 

 Sunday 22nd February         MABAC League 5 miles in Richmond Park. Start
 time 11am at Broomfield Hill. See above. 

 Saturday 7th March            Inter-club race for the Ellis Cup (men) and
 the Dysart Cup (women) in Richmond Park. Also including club junior
 championships (boys and girls). 3.8 miles starting at 3pm.  

 Saturday 14th March           Clutton Cup 10 miles handicap in Richmond
 Park. 2pm start, all members welcome.

 Saturday 21st March          v Bank of England etc in Richmond Park
 (Roehampton Gate). See above.

 Saturday 28th March          Baker Cup 3 miles road handicap in Richmond
 Park (White Lodge). 3pm start, all members welcome.

 parkruns every Saturday at 9am
 Bushy Park                            Diana Fountain car park
 Richmond Park                      Richmond Gate
 Wimbledon Common             Windmill car park
 Banstead Woods                  Car park off B2219 Park Lane, Chipstead
 Bedfont Lakes                       Bedfont Lakes Country Park, Ashford,
 Middlesex
 Kingston                               The Hawker Centre
 Old Deer Park                        Pools in the Park on the A316
 Crane Park                             Near the Hospital Bridge Roundabout
 on the A316 in Twickenham
 Other venues, more details and registration at http://www.parkrun.com
 2km junior parkruns for under 14s take place on the first Sunday of each
 month from Bushy Park's Teddington Gate (11am start) and from Savill Garden
 car park, Windsor Great Park (9.30am start), and also every Sunday at 9.30am
 in Wimbledon Park.  

 WHAT'S HAPPENED
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 2XU SURREY CROSS-COUNTRY LEAGUE  Saturday 7th February at Coulsdon (women)
 and Richmond Park (men)
 The women were in action first at Coulsdon. We had thirteen runners, led in
 a great sixth place by Estelle Damant. Megan de Silva was determined to give
 Estelle a run for her money and was quietly sneaking up on her at the end of
 the first lap. Megan paid for her efforts a little on the second circuit but
 still registered her best-ever League finish in 9th place. Becky Hall also
 ran well for 26th and the scoring team was completed by Julia Bailey and
 Bonnie Morgan.

 Phil Aiken writes:
 "The results show we were tied for 4th on points, but placed 5th using the
 tie-breaker (position of final scorer). That position and our points tally
 of 130 were the best results of the season. We didn't move up any places
 among the A teams, remaining 9th, but did move ahead of Belgrave's B team.
 Our B team finished as 5th best B team over the season, testament to the
 numbers who run each race. We again had an excellent turnout for an 'away'
 fixture. For obvious reasons we have more runners when we're in Richmond
 Park or on Wimbledon Common, but the thirteen on Saturday is at the higher
 end when we have to travel further afield.

 Although every one of the team contributes to the team effort, I feel I
 should commend the efforts of some who went to a great effort to race:
 Estelle, who defied the wishes of her coach and made a 200-mile round trip
 from Loughborough; Bonnie, who, in the absence of childcare, brought her two
 children along so she could run; and Ashleigh, who made her Surrey League
 and women's team debut having already run 12 miles! Top effort, ladies. I
 should also mention Rob Curtis, who was press-ganged into childminding,
 allowing Bonnie to run.

 A schools race on Friday deprived us of half our junior racers but we were
 still represented with great runs from Izzy and Frida in the Under 13s. It
 was great that so many of you stayed behind to cheer them on. Again, many
 thanks to all runners and spectators for making it a real team effort.
 Without any of you it would just be me, a flag and a groundsheet."

 While Belgrave took the title again, it was Wimbledon Windmilers, Epsom &
 Ewell and 26.2 RRC who took the drop to Division 2. Coming up in their stead
 are Ful-On Tri, Dorking & MV and Woking.

                                                 
 Phil Killingley reports on the men's race:
 "Thanks so much to those who put on a great race, in particular Andy
 Bickerstaff, Alan Hedger and Ken Powley, and all the other marshals, helpers
 and supporters.  Even if there was an air of anti-climax, with the title and
 relegation spots as good as decided, there was lots of hard work behind the
 scenes to put this on, and then braving the Siberian winds whilst the rest
 of us kept warm by running in 2.8 mile circles. It was a superb effort from
 Ken to get the results up on our website so fast, by 9pm on Saturday
 evening!):

 We couldn't quite hold off Belgrave, but it's all a bit academic, as
 Division 1 running is secure for another season.  At the front, Eirin McDaid
 was disappointed with 30th place, but he was quicker than any of the rest of
 us.  Jackson was not far behind in a solid 37th.  Then, and this is what
 clinched it for Belgrave to leapfrog us into 6th, a gap until Trevor Maguire
 in 65th, in probably his highest ever Ranelagh Surrey League placing.  

 At this point, the blue and amber vests started pouring in - Ted Mockett
 running very well for 69th, and a pb 76.6% age graded (beating even his
 superb effort at Brighton two weeks ago), 3 seconds ahead of Peter Haarer in
 70th, who was suffering from a dodgy hamstring and some late night lecture
 crises. Captain Metatarsal was 10 seconds behind, pleased to complete and
 finish 75th. Then it was Jordan Mungovan in 79th, Steve Whitehead in 82nd,
 Kris Davidson in 84th and Ian Kenton in 91st to finish off the scoring 10.
 James Whistler narrowly missed out on the anchorman trophy as our 11th
 scorer.  At the back of the field, Peter Fordham thought he'd finished last,
 but it turned out that a Thames runner was 22 minutes behind.  You have to
 feel sorry for the officials waiting in the cold for that man to finish (if
 they did wait, that is) (Ed's note: no, they didn't!). Ted aside, it wasn't
 a great day for the age gradeds, but James Whistler and Dave Lawley recorded
 home pbs. 

 Well done to all those participating in all of the Surrey League races -
 it's been a great season.  The climax for me was watching our excellent
 display at Streatham Common a month ago, not just the scorers, but some
 superb runs there from all who raced."  

 Euan Sinclair was again our only runner in the Under 13s - well done Euan.

 Kent retained their hold on the League winner's trophy. Last year's promoted
 clubs Reigate Priory and Croydon both returned straight back to Division 2,
 to be replaced by Clapham Chasers and Guildford and Godalming.

 Stephen Logue's photographs are here:. 

 QUIZ NIGHT  Saturday7th February
 A good crowd of 40 or so squeezed into the clubhouse for our latest quiz
 night. Many thanks go to quizmasters Andy Woodhouse and Ted Mockett and food
 and drink organisers Mike White, Michele Gibson and Andy Hayward. For the
 record, the winning team was "Three men and a baby" aka Phil Aiken, Ted
 McCabe, Rob Curtis and Becky Hall. 

 PELLING-RATCLIFF CUP MOB MATCH v BLACKHEATH and BROMLEY HAC  Sunday 15th
 February at Hayes, Kent  7.5 miles
 Phil Killingley writes:
 "The Blackheath mob match starts with a seemingly innocuous trot round a
 small field, before a stile is vaulted, and runners embark on a huge lap of
 the surrounding countryside.  At this stile, it was quite frankly looking
 grim at the front for Ranelagh - Blackheath filling most of the top 15
 positions, albeit with Jon Pepper haring off in front of them as if it was a
 400m race (he didn't slow down and won by 3 minutes!).  But what unfolded in
 the next 7 miles, with grit, mud, hills, exhaustion, frisky horses and a
 near castration (these last two totally unrelated) formed the prelude to a
 stunning away win, better even than Operation Betelgeuse vs Orion last
 autumn, to give Ranelagh a first ever full house or Grand Slam of mob
 victories.   

 Ben Shore's photo on Facebook of Becky and myself, Ranelagh captains holding
 the cup, had 67 'likes' only hours after posting. Other clubs are
 congratulating us on our performance: Orion's captain said 'Brilliant effort
 from everybody at Ranelagh - at least we feel a bit better now knowing you
 have a very strong team and have beaten all the others.  We will definitely
 be 'plotting' something for next year though'.  And Blackheath's headline on
 their website runs: 'Ranelagh mob match - we lost. Congratulations to
 Ranelagh on winning all their mob matches this season.'  David Wright, our
 most experienced mob matcher with 160 under his belt after today, proclaimed
 this his best mob match out of all of them. 
 
 Talking of history, Ranelagh was formed in 1881 and our first inter-club
 race with Blackheath was in 1886. The first 'all to score' mob race was a
 few decades later in 1907 - a 17 to score affair.  The heavy and beautiful
 trophy we lifted today (before it was spirited away for safe keeping) was
 gifted by E H Pelling of Ranelagh and E J Ratcliff of Blackheath in 1921,
 hence its name Pelling-Ratcliff. Today was just the 25th time Ranelagh have
 won the mob, against 70 for Blackheath.  Two years ago, we won the away race
 for the first time since the early 1970s under Marc Snaith's leadership, so
 in theory we were due a fightback from the Heathens.  They turned out 23
 people more than last time, but we more than doubled the size of our mob, to
 give us a 65-61 people advantage.   

 It seems wrong to talk about individual performances in what is clearly all
 about the team, but mention must also go to Becky Hall's excellent win of
 the ladies' race, only a day after a 20 mile marathon training run.  Carl
 Assmundson ran for one of the first times in Ranelagh colours and shot past
 his captain at an astonishing pace with 3 miles to go, going on to overhaul
 Blackheath's first two runners in a sprint finish.  I think he ran in
 Astroturf shoes. 

 Vice Captain Trevor Maguire's Blue Wall concept came into its own again
 today.  Our biggest wall was positions 23-30 - 8 in a row (excluding
 guests), led home by Mark Herbert.  Christopher Camacho led a wall of 7,
 covering 69-75.  We had 7 in the first 10, 4 in the next 10, and then 9 of
 the third ten. Blackheath never recovered, and the final score was 2993 -
 3564 in our favour, leaving the opposition to nurse their pride, and the
 state of their relations with local horse riders. 

 A link to a wide array of photos, well worth a browse, are below.  Happy
 viewing. (Those of you smiling at the camera at the top of one of the huge
 hills - shame on you!). photos:

 Many thanks and congratulations to all those contributing to our mob
 successes this season, both on the field and off.  Welcome to mob running to
 those running mobs this season for the first time. It just gets better and
 better.  Where next?!" 

 For the record, Jon Pepper won the F B Thompson medal for the overall
 winner, but the Harry Sheer Trophy for the first finisher aged over 50
 remained in Blackheath's hands as Nick Kinsey crossed the line about a
 minute ahead of Darryl McDonald


 SOUTH-WEST CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS   Saturday 4th January at Bicton Park
 Lydia Louw was the 4th girl in the combined boys and girls under 11 race,
 but only 7 seconds behind the winner.

 Under 11s
 1   B Glover (Wells C)     5.52
 13  C Newcastle (unatt)    6.22  (1st girl)
 18  Lydia Louw             6.29

 COUNTRY TO CAPITAL 45 miles  Saturday 17th January
 Bruce McLaren reports:
 "The Country to Capital 45 is a great ultra, starting in Wendover, crossing
 the Chilterns to Uxbridge and then following the Grand Union Canal to
 Paddington basin. It started off a bit overcast and within a mile we were
 running in a blizzard across frozen mud - just as well as I had the wrong
 footwear on. I hadn't realised it would be muddy so just had trainers on!
 After a couple of hours snow it stopped but remained very cold. The
 Chilterns were behind me and around mile 20 we joined the canal with just
 under a marathon to go. That passed fairly smoothly and it seemed no time
 before I was arriving at Little Venice, I'd never been there before - it's
 lovely!  I'd recommend this one, so much so I've entered for 2016 already." 

 1   O Stoten (Tri TH)      5:07.09
 6   E Barnes (Leigh)       5:37.46
 54  Bruce McLaren          6:50.01
 296 finished
    
 LONDON WINTER 10km  Sunday 1st February
 1    O Laws (N&EB)         34.04  (chip time 33.59)
 4    L Custance (Clapham)  25.30  (35.27 - 1st woman)
 12   Ted Mockett           36.28  (36.20)
 719  Stephen Hurton        46.32  (45.47)
 923  Ellen Clague          47.51  (47.28)
 2189 Andrew Brown          52.35  (52.05)
 4138 Ellen Van Keulen      57.30  (56.29)
 8745 Annemarie Harvie      68.33  (68.19)           

 KINGFIELD CANTER 2.85 miles handicap  Wednesday 4th February
 1   M Tibbotts (Woking)    24.42  (actual time 21.42)
 2   Steve Rowland          25.13  (25.13)
 12  Sonia Rowland          26.58  (21.58)
 19  Louise Piears          27.48  (21.33)
 Also Alan Davidson                (22.33)   

 INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION LONDON WEST CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
 Friday 6th February at Oxford
 Ali Kennedy writes:
 "Friday was a brilliant race for the girls in Oxfordshire. Sacha was first
 by about 150m, Léonie came 3rd in a tight sprint finish. They have now
 qualified for the national championships in Rugby on 28th February."

 WOKINGHAM HALF MARATHON  Sunday 8th February
 1    P Martelletti (VP&TH) 1:04.18  (chip time 1:04.18)
 25   Carl Selya-Hammer     1:15.43  (1:15.37)
 27   H Munn (Enf & Har)    1:15.29  (1:15.25)
 170  Lars Lundqvist        1:26.08  (1:25.35)
 1434 Deirdre Inman         2:12.36  (2:08.16)
 1628 Cindy Croucher        2:31.41  (2:27.21)   

 BARCELONA HALF MARATHON  Sunday 15th February
 Michelle Davies writes:
 "Hoping I scraped under 1:37 officially.. Awesome course, friendly, almost
 completely flat and lots of great music! Would love to give it another shot
 when I'm fit!"

 1    A Tadesse (Ethiopia)  1:00.42
 13   F Kiplagat (Kenya)    1:05.09
 1451 Carl Moran            1:30.32
 2747 Michelle Davies       1:37.08
 5629 Lauren Stewart        1:47.05 

 BRAMLEY 10 miles and 20 miles  Sunday 15th February
 Some big PBs here, particularly from Megan de Silva who placed 6th in the
 women's 10 miles. Her 62.24 will move her up to 8th in Ranelagh's all-time
 rankings. In the 20, Marie Synnott-Wells won the over 50 class.

 10 miles
 1   D Thorne (Reading)     50.26  (chip time 50.25)
 6   E Kirk (Swansea)       56.35  (56.32 - 1st woman)
 34  Megan de Silva         62.24  (62.18)

 20 miles
 1   J Sanderson (G&G)      1:51.06  (1:51.05)
 29  S Amend (Belgrave)     2:03.05  (2:03.05 - 1st woman)
 51  Duncan Mallison        2:09.43  (2:09.31)
 163 Marie Synnott-Wells    2:24.37  (2:24.20)
 458 Chris Hunton           2:54.38  (2:52.07)
 586 Heather Martingell     3:11.24  (3:10.02)   

 26.2 RRC VALENTINES 10km  Sunday 15th February
 Blackheath's Peter Tucker ran this at 9am and finished 4th in 33.12, then
 scooted back to Hayes in time to run the mob match against us at 11am - and
 finish 12th!

 1   S Overall (B&B)        30.21
 37  H Jarvis (DMV)         37.56  (1st woman)
 378 Alan Meaden            61.42
 441 Wally Garrod           77.49       

 RICHMOND PARK parkrun 5km  Saturday 7th February
 1   A Mariani (WG&EL)      16.32
 17  John Hobson            19.44
 41  A Casey (Herc Wimb0    21.25  (1st woman)
 59  Daniel Rushby          22.35
 71  Chris Read             23.29
 72  Colin Lloyd            23.37
 74  Amrut Sharma           23.41
 86  Alberto Esguevillas    24.13 
 95  Carol Aikin            24.38
 96  Tomas Sterner          24.39
 101 Andrew Brown           24.57
 124 Colin Rogal            25.41
 130 Sam Rushby             25.50
 131 Phil Rushby            25.53
 135 James Rushby           25.58
 206 Michael Sikora         28.55
 213 Claire-Louise French   29.08  
 222 Deepa Sharma           29.47
 269 Ann-Marie Harvie       32.43
 278 Martin Clark           34.39 
 293 Pat Hewlett            39.52

 CRANE PARK parkrun 5km  Thursday 7th February
 Nick Twomey and Duncan Mallison were 1st and 2nd for Ranelagh.

 1   Nick Twomey            17.43
 2   Duncan Mallison        18.00
 17  Kevin Kearey           21.23
 18  Daniel Chiechi         21.30 
 23  M Hunt (Bear)          22.15  (1st woman)       
 25  Paul Wapshott          22.17
 29  Tom Kearey             22.36 
 87  Lynne Barber           28.24
 98  Mary Hickson           29.06
 101 Christine David        29.22
 111 Tracey Small           31.03
 116 Stacey Barber          32.01 

 BUSHY PARK parkrun 5km  Saturday 7th February
 1   R Harvie (WSEH)        16.04
 11  Nick Wright            17.40
 14  H Page (Dart)          18.07  (1st woman)
 307 Adam Wright            24.04
 342 Ian Grange             24.35
 442 Kirsty Bangham         25.59
 465 Michelle Davies        26.14
 466 Jane Craigie-Payne     26.15
 522 Leeanne Bryce          27.04
 528 Ashleigh Ferris        27.09
 537 Mel Davison            27.13
 717 Jackie Dunkley         29.31     
 918 Wally Garrod           37.45
 943 John Hanscomb          41.28 

 BANGOR parkrun 5km  Saturday 7th February
 Peter Faull got second place.

 1   B Caughers (N Down)    18.10
 2   Peter Faull            19.20
 11  J Smith (N Down)       20.57  (1st woman)

 KINGSTON parkrun 5km  Saturday 7th February
 Wiebke Kortum was the leading woman.

 1   M Kossatz (unatt)      18.08
 18  Chris Camacho          21.13
 29  Wiebke Kortum          23.01  (1st woman)
 86  Mike White             29.14
 100 Annemarie Goodridge    33.00
 101 Alison Dicks           33.00

 BOGNOR REGIS parkrun 5km  Saturday 7th February
 David Rowe finished third.

 1   T Strowger (unatt)     19.50
 3   David Rowe             20.36
 30  C Laing (unatt)        26.13  (1st woman)
 70  Sharon Rowe            34.36

 OTHER parkruns  (Saturday 7th February)...
 York: 94 Phil Jackson 22.39
 Southsea: 74 Alan Davidson 24.32
 Reading: 154 Louise Atkinson 31.28
 Bournemouth: 83 Eugenio Carmo 23.58
 Mile End: 56 Paul Sinton-Hewitt 22.25,  79 Jo Sinton-Hewitt 24.52  
 Old Deer Park: 12 Phil Roberts 22.42,  28 Luke Maguire 27.17,  48 Katie
 Walton 32.05 

 RICHMOND PARK parkrun 5km  Saturday 14th February
 Jordan Mungovan and Lydia Louw provided a Ranelagh double victory this week.

 1   Jordan Mungovan        17.31
 20  Peter Weir             20.11
 32  Lydia Louw             20.57  (1st woman)
 41  Steve Aikin            21.41 
 72  Colin Lloyd            23.19
 75  Amrut Sharma           23.23
 115 Carol Aikin            25.07
 116 Andrew Brown           25.08
 130 Kevin Knowles          25.38
 147 Arthur Louw            26.21
 151 Sam Rushby             26.31
 152 Daniel Rushby          26.31
 153 James Rushby           26.32
 154 Phil Rushby            26.33
 164 Colin Rogal            26.46
 218 Tony Clark             29.00
 231 Val Lowman             29.27 
 235 Claire-Louise French   29.38
 264 Peter Lowman           31.04
 267 Bronwen Northmore      31.10
 297 Penny Merrett          35.29   
 312 Pat Hewlett            39.15

 CRANE PARK parkrun 5km  Thursday 14th February
 Duncan Mallison was the eighth consecutive Ranelagh winner.

 1   Duncan Mallison        17.29
 4   Nick Twomey            18.24  
 11  Tom Kearey             20.54
 17  V Caulfield (E&E)      22.03  (1st woman)       
 67  Colette Doran          26.17
 80  Lynne Barber           27.40
 92  Christine David        29.16
 102 Tanya Allen            30.27
 104 Tracey Small           30.45
 109 Mary Hickson           31.18
 116 Cindy Croucher         32.24
 117 Tamsin Burland         32.29
 123 Lexi Slaughter         40.02
 124 Waldron Slaughter      40.10   


 BUSHY PARK parkrun 5km  Saturday 14th February
 Julia Bailey was close to 20 minutes as third woman home.

 1    K Al-Abaidy (WSEH)    16.06 
 6    Nick Wright           17.27
 53   J Reynolds (B&B)      19.45  (1st woman)
 73   Julia Bailey          20.08
 198  Adam Wright           22.11
 418  Rachel Revett         25.01
 850  Jackie Dunkley        30.29     
 1055 John Hanscomb         42.07 

 KINGSTON parkrun 5km  Saturday 14th February
 1   Unknown                18.15
 18  S Black (Tri Europe)   21.00  (1st woman)
 29  Ben Shore              22.49
 77  Fiona Pugh             27.55
 97  Chris Camacho          30.53
 102 Wiebke Kortum          31.28
 103 Heather Martingell     31.29
 104 Mike White             31.30
 116 Alison Dicks           36.56

 OLD DEER PARK parkrun 5km  Saturday 14th February
 1   J Smith (Strags)       18.55
 11  E Webb (SMR)           23.20  (1st woman)
 18  Luke Maguire           25.44
 19  Frida Roper            25.50
 23  Julian Holden          26.49
 39  Katie Walton           32.02
 41  Deborah Blakemore      32.40

 GUNNERSBURY parkrun 5km  Saturday 14th February
 1   D Afshar (West 4)      17.31
 16  B Stearn (Wimb W)      19.30  (1st woman)
 56  Phil Jackson           22.23
 112 Jane Craigie-Payne     24.58
 182 Ashleigh Ferris        27.25
 185 Leeanne Bryce          27.31

 OSTERLEY parkrun 5km  Saturday 14th February
 1   M Nagi (unatt)         18.46
 10  Michael Moran          20.49 
 11  C Buckley (TVH)        20.58  (1st woman)
 30  Niall O'Connor         23.01
 59  Kevin Kearey           25.13
 60  Josie Kearey           25.14
 81  Rebecca Northmore      26.36
 86  Ann Kearey             27.00     

 OTHER parkruns  (Saturday 14th February)...
 Horsham: 15 Paul Sinton-Hewitt 21.51
 Southsea: 111 Alan Davidson 24.55
 Reading: 186 Louise Atkinson 33.16
 Frimley Lodge: 284 Deirdre Inman 33.50
 Bournemouth: 94 Eugenio Carmo 25.25
 Leamington: 65 Paul Hodges 22.11 
 Eastleigh: 62 Peter Fordham 28.03
 Cuerden Valley: 62 Kirsty Bangham 27.17
 Bognor Regis: 11 David Rowe 20.52,  55 Ally Salisbury 25.57,  128 Sharon
 Rowe 34.40

 FINALLY...
 "Women's Olympic Games" in Gothenburg, 1926: Video:.