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RANELAGH HARRIERS E-NEWS # 515 5th December 2017
Editor: Steve Rowland
mailto: sandsrowland@btinternet.com
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HEADLINE NEWS
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* Ranelagh women finish 7th in the South of the Thames team race.
* Fanny Vein leads our team and wins the club women’s championship
* Tom Cameron leads an incomplete men’s team
* Carl Selya-Hammer wins Last Friday of the Month 5km
* All needed for our next mob match on December 9th
* Deadline in this Friday to enter the ballot for three London Marathon
guaranteed places.
ATTENTION PLEASE
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NEXT JOB FOR THE MOB
We have one more mob match this side of Christmas and it’s at Coulsdon this
Saturday 9th December against South London Harriers. 7.5 miles of pure
country, 2.30pm start. As usual for mob matches we need all the bodies we
can get, everyone counts towards the final result and the more runners we
have the better our chances of success. You can see details of the venue on
SLH’s website here:.
More background and parking details here:. Suggested public transport
route from Clapham Junction: 12:29 from Clapham Junction platform 13 to East
Croydon; 12:47 from East Croydon platform 6 to Purley; 13:05 replacement bus
service from Purley to Coulsdon South.
LONDON MARATHON GUARANTEED PLACES
We have been assigned three guaranteed places this year, and as usual there
will be a ballot to decide the lucky trio. To qualify for the ballot you
need to have run two mob matches during 2017 or run one mob match and helped
marshal at a cross-country event. The draw will be made at the club
Christmas Party on 9th December. To put your name in the hat please reply to
this email by 8th December.
CHRISTMAS PARTY…
… this Saturday. Have fun!
SOUTH OF THE THAMES 7.5 miles CHAMPIONSHIP RACE Saturday 16th December at
Aldershot. 2pm start.
Race information here:. Closing date for entries is December 10th, please contact the
Captains/Team Managers if you want to run.
HENTY RELAY Saturday 30th December 12 noon start in Richmond Park
This is our Christmas fun relay around Sidmouth Wood. It’s teams of three,
drawn on the day. All members and friends welcome, start time is 12 noon –
but you must register at the clubhouse by 11.30am to be assigned to a team.
FRANCKEISS CUP ROWING RACE
Paul Gregory revived this event a few years ago, but we have only put in a
crew on one or two occasions since. The event has been growing in popularity
and five local running clubs put in crews last year. The cup is actually
ours – it was donated by Ranelagh member R H Franckeiss in 1929 – but we
haven’t brought it home for some time. This year’s races will take place at
The Skiff Club Teddington on Sunday 14th January.
We have one pair lined up to fly the Ranelagh flag - do we have any other
rowers in our midst, or anyone who would like to give it a try? The boats we
use are two-person skiffs with a cox. Paul writes: “Crews are doubles,
ladies, men’s and mixed. No experience is necessary, three free training
sessions are optionally available on Saturdays or Sundays - pre-booked only.
The Skiff Club provides coxes if needed. Entry fees are £12 per crew on the
day. For more info: and here:.” Reply to this email if you’re interested.
THURSDAY NIGHT TRACK TRAINING AT OSTERLEY
The club is continuing to subsidise track sessions on Thursday evenings at
the Osterley track. All groups and all abilities are welcome. The sessions
are every Thursday 7.30-8.30pm. Link to the map is here:
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WHAT'S COMING
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More details of the following from the men's Captains ranelagh.men@gmail.com
or the women's Captain / Team Manager ranelagh.women@gmail.com
Saturday 9th December Stubbs Cup mob match v South London Harriers at
Coulsdon 2.30pm start. All welcome, register on the day.
Saturday 16th December South of the Thames 7.5 miles championship at
Aldershot. 2pm start. Entries in advance, contact the captains if you want
to run.
Saturday 30th December Henty Relay in Richmond Park. Our Xmas fun relay
around Sidmouth Wood. 12 noon start. All welcome, register on the day by
11.30am.
5km parkruns every Saturday at 9am and 2km junior parkruns weekly or monthly
on Sundays.
Venues, more details and registration at www.parkrun.com or
www.parkrun.org.uk/events/juniorevents/.
WHAT’S HAPPENED
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SOUTH OF THE THAMES 5 miles TEAM RACE Saturday 25th November at Beckenham
Place Park
Phil Aiken reports:
“Last December, Beckenham Place Park played host to the 7.5 mile South of
Thames Championship Race. Within a year, we were back again, this time for
its sister event, the 5 Mile Team Race. While there was a downgrading in
terms of the race distance, the same couldn’t be said for the race HQ,
relocating from the local rugby club to the grander Palladian-style mansion
that gave the park its name.
From October to Christmas, the race calendar is packed, with barely a free
weekend and it was unfortunate that not only was a Kent League fixture
taking place on the same day, but it was being staged a few miles away in
Danson Park. Numbers were inevitably down and, of the 14 clubs that were
represented, 13 were from the Surrey League, the other being Aldershot,
Farnham and District.
While numbers were lost to the Kent League, quality was lost to the
Liverpool Cross Challenge and Aldershot’s Georgie Bruinvels coasted to a
comfortable minute-and-a-quarter victory over Kent’s Amy Clements, returning
to competitive action after a number of months out injured. It was to be a
similar gap back to third place, Herne Hill’s Ella Newton, who also took the
prize for first Under 20. Hercules Wimbledon’s Alex Binley was 30th at
Nonsuch Park a couple of weeks beforehand, but took the higher placed Kent
scalps of Katie Rowland and Teresa Murphy to bag fourth.
Not that the hosts would have been bothered by that. Penelope Teoh crossed
the line in 8th to close out the Kent ‘A’ team. Such was their dominance,
the 19th finisher saw in the ‘B’ team to claim second place and, by the time
another eight had finished, the ‘C’ team was complete too, taking 5th. There
would also be ‘D’ and ‘E’ teams on the results sheet, Kent providing 22 of
the 73 runners to finish. Herne Hill, always there or thereabouts, took
bronze, four points ahead of Thames Hare & Hounds.
Ranelagh had to settle for 7th, pipped to 6th by Dulwich Runners by just a
couple of points. Fanny Vein led home a modest-sized contingent with a 12th
place finish. For this she becomes Club Champion and will be awarded the
Hugh Jones Salver at the Baker Cup Supper in the spring. A couple of minutes
later came Eugenie McLachlan in 26th, ahead of Marie Synnott-Wells in 35th
(winner of Trish’s Trophy for being first over 40) and the two Beckys, 39th
and 42nd. Lara Werrett was our final runner home, missing out on the top 50
by a mere couple of seconds.
In the accompanying Men’s race, likewise dominated by Kent AC, with not just
the winning team but four of the first seven, an incomplete Ranelagh were
represented by Tom Cameron (107th), Vaughan Ramsay (126th) and Rob Curtis
(176th).”
LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH 5km Friday 24th November in Hyde Park
A clear victory for Carl Selya-Hammer.
1 Carl Selya-Hammer 16.37
SELF TRANSCENDENCE GRIZZLY BEAR 10km Sunday 26th November
1 E Auden (Belgrave) 33.02
28 Neil Rae 38.10
BUSHY PARK XMAS 5km / 10km Sunday 26th November
10km
1 T Foster (G&G) 34.24
10 Richard Gurd (Ranelagh) 41.54
26 Matt Sowton 48.11
5km
1 C Ore (Herc Wimb) 18.31
4 Kirsty Steel (Ranelagh) 22.36 (1st woman)
KINGSTON 10km Sunday 26th November
Gordon Whitson was the leading over 60.
1 A Abdulle (Ilford) 31.15 (chip time 31.15)
40 Gordon Whitson (Ranelagh) 43.10 (43.06)
150 Claire Warner 54.16 (53.58)
232 Roger Wallace 64.59 (64.40)
Jigsaw 10km Sunday 26th November at Dunsfold
1 C Peck (Waverley) 33.31 (chip time 33.31)
74 Phil Roberts (Ranelagh) 44.16 (44.09)
Putney Riverside 10km Sunday 3rd December
1 M Vardy (Newbury) 34.39
27 Nick Wright (Ranelagh) 42.37
Regents Park 10km Sunday 3rd December
1 D Pavilukovicius (Neko) 34.19 (chip time 34.15)
17 Matthew Roberts (Rane) 39.10 (39.08)
parkrun results...
For those of you who are not currently shown as Ranelagh in the parkrun
database, it would be very helpful if you could update your details. You can
also access Ranelagh results here:.
parkruns 5km Saturday 25th November
Bushy Park
Ted MOCKETT 16:37, David LAWLEY 17:36, Ross MACDONALD 17:40, Jonathan SMITH
17:40, Mark HERBERT 18:02, James WHISTLER 18:27, Euan SINCLAIR (jnr) 19:33,
Joe BRYANT 22:06, Richard GURD 23:11, Emma WELLHAM 25:16, Jackie DUNKLEY
29:03, Catherine HOLMAN 35:53, Wally GARROD 40:03, John HANSCOMB 51:02
Wimbledon Common
Laura Blazey was the leading woman at Wimbledon…
Laura BLAZEY 19:28
Richmond Park
…and Suzy Whatmough in Richmond Park.
Jonathan MOORE 18:44, Suzy WHATMOUGH 19:45, James RITCHIE 19:53, Stewart
ANDERSON 20:12, Stephen AIKIN 22:12, Karl GARVEY 22:36, Wiebke KORTUM 22:36,
Elisa FERRUA 22:47, Cecily DAY (jnr) 22:55, Amrut SHARMA 23:44, James RUSHBY
(jnr) 24:08, John HOBSON 24:30, Margie MARSHALL 24:33, Aoife KILPATRICK
24:47, Hadi KHATAMIZADEH 24:48, Gavin HILLHOUSE 25:05, Jarryd HILLHOUSE
25:05, Simon TAYLOR 25:16, Ally PICKARD 25:24, Clare DAY 26:08, Karen
HARBERT 26:57, Ian HARRISON 27:20, Sally K YAU 28:05, Andrew BROWN 28:33,
Ben RUSHBY(jnr) 28:47, Phil RUSHBY 28:50, Jess HARBERT (jnr) 28:18, Tom
BRADLEY (jnr) 29:18, Philippa KITCHEN 29:33, Rob KITCHEN 31:05, Ewa SOLTYS
31:28, Bronwen NORTHMORE 32:01, Deepa SHARMA 32:43, Annemarie GOODRIDGE
34:23, Wendy FISHER 34:58, Beverly WALSH 37:17, Tanya ALLEN 38:04, Yvonne
HOWIE 41:28, Sally SPAULL 42:09, Lexi SLAUGHTER 42:14, Pat HEWLETT 49:56
Frimley Lodge
Nick Twomey placed second.
Nick TWOMEY 18:16
Old Deer Park
James RILEY 17:55, Kris DAVIDSON 18:42, Paul GILBERT 23:21, Michael OSBORNE
24:01, Michael BEVERLY 25:51, Paula MAGUIRE 28:53, Lorna SMITH 29:21, Julian
HOLDEN 29:43, Katie WALTON 32:11, Deborah BLAKEMORE 42:16
Hampstead Heath
Melissa GLACKIN 27:52, Pete WARREN 30:13
Kingston
Jake Waldron was top man and Julia Bailey was third woman.
Jake WALDRON 16:33, Julia BAILEY 21:56, Chris CAMACHO 23:27, Tom REAY 26:04,
Fiona PUGH 26:11, Geoffrey FISHER 27:12, Verka LAFEUILLE 30:12
Oxford
Evelyn JOSLIN 29:42
Rickmansworth
Mike WHITE 29:37
Faelledparken, Denmark
Carl Assmundson was first home.
Carl ASSMUNDSON 16:44
Cannon Hill, Birmingham
Janet TURNES 29:06
Long Eaton
Estelle Damant was the second woman to finish.
Estelle DAMANT 19:07
Delta, South Africa
Gareth WILLIAMS 19:39
Dulwich
Tamsin BURLAND 27:09
Gladstone
Paul SINTON-HEWITT 19:55, Clare Fowler 22:41, Jo SINTON-HEWITT 27:33
Crane Park
Cordelia Parker was the leading woman.
Cordelia PARKER 18:56, Eliott WELLS 19:33, Eric PLUE 20:28, Alan ELDER
22:24, Marianne MALAM 23:42, Ann KEAREY 23:43, Kevin KEAREY 23:44, Kevin
JACQUES 23:49, Hannah MALAM (jnr) 25:26, Michelle BEAUMONT 25:40, Claire
WARNER 26:40, Josie KEAREY (jnr) 26:50, Abigail MALAM (jnr) 26:51, Lewis
EMERY 27:05, Louise WAPSHOTT 32:48, Paul WAPSHOTT 32:49, Hilary THOMSON
32:50, Ellen VAN KEULEN 37:58, Nigel COOMBES 51:14
Fulham Palace
Colette DORAN 27:48
Bryanston
Sam DALGLEISH 18:26
Parke
Mike PEACE 25:22
Ballito, South Africa
Peter FORDHAM 30:56
Lac de Divonne, France
Alastair RITCHIE 25:03
Junior parkruns 2km Sunday 26th November
Moormead
Campbell MCLAREN 9:36
Surbiton
Nathaniel BOND 9:07
parkruns 5km Saturday 2nd December
Bushy Park
Jonathan SMITH 17:28, Richard KIMBER 17:30, Finlay SINCLAIR (jnr) 21:23,
James WHISTLER 21:26, Kevin JACQUES 23:11, Noel SIMPSON 27:57, Wally GARROD
40:57, John HANSCOMB 54:45
Richmond Park
Tom CAMERON 19:57, Stewart ANDERSON 20:02, Alberto ESGUEVILLAS 21:26,
Stephen AIKIN 21:51, Jess HARBERT (jnr), Karl GARVEY 22:45, James
RUSHBY(jnr) 23:05, Amrut SHARMA 23:19, Rachel REVETT 23:28, Ellie LUXMOORE
(jnr) 23:33, Simon TAYLOR 24:04, Gavin HILLHOUSE 24:28, Jarryd HILLHOUSE
24:29, Hadi KHATAMIZADEH 24:31, Christopher READ 24:36, Clare DAY 25:49,
Margie MARSHALL 26:00, Andrew BROWN 26:53, Ian HARRISON 26:54, Karen HARBERT
27:07, Adrienne BADDELEY 28:26, Michael SIKORA 29:23, Val LOWMAN 30:37,
Deepa SHARMA 31:59, Bronwen NORTHMORE 32:24, Annemarie GOODRIDGE 33:56,
Martin CLARK 40:03
Amager Faelled (Denmark)
Emma WELLHAM 27:38
Bedfont Lakes
Rob CURTIS 25:36, Becky Curtis-Hall 25:36, Colette DORAN 48:07
Bromley
Paul SINTON-HEWITT 24:55
Old Deer Park
Kris Davidson was the first finisher.
Kris DAVIDSON 19:02, Fiona PUGH 27:36, Julian HOLDEN 30:10, Katrina ROCHE
32:30
Southampton
Penny MERRETT 31:56
Kingston
Wiebke KORTUM 22:28, Chris CAMACHO 23:29, Kirsty NOBLE 25:40, Geoffrey
FISHER 28:15
Heartwood Forest
Tamsin BURLAND 29:48
Gunnersbury
Dan LITTLE 19:15
Walsall Arboretum
Joe BRYANT 22:54
Eastville
Jackie DUNKLEY 29:55
Delta, South Africa
Gareth WILLIAMS 20:03
Crane Park
Ann Kearey was third woman home.
Kevin KEAREY 20:04, Eliott WELLS 20:58, Alan ELDER 21:30, Richard GURD
21:47, Philip ROBERTS 22:16, Daniel CHIECHI 22:51, Ann KEAREY 23:17, Hannah
MALAM (jnr) 24:38, Abigail MALAM (jnr) 24:42, Marianne MALAM 24:51, Claire
WARNER 25:13, Josie KEAREY (jnr) 26:10, Melanie DAVISON 30:11, Heather
MARTINGELL 30:12, Michael WHITE 30:18, Christine DAVID 30:57, Tracey SMALL
31:47, Hilary THOMSON 32:37, Katie WALTON 35:00, Cindy CROUCHER 35:09, Nigel
COOMBES 43:18
Hillsborough
Peter WEIR 21:02, Karen WEIR 24:22
Shorne Woods
Clare FOWLER 22:46, Jo SINTON-HEWITT 27:15
Greenpoint, South Africa
Jordan Mungovan was the first man.
Jordan MUNGOVAN 17:09
Fulham Palace
Alan WHATMOUGH 18:29, Pete WARREN 26:33
Reigate Priory
Duncan MALLISON 20:21
Parke
Mike PEACE 26:10
Rushmoor
Nick Twomey and Mark Herbert were second and third finishers.
Nicholas TWOMEY 17:35, Mark HERBERT 17:57
Barclay
Dawn BATES 31:52
Hove Promenade
Ally PICKARD 25:26
Lac de Divonne, France
Alastair RITCHIE 25:57
Kuechenholz, Germany
Peter FORDHAM 27:51
Junior parkruns 2km Sunday 3rd December
Savill Gardens
John RICKETTS 13:33, Connor SCALLY 16:01, Aaron SCALLY 16:07
Bushy Park
Finlay SINCLAIR 8:14
FINALLY...
This originally appeared in the US version of Runner’s World, written by
Roger Robinson.
“It's cross country season, when thousands of high school and college
runners become harriers. They join the field, race with the pack, take
hurdles in their stride, cover the course, run in to the finish, and impress
their coach. And in those few familiar words of English, they also pay
tribute to the lively high school runners 200 years ago who invented this
fascinating sport.
They called themselves harriers—‘hare hunters’-- because they were imitating
their fathers' sport of hunting. Two runners would be designated the ‘hares’
or ‘foxes’ and run ahead by 10 minutes or so (that time was called ‘law’),
laying a ‘scent’ of shredded paper. The pack was the younger runners
(roughly ages 13-15), who were supposedly hounds. At Shrewsbury School in
England, the first to organize the sport, they were even given appropriate
doggy names, like ‘Trojan’ or ‘Challenger’ Their job was to follow the
scent, working as a team to cover any ‘checks’ (where the scent was lost).
Skilled hares would zigzag and double, and lay false trails to make the
hounds' job difficult. So when you modestly say you are a mid-pack or
back-of-the-pack runner, you are linking yourself to those young hounds of
the early 1800s.
The field was the older students (ages 16-18), who were supposedly the
pursuing huntsmen. They followed the hounds, and once the hares were
sighted, they began the serious run in. If they caught the hares, it was
‘the kill.’ So if you're ‘ahead of the field,’ you are indeed winning the
race, just as the best schoolboy runner did as he chased the hares any misty
October day in 1825.
They also organized more formal races, which they called steeplechases,
modelled on their fathers' daredevil horseback gallops from one village
church steeple to the next. This time there would be a marked course. That
came from the Latin word "currere’, to run, which also gave us other running
words like ‘courier’ and ‘current’ -- the latest news brought by running
messenger. Fences, streams, and thorny hedges were all part of the
challenge, and the students at Shrewsbury next day proudly displayed the
scars inflicted by a technique they called ‘belly-hedging’. When I visited
Shrewsbury in my 60s, I ran all their courses but I did not try
belly-hedging, thank you.
Sometimes they would jump hurdles, which were movable sections of fencing,
used by farmers for penning sheep. And your team coach? He or she takes the
name from a little town called Kocs or Kotcz, in western Hungary, where in
the 1400s they devised a special cart, a ‘kotczi-wagon’, for transporting
passengers on the rough local roads. ‘Kotczi’ became ‘coach’ in English. In
about 1845, at Oxford University, it was adapted to mean someone who gives
special tutoring -- who carries the student (or athlete) along, as if
driving them in a coach.
One last word that I especially like is exercise. Its original meaning
(Latin ‘exercere’) is ‘to move out of confinement or restraint’. That fits
every harrier. We leave the classroom or office behind to run free with the
pack, enjoying the open air and natural surface of fields or trails. Words
can tell us a lot about why we run, and how it all began.”