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RANELAGH HARRIERS E-NEWS # 543 21st February 2019
Editor: Steve Rowland
mailto: sandsrowland@btinternet.com
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HEADLINE NEWS
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* Ranelagh women finish 7th in the Surrey League race, men finish 8th
* Overall, the women are 5th with one race to go, the men are 8th (and
relegated) with all races completed
* Cordelia Parker and Ralph Street lead our teams.
* National Championships at Leeds this Saturday
* Final Surrey Ladies League at Lloyd Park on Saturday March 2nd
* Mob Match v Blackheath and Bromley on Sunday March 3rd
* Trophy Holders – please return them to Ted Mockett as soon as possible
* Social Media editors and moderators needed
* Kit sale still on
ATTENTION PLEASE
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NATIONAL CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS Saturday 23rd February at Leeds
Entries are closed. Good luck to all those making the long trek north.
NEXT JOB FOR THE MOB
Our final mob match of this season is away to Blackheath and Bromley H&AC on
their 7.5 miles course at Hayes, Kent. At our opponents’ request it will be
held on Sunday morning 3rd March starting at 11am, rather than the usual
Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately this is the day after the rescheduled
final women’s Surrey League race.
The course lives up to the tile “cross-country” as it’s actually in the
country, and scenic country at that. It's multi-terrain with a few sections
of road near the end, so trail shoes are preferable to spikes. As ever, we
need all the runners we can get. The more runners we have, the better our
chances of retaining the Pelling Ratcliff Cup. Register on the day. There is
a car pool available, details here:.
PLEASE NOTE that the usual Blackheath HQ is not being used for this race. Go
instead to the Met Police sports ground at The Warren, Croydon Road, Hayes
BR2 7AL.Parking is available and it’s just under a mile from Hayes Station.
It’s a short jog from The Warren to the start. The course is the usual one
but with some variation in the closing stages.
HQ.
START:.
If you are a late arrival there is limited parking near the start.
SURREY LADIES CROSS-COUNTRY LEAGUE
The men’s League has finished but the women still have one to go. It’s on
Saturday March 2nd at Lloyd Park Croydon. 1pm start for seniors, 12 noon
for Under 15s and Under 17s, 12.30pm for Under 13s. Details:.
JUNIORS
The club junior championships for the Lotinga Cup and the Camilla Cup take
place on Saturday 30th March in Richmond Park over a 2.5 miles / 4km course.
Start time is 3pm and all under 20s are welcome. Register on the day at the
clubhouse or at the start. One week later we have the last club handicap of
the season, the 3 miles road race for the Baker Cup. Again, all juniors are
welcome and the Jack Ellicock Trophy goes to the first under 18 to finish.
CALLING ALL TROPHY HOLDERS
If you are the current holder of any of the club’s trophies can you please
arrange to return it (POLISHED PLEASE!) to our Trophies Steward Ted Mockett
as soon as possible. We need to gather in all the trophies and get them
engraved with their new holder’s name before the prize-giving evening at the
Roebuck on April 6th. That sounds a long way ahead, but we have a lot of
trophies to process, so please don’t delay. If you have a small trophy you
can leave it in the clubhouse safe (but be sure to let Ted know it is
there!) For the larger trophies, contact Ted to make arrangements. His email
is tedmockett@hotmail.com.
RANELAGH’S ROAD RACES
Looking forward to our two road races – the Ranelagh Richmond Half Marathon
on Sunday 5th May and the Ranelagh Richmond 10km on Sunday 16th June.
Entries for the Half Marathon are already coming in: Details:. We’ll
need plenty of marshals as well as runners, so make a note of the dates. The
10k is also now open for entries. Here's the link:.
RANELAGH SOCIAL MEDIA
Ed Perry writes:
“We are looking to build our presence on Social Media to help build
community within the club, raise awareness of who we are for those
interested, and promote races. I'm looking to pull together a team from
across the club to help moderate and produce content that represents
everything we do. If you'd like to help please drop me an email on
mailto:ranelaghharriersonline@gmail.com.
In the meantime do give us a like or a follow:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ranelaghharriers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RanelaghHarrier
Instagram: @ranelaghharriers
RANELAGH LOGOED KIT SALE - UNREPEATABLE BARGAINS
The following kit items are still available for purchase at just £10:
Men’s Long Sleeve Tops larger sizes
Men’s Short Sleeve Tops limited items
remaining
Ladies’ Fleeces Sizes 8 & 10 good availability
Ladies’ Fleeces Sizes 12 and 14 some availability
Ladies’ Long/Short Sleeve Tops all sizes still available
The following sizes of Ranelagh Vests are available for a very modest £5:
Boys’ vests ages 7-8 and 9-10 good availability
Ladies’ vests larger sizes good availability
All these kit items are on display at the club house. If you can’t make it
to the club house on a Tuesday then contact Marianne Malam at
mailto:marianne.malam.flp@gmail.com and she will sort you out. We also plan
to have the remaining kit on display at the clubhouse for the Clutton Cup on
Saturday 2 March and the Baker Cup Supper on Saturday 6 April.
NEW CLUB KIT
Our new supplier for club singlets, men’s and women’s. is iProsports.
Details and orders:
https://www.iprosports.co.uk/club-zone/ranelagh-harriers/
TUESDAY NIGHT SOCIALS
Don’t forget that we meet for a casual drink after training on the first
Tuesday of each month. Venue is upstairs at the Roebuck on Richmond Hill.
All welcome.
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:
FACEBOOK
Follow Ranelagh on Facebook
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 23rd February National Cross-Country Championships at Leeds.
Saturday 2nd March Surrey Ladies League Division 1 at Lloyd Park,
Croydon. Juniors from 12 noon, senior women at 1pm.
Sunday 3rd March Mob Match v Blackheath & Bromley HAC for the
Pelling Ratcliff Cup at Hayes, Kent. 11am start.
Saturday 9th March Ranelagh Cup Schools Race in Richmond Park.
2.30pm start.
Saturday 16th March Clutton Cup 10 miles handicap in Richmond Park.
2pm start. All welcome, register on the day.
5km parkruns every Saturday at 9am and 2km junior parkruns weekly or monthly
on Sundays.
Venues, more details and registration at<a/
href=" http://www.parkrun.co>/www.parkrun.co</a>m or
<a
href=" http://www.parkrun.org.uk/events/juniorevents">/www.parkrun.org.uk/events/juniorevents</a>/.
WHAT’S HAPPENED
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START FITNESS SURREY LADIES LEAGUE DIVISION 1 Saturday 9th February in
Richmond Park
We were back to the longer 5 miles distance for this Surrey Ladies League
race. Owing to the loss of the scheduled venue for the previous event this
was only the third race of the four League events, with the remaining
fixture being re-scheduled for March 2nd. The course today was in Richmond
Park, but not in the parts we usually frequent. The start was close to the
car park at the top of Broomfield Hill (better known by Ranelagh Harriers
of years gone by as Test Hill). Two large laps around Isabella Plantation
sufficed to make up the required distance. Conditions were mild and dry.
Division 1 and Division 2 races were held separately, with over 400 runners
altogether taking part. In the Division 1 event Cordelia Parker led our team
all the way and finished just inside the first dozen. Suzy Whatmough
narrowly missed her best League performance of the year in 22nd spot and
then came 17 year-old Izzy Atkins, opting to run in the Senior race and
showing great strength to hang on for 35th place. Laura Blazey was close
behind, and the team was closed in by Estelle Damant who had been burning
the midnight oil to complete her PhD thesis. We finished 7th on the day and
remain in 5th overall, though there are several clubs within striking
distance.
Our B team comprised Alice Forbes, Rebecca Northmore, Bonnie Morgan, Alice
Littler and Marianne Malam and they also finished 7th but stand one place
higher than the A team in 4th overall. Backing up were Marie Synnott-Wells,
Anna Reichwald, Ria Woodfield, Clare Day and Karen Harbert. In the combined
U17/U15 race Emily Coulson ran well, just outside the top half of the
field.j
1 Stacey Ward (HHH) 31.08
2 Isabel Brinsden (E&E) 31.26
3 Katy Hedgethorne (TH&H) 31.48
12 Cordelia Parker (Rane) 33.57
22 Suzy Whatmough 34.46
35 Izzy Atkins 35.55
39 Laura Blazey 36.04
47 Estelle Damant 36.35
77 Alice Forbes 38.01
98 Rebecca Northmore 39.17
114 Bonnie Morgan 40.27
126 Alice Littler 41.02
132 Marianne Malam 41.38
142 Marie Synnott-Wells 42.31
178 Anna Reichwald 46.22
184 Ria Woodfield 47.05
189 Clare Day 47.40
195 Karen Harbert 49.32
Teams (5 to score) – A teams only
Overall after three races – A teams only
1 Herne Hill H 41 1 Thames H&H 252
2 Thames H&H 93 2 Herne Hill H 293
3 Hercules Wimbledon AC 107 3 Clapham Chasers 425
4 Fulham RC 129 4 Hercules Wimbledon AC 445
5 Clapham Chasers 143 5 Ranelagh H 467
6 South London H 149 6 Fulham RC 486
7 Ranelagh H 155 7 South London H 508
8 Belgrave H 174 8 Belgrave H 526
9 Kent AC 186 9 Kent AC 715
10 Epsom & Ewell AC 323 10 Guildford & Godalming AC 786
11 Dulwich R 328 11 Epsom & Ewell AC 811
12 Guildford & Godalming AC 363 12 Dulwich R 980
13 Reigate Priory AC 414 13 Reigate Priory AC 993
14 West 4 H 456 14 West 4 H 1395
15 Advent Runners 503 15 Advent Runners 1741
B teams
1 Herne Hill H 264 1 Herne Hill H 938
2 Clapham Chasers 350 2 Clapham Chasers 1051
3 Hercules Wimbledon AC 396 3 Thames H&H 1148
4 Fulham RC 396 4 Ranelagh H 1428
5 Thames H&H 439 5 Fulham RC 1454
6 Dulwich R 532 6 South London H 1473
7 Ranelagh H 547 7 Dulwich R 1631
Under 17s
1 Sophie Hoare (Clapham) 16.44
39 Emily Coulson (Ranelagh) 20.11
START FITNESS SURREY LEAGUE (MEN) DIVISION 1 Saturday 9th February at Lloyd
Park, Croydon
Pheidippides reports:
"The course at Lloyd Park for the most part provided long sections of firm
grassland, but the organisers made sure that we were not cheated of a
delicious range of mud to satisfy the connoisseur: sticky toffee pudding,
rice pudding, semolina, Eton Mess, the sort that has been in the fridge for
far too long and gone off, and et cetera. There was no realistic chance of
staying up in Division One but, even so, a dense pack of blue assembled on
the start-line and everyone gave it their all. Ralph Street made a very
welcome return to Ranelagh, leading the team home in eighteenth. There was
a gap after him but then some fairly good packing between Ian Kenton in 70th
and James Riley in 83rd. Anchorman was Dave Lawley in 115th. We finished a
consistent eighth as a team and eighth overall, meaning relegation, but
there were silver linings. Captain Phil completed his fiftieth scoring
appearance for Ranelagh in a Surrey League (an impressive feat to have
achieved before the age of forty), and Peter Haarer seems to have bagged the
individual V50 title. Wonderful support was provided round the course by
the agile Gordon Whitson plus Steve & Sonia Rowland, Ken Powley, and Alan
Hedger who provided much needed ‘coffee plus’ for the survivors."
Phil Killingley adds:
“All this was preceded by the junior race where U13 Felix proved that he can
compete in the very different conditions from the dusty 24C Richmond Park
course in October - his debut appearance. Half a mile from the finish he
lost not one but both shoes but continued undaunted much to the amazement of
spectators, spattering his captain with mud as he passed over the now
redundant spikes. He had the audacity to complain about being beaten in a
sprint finish too. Finlay Sinclair was not far behind, gaining towards the
end, with his ‘two shoe’ approach. Great effort to both of you.
Then the B team - somewhat depleted as per fixture 3, we were missing the
last five scorers so slipped to 8th place in the fixture. No doubt some of
this may be the result of the sheer strength of Division 1. Division 2 is a
gentler experience and I’ve no doubt the opportunity to pepper the field
with our talent will bring out the numbers again.
Can I take this opportunity to restate Pheidippides’s thanks to all
supporters? November’s deluge in particular must have been utterly grim, and
Saturday wasn’t exactly benign with the malign combination of wind and
rain. And to all the runners who have sustained a sequence of 8 consecutive
seasons at the top. Now for pastures new.”
1 John Sanderson (G&G) 26.28
2 Owen Hind (Kent) 26.36
3 John Gilbert (Kent) 26.41
18 Ralph Street (Ranelagh) 27.39
70 Ian Kenton 29.55
72 Phil Killingley 29.58
79 Peter Haarer 30.20
83 James Riley 30.27
91 Jackson Creegan 30.42
105 Ted Mockett 31.25
106 Richard Kimber 31.26
108 Jonathan Smith 31.29
115 Dave Lawley 31.42
119 Mark Herbert 31.59
124 Jordan Mungovan 32.14
155 John Shaw 34.20
173 Eliott Wells 35.57
191 Marcus Atkins 37.14
Teams (10 to score)
Final Overall after four races
1 Hercules Wimbledon AC 198 1 Hercules Wimbledon AC 529
2 Thames H%H 287 2 Kent AC 783
3 Kent AC 311 3 Thames H&H 1005
4 Herne Hill H 399 4 Guildford & Godalming AC 1340
5 South London H 417 5 Herne Hill H 1379
6 Guildford & Godalming AC 517 6 South London H 1457
7 Belgrave H 534 7 Belgrave H 1525
8 Ranelagh H 622 8 Ranelagh H 1805
9 Striders of Croydon 810 9 Striders of Croydon 2462
Young Athletes
1 Ben Fitzpatrick (Walton) 13.38
85 Felix Allen (Ranelagh) 16.50
97 Finlay Sinclair 17.12
LONDON WINTER RUN 10km Sunday 3rd February
1 C Rainsford (Highgate) 31.23
40 C Jacobs-Conradie (Lut) 35.48 (1st woman)
3709 Margie Harrison 51.42
3909 Clare Day 52.08
4650 Andrew Brown 53.30
5288 Jeremy Day 54.29
6666 Lindsey Simmonds 56.38
7272 Roger Wallace 57.32
11779 Amy Cooper 64.20
RUNTHROUGH QE OLYMPIC PARK HALF MARATHON Sunday 10th February
1 K Kyreme (Shaft B) 1:11.44
2641 Roger Wallace 2:06.15
RUNTHROUGH CHASE THE MOON VALENTINE’S 10k Wednesday 13th February
1 J McDowell (Vegan) 33.14
369 Roger Wallace 58.31
RUNTHROUGH HYDE PARK 10k Saturday 16th February
1 T Wright (Bexley) 33.24
371 Roger Wallace 61.08
HAMPTON COURT HALF MARATHON Sunday 17th February
1 C Wright (Serp) 68.49 (chip time 68.46)
32 Philippa Williams (Els) 79.38 (chip time 79.38 – 1st woman)
46 Jonathan Moore (Rane) 80.34 (80.32)
83 Peter Faull 83.57 (83.53)
94 Michael Everard 84.34 (84.32)
182 Matthew Williams 88.49 (88.44)
186 James Ritchie 88.55 (87.04)
240 Suzy Whatmough 90.10 (88.37)
333 Ed Perry 93.39 (89.12)
424 Alex Ring 96.17 (94.35)
504 Neil Rae 98.30 (96.57)
1748 Colette Doran 126.52 (122.07)
2169 Verka Lafeuille 139.47 (130.21)
2169 Karima Graham 139.47 (130.21)
2587 Deborah Blakemore 162.46 (147.56)
VALENTINE’S 10k Sunday 17th February at Chessington
1 D Evans (unatt) 30.53 (chip time 30.53)
20 S Monk (G&G) 37.11 (37.07 - `1st woman)
319 Jackie Dunkley (Rane) 62.33 (61.33)
363 David Meaden 66.07 (65.04)
367 Alan Meaden 66.41 (65.39)
386 Annemarie Goodridge 68.50 (67.49)
408 Katie Walton 76.00 (75.00)
BRAMLEY 20 miles Sunday 17th February
1 M Richards (Reading RR) 1:52.59 (chip time 1:52.59)
68 Duncan Mallison (Rane) 2:16.39 (2:16.23)
RICHMOND HALF MARATHON Sunday 17th February
1 G Longworth (Herc Wimb) 76.08
530 Margie Harrison (Rane) 118.33 (1st over 60)
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