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RANELAGH HARRIERS E-NEWS # 557 27th September 2019
Editor: Steve Rowland
mailto: sandsrowland@btinternet.com
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HEADLINE NEWS
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* Ranelagh men finish 10th in the Surrey Road Relays
* Ranelagh women finish 44th in the South of England Road Relays
* Ryan Hogan runs 2:48 debut marathon
* Eirin McDaid wins Bedgebury Twilight 10k
* Ted Mockett finishes 2nd in the Goodwood 20 miles
* Kris Davidson and Bruce McLaren complete the Mont Blanc ultra
* Coming up this Saturday: Page Cup 5 miles handicap in Richmond Park
* Opening League races on 12th October
* Surrey Masters Championships at Morden Park on 19th October. Entries in
advance required.
ATTENTION PLEASE
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CLUBHOUSE ACCESS
Please note that all access to and from the clubhouse must be via our new
gate from the public footpath. Please do not cross the pub car park under
any circumstances.
PAGE CUP 5 miles HANDICAP Saturday 28th September in Richmond Park
This is the second of this season’s handicap races. All members are welcome
to take part, register on the day.
Andy Bickerstaff adds:
‘Start time is 3pm, if you want to run please turn up in plenty of time at
the clubhouse to get your handicap, i.e. before 2:30! The course will only
be marked with flags for the second half as you turn away from the Pen Ponds
so please familiarise yourself with the first part as it will be sparingly
marshalled if at all. So: go down Queens Ride and bear left at the bottom as
sual following the mob match course across the road up the hill and down
again. At this point do NOT go right up the hill (where Ivan usually stands)
but follow the edge of the wood on the main track passing the car park on
your left and heading towards the centre of Pen Ponds where Ivan will direct
you onto the flagged section of the course.”
More info including course map here:.
SURREY CROSS-COUNTRY LEAGUES Saturday 12th October at Reigate Priory Park
Our men’s team were relegated to Division 2 last winter while our women
retained a mid-field position in Division 1. Both leagues are due to have
their opening race at Reigate on Saturday 12th October. The schedule is:
Women’s Division 1 3.75m at 11am - this is our senior women’s race
Girls Under 15 and Under 17 2.5m at 12 noon
Girls Under 13 2m at 12.30pm
Women’s Division 2 3.75m at 1pm - we are not involved with this race
Men’s Division 2 5m at 2pm
More info about the women’s races here:.
More info about the men’s race here:.
All members are welcome to take part, register on the day.
Note that there will be no boys’ races at Reigate. They will take place with
the men’s Division 1 race at Effingham Common.
SURREY MASTERS CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS Saturday 19th October
Just for a change we are not hosting these championships this year. Instead
they are to be held at Morden Park. All Surrey-qualified men over 40 and
women over 35 are eligible to take part and there are medals to be won in
5-year categories. Men over 60 and all women will run a 6km course at 2.15pm
and the rest of the men will run 10km at 3pm. For entries, women should
contact the team manager Phil Aiken (see below), while the men’s entries are
being organised by Stewart Anderson. Men please contact Stewart by 9th
October: mailto:stewartjanderson@hotmail.com. Stewart adds: “For each
entrant, I will need their EA number, date of birth plus confirmation
whether qualifying for Surrey county on basis of RESIDENCE or BIRTH.” For a
full definition of Surrey, see: and page down. The
Surrey officials are looking for marshals on the day at Morden Park. Please
reply to this note if you’d like to help.
ONE FOR THE DIARY…
Our first mob match of the season is at home in Richmond Park on Saturday
2nd November against Orion Harriers. Start will be at 2.30pm. As usual we
need as many runners as possible to make up the sort of “mob” we will need
if we are to take the Lee Cup. Put the date in your diary now. The race also
incorporates our club veterans championships.
ALF SHRUBB MEMORIAL 5
Any Ranelagh Harriers looking for a race on Saturday 5th October are invited
by South London Harriers to enter this 5 miles cross-country event at
Coulsdon. Details:.
CHRISTMAS PARTY
RANELAGH HARRIERS SOCIAL COMMITTEE cordially invites you to the 2019
Christmas Party.
Saturday 7th December, 6:30pm until midnight at
The Albert Pub
57 Kingston Hill, Kingston Upon Thames, KT2 7PX
0208 546 7669
Three course meal and DJ
ENTRY STRICTLY TICKET ONLY
Dress code: Smart casual.
Cost is £45. You need to book AND pay to be on the final list. Limit is 90
people.
For menu, go to and click on
‘Christmas Feast’.
For more info and booking please contact Michele Gibson.
e-mail micheleagibson@hotmail.com or call Michele on 07703 518956.
Cheques: payable to Ranelagh Harriers
BACS: to Ranelagh Harriers, SC 40 13 10, A/C 12154501, Ref ‘XMAS + Your
name’
GREEN BELT RELAY
Suzy Whatmough writes:
“Ranelagh are entering three teams for next year’s Green Belt Relay, taking
place on 16th-17th May. It’s a 22 stage relay race around 220 miles of the
Green Belt around the outside of London. There are 11 people in each team,
with each person running a stage on the Saturday and another stage on the
Sunday. Please email Suzy Whatmough and Clare Fowler at ranelaghgbr@gmail.com if you’d like to join. For more information
about the race, see.
HON SEC
Gordon Whitson writes:
“A new email address has been created for all email correspondence sent to
Gordon Whitson in his capacity as Hon Secretary of the club. It is
ranelagh.hon.secretary@gmail.com.
Please would you direct all messages for the Hon Secretary to this new email
address.
Thank you.
Gordon Whitson”
CLUB KIT
Our supplier for club singlets, men’s and women’s,. is iProsports. Details and orders:
TUESDAY NIGHT SOCIALS
Don’t forget that we meet for a casual drink after training on the first
Tuesday of each month. Venue is 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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Our provisional winter fixture list is now up on our website here:.
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 28th September Page Cup 5 miles handicap in Richmond Park. 3pm
start
Saturday 12th October Surrey League men and women both at Priory Park,
Reigate. Women at 11am, men at 2pm.
Sunday 13th October Cabbage Patch 10 miles road race – entries closed
Saturday 19th October Surrey County Masters Championship at Morden Park –
see above
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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SURREY ROAD RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS Saturday 14th September at Wimbledon Park
Rich Kimber reports:
“Unforgiving is probably a fair description of the Surrey Road Relay course
around Wimbledon Park. The hill that comes near the end of the first mile is
usually described as "short and sharp". Halfway up it, you're in no doubt
about the "sharp" bit; the "short" label seems less apt. So it was greatly
to the team's credit that each member produced a well-paced run around the
2.88-mile loop.
I led us out in mid-pack obscurity as 9th scoring team (10th overall behind
a non-scoring Herne Hill B team), and that was where we finished. In the
middle stages we were overtaken by a few teams in a very strong field, but
Ben Anderson produced a superb 15:19 in his first race of more than 800m in
months to make up the places on the fourth leg, with Graham Brook taking one
scalp on the fifth. Ben Shore and Michael Everard ran well on the second and
third stages, and I doubled up to run the final leg. Our women also ran well
with an incomplete team, especially Megan de Silva who ran third leg after
Marie Synnott-Wells and Wiebke Kortum and gained seven places. Thanks to
all, including Alan Hedger and birthday boys Ken Powley and Gordon Whitson,
for the stand-out support.
A rash of last-minute injuries and diary clashes meant our vets team was a
DNS. Next year we'll be back with a stronger presence all-round for this
excellent event”.
Senior Men
1 South London H 1:29.26
10 Ranelagh H 1:41.38 (9th Surrey)
Richard Kimber 10 16.21
Ben Shore 15 18.58
Michael Everard 14 17.29
Ben Anderson 11 15.19
Graham Brook 10 16.34
Richard Kimber 10 16.57
Senior Women
1 Thames H&H 1:10.32
nf Ranelagh H
Marie Synnott-Wells 16 20.47
Wiebke Kortum 16 20.23
Megan de Silva 9 17.36
SOUTH OF ENGLAND ROAD RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS Sunday 22nd September at Crystal
Palace
We were represented only in the Senior Women’s race this year. From a field
of 70 teams junior Izzy Atkins ran a mature opening stage to bring Ranelagh
round in 41st position. Brand new member Helen Shires ran well to gain four
places on lap 2. Claire Warner slipped back a little on lap 3 leaving Suzy
Whatmough to regain four places and bring us home 44th.
Senior Women
1 Cambridge &C AC 1:04.30
44 Ranelagh H 1:20.22
Isabel Atkins 41 18.27
Helen Shires 37 19.03
Claire Warner 48 22.45
Suzy Whatmough 44 20.05
ULTRA TRAIL DU MONT BLANC Friday 30th August Courmayeur – Champex -
Chamonix
Bruce McLaren reports:
“Kris Davidson and I recently found ourselves on an early morning bus
travelling thorough the Mont Blanc tunnel from Chamonix to Courmayeur with
the intention of running back but in doing so running 101km and climbing
over 6,000m. It was only after I entered that I realised that works out as
an average incline of 12%. It was a beautiful day with hardly a cloud in
sight as we set off up the first climb. Starting at around 3,500ft we
crested at something over 8,000ft - a climb of over 4,000ft in 5 miles and
that was just the start. Having tried and failed last year I came back with
the intention of finishing and not bothering about how long it took so I
felt I wasn’t pushing it although when I later looked at my split times I
think every segment was quicker than last year. Perhaps incorporating some
hill training this year actually helped!
Kris had started in Wave 1 so he was long gone and setting an impressive
pace although he was to suffer some gastric issues later but still finished
inside the top 250 out of around 2,200 starters. The race is a stunner -
six serious climbs all of which are over 3,000ft and usually relentless from
start to finish but the views are spectacular and whilst the trail is
technical in parts (ie unrunnable) in general the descents are manageable if
your quads don’t give in. It grew dark when I still had about 25km to go so
I think I had six hours running by head torch which I always enjoy. After
the hell of the final climb to Tete aux Vents with its false summits I found
myself at La Flegere, the final station before an 8km steep descent to the
finish. Having not been chasing a time I realised I had 65 minutes for the
last 5 miles if I was to break 20 hours. The race was on! Fortunately the
final leg came out around 4 miles so I was able to bag a sub 20 time and
slipped inside the top 500. The bad news is both Kris and I now have enough
points to enter the 2020 ballot for the full course UTMB……to be continued?”
1 L Hernando (Spain) 10:28.49
247 Kris Davidson 17:18.37
478 Bruce McLaren 19:49.44
SECOND SUNDAY 5 miles Sunday 8th September on Wimbledon Common
1 M Jones (TH&H) 30.15
27 Martin Harris 37.33
58 Rachel Revett 43.57
RICHMOND RUNFEST
The Richmond Runfest comprises four races, a 10k on Saturday morning, a
“fun” 5k on Saturday evening and then a Half and Full Marathon on the
Sunday. The official results don’t show club names so the following lists
are probably incomplete. Several were tempted to run both Saturday races,
led by Andy Starr.
KEW GARDENS 10k Saturday 14th September
Andy Starr was the third M40.
1 S Overall (B&B) 30.02
11 L Locks (Fleet) 36.31 (1st woman)
13 Andy Starr 36.36 (3rd M40)
80 Daniel Little 40.28
129 Kathy Henry 42.39
163 Alun Thomas 43.22
341 Kirsty Steel 46.37
511 James Old 48.48
733 Roger Wallace 51.23
892 Jon Lear 52.56
SUNDOWN 5k Saturday 14th September
A good showing by Ranelagh in the fun race: Andy Starr and Simon Beal were
first and second M40s, Vaughan Ramsay was first M45, Michael Morris was
first M50 and Keeley Phillips was third W40.
1 J Hall (unatt) 16.23
5 Andy Starr 17.49 (1st M40)
13 Simon Beal 19.06 (2nd M40)
18 Vaughan Ramsay 19.37 (1st M45)
26 Michael Morris 20.20 (1st M50)
52 Matthew Beal 21.51
110 Keeley Phillips 23.56 (3rd W40)
218 Kathy Henry 27.09
RICHMOND HALF MARATHON Sunday 15th September at Kew
1 P Owor (Belgrave) 1:11.35
190 Philip Scard 1:35.50
708 Simon Mason 1:49.53
731 Rebecca Bissell 1:50.33
1532 Verka Lafeuille 2:03.28
1585 Roger Wallace 2:04.40
1740 Ella Stanbrook 2:07.26
RICHMOND MARATHON Sunday 15th September at Kew
Eirin McDaid’s protégé Ryan Hogan ran a very impressive first marathon in
taking 4th place.
1 C Thompson (AFD) 2:30.09
4 Ryan Hogan 2:48.54
108 Joe Peace 3:25.36
RUN THROUGH RICHOND PARK HALF MARATHON Sunday 15th September
Marie Synnott-Wells celebrated her birthday the day before by winning her
new W55 age group.
1 J Tipper (unatt)) 1:18.20
97 Marie Synnott-Wells 1:46.51 (1st over 55)
TWILIGHT 10k Saturday 21st September at Bedgebury Forest
Eirin McDaid writes on Facebook:
“So went to Bedgebury Pinetum to walk Clover the dog this evening with
Keeley Phillips where there happened to be a VERY HILLY Nice Work Twilight
10k in which I had absolutely no interest in running after a tough parkrun
this morning and just wanted to stand at watch. Keeley forced me to enter
against my better judgement as I was not prepared at all both mentally and
physically, also wearing a rugby training top, work shorts and trainers that
I have had for six years and never ran in before tonight. BUT I can’t
complain too much as I ended up winning it in 37.48 official time, meaning
I have raced 15km today. I definitely hit my higher heart rate zones this
evening.”
1 Eirin McDaid 37.48
WIMBLEDON QUARTER MARATHON Saturday 21st September
1 A Weir (TH&H) 39.16
103 Danielle Croucher 58.14
193 Cindy Croucher 81.40
GOODWOOD RUNNING GRAND PRIX Sunday 22nd September
Ted Mockett ran strongly for second place a couple of minutes outside two
hours, and was also the leading vet.
1 C Bird (unatt) 2:01.16
2 Ted Mockett 2:02.56 (1st M40)
parkrun results...
Follow this link for the latest Ranelagh results:. Then follow
the “Previously” link at the bottom of the parkrun screen to access previous
weeks’ results.
FINALLY…
1933 Women’s National Cross-Country at Warwick Racecourse: “169 Women
runners!” Note the exclamation mark. Quote from the winner receiving her
trophy: “Thanks awfully, it was jolly good.”
Video:.
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