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RANELAGH HARRIERS E-NEWS # 575 14th September 2020
Editor: Steve Rowland
mailto: sandsrowland@btinternet.com
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RESUMPTION OF TUESDAY GROUP TRAINING
Gordon Whitson writes as our COVID-19 Co-Ordinator:
England Athletics have today given clubs the all
clear to continue racing and training activities
providing a covid-19 secure environment has been
established. So it seems we are OK to
continue on Tuesday evenings. If you have any queries
please contact Gordon at ranelagh.hon.secretary@gmail.com".
90th BIRTHDAY
Congratulations to our statsman extraordinary Ken Powley,
who turns 90 on September 14th.
It’s an auspicious date for a birthday, shared with
Hon Sec Gordon Whitson and Chief Race
Official Andy Bickerstaff – though Gordon and Andy
insist they have a few years to go before they reach 90!
VIRTUAL THOMAS CUP 3.8 miles handicap Friday 4th to
Sunday 6th September
James Ritchie reports:
Last weekend saw the opening race of Ranelagh's calendar
with the Thomas Cup Handicap Race.
The traditional precursor to this is the annual club photograph.
This year will see our first 'virtual'
club photograph, and we already have many fine selfies of all
you lovely people sent in.
For those who have not yet done so, please send your snaps
to ranelagh.strava@gmail.com.
And so to the results. An early marker was laid down by
Gary Armstrong with 21:49.
Could anyone beat that? For a long time, it seemed not.
A very impressive 22:37 from veteran
Jnathan Moore was not close enough. A smaller Saturday
set of six speedsters padded out the
top ten, with other impressive solo runs dotted across the
weekend. A very impressive 29km warm
up (at 4:16 / km pace) seemingly left James Riley undercooked,
as he was unable to even squeeze
into the top 10. However, for any Strava watchers patting
themselves on the back at beating Ben
Anderson's 32:16, this turned out to be merely his warm up
lap. With the gas turned on, he took the win with a time of 20:36.
Women's captain, Suzy Whatmough, was also an early runner,
although her Scottish course appeared to
be slightly sub-optimal, with almost three times the Thomas
Cup height! As such her time was a little less
challenging for the women. Adrienne Baddeley ran 26:46 for
a fairly comfortable victory over Clare Fowler.
Meanwhile Sarah Palmer was getting dizzy running in circles
in the Cotswolds to narrowly claim third place over Cecily Day.
In the handicap, with a stunning turn of speed from someone
who had suffered a mild heart attack ten weeks ago,
Rodney Oliver stormed to a convincing victory, and this
despite running more than 500m further due to some navigational
issues! In second place was Felix von Schubert, with
Amrut Sharma running a PB to take third.
There were PBs also for Ann Kearey, Carol Aikin, Sally
Bamford and Dave Lawley (with apologies if we've missed some).
Well done to all of you!
Of the 61 runners, all bar 15 ran on the Thomas Cup course....
or rather tried to run on the Thomas Cup course,
as there were many interesting variants to be seen!
Thanks are due to Hadi Khatamizadeh who would have been
15 minutes quicker, but for stopping to mark the infamous
'fern turn' that would likely have otherwise seen many more run astray.
Gordon Whitson adds:
Those of you who ran round the Thomas Cup course
over the weekend will I am sure
have been impressed with the manicured and unencumbered
path from the Pen Ponds
through the ferns as the course headed up to the finish.
It would appear that I will need to add the role of course
gardener to the Hon Sec's job
description after my wife and I took a pair of shears to the
ferns on the Wednesday before the event.
Had I not been still so exhausted after all this work, I am
sure that I would have broken 21
minutes when I ran round on the Friday morning rather than
needing 29mins+.
Hcap Hcap Actual Speed
Pos Name Time Allow Time Order
1 Rodney Oliver 16.01 27.40 43.41 44
2 Felix Von Schubert 19.17 10.10 29.27 29
3 Amrut Sharma 20.23 8.40 29.03 26
4 Rebecca Bissell 20.31 8.30 29.01 25
5 Lloyd Camp 20.50 9.20 30.10 32
6 Clare Day 20.55 11.40 32.35 39
7 Carol Aikin 21.00 11.10 32.10 38
8 David Lawley 21.10 1.50 23.00 6
9 Sally Bamford 21.16 11.30 32.46 40
9 Adrienne Baddeley 21.16 5.30 26.46 18
11 Philip Andrews 21.17 4.30 25.47 15
12 Gary Armstrong 21.19 0.30 21.49 1
13 Marcus Atkins 21.21 5.50 27.11 19
14 Richard Willoughby 21.25 4.50 26.15 17
15 Phil Roberts 21.32 7.00 28.32 24
15 Jonathan Smith 21.32 0.40 22.12 3
17 Claire Warner 21.33 10.30 32.03 36
18 Marie Synnott-Wells 22.01 7.50 29.51 31
18 Alex Ring 22.01 3.50 25.51 16
20 Rebecca Northmore 22.02 7.10 29.12 27
21 Marc Leyshon 22.03 0.00 22.03 2
22 Andy Starr 22.04 1.30 23.34 7
23 Ed Perry 22.05 0.30 22.35 4
23 Ann Kearey 22.05 9.20 31.25 35
25 Jonathan Moore 22.07 0.30 22.37 5
26 Deborah Blakemore 22.12 23.50 46.02 46
27 Wiebke Kortum 22.23 6.50 29.13 28
28 James Ritchie 22.26 3.10 25.36 14
29 John Shaw 22.29 2.30 24.59 11
30 Mark Herbert 22.31 1.20 23.51 8
31 Jeremy Day 22.34 7.40 30.14 33
32 Neil Rae 22.39 2.50 25.29 13
33 Dave Kew 22.41 11.30 34.11 41
33 Fiona Pugh 22.41 12.30 35.11 42
35 Simon Taylor 22.44 8.40 31.24 34
36 Marianne Malam 22.56 6.50 29.46 30
37 Sergio Stillacci 23.07 1.40 24.47 10
38 Jarryd Hillhouse 23.14 4.20 27.34 21
39 Cecily Day 23.21 5.10 28.31 23
40 James Whistler 23.28 1.00 24.28 9
41 Clare Fowler 23.31 3.50 27.21 20
42 Rachel Revett 23.44 8.20 32.04 37
43 James Russell 24.31 3.40 28.11 22
44 James Riley 24.38 0.40 25.18 12
45 Sue Camp 24.40 12.20 37.00 43
46 Janet Turnes 25.42 18.50 44.32 45
Also Ran (Non-Thomas Course)
Ben Anderson 20.36, Rich Kimber 23.11, Rick Jenner 23.18,
Gareth Williams 23.50, Tom Cameron 25.00, Peter Weir 26.37,
Sarah Palmer 28.25, Kevin Knowles 28.30, Karen Weir 28.52,
Gordon Whitson 29.33, Camilla Mignot 30.05, Suzy Whatmough 33.52,
Ian Keith 33.54, John Scally 36.14, Hadi Khatamazadeh 47.55
Podiums are as below:
Handicap placings:
1. Rodney Oliver - Handicap Time = 16:01; (Actual Time = 43:41)
2. Felix von Schubert - 19:17; (29:27)
3. Amrut Sharma - 20:23; (29:03)
Men:
1. Ben Anderson - 20:36
2. Gary Armstrong - 21:49
3. Marc Leyshon - 22:03
Women:
1. Adrienne Baddeley - 26:46
2. Clare Fowler - 27:21
3. Sarah Palmer - 28:25
Full results can be found at http://www.ranelagh-harriers.com/results2/200907vs.html.
With thanks to Simon Martin and Ken Powley for providing
handicaps and results.
INTERMEDIATE 3 training group
Intermediate 3 are using Teamo to allow runners to sign up
to Tuesday night training sessions.
If you have not already signed up, please do so here:.
We are using WhatsApp to keep everyone up to date.
If you are not in the group, please email Cindy
via ccroucherwright@gmail.com with your mobile phone
number to be added.
DEADLINES:
Virtual Club Photo: Don't forget to send in your selfies
by Monday 14 September to ranelagh.strava@gmail.com
Virtual Page Cup Handicap Race: Don't forget to register (https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2020/GBR/vran-page-cup/)
by Sunday 20 September (to take part in the handicap) or
Sunday 27 September (for Speed Order results only)
Inter-Club Virtual Water Marathon Relay
The Stragglers have invited us (and other clubs) to take
part in a River Relay replacement. Teams of five have to
complete a marathon distance between them, with part of the
run alongside or around a body of water,
and recorded with a GPS device. All runs must be completed
by 27 September.
We have already had significant interest with nearly 50
runners signed up. For simplicity we ask that
all interested runners should run 5.24 miles and then post
their time including GPS link to the
spreadsheet here:.
We will then submit teams once all results are in.
If however you wish to form a team of five yourselves,
please let us know at ranelagh.strava@gmail.com.
For any queries, please contact Suzy Whatmough and James Ritchie
at ranelagh.strava@gmail.com
HERC WIMBO 3000m NIGHT Wednesday 26th August at Wimbledon Park
Nick Impey won race 4 in a time of 8:57.0.
HERNE HILL HARRIERS EVENING 800 & 3000 MEETING Wednesday 2nd
September at Tooting
Paul Doyle finished 8th in race 3 in 10:30.59.
DORNEY LAKE WINDSOR HALF MARATHON Saturday 5th September
1 C Mullin (unatt) 1:15.04
6 Nick Twomey 1:17.15
RUNTHROUGH BATTERSEA PARK 10km Sunday 6th September
1 M Dickinson (Clap) 30.53
277 Roger Wallace 56.11
WORLD TRIATHLON CHAMPIONSHIPS Sunday 6th September in Stuttgart
Gill Sanders represented South Africa in the women’s Elite event.
She finished in 53rd
place in a time of 58.02, a little under 4 minutes behind the
British winner Georgia Taylor-Brown.
HIGHGATE HARRIERS MIDDLE DISTANCE OPEN MEETING Wednesday 9th
September at Parliament Hill
Nick Impey finished 4th in race 4 of the 1500m in 4:12.8,
while Jonathan Smith opted for race 4 of the 3000m
where he also finished 4th in 9:41.3
SOUTH LONDON HARRIERS OPEN Saturday 12th September at Coulsdon
16-year old Tom Armstrong showed a fine turn of speed in
recording 52.67 in the 400m,
while fellow junior Sam Nesbitt ran 2:05.91 in the 800m.
KEW GARDENS 10k Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th September at
Kew Gardens
This was the only scheduled race of the Richmond Runfest which
survived. The organisers ambitiously
adopted a system of staggered starts so that all the COVID
requirements were met. So desperate are
runners for a straight race that they came from far and wide
to take part and the standard was high.
Demand for places was such that a second race was added, so
more than 1,900 took part on
Saturday and another 1,600 on Sunday.
Fastest Ranelagh time came from Gary Armstrong who ran 33.37
on Sunday to take 3rd place in the
M40 age group. On Saturday Jonathan Moore was the leading
over 50 with 35.46 and Cordelia Parker
was well placed in the women’s section with 37.53.
Unfortunately the organisers do not give club names in the
results, so the lists below are probably
incomplete. if you have any corrections or amendments
please let us know.
Chris Read adds:
It was apparently the first mass participation running event
in London for more than six months.
Kew Gardens is a pleasant place for a race. The course ran
along winding paths.
We were allowed into the gardens after the race. The race was
well organised and socially distanced.
There were no other visitors while we were running.
The risk of Covid infection seemed to be reduced
as far as possible. I saw several other Ranelagh runners,
in particular Melanie Thomas who
must be a glutton for punishment as she ran on both days.
Saturday
1 D Mulryan (TVH) 30.51
44 Jonathan Moore 35.46
65 Andy Starr 36.49
86 Cordy Parker 37.53
162 Neil Rae 40.45
163 Daniel Little 40.46
296 Michelle Beaumont 44.39
401 Rebecca Bissell 47.19
405 Marianne Malam 47.31
464 Melanie Thomas 48.43
482 Kirsty Steel 48.56
1036 Andrew Brown 58.00
Sunday
1 S Jamaal (London H) 30.14
9 Gary Armstrong 33.37
30 Rick Jenner 36.29
213 Matt Aikin 43.39
423 Melanie Thomas 48.15
478 Will Cavendish 49.02
503 Chris Read 49.25
670 Carol Aikin 52.16
MARATHON @ DORNEY LAKE
This takes place on Sunday 4th October. Details:
PEDALO WORLD RECORD
Alun Thomas writes:
Challenge Completed; New World Record set (to be validated by
Guinness!)
Completed in 2 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes; 1 day and 21 hours
faster than the previous record set in 2018.
https://www.phoenixfm.com/2020/08/30/world-record-breaking-pedalo-challenging/
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