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*************************************************** RANELAGH HARRIERS E-NEWS # 579 11th December 2020 Editor: Steve Rowland mailto: sandsrowland@btinternet.com *************************************************** MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY! RANELAGH FESTIVE CHALLENGE 2020 The challenge Run parkrun courses anytime between 7th December and noon on 3rd January to earn points and the chance to win prizes! The Rules Run any and as many parkrun courses as you like. You can run the same course more than once and still earn points. 10 points will be awarded to the fastest runner overall that day, 9 to the next and so on. All runners will get at least 1 point. Bonus points will be awarded if: You run more than one parkrun course in one day You wear a festive outfit and take a photo (we will run your entry through our festive-ometer to determine how many points you earn) You get a course PB You earn any Strava segment PBs, crowns, trophies or legends. The Prizes First place - entry into the next Ranelagh 10k (hopefully 2021!) and a unique winner’s t-shirt Second place - 2 Third place - 3 Fourth place - 4 Fifth place - 5 How to enter... Add yourself (and your results) to the spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19dYpgPhCDsZHImmAfEIPsxDOaPRuw9wt5S4pLMCsObk/edit?usp=shar ing As ever, please ensure the safety of yourselves and others, and follow the current guidanc around COVID. Good luck! CLUB KIT Marianne Malam writes: Hi everyone, Club Kit is now available via our clubzone on Iprosports: https://www.iprosports.co.uk/club-zone/ranelagh-harriers/ The range includes mens and womens vests, tops, hoodies, coats and hats. It features the updated club logo and all items can be personalized. Use code 'ranelagh20' to get 10% off all orders until Friday 11th December. Happy shopping! 🎠Marianne Kit Steward / Women's Vice Captain NB: Vests/tops worn for racing purposes (Surrey League etc) will now need to feature the updated club logo - as approved by EA. However, this does not need to happen immediately as the club have a time period allowed for this changeover. But all racing kit will need to display the revised logo by Dec 2022 at the latest. RANELAGH HARRIERS GAZETTE You should have recently received a note about the publication of our club magazine the Ranelagh Harriers Gazette. This is just a reminder to let us know if you would like a printed copy. If so, please reply to this e-mail giving your postal address. LOCKDOWN 2.0 VIRTUAL CHALLENGE Monday 9th November to Wednesday 2nd December James Ritchie reports: We invited you to run the Richmond Park parkrun course, ideally quite fast, and preferably several times. And that's what you did! Top plaudits go to Amrut Sharma for running 2 course PRs during his dozen attempts, and this is a man who has officially run this course some 273 times (342 parkruns in total). Respect! Keeping Amrut on his toes was Steve Aikin who had 13 attempts. Unlucky not to have come out top, especially with a treble attempt one day. Also featuring very highly was Andy Starr, running the greatest number of times - 14 and running a 'Ross Barkley' 15:21. Well done Andy - a valiant third. For the women, in pole position throughout had been Suzy Whatmough, with the greatest number of runs at 8... but with one barnstorming run picking up a plethora of cups, segment PRs and a course PR, Sarah Palmer leapfrogged Suzy into top spot. But there was more to come. Rebecca Bissell got in on the act, running three times in the final couple of days of lockdown and with a mass of PRs and a course record, she tops the podium. Too exciting! In speed order, Nick Impey was a clear winner in 16:55, with two other men (Jonny Smith, Ross Macdonald) managing to go sub-18. For the women, Sarah Palmer ran sub-20, with Suzy Whatmough managing three sub-21's and Clare Fowler just outside this. POINTS PODIUMS Amrut Sharma: 183 Steve Aikin: 145 Andy Starr: 142 Rebecca Bissell: 111 Sarah Palmer: 80 Suzy Whatmough: 75 SPEED PODIUMS Nick Impey: 16:55 Jonny Smith: 17:40 Ross Macdonald: 17:53 Sarah Palmer: 19:35 Suzy Whatmough: 20:22 Clare Fowler: 21:05 AGE CATEGORIES U18 Alexandra Bramwell (age 12?): 22:36 Maisy Fowler (age 6): 33:00 V40 First use of being old for Dave Lawley! Dave Lawley: 18:04 Clare Fowler: 21:05 V45 Neil Rae: 19:39 Kathy Henry: 22:06 V50 Bruce McLaren: 20:40 Wiebke Kortum: 23:06 (twice, great consistency!) V55 Steve Aikin: 21:48 Carol Aikin: 25:45 V60 Bill Neely: 21:20 V70 Ian Charlie Harrison: 25:18 V75 Dave Kew: 26:12 (extra dedication to get his quickest run in today when the competition was just about over)! Well done to all of you, and especially Maisy and Alexandra and Ian Charlie and Dave at eithe end of the age sspectrum. ðŸ‘👠PAIRS Some of you were sociable, some not. The speediest pairs were: Men: Dave Lawley (18:04) and Mark Herbert (18:20) Women: Suzy Whatmough (20:22) and Kathy Henry (22:06) Mixed: Jonny Smith (17:40) and Clare Fowler (21:05) COURSE PBs Well done to Tom Cameron, Sarah Palmer, Jarryd Hillhouse, Shaun Griffith, Alexandra Bramwell, Maisy and Clare Fowler, Amrut Sharma (twice), Sergio Stillacci, Kathy Henry, Felix von Schubert, Rebecca Bissell, Susan Ritchie, Clare Day, Ross Macdonald and Jo Marshall for running PBs - all the more impressive for running this outside of an official parkrun event. We hope you can redo this when parkrun is back. Good luck. 🤞 THANK YOU To all 41 of you lovely people who came out and ran and made this a great competition. All the scores and times can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13O60m52pvWblqXcXYB_gBEuyvRdCmTaPqZhFKSXgYzs. VIRTUAL MINI MOB MATCH Ranelagh Harriers v Thames Hare and Hounds 28th November to 6th December This last week has seen an historic first in Ranelagh History - a virtual mob match. With social distancing rules a little unsupportive of getting a mob together, could we still get the numbers out to take on our rivals? With no hobble gobble and razzle dazzle to spur us on, could we put in a good enough performance? Only time would tell. After a slow start to the week with Ranelagh outnumbering Thames and an early marker by Dave Ready in Bushy Park (17:12), things hotted up over the weekend as the number of runners soared. Alarmingly, all of the top spots were gradually being snuffled by Thames runners (who appeared to be taking the rules on running a parkrun course with a very large pinch of salt..) But a large turnout of the faster men peppered the top 20, with Dave Lawley, Marc Leyshon and James Riley all running sub-18 in Richmond Park. Sarah Palmer in 19:35 was Ranelagh's first lady. At the sharp end for the veterans were Richard Willoughby (19:46) and Emma Harris (20:31) both at Bushy Park. Still, as more of the high places fell to Thames, would this be enough? Bigger blue waves started to appear - Kathy Henry, Natalie Haarer, Alberto Esguevillas, Alex Ring and Bill Neely running at different times and on different courses all coming in close together from 41st to 46th And then a blue tsunami as ten Ranelites took places 54 to 63. With great runs from veterans Dave Kew (26:32 at Richmond), Tom Reay (29:30 at Kingston), Angus Cater (29:35 at Newbury), John Pratt (30:59 at Preston Park, Brighton), Jackie Dunkley (31:37 at Bushy Park), Janet Turnes (33:00 at Richmond) and Rodney Oliver (44:09 at Richmond), Thames were well and truly awash. Outnumbering Thames by more than two to one, the final score was a very solid victory for Ranelagh Harriers by 747 points to 1116. Thank you to everyone for turning out and helping us to this historic win Mini-Mob Result MAVERICK HALF MARATHON Saturday 5th December Ed Perry finished 13th in 1:43.37. DORNEY LAKE 10k Saturday 5th December Chris Read reports: On Saturday 5th December 2020 I ran the Dorney Lake 10k. My objective was to get inside 50 minutes. The race was well organised. Runners were set off individually to minimise the risk of Covid infection. The course was flat and involved running on a good surface throughout. The weather was chilly with a cold wind blowing. As the race progressed a steady stream of people overtook me. My time was 54.09. which was inside my (revised) target of 55 minutes. GOODWOOD MOTOR RACING CIRCUIT HALF MARATHON Sunday 6th December Nick Twomey writes on Facebook: “What a day for running! So many friends running fantastically today and I was overjoyed with a massive PB over the Half Marathon at Goodwood. Over 2 mins 30 sec PB!†Nick finished 11th in 72.47. GOODWOOD MOTOR RACING CIRCUIT MARATHON Sunday 6th December Great PBs too for Jonny Smith, 8th in 2:39.05 and Gavin Hillhouse 122nd in 3:39.33. HENLEY CULDEN FAW HALF MARATHON Sunday 6th December Ranelagh finished well up in the podium places. Kathy Henry and Rebecca Bissell were 2nd and 3rd women home and 1st and 2nd W40s. Ann Kearey was 2nd W50 and John Tovell 1st M60. 1 D Miller (unatt) 1:28.06 10 R Davies (Abingdon) 1:40.58 (1st woman) 16 Kathy Henry 1:47.33 22 Rebecca Bissell 1:53.22 36 John Tovell 2:03.01 38 Aoife Kilpatrick 2:04.51 39 Gavin Hillhouse 2:05.20 47 Ann Kearey 2:12.50 KEEP IN TOUCH 1. Join the Strava Group 2. Log your run and give it a catchy title. 3. Give our segments a shot! 4. Check back every week for highlights 5. 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