Archive for the ‘Sport’ Category
Double O Severn
Monday, May 4th, 2009Yet more ponds
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009After an enforced couple of weeks I made it back to Fritham for the last run of the month. Thankfully the afternoon rain cleared and we had a pleasant enough tour around the six ponds (clockwise this time). Canadian War Memorial next month…
Epping VM
Sunday, April 26th, 2009Return to the Ridge
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009We made the most of the passing of the British Champs and tonight’s run returned to the previously embargoed Hampton Ridge. Numbers were down a bit on last week but still riding high. Unfortunately we enjoyed running across the clear forest floors rather too much and came out on the plain rather too far north. In an attempt to recoup some time we then didn’t head as far west which made things a little scrappy going south.
Back to the Forest
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009As tradition dictates, with the clocks changed it was time to return to Fritham this evening for the first Tuesday night run of the summer. There was a cracking turnout with, if I counted correctly, 16 people running including a few new faces. The pace was a little faster than usual, particularly for myself, Neil Broderick, Ian Moran and Sam Massey, as the three of us had waited five minutes for Sam to turn up and get changed. Consequently, we spent the first three of the six ponds chasing down everyone else. 53 minutes is almost certainly my fastest time for that run!
CompassSport Cup narrow miss
Monday, March 30th, 2009It was the first round of the CompassSport Cup yesterday with our match being hosted by BADO at Pamber Forest (in the vicinity of Aldermaston). Christine retired from her run due to odd,baby related, pulls. I had a pretty decent run for once. My splits graph shows a sudden increase in speed from leg 7 onwards which is where I first sighted Ralph Street. In my defence, that was all it was, a sighting, and I didn’t see him again until 11 and then not again until 18. In fact, it was only from 20 onwards where I was actually chasing him (no chance of catching I’m afraid). I was fifth in the results but still over 5 minutes down on Dave Rollins who must have been flying. Emma managed to bring up the rear on the string course again but at least she was getting round under her own steam this time! Sadly (or not depending on your thoughts on travelling to Leicestershire for the final) SOC lost out narrowly to TVOC with SLOW having a clear win.
New Forest hosts British Champs
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Burnham Blunders
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009I’ve now uploaded my route for Sunday’s National Event at Burnham Beeches. I think my winning of M21L can only be attributed to the fact that nearly everyone else was running the Elite course (I baulked at running 15km). Due to the low numbers, M21L was on the same course as M18E, M20E, M35L and M40L and I had the pleasure of being soundly beaten by the winners on all of those courses.
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