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Monthly Archives: December 2024

Nia’s Speedy Santa Run

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Races

Hullavington Secret Santa 10 Mile

The Hullavington Secret Santa Run is a 10-mile road race & fun run held over a gently undulating and picturesque course, starting and finishing in the village of Hullavington, near Chippenham in Wiltshire.

Nia Glover completed the race in a speedy  1:08:29, a new 10 mile PB and Nia was also 4th female. Congratulations Nia!

“The route is undulating and some miles were made tougher by the cold headwinds, but thankfully after starting the race in freezing cold hail the sun came out and actually made for quite good conditions all things considered! It’s a friendly race with everyone receiving a medal and a present from Santa (chocolate!) at the end.” Nia. (sadly no photos)

Parkruns

Whitley Parkrun

Brett Lyons 32:38

Cirencester Parkrun
Jon CAMPBELL Running Somewhere Else 00:23:12
Phil HUDSON Running Somewhere Else 00:23:17
Oliver HAZEL Running Somewhere Else 00:23:24
Paul BILLINGHURST Running Somewhere Else 00:25:09
Sharon SMITH Running Somewhere Else 00:27:00
Steve SANDERCOCK Running Somewhere Else 00:27:49
William COBBETT Running Somewhere Else 00:28:57
Andy SWORN Running Somewhere Else 00:29:35
Jade BEAUMONT Running Somewhere Else 31:24
Vicki MASON Running Somewhere Else 00:34:03
Cheri EDWARDS Running Somewhere Else 00:58:48
Stratford Park parkrun, Stroud
 Jon COLLINS Running Somewhere Else 00:31:45
Central parkrun, Plymouth
Darren JENNER Running Somewhere Else 00:26:55
Felicity CROTTY Running Somewhere Else 00:30:40
Witney Parkrun
Liz Hulcup 31:52

Diary Dates

December 23rd – festive club run to Vale Road lights, please bring cash or card for donations.

January 18th – Awards evening at the Gateway Centre

Well done to all RSE runners who raced this weekend. Have a good festive break.

Anne 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

 

Santa and Rudolph run Westonbirt 10K

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‘Tis the season for Christmas races and dressing up and our members were out joining in the fun over the weekend. Here’s what they were up to….

Mark

Westonbirt Christmas 10K

Alan Powderhill, Rachel Weaver, Samantha Lane, Mandy Robson and Donna Jefferies took part in this race, in which Paul Robertson volunteered as a pacer.

“Lovely Christmas 10k running with pacer Robbo for 55 minutes, all the while wearing a Santa outfit (that was warm by the way). Great to run/chat and bump into Zoe at the end. Nice course with a couple of short hills.”       Alan

“A great outing with the RSE Improvers Group. We all beat our personal goals for the race. It was great to see the RSE support crew !”       Rachel

Forest of Dean Christmas Tree Run

Well done to Mark Foyn, who came 1st in his age group and 19th overall.

“A 5 mile trail run in the middle of the forest on mixed surfaces and hilly plenty of mud. Senior race field of 116 finishers. Great course and well organised event plenty of fancy dress , Father Christmas, elves, stars etc, good fun. I finished 22 overall 19th male and first in the over 60s”

 

5K in Seattle

Congratulations to Sarah, who was 1st female and second overall!

Park Runs

Hampstead Heath

Jenny HOFFMANN                              00:37:35

 

Harrogate

Kate SEDGWICK                                   00:33:25

 

Cirencester

Phil HUDSON                                       00:22:06

Oliver HAZEL                                        00:22:52

Paul BILLINGHURST                         00:23:48

David WITNALL                                   00:24:52

Sharon SMITH                                      00:25:50

Robert BAKER                                      00:26:21

Steve SANDERCOCK                          00:26:43

Jade BEAUMONT                               00:29:49

Kevin JOYNES-CREED                      00:31:35

Vicki MASON                                       00:31:42

Anne-Marie DAVIES                          00:32:22

Sue NAVIN                                           00:32:22

Caroline JOYNES-CREED                00:36:12

Cathy STEER                                       00:36:14

 

Simmons Park

Darren JENNER                                 00:25:06

Felicity CROTTY                                 00:30:56

RSE Club Championship 2024 – Final Results

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Hello everyone!

After a few very wet and windy weeks, and a later than planned end to the championship season, I’m delighted to announce the final championship results.

The final few races have now been completed, including a club-organised replacement mini event for the cancelled AVR Wiltshire Half Marathon.

Right anyway stop waffling Ben, let’s see the final results:

Endurance Expert:

Men’s competition:

  1. Mark Garrett – 43 points
  2. Darren Jenner – 41 points
  3. Alan Powderhill – 34 points

Ladies’ competition:

  1. Zoe Markham-Lee – 34 points
  2. Kirsty Pitts – 32 points
  3. Elaine Chapman – 32 points

Short Stuff Specialist:

Men’s competition:

  1. Jon Last – 50 points (maximum)
  2. Mark Garrett – 46 points
  3. Alan Powderhill – 36 points (see note below)

Ladies’ competition:

  1. Jennifer Glass – 48 points
  2. Anne Gardiner – 41 points
  3. Elaine Chapman – 34 points

A note on the men’s Short Stuff Specialist category:

Alan Powderhill and Steve Sandercock both gained 36 points, so Rule 13 of the 2024 Championship Rules was invoked to determine 3rd place.

As this is a sub category of the main championship, head-to-head race performances were examined. Alan placed ahead of Steve in four races, Steve ahead of Alan in one, so Alan has therefore been awarded third place.

Well done both on a tightly fought competition.

Finally, it gives me great pleasure to announce our championship trophy winners.

Overall Championship:

Men’s competition:

  1. Mark Garrett – 73 points
  2. Darren Jenner – 63 points
  3. Alan Powderhill – 59 points
    No Masters trophy awarded

Ladies’ competition:

  1. Nia Glover – 80 points (maximum)
  2. Jennifer Glass – 74 points
  3. Elaine Chapman – 58 points
    Masters trophy: Zoe Markham-Lee – 53 points

The full results tables are available here:

RSE Championship 2024 – Final results

A fantastic effort by all those mentioned above, many congratulations to you all.

I would also like to say a huge well done to everyone that entered races this year, or who popped along to support your team mates. Very well done everyone 😊👏

RSE Club Championship 2025 – Race lineup

New races with details have been sent out recently by Elaine on WhatsApp – these will be uploaded to the website soon with dates and other information, for your reference. I’ll let you know when this has been done.

Finally, please take care when out running over the winter months, please remember to wear hi-viz and consider taking your phone with you if running alone, and as always – happy running everyone!

Your club captains

Ben and Elaine

Race Report 8/12/24: Racing through stormy weather

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Congratulations to everyone who managed to get out racing despite Storm Darragh’s best efforts to dampen our running enthusiasm…

DB Max Christmas Chilly 10k

Sarah Page 52.38.4

Elaine Chapman  52:52.5

Linda Edwards 55:54.5

Jade Beaumont 58:12.9

Jade : A very windy one and definitely lived up to its ‘chilly’ name!

Sarah : Not called Chilly 10 k for nothing but would have been better called chilly and windy today. Luckily it stayed dry which counts as a bonus! Well organised race and lovely flashing 🏅 Was chuffed to get 1st place in age category

Gloucestershire Cross Country League – Bath

Nia Glover: 28:41
Sharon Smith:  33:53 1st LV70


Nia: This was the third Gloucestershire Cross Country League race of the season, hosted at the University of Bath. It was also the Inter-Counties Championship (whatever that is!). Storm Darragh made for tough conditions, thankfully it stayed dry but gusty winds and strong headwinds on the uphill sections were a bit mean!

For women the course consisted of a “short” two laps followed by one longer lap which added in an extra hill over slightly rougher terrain. Generally the course had long downhills and long uphills and we were lucky the footing was mostly dry. Beforehand we weren’t particularly keen to run in the storm today but in the end we both agreed we were glad we did it!

Park Runs

Kingsway parkrun, Gloucester
Phil HUDSON 21:20

Lydiard parkrun
Cheri EDWARDS 31:46

York parkrun
Samantha WARD 29:58

Gloucester North parkrun
Carol SWORN 33:10
Andy SWORN 33:11

Warwick Racecourse parkrun
Felicity CROTTY 31:46

Alton Water parkrun
Sylvia WARMAN 39:00

 

Race report by Jess James – let me know if there are any errors or omissions!