Author Archives: Elaine Chapman

Hi all,

You may have already seen, (in fact some have already signed up!) that I have put a sign up sheet for the Cotswold way up at club. I’m hoping to get enough people to get at least 2 teams again this year. I believe the date is 30th June 2018.

For those who don’t know what the Cotswold way is, it is an event we’ve enjoyed running the last few years. It’s a 10 stage relay across the Cotswold way, starting at Chipping Camden and finishing at Bath. Each stage varies in length, the shortest being about 11km, the longest about 21km. Each leg has it’s challenges, but all take in the most beautiful scenery. It’s well worth doing. If you’re interested in doing a leg, come and sign up, or speak to myself or any of the committee for more information.

Webite – http://www.cotswoldwayrelay.co.uk/

Hi all,

There has been a change in the 2018 championship. In the Short Stuff specialist category, I had included the Cirencester Park 10km in September. This race may not run this year, so in case this is the case, I’ve made the decision to do a straight swap and make the Cirencester Summer Sizzler a club race in it’s place. This takes place on Weds 13th June, (a club night anyway!) and opened this week. Entries found on Entry Central.

Happy running,

Elaine, Club Captain.

Happy New Year all! Hope we’re all looking forward to another great year of running in 2018.

2017 saw our tenth anniversary and we ran 2 challenges alongside our championship. These were the highly successful Ten 10km’s challenge and the strava based runathon. The runathon, finished at the end of November and the Ten 10km’s finished at the end of December.

Ten 10km’s

This was a simple challenge, run ten 10km’s in 2017 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary. Congratulations to all 24 of you who completed the challenge. There will be a technical T-shirt for your troubles.

In no particular order, well done to:

Nadine Brown, Kirsty Pitts, Pauline Tilbury, Elaine Chapman, Tracey Pitts, Laura Butler, Sallie Clatworthy, Caroline Terry, Sarah Grey, Ruth Herbert, Mark Manley, Richard Marshall, Kate Potter, Caroline Coates, Teresa Hazlewood, Paul Coates, Ted Pitts, Sharon Smith, Elspeth Murano, Matt Lambourne, Sandie Wood, Cat Shelley, Jenny Hoffman and Pete Whitmore.

Runathon 

This was the strava based challenge, running from February to November comparing distance run and distance climbed. A lot took part.The final results are as follows:

Distance challenge

1. Amelia Culshaw 2549km
2. Matt Lambourne 2419 km
3. Elaine Chapman 1827km

Along with the top 3, Andy Masser, Nadine Brown, Kirsty Pitts, Jon Lewis, David Whitlow, and Amanda Tyler all ran over 1000km.

Climbing challenge

1. Amelia Culshaw 35403m
2. Matt Lambourne 17603m
3. Nadine Brown 13476m

Again, along with the top 3 Jon Lewis, Elaine Chapman, Andy Masser and Kirsty Pitts climbed over 10000m ascent.

Also, for those that weren’t able to attend the Awards Evening, you won’t have seen our RSE Infographic for 2017. Please have a look… RSE infographic  … Quite an impressive read I hope you’ll all agree!

Some fantastic running in 2017, well done all who took part. I look forward to what 2018 brings!