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Goodwood Motor Circuit Marathon

The Goodwood Motor Circuit Marathon took place on Sunday 27th September. This event gave runners a unique opportunity to run a marathon around the world famous Goodwood Motor Circuit, home to the Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival. The race involved running around a smooth traffic free tarmac motor racing circuit 11 times. Goodwood motor circuit is the only classic circuit in the world to remain entirely in its original form. Goodwood Motor Circuit originally opened its gates to the public on September 1948, to host Britain’s very first post-war motor race meeting at a permanent venue.

Representing RSE was Linda Edwards who completed the race in 4:26 and came third in her age group. Great effort Linda

Hullavington 5K

The Hullavington 5k took place on Sunday 20th September. This was a road race over a flat, fast and picturesque course, which started and finished in the village of Hullavington, Wiltshire. It was also the first race reported on since the postponement of races following the COVID19 outbreak.

Represnting RSE was Dave Witnall who finished in an impressive time of 19:45. He was followed by;

Elaine Chapman – 23:24

Felicity Crotty – 29:02

Great effort from you all and it is great to see RSE runners involved in races again.

Since leaving Cirencester on 8th July our two intrepid teams of runners, The Euro Trailblazers and The Euro Globetrotters, have been exploring the sights of Northern Europe. Leg one was a short 93 mile trip down the M4 to London before heading south on a longer 266 mile trip to Paris for leg 2.

At the start of this week the teams were well on their way to Paris both covering the total of 357 miles from Cirencester arriving in the French capital in time for lunch on Monday. The Trailblazers holding a huge 6 mile lead by the close of play on Monday…

Leg 3 –

After arriving in Paris for lunch on Monday the two teams were then tasked with 204 miles heading east towards Luxembourg.

Those of us of a certain age will remember Radio Luxembourg as the soundtrack to our youth so for this leg members were asked to provide photos of Pirates or Radios. As you can see Tracey and Sallie came up trumps with some Pirates while Dave enjoyed a run listening to Radiohead.

By Thursday evening both teams had arrived in Luxembourg with The Trailblazers extending their earlier lead to 25 miles.

Leg 4 –

Leaving Luxembourg early on Friday morning the teams were now heading 117 miles North into Belgium on the way to the home of the EU in Brussels.

It was inevitable that a short distance leg starting on a Friday would not take long to complete and both teams managed to cover the distance before Saturday lunchtime.
the teams were tasked to take images showing the colours of the Belgium flag however they flew through the distance so quickly they didn’t stop to take the pictures…

Leg 5 –

Leg 5 saw the teams continuing North from Brussels into The Netherlands to Amsterdam on another short leg of just 124 miles.

For this leg we had to use the famous Dutch orange theme with members enjoying orange drinks, recording runs on orange watches, wearing orange headgear and a throwback image of Team RSE in Amsterdam during 2017.

Needless to say with it being a weekend, traditionally reserved for long runs, the two teams soon had the 124 miles cracked off ending the weekend in Amsterdam.

Leg 6 –

Leaving Amsterdam first thing on Monday morning the teams are now heading East again into Northern Germany with a 258.6 mile journey to Cirencester’s twin town Itzehoe…

Week 2 – Leaderboard

Euro Trailblazers

• Total Miles – 838.36
• Top 3 runners – 
  • Kevin Joynes-Creed – 46.26
  • David Witnall – 42.31
  • Cathy Steer – 38.61

Euro Globetrotters

• Total Miles – 800.8
• Top 3 runners – 
  • Ellie Taylor – 40.04
  • Henry Church – 35.27
  • Linda Edwards – 34.84

Overall Miles – 1639.66