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Results for the Banbury 15, 22-Mar-2015

Nice run through the Oxfordshire countryside today for eight of our members. Perfect conditions for it too. No breeze, no rain, cool to start, warming up later, but never too uncomfortable temperature-wise, which is more than can be said for the course itself. A pan-handle rural route, with tough hills at 3, 8 and 12, but I suppose what goes up must come down, though you never really appreciate or remember those bits do you? The only ‘disappointment’ was the low turn-out this year, probably due to the Warwick Half just down the road. Finallly congratulations to Fi, who today completed her longest ever road race, great preparation for next week when she runs her longest ever road race – again!

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Results for various parkruns, 21-Mar-2015

Catherine Gough picked up a new PB at Coventry and was the second lady across the finish line. Coventry witnessed a conga-line finish as former Sphinxite, Bern Blundell completed his 250th parkrun.

Elsewhere, there was parkrun tourism in the form of Kate and Robyn McSharry at Hackney Marshes, and Julie Hall and Grahame Flanagan at the worryingly titled Fell Foot.

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Results for the Cholsey Chase, 15-Mar-2015

Steve Colbourne was first in his category in this race. Thanks to Barry Cornelius for the details and photo (http://www.oxonraces.com/photos).

Cholsey is a small town about two miles south of Wallingford. Yesterday, it was the venue of the Cholsey Chase, a 9 mile mainly off-road race from Cholsey via Aston Tirrold up to the Aston Upthorpe Downs. It slowly makes it way from about 55m upto 150m and at this high point it’s in one of the most southerly and bleakest parts of Oxfordshire. Of course, it’s mainly downhill on the way back!

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Results for the Silverstone Half-Marathon, 15-Mar-2015

Mary Bench, Tony McCarroll and Andrew Norton completed this popular race around the tarmac, with Mary running a PB time.

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Results for the Newton’s Fraction Half Marathon, 15-Mar-2015

Mitch was the sole representative for Sphinx in the 10th anniversary of this race.

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Results for various parkruns, 14-Mar-2015

PBs aplenty as 29 Sphinx AC runners/family/friends ran at four different parkruns. Well done to Adam and Liam on their new bests at Coventry; Robyn, Bryan and Fintan on their new bests at Brueton; and Steven on his new best at Preston.

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Results for the Kibworth 6, 08-Mar-2015

Agent Timms filed the following report from deep within Leicestershire territory:

This was probably the hardest 6 mile run I have ever done. There were 3 ‘killer’ hills evenly spaced and you were either going up or down; there are no flat bits in the Leicestershire Alps!

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Results for the Milton Keynes 20, 08-Mar-2015

Andy, Narinder and Jane completed the longest distance in the Milton Keynes Festival of Running, with a couple of PBs and Jane finishing first in her category!

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Results for the Dratcote Water 10, 08-Mar-2015

This 10 mile event was 2 laps and a bit around the reservoir at Draycote Water. A small but well organised event with only 160 ish entrants. The day was cool and quite windy in places especially the last mile on both laps.

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Results for various parkruns, 07-Mar-2015

36 Sphinx AC runners/family/friends ran this weekend, from Conwy to Coventry and others. 4 PBs were achieved – well done to Adam, Ian, Lucy and Karen – and Paul Salford registered another top 5 finish.

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