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Results for the Longleat 10k, 01-Feb-2015

Mary Bench completed this wild 10km race, describing it as:

Great run in beautiful grounds. Hills were challenging.

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2014/15 Birmingham & District Men’s XC Division 3 Final Standings

Thanks and well done to all Sphinx men that ran during the series. Well done to Andrejs and Ash for their 3rd and 4th places overall. Also, well done to our friends at Massey Ferguson RC for their strong showing throughout the season, resulting in promotion. Good luck in Division 2. Series Team Results Match 1 Match 2 Match 3 Match 4 Total 1 A Team West Bromwich Harriers 106 82 79 65 332 2 Massey Ferguson RC 184 141 145 106 576 3 Black Pear Joggers 198 135 140 141 614 4 Northbrook AC 160 207 171 146 684 5 Peel Road Runners 290 204 250 236 980 6   Sphinx AC 185 218 340 323 1066 7 Solihull & Small Heath AC 324 392 258 322 1296 8 Cobra RC 340 325 289 501 1455 9 Droitwich AC 316 429 336 497 1578 10 Sparkhill Harriers 311 498 383 440 1632 11 Stourbridge RC 407 474 419 464 1764 12 Aldridge RC 436 548 511 562 2057 13 Sneyd Striders 649 421 667 627 2364 14 Coventry Triathletes dnf 401 383 344 1128 15 Kidderminster&Stourport dnf dnf dnf dnf 1 B Team Massey Ferguson RC 380 374 329 234 1317 2 Northbrook AC 408 480 439 442 1769 3 Black Pear Joggers 499 491 386 410 1786 4 Aldridge RC 877 913 828 858 3476 5 West Bromwich Harriers 711 633 626 1970 6   Sphinx AC 618 632   723 1973 7 Sparkhill Harriers 800 777 810 2387 8 Droitwich AC 743 743 Individual standings:

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Wyken XC – A message of thanks from the Chairman

A big thank you and well done to everyone who helped in any way today or ran in the race (or both, Mitch!). As ever, we put on a great event – both in the organisation of the race (Bob) and providing the refreshments afterwards. Thanks to Laura, her mum, Lisa and daughters – hope you all enjoyed it. Thanks to Bob’s friends from Coventry Way for coming along to marshal, and Jo, Graham and Rose for their tea service.

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Results for the Birm XC@Wyken Croft, 07-Feb-2015

Sphinx hosted the fourth and final race of the cross-country league season, and 12 Sphinx men ran.

Andrejs finished 3rd and Garry Barnes finished in the top 50. The A team placed 7th out of 14, and the B team placed 5th out of 6.

Overall league standings to follow separately.

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2014/15 Midland Women’s XC Division 2 Final Standings

Well done and thanks to all Sphinx ladies that took part.

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Results for the Midlands Women’s XC@Wolverhampton, 07-Feb-2015

6 Sphinx ladies travelled to Wolverhampton for the fourth and final cross-country league race of the season. A good showing by all resulted in a 32nd place finish (including both divisions) for the senior team, and 25th place for the masters team.

Overall league results to follow separately.

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Results for various parkruns, 07-Feb-2015

Coventry parkrun celebrated its 5th birthday today – congratulations to Jason and team and a big thank you for putting on such a great weekly event.

At Coventry, Paul Slatford finished 4th overall, Andy Hales completed his 50th parkrun and there were PBs for Alex Bartlett and Lauren Wall. At Durham, Catherine Gough was 3rd lady with a new PB.

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Results for the Wellingborough Dirt Run, 01-Feb-2015

Dorota, Hamilton and Joanna took part in the second round of the Dirt Run, again taking on the 15km course.

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Results for the Watford half-marathon, 01-Feb-2015

7 Sphinx runners headed south to complete this popular half-marathon.

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Results for the Centurions Grand Prix (4 of 6), 01-Feb-2015

12 Sphinx runners took part in the fourthrace of this six-part grand prix series.

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