Heart of England Track and Field League : The perfect opportunity for you to put your talents into practice. Each athlete can enter up to three events plus a relay! Come along and run, jump, throw or have a go at all three! There are still two fixtures left this year in the league so we will be looking for lots of you to take part! All ages from U11 (age 9 and above) up to U17 Men and U17 Ladies plus Senior Women.
Three Sphinx AC runners ran this cheeky 10K with a challenging uphill climb from 8K onwards. Official results are here: http://www.chipresults.co.uk/Default.aspx Regular readers will be delighted to hear that Mitch’s “operation” was a complete success. GunPos No GunTime Surname Forename Gender Cat Chip Pos Chip Time 129 482 0:46:52 Timms Michell John (Mitch Timms) M 50 128 0:46:41 132 481 0:47:03 Blundell Bernard (Bernard Blundell) M 40 134 0:46:51 372 452 1:00:47 Cozens Julie (Julie Cozens) F 45 373 1:00:38
FIFTY-EIGHT Sphinx AC runners and guests turned out for this delightful five-miler around the village of Monks Kirby. 01 Becky Fenlon 42:01 02 Liz Reilly 45:33 03 Christy Litchfield 41:39 04 Theresa Mason 48:23 05 Craig Pears 30:27 06 Tom Marchi 40:31 07 Brian Bergham 33:35 08 Mark Smith 29:42 09 Rob Anderson 34:01 10 Tracey Higgins 42:37 11 Ross Crowther 41:08 12 Myles Davies 33:47 13 Bernard Blundell 36:19
Fifteen Sphinx AC runners ran the best-attended ParkRun to date, with Justin, Julie and Maggie all getting PBs, Mary running her first ParkRun and Theresa getting her first solo sub-30. 9 Justin SMITH 18:48 SM35-39 71.54% M 9 New PB! 12 Pete FAHY 19:04 SM35-39 70.02% M 12 PB stays at 00:18:24 17 Ian GOWER 19:30 VM45-49 72.74% M 17 PB stays at 00:18:54 18 Matt MELIA 19:39 JM15-19 67.85% M 18 PB stays at 00:17:06
Six Sphinx AC runners completed the latest in the East Midlands Grand Prix series, with Julie Cozens knocking an astounding 37 seconds off her PB for 5 miles. Official results are here (site was down at the time of writing): http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mkac/the_emgp.html 49 46 2 1509 Jamie Cozens M20 30:41 141 118 28 1523 Mark Coyle M40 36:21 202 165 22 1088 Bob Torley M50 39:33 225 46 15 504 Jackie Timms F40 40:49
Sophie Edge had a fantastic performance in the U20 British Triathlon Championships at Emberton Park recording 11:02 mins for the 750m swim, 35:17 for the 20km bike ride and 23:45 for the 5km run to take the silver medal and gain selection for the European Championships in 2011 – Well done Sophie! Contributed by Paul Bergin
Only six Sphinx AC runners did the ParkRun this week, with NO PBs but one first-timer. Official results are here: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/coventry/Results/WeeklyResults.aspx?runSeqNumber=17 11 Ian GOWER 19:50 VM45-49 71.51% M 11 PB stays at 00:18:54 28 Bernard BLUNDELL 22:48 VM40-44 60.31% M 27 PB stays at 00:21:43 57 Tracey HIGGINS 27:03 VW40-44 57.49% F 14 First Timer! 62 Becky FENLON 27:37 SW25-29 53.59% F 18 PB stays at 00:26:19 78 Julie THOMSON 30:09 VW40-44 50.
Jamie Cozens got an incredible new PB during the week, taking more than 2.1 seconds off his previous best championship 800m time. Official results are here: http://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=35636 Well done that man!
Seventeen Sphinx AC runners ran this extremely popular 10K race between Warwick and Kenilworth castles. Official results are here: http://www.chipresults.co.uk/Default.aspx GunPos Bib GunTime Name Cat ChipPos ChipTime 14 196 00:38:03 Tom Delaney M20 14 00:38:01 22 1399 00:38:57 Nigel Timms M50 23 00:38:56 75 2216 00:42:36 Collin Taylor M45 89 00:42:13 81 193 00:42:52 Ian Gower M45 100 00:42:50 257 194 00:47:37 Mitch Timms M50 321 00:46:56 284 201 00:48:22 Bernard Blundell M40 369 00:47:42
Twenty seven Sphinx AC ‘runners’ spread across thirteen teams took part in this undulating event in extremely warm conditions. In a very close battle, the ladies team (The Spice Girls) took 3rd place behind Bern, Ashley, Janine and Theresa’s team (Six Below Zero) but the overall winners were Ben Orme‘s Hillie’s Heroes. Paul Bergin and Dave Kelly‘s team – Pauline’s Fallen Over Again – started off at a great pace but faded badly (no change there then Bergs!
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