This Saturday is the first of the Heart of England Track fixtures over at Tipton. It’s not too late to take part, please contact Bob, Paul or Dave if you want to participate or leave a message on the message board and we will contact you!
Eight Sphinx AC runners ran in the latest of this year’s series. The course was hilly but the resolve was strong! Official results are here: http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mkac/10emgpweedonheader.htm 77 70 7 840 Trevor Clark M50 42:10 157 136 20 505 Mitch Timms M50 48:54 159 138 30 944 Bernard Blundell M40 49:11 (PW) 186 156 23 1088 Bob Torley M50 51:34 231 57 12 504 Jackie Timms F40 57:51 232 175 27 503 Peter Morgan M45 57:51
Jamie Cozens came 9th out of 13 in a time of 04:24.89 in the 1500m on the Saturday and on the Sunday competed in the 1500m Steeplechase coming 5th in a time of 05:07.52 Contributed by Paul Bergin
A number of Sphinx AC juniors ran the Mercia Mile, which takes place while the Coventry Half Marathon is under way. Bizarrely, the event organisers don’t publish an official list of results for this event. We had a good turnout of Sphinx Juniors, with Amarpal Sahota second over the line followed by Joe Downing in third and Alfie Meade in fourth place. The girls had a battle of their own with Ellen Bollard just pipping Sophie Edge on the line to be first girl home.
Thirteen Sphinx AC runners braved the elements with three PBs and one first-timer. Justin enjoyed it so much, he wanted to go around again! Official results are here: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/coventry/Results/WeeklyResults.aspx?runSeqNumber=16 13 Justin SMITH 19:25 SM35-39 69.27% M 12 PB stays at 00:19:06 5 20 Ian GOWER 19:58 VM45-49 71.04% M 19 PB stays at 00:18:54 14 28 Ben ORME 20:35 VM50-54 72.79% M 26 PB stays at 00:20:31 3 42 Paul KENNING 21:44 VM40-44 63.
Four Sphinx AC runners in the fourth race of this year’s series. Official results are here: http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mkac/10emgpcorbyclub.htm 126 116 9 1086 Ben Orme M50 34:50 Sphinx AC 194 164 20 505 Mitch Timms M50 38:02 Sphinx AC 205 174 53 605 Charlie Foster MS 38:54 Sphinx AC 228 191 24 1088 Bob Torley M50 40:19 Sphinx AC
Seven Sphinx AC runners stormed Edinburgh with everybody finishing within about four hours. A truly astonishing achievement in normal circumstances, but even more impressive given the brutal conditions on the day. Official results are here: http://gsi-static-content-1238967349275866538.s3.amazonaws.com/edinburgh-marathon_com/2010_full_marathon_results.html (warning, very long page, takes a while to load even on a broadband connection) 3:05:16 Pete Fahy 3:20:48 Ian Davies 3:31:21 Stuart Banbrook 3:33:43 Darron Handley 3:42:08 Garry Barnes 3:59:45 Bryan Pears 4:03:25 Myles Davies
Jamie Cozens ran in an U17 men’s 1500m race in the British Milers Club event at Milton Keynes and achieved a fantastic new PB of 04:18.56 – a 7 second improvement. The pacemaker for the race was aiming for 04:18, running 68s and 70s for the first 800m. Jamie ran with Joe Shail from Godiva right behind the pacemaker who ran for 1200m in splits of 68s , 71s and 69s.
PC Joe O’Brien was a local beat policeman in Ernsford Grange who was tragically killed 28 years ago while directing traffic during a road race. This race is held annually in his memory and actually consists of two races – one for the local feeder schools for Ernsford Grange and one for guest schools. The first race on Saturday was for the feeder schools and included Joseph Gilkes who goes to Clifford Bridge School.
At least 26 Sphinx AC runners completed the hottest half marathon on the planet*. The actual number of Sphinx AC runners may be higher as the organisers definitely haven’t maintained their database and correcly assigned all runners to their nominated clubs. Official results are here: https://www.raceplus.co.uk/raceplus-index.php?event_id=COV10 338 Ashley Miles M35-44 2 01:17:34 6 01:17:32 6 2011 Chris Stokes M35-44 18 01:33:28 76 01:33:25 80 1179 Collin Taylor M45-54 19 01:37:00 131 01:36:50 132
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