February Race Team News

January report

A post shared by Frances Powrie (@francespowrie) on Jan 13, 2018 at 8:10am PST

January is a time for resolutions, but also it would seem this the season for a good old cold 10km. Lots of you got the base layers on and showed this cold weather who’s boss. We had a cracking range of races from some belters around Parks, in the form of Greenwich, Hyde Park, Kelston and Brockwell. To less trodden paths and therefore more muddy, in some cases waist deep which Matt Garnet and David Guest had the pleasure of in Doynton Hard (five river crossing) Half Marathon. A spare pair of shoes were required come the end. (only after pushing fellow racers cars out of the car park - lots of good deeds earned that day!)

As the XCountry season draws to a close we managed to pack two XCountry runs in, firstly ‘we did do nothin’ gov’ but took a trip to old WormWood Scrubs to pound the flat but hard course that is Wormwood scrubs. Two long laps ensured legs were suitably knackered come Sunday. A merry band of us, also ventured south for the Southern Championships (that’s right mixing with the big deals in the running world, even had a few lap me, felt right famous) held in Brighton. The Morning of the race was lovely, however that could not be said at the start, lets put it this way if you packed spikes well done, to quote the famous Bon Jovi album it was ‘Slippery when Wet’. However we all made it around in one piece and very much earned our post match beers.

A post shared by Axel Manzano (@manzan_46) on Jan 28, 2018 at 2:51am PST

Cracking running Team Red Thunder.

Tom Benson

Upcoming races

Check out https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/races for lots of half marathons and other distances

Also races are selling out really quickly so if you are keen on a race get signed up! then tell us all about it.

Notices

Membership renewal emails will be sent out shortly; for the majority of you no action is required we will take the money in time to pay UKA next years membership fee. But this is a good time to login to the EA myAthletics portal and check your details are correct, as

Race Annex

Name	Distance	Race
Ellen (Cardiff)	Challenge	#75 mile challenge
Hassan Noshib	10km	Serpy NYD 10k
Sarah Moore	10km	Serpy NYD 10k
Will French	5km	Eastville parkrun
Ellen (Cardiff)	5km	parkrun
Jack Concanon	10km	Olympic Park 10km
Matt (Greenwhich)	10km	Battersea 10km
Becky Moylett	10km	Kielder Dark Skies
Charlie (Bristol)	10km	Keston 10km
Christopher O'Driscoll	10km	Brixton 10km
Dave Mansfield	5km	Ally Pally parkrun
Polly Skeats-Beswick	X Country	Wormwood Scrubs Met League X Country
Sarah Moore	X Country	Wormwood Scrubs Met League X Country
Axel Manzano	X Country	Wormwood Scrubs Met League X Country
James Gilbert	X Country	Wormwood Scrubs Met League X Country
Graham Atkins	X Country	Wormwood Scrubs Met League X Country
Paul Bown	X Country	Wormwood Scrubs Met League X Country
Conroy Barnett	X Country	Wormwood Scrubs Met League X Country
Sam Needham	Half	Brass Monkey Half Marathon
Paul Widdowfield	Half	Brass Monkey Half Marathon
Chris Burns	10km	Bushy Park 10k
Ellen (Cardiff)	5km	Buff Park 5km
Melanie Young	5km	Upton Court parkrun
Matt Garnett	5km	parkrun
Polly Skeats-Beswick	5km	parkrun
Amy Boalch	10km	Greenwhich Runthrough 10km
Pascale Maroney	Marathon	Rancombe Ramble
Sophie Hedges	15 mile	Benfleet 15 mile
Matt Garnett	Half	Doynton five river crossing half marathon
David Guest	Half	Doynton five river crossing half marathon
Matt Garnett	5km	Hove Promenade parkrun
Sarah Moore	X Country	Brighton Southern Champs
Graham Atkins	X Country	Brighton Southern Champs
Matt Garnett	X Country	Brighton Southern Champs
Axel Manzano	X Country	Brighton Southern Champs
Conroy Barnett	X Country	Brighton Southern Champs
Paul Bown	X Country	Brighton Southern Champs
Matt (Greenwhich)	Half	Phoenix Half
Debs Redmond	5km	100th parkrun!

Cake to finish.