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12th June 20189th June 2018

Sixteen Saltires were in action in weekly parkruns…

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No official Southern Road Relays this year but mas

No official Southern Road Relays this year but massive thanks to everyone who stepped in and organised the @soar_running MK relays last minute. 9th place for the Thames Women and 4th fastest leg of the day for Ruby

Another big set of PBs from Thames at the Batterse

Another big set of PBs from Thames at the Battersea Park Under the Lights 5k

Thanks to @nige_bramley for the great photos

Thames Results
Alex Howard 14:21.9 (2s PB) James Hoad 14:42.6  Richard Ollington 14:49.1 (21s PB) Jim Allchin 14:55.2 (8s road PB) Macgregor Cox 14:56.5 (road PB) Jacob Brockmann 15:07.1 (31s PB) James Bartram 15:15.2 (14s PB) Bryn Reynolds 16:13.5  Niamh Bridson-Hubbard 16:38.1 (23s PB) Bethanie Murray 17:39.9  Ruby Woolfe 17:40.1 (26s PB)

It’s been great to finally be back racing again.

It’s been great to finally be back racing again. Some big Thames performances and PBs at Ardingly 5k, Belgrave Comeback 5000, H/W 5k road relays and our club Handicap. 📸Eva Gilbert, Mark Hookway, Jack Boswell, Nic Gould

We bring you the sad news that John Bryant, former

We bring you the sad news that John Bryant, former president of Thames and member for over fifty years, died last night.

A note from his son Matthew:
Thank you to all members of Thames who were part of his times with the club - you brought him friendship, competition, laughter and many, many good evenings of conversation, and occasionally song. If he had an epitaph it might well be: "To run with the Hare and Hounds was his pride and his joy, to sport the old saltire and to race like a boy, for when the sun shone on his saltire his joy knew no bounds, so let's all drink good health to the Thames Hare and Hounds". 1. John on right, Chris Brasher center, Ronnie Williams left. 1995
2. John as Captain, front row second from left on an @oucrosscountry training camp. 1966
3. John as THH President, center with the ladies winning SL team. 2011
4&5. Varsity Match dinner menu with John speaking as Oxford Captain. 1966

Quite simply, John Bryant was one of the great Thames men, giving over 50 years of unstinting service to the club. He joined Thames in 1967 straight from Queen’s College, Oxford. While at Oxford, he competed 3x in the Tortoises-Spartans cross-country race, and once in the 3,000SC varsity at White City.

At Thames, he was vice-captain from 1972-73 and then club captain for four seasons from 1973 until 1977, and served as our seventh President from 2010-15.

On the competitive front, he was one of our foremost runners during the 1970s and early-1980s when we started to emerge as a competitive force in local and regional competition. In 1976 he was one of the scoring six (who coincidentally had all been involved in the 1966 Varsity Match) when we pulled off an unheralded second place in the Southern Cross-Country Championships at Parliament Hill.

Professionally, John was a journalist and worked for The Daily Mail, The Times, The Sunday Correspondent and The European, concluding his career as Editor of The Daily Telegraph. As well as his London Marathon history, he produced a number of books on athletics, including 3:59.4: The Quest to Break the 4 Minute Mile; The Marathon Makers; and Chris Brasher: The man who made The London Marathon.

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