Reports
Just a reminder that the advertised match v Oxford Uni on Saturday 22 November has been cancelled and replaced with a match v Kingston & Poly. Start is 2pm at the Sheen Gate of Richmond Park. This is a beautiful course over 7 miles and is suitable for all.
British Olympian Mara Yamauchi and second claim TH&H member, clocked a fantastic new pb as she finished third in the International Women's Marathon in her hometown of Tokyo. Mara, who was sixth in the Olympic marathon in Beijing, crossed the line in two hours, 25 minutes and three seconds. Japan's Yoshimi Ozaki was the race winner with Yuri Kano second. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/nov/15/athletics-olympics2008 for an interesting article on Mara in this week's Guardian.
Liz Stavreski was the lone saltire in action at Lloyd Park, and she put in a good performance to place 9th lady. The 7mile South of the Thames race takes place closer to home on Saturday 20 December,starting on the village side of Wimbledon Common - the perfect excuse to avoid Christmas shopping. Please let Kate or Larry know if you wish to run, as runners must entered in advance.
The ladies had a solid team performance at Lightwater to place tenth team after the first two fixtures, but put in some good individual performances with Rachel Disley making a welcome return to form and Laura Wanless making her league debut.
23. Liz Stavreski 26.04 27. Rachel Disley 26.14 49. Vikki Filsel 27.32 64. Alison Carpenter 28.21 95. Laura Wanless 29.58 101. Maureen Poole 30.16 158. Di Leakey 35.02Club positions for fixture 2 Overall club positions 1 Belgrave H A 92 1 South London H A 174 2 South London H A 106 2 Belgrave H A 254 3 Herne Hill H A 112 3 Herne Hill H A 257 4 Ranelagh H A 117 4 Ranelagh H A 262 5 Woking AC A 135 5 Reigate Priory A 346 6 Dulwich Runners A 183 6 Woking AC A 347 7 Reigate Priory A 197 7 West 4 H A 375 8 Wim.Windmilers A 214 8 Stragglers A 431 9 West 4 H A 217 9 Wim.Windmilers A 447 10 Kingston & P A 240 10 Thames H&H A 461 11 Stragglers A 258 11 Dulwich Runners A 467 12 Thames H&H A 258 12 Kingston & P A 539 13 Striders A 351 13 Dorking A 631 14 Dorking A 371 14 Striders A 672 15 Sutton A 467 15 Sutton A 870 (League has 15 Scoring Teams bottom two teams relegated each year)
James McMullen made his first scoring victory in the Surrey League. Revelling in the soft going, James led home one of the strongest turnouts - just nipping victory from The Hill, but it continues to be tight. Phil, Stewart and Huw all closed in top ten positions themselves, with Mark Tuckett making a strong debut for 11th spot. Simon ran a characteristically robust 14th while Chris - fuelled by banking adrenalin - chased home Neil and Ben. It was left to Nick to close the team in 33rd place, with four back up saltires of James, Toby, Andy and Dave closing immediately behind. Results of all 22 saltires racing below.
1. Russel Dessaix-Chin(n/s) 26.01 2. James McMullen 26.57 3. Phill Sly 27.05 6. Stuart Major 27.49 7. Huw Lobb 27.50 11. Mark Tuckett 28.01 14. Simon Wurr 28.10 21. Neil Chisholm 28.36 22. Ben Reynolds 28.37 23. Chris Daniels 28.38 33. Nick Altmann 29.03 34. James Cordwell 29.04 35. Toby Pearson 29.06 36. Andy Weir 29.09 37. David Symons 29.11 48. Darren Talbot 29.43 51. Simon Molden 29.51 69. Tim Woodthorpe 30.47 89. Alex Gaskell 31.27 90. Anthony Doolittle 31.31 93. Andy Robinson 31.35 179 Keith Spacie 38.16 Team Score To-date Thames 132 306 The Hill 137 313 Hercules 398 895 Bels 393 902 SLH 541 950 RAN 588 969 Strags 677 1185 Reigate 588 1306 Dorking 641 1364
Lucy Macalister recorded another fine marathon run to finish 13th lady in 2:39:25 over the tough New York course finishing just ahead of the ever dependable Matt Lynas in 2:40:58 ans Jim Cox-Nicol who set a pb of 2:50:44.
V50 Richard Pitt recorded a new course pb of 18.16 this morning over what must have been a pretty muddy and wet course.
Students Naomi Taschimowitz and Paolo Natali dominated their races in pretty foul weather. With the THH ladies opting for the long course, it was 1,2,3 for the Cambridge ladies over the short course and Cambridge scored a pretty solid victory over the long course with Simon Wurr and Liz Stavreski taking THH honours in the Long Distance Challenge. Many thanks to those that braved the rain to pioneer the course.
THH V Cambridge University Ladies 1 Naomi Taschimowitz 24.17 CAMB 2 Polly Keen 24.40 CAMB 3 Jane Mackey 27.56 CAMB Open and THH Long Distance Challenge 1 Paolo Natali 38.02 CAMB 2 James Kelly 38.49 CAMB 3 Tim Pattison 39.23 CAMB 4 Simon Wurr 40.00 THH 5 Will Mackay 40.51 CAMB 6 Robin Brown 41.27 CAMB 7 Nick Altmann 41.55 THH 8 Will Cockerell 41.57 THH 9 Simon Molden 42.03 THH 10 David Symons 42.34 THH V40 11 Liam Richardson 42.53 CAMB 12 Declan Murray 43.01 CAMB 13 James Gill 43.04 CAMB 14 James Chettle 43.15 CAMB 15 Philip Scard 43.30 CAMB 16 Ben Stevens 43.38 CAMB 17 Andy Howse 43.43 THH V40 18 Anthony Dolittle 44.26 THH 19 Michael Goatley 44.43 THH V40 20 Tom Stecher 43.43 CAMB 21 Aidan Brown 44.48 CAMB 22 Andy Collier 45.11 CAMB 23 Calum Kinloch 45.28 CAMB 24 Jonathan Cundy 46.43 CAMB 25 Adam Bennett 47.48 CAMB 26 Liz Stavreski 49.50 THH F 27 John Kyley 50.37 CAMB 28 Chris Watson 51.43 CAMB 29 Alison Carpenter 55.39 THH FV50 30 Maddalaine Ansell 59.41 THH FV35 31 Al Irvine 64.07 THH V40 / Backmarker 32 Mark Coley 64.26 CAMB 10 to score 1 Cambridge 82 2 Thames Hare & Hounds 147
Hugh Arnold, Michael Johnson and Anna Garnier finished 1st, 2nd and 3rd in this age graded event, with Hugh and Anna setting age bests for the race. Hugh was the fastest on the day with an age graded score of 91%. He who is inspired by youth retains his youth...
Benita Johnson and Hugh Shields were in action, with Benita clocking 55:16 for fifth lady and Hugh recording 1:01:54.
It was wet and windy in North Wales, but David Symons seemed to have made a wise decision in opting for Snowdon over the even wetter and windier Cumbrian OMM this weekend, running 2:52:17 for fifth spot.
For anyone not familiar with the annual Bank of England fixture, it consists of a fine tea preceded by 4 1/2 mile amble around Richmond Park. The promise of a slap-up tea ensured a turn-out of 14 TH&H runners only one less than at the home mob-match against Stragglers!
Chris Hutber reports on the tea... This year there were amply filled smoked salmon and cream-cheese and chicken with garlic mayonnaise sandwiches as well as the traditional Thames favourite –egg. The extra-large scones with lashings of cream and jam left at least one Thames member (f) looking less than lady-like. John Bryant got lost on the course, but made it back for tea, and at just over 49 minutes, his race was still over more quickly than his tea-time anecdotes.
1. S Molden 26:33 (TH&H) 2. T Taylor 26:50 (BoE) 3. J Powell 27:09 (TH&H) 8. R Davies 29:53 (TH&H) 9. C Hutber 30:22 (TH&H) 12. A Mackeela 32:35 (TH&H) 14. K Spacie 33:02 (TH&H) 15. Vikki Filsell 33:18 (TH&H) 17. S Martin 33:26 (TH&H) 18. A Gibbons 34:03 (TH&H) 22. Laura Wanless 35:41( TH&H) 23. D Walsh 35:43 (TH&H) 26. Maddalaine Ansell 36:47 (TH&H) 31 J Bryant 49:01 (TH&H) Match (8 to score) 1.TH&H 79 2.Kingston Poly 115 3. Bank 128
Nick Altman was an early riser this weekend making his long awaited debut over the Wimbledon course, and placing 2nd, with 16:53 taking him to 8th on the TH&H leader board for the course. Interestingly a similar review of the TH&H leaders at Bushy Park show five of the top ten places taken by TH&H ladies.
THH Leaderboard Wimbledon 1. Simon WURR 15:56 2. David SYMONS 16:15 3. Andy WEIR 16:24 4. Toby PEARSON 16:26 5. Nick GOULD 16:34 6. George GARNIER 16:38 7. Darren TALBOT 16:49 8. Nick ALTMAN 16:53 9. Ian HIGGINS 16:59 10. Hugh SHIELDS 17:08 Bushy Park 1. Phill SLY 14.54 2. John MCFARLANE 15.41 3. Nick ALTMAN 15.54 4. David SYMONS 16.05 5. Sonia O'SULLIVAN 16.22 6. Benita JOHNSON 16.41 7. Hugh SHIELDS 16.47 8. Julia BLEASDALE 16.53 9. Naomi WARNER 16.55 10. Lucy HASELL 17.22
Simon Wurr and Nick Maloney braved the elements to complete the first day of the OMM, before bad weather led to the cancellation of the second day of racing.
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