Julian Rendall shrugged off the exertions of doing the National the day before and cruised to victory in 73:56.

16 year old Tom Samuel gained the best position of the day with 92nd in the Under 17 Mens race which was his first time inside the top 100 in five national cross country events. Seven Thames men braved the chilly conditions at Parliament Hill. The Captains sprint was rewarded with 100th place whilst new member Julian Rendall was the star performer in 113th. Scotsman Nick Altmann was 153rd before Nic Gould rounded off an excellent break through season with Andy Howse close behind. Alex Gaskell rounded off the team with Frank Dudbridge a little further back.

In addition to the saltires on view many congratulations to Lucy Hassell who was 10th in the Ladies race and Nick Talbot who was a magnificent 8th and Sam Aldridge 77th.

Under 17 Mens Race

1st		L Carey		(Nuneaton)	21:52
92nd		T Samuel				24:36

Senior Mens Race

1st		P Riley		(Trafford)	38:53
100th		S Wurr				43:06			
113th		J Rendall			43:36
153rd		N Altmann			44:40
240th		N Gould				46:10
260th		A Howse				46:34
420th		A Gaskell			49:29
569th		F Dudbridge			52:03

Team

18th	THH	1265 pts

	

John McFarlane eased to victory in an impressive 1h 46:14

Timothy Rogers ran 1:43.56 and Bruce Blackshaw set a new PB of 1:48.15 in cold and wet conditions

Congratualtions to Al and Olivia Irvine on the safe arrival of Matthew at 5.38 this morning.

Kate and David Symons took victory in the Bookham 10k, with Dan Pescod a sound eighth place.

A Thames party braved the long journey north of the border and returned with considerable success. Donald Naylor was 3rd, Ian Harkness 13th, Al Hart 15th, Nick Altmann 19th with Larry Matthew and Matt Bryant just outside the top 100.

New THH recruit David Moore had an outstanding run in the demanding Thames Meander event, a 55 mile route from Reading to near Hampton Court. Despite suffering recently from an injured knee and at one point running on the ‘wrong’ side of the Thames, David defeated the 160-strong international field and set a new course record by 25 minutes with 7h 55.

Hugh Shields won the Scottish M40 1500 title in a tactical race with a fine finishing burst to record 4:28 at Kelvinhall.

This was our first match v Stragglers and thank you to all of you who helped make it a big success. Thames had 29 and Stragglers 32 making it a 27-to-score match. Great packing by the saltires with 7 in 10 including a great debut in 5th by Guy Dunscombe and a barnstorming run by Nick Maloney in 7th helped THH to a 195 point winning margin. Thanks too to Chris Hutber for rallying the troops and congratulations to our friends at Stragglers who turned out in such great numbers.

1	Simon Wurr	THH	26:54	   
2	Darren Talbot	THH	27:33	   
3	David Symons	THH	27:44	   
4	Peter Kennedy	Str	29:24	   
5	Guy Dunscombe	THH	29:46	   
6	Paul Graham	Str	31:07	   
7	Nick Maloney	THH	31:23	   
8	Dan Pescod	THH	31:38	   
9	Rick Turner	THH	31:50	   
10	Jim Desmond	Str	32:13	   
11	Clare Nicholson	Str	32:20	1st Lady	   
12	Chris Hutber	THH	32:31	   
13	Nigel Rothwell	Str	32:47	   
14	David Thomas	Str	33:04	   
15	David Crowther	THH	33:27	   
16	Paul Whitlock 	THH	33:30	   
17	Jeremy Holt	THH	33:35	   
18	Kate Symons	THH	33:47	2nd Lady	   
19	Rameez Khan	THH	33:48	   
20	Danny Norman	Str	43:02	   
21	Alan Pemberton	Str	34:04	   
22	Dee Smale		Str	34:16	3rd Lady   
23	Vince Howley	Str	34:19	   
24	Alan Spelling	Str	34:25	   
25	D Anderson	Str	34:27	   
26	Peter Blair-Fish	THH	34:32	   
27	Alison Carpenter	THH	34:38	   
28	Mark Wainwright	THH	34:49	   
29	Alistair Irvine	THH	34:55	   
30	Ian Callander	Str	35:04	   
31	Keith Spacie	THH	35:19	   
32	Geoff Fisher	Str	35:33	   
33	Alan Gibbons	THH	35:41	   
34	Alan Leakey	THH	36:05	   
35	Jon Parry		Str	36:10	   
36	Jeff Armitage	THH	36:14	   
37	Nigel Clemens	Str	37:03	   
38	T Smale		Str	37:10	   
39	Liz Souness	Str	37:25	   
40	David Walsh	THH	37:40	   
41	Clare Sylvester	THH	37:51	   
42	Paul Butler	Str	38:26	   
43	Robin McNab	THH	38:37	   
44	Neil Dadlani	Str	38:39	   
45	Michael Bostel	THH	39:04	   
46	Sean McCormick	Str	40:15	   
47	Tony Hopkins	Str	40:25	   
48	Charlotte O 	Str	40:37	   
49	Diane Leakey	THH	40:40	   
50	Sue Cockle	Str	40:50	   
51	Julia Fea		THH	41:25	   
52	Perer Wedderburn	Str	41:48	   
53	Andrew Simon	THH	42:07	   
54	Lynda Chase	Str	42:46	   
55	Chris Glew	Str	42:56	   
56	Ian Smale		Str	44:19	   
57	Kirsty Bangham	Str	44:34	   
58	Andrew Wallace	Str	45:02	   
59	Doug Justins	THH	50:43	   
60	Lisa Schebler	Str	51:28	   
61	Mike Wallace	Str	51:29	

27 to score match
THH   645
Str   840

Congratulations to Sarah and Andy Weir on the save arrival of Robert and Frances a brother and sister for Ellen.

John MacFarlane was second in the Wokingham Half Marathon in an impressive 1.06.12 just behind training partner Huw Lobb.

Kate Symons ran under 19 minutes for 5k for the first time, taking 15 seconds off her previous 5k best

Congratulations to David Jenkins who won the handicap by a convincing margin, ahead of Simon Leathes and Simon Wurr. Results below.

			Handicap	Finish	Time	pos
1	Jenkins, David	0:24:15	15:03:40	0:57:55	15
2.	Leathes, Simon	0:24:30	15:04:59	0:59:29	18
3.	Wurr, Simon	0:03:15	15:05:35	0:38:50	1
4.	Hutber, Chris	0:14:00	15:05:39	0:49:39	8
5.	Altmann, Nick	0:03:15	15:06:14	0:39:29	2
6.	Garnier, Anna	0:14:50	15:06:16	0:51:06	10
7.	Howse, Andy	0:05:30	15:06:28	0:41:58	4
8.	Stainsby, Andy	0:15:00	15:06:40	0:51:40	11
9.	Kingsnorth, Tom	0:03:15	15:06:42	0:39:57	3
10.	Davies, Rhodri	0:10:00	15:06:51	0:46:51	6
11.	Arnold, Hugh	0:10:00	15:07:03	0:47:03	7
12.	Matthews, Larry	0:06:45	15:07:44	0:44:29	5
13.	Sylvester, Clare	0:16:15	15:07:52	0:54:07	12
14.	Simon, Andrew	0:22:45	15:09:37	1:02:22	19
15.	Lynas, Wendy	0:36:30	15:09:46	1:16:16	23
16.	Nightingale, Tim	0:11:15	15:09:47	0:51:02	9
17.	Bright, Ian	0:23:15	15:10:34	1:03:49	20
18.	Bostlemann, Michael0:17:45	15:11:38	0:59:23	17
19.	Blair-Fish, Peter	0:14:00	15:11:49	0:55:49	14
20	Snelgrove, Bill	0:11:45	15:13:03	0:54:48	13
21.	Leakey, Di	0:14:15	15:14:10	0:58:25	16
22.	Leakey, Al	0:23:00	15:14:10	1:07:10	21
23.	Lee-Gerrard, Andy	0:29:30	15:15:06	1:14:36	22

Tom Samuel gained his highest ever place with 3rd in the Senior Boys event. In the Intermediates race Tyrone Cummins battled through to a superb 6th place and so joins Tom in the London team for the English Schools. Felix Hale defeated many people a year older than him to finish a fine 14th in the same race.

Mara Yamauchi scorched round the streets of Tokyo with a half marathon time of 69:24 having passed 10k in 32:06 and in doing so ran the third fastest time ever for a GB woman...

A strong team of 6 made the trip to Church Stretton in Shropshire and competed in one of the more arduous fell races on the circuit on which many a northern fell runner has come a cropper. The Captain led the way home in 7th hotly pursued by Chris Daniels and Andy Howse in 12th and 13th. David Symons was next man home in 19th before the sprint of the century ensued between Ultra International Matt Lynas and GB rowing coach and new Thames recruit Nick Maloney. Matts dip at the finish was sufficient to see him win the battle for 39th. Bring on the Three Peaks was the cry!

1st	Lloyd Taggart	(Dark Peak)	1:36:58
7th	Simon Wurr			1:45.04
12th	Chris Daniels			1:49.22
13th	Andy Howse			1:49.28
19th	David Symons			1:54.23
39th	Matt Lynas			2:01.54
40th	Nick Maloney			2:01.54


130+ competed

The fourth second place in the Surrey League demonstrates that we have been second best all season to our friends and rivals at Herne Hill. Despite losing our grip on the league after three straight wins it was great to see Ian Harkness and Nick Altmann bounce back after the Southerns. Tim Woodthorpe backed up his 23rd place in the Midlands with his best ever run in a saltire. It was also heartening to see Andy Weir gradually getting back to form and Alex Gaskell making the scoring ten after a period of illness. Many thanks to all members who have run for the club this season in what is always a highlight of the season.

1	ROGERS, P   (Rei P)	27:59	   
7	WURR, S			28:47	   
10	HARKNESS, I		28:56	   
12	ALTMANN, N		29:00	   
16	WOODTHORPE, T		29:21	   
31	WEIR, A			30:20	   
33	SYMONS, D			30:25	   
34	GOULD, N			30:28	   
37	TALBOT, D			30:46	   
40	GASKELL, A		30:59	   
49	KENNIS, A			31:20	   
60	GILBERTSON, M		31:59	   
71	MATTHEWS, L		32:55	   
87	SCHOFIELD, A		34:02	   
97	PESCOD, D			35:28	   
122	ARMITAGE, J		39:44	 

Team
1st		HHH		151
2nd		TH&H		269
3rd		SLH		324

Chris Chataway stormed to victory in the V75 with Keith Spacie also dominating the V70 event. Peter Giles also excelled with second in the V60 and was also a part of the bronze medal winning V60 team along with Keith and Michael Johnson. Rick Turner also had a very strong run in the V50 event. Congratulations to Rhodri for masterminding the whole operation.

V40s	Hugh Shields 	29th 	35.17
	Ian Higgins 	36th 	37.15
	Rhodri Davies 	61st 	39.13
	Al Irvine 	89th	41.51 	V40 Team: 9th

V50s	Rick Turner 	22nd 	37.59
	Paul Whitlock 	32nd 	40.05
	Peter Blair-Fish 	54th 	42.28	V50 team: 8th

V60s 	Peter Giles 	2nd 	39.39
	M Johnson 	14th 	44.38	V60 team (with Keith Spacie): 3rd 

V70s 	Keith Spacie 	1st 	43.32
V75s 	Chris Chataway 	1st 	47.40

Well, at the beginning of the week it looked like we might be able to challenge the all conquering Ranelagh ladies for a win in the final fixture. However, by Saturday morning injuries, old and new, and a badly placed rabbit hole put paid to such thoughts. That said we put in a pretty good performance. Julia Bleasdale excelled winning the race with apparent ease on her league debut and return from injury. Kate, Alison and Anna packing in through the 20s and Vikki not far behind made up the remainder of the scoring team. Di, Julia Fea and fast improving Isabel provided the essential back up and all had good runs. We finished fourth overall. The TH&H ladies should be proud of their performances over the season.

1.	Julia Bleasdale		20.51
22.	Kate Symons		22.58
26.	Alison Carpenter		23.10
27.	Anna Garnier		23.14
51.	Vikki Filsell		24.22
101.	Di Leakey 		26.59
108.	Julia Fea			27.28
152.	Isabel Bano		36.08

Overall League Positions
1.	Ranelagh			196
2.	Belgrave			332
3.	South London Harriers	566
4.	Thames Hare & Hounds	601
5.	Windmilers		639

For full results see http://www.ranelagh-harriers.com/results/060204r1.html