Lucy Hasell sped round the 5k loop in a swift 17:22 to win comfortably.

A mature performance at the twelve stage relays saw Thames finish in thirteenth spot and safely qualify for the National champs. New signing Julian Rendall saw us off well before Rhodri consolidated our position. Phill Sly characteristically lifted us fourteen spots with our fastest long stage before the vice captains weight of experience lifted us one additional spot. David, Frank and Nick carried the progress up the table before we were seen safely home by Al, Ian, Hugh, Nic and Jerry.

1 	Julian Rendall 	25:59 	19 	25:59  
2 	Rhodri Davies 	20:57 	35 	0:46:56  
3 	Phill Sly 	24:13 	17 	1:11:09  
4 	Larry Matthews 	18:31 	16 	1:29:40  
5 	David Symons 	26:04 	15 	1:55:44  
6 	Frank Dudbridge	18:10 	12 	2:13:54  
7 	Nick Altmann 	25:33 	11 	2:39:27  
8 	Al Gibbons	22:19 	13 	3:01:46  
9 	Ian Harkness 	25:59 	12 	3:27:45  
10 	Hugh Arnold 	20:45 	12 	3:48:30  
11 	Nic Gould 	27:00 	13 	4:15:30  
12 	Jerry Watson 	20:18 	13 	4:35:48 

Ben Reynolds continued his gradual improvement with victory in 32:41 with a WAVA rating of 88.2%

Timothy Rogers ran 3.51.00 and Bruce Blackshaw ran 4.26.51. Both were PBs by remarkable margins - 26 mins for Timothy and 29 minutes for Bruce.

Toby Sykes hobbled round in 1h 42 for 7th place

Mara Yamauchi won the all-Thames tussle for the bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games 10000m, recording 31:49 to defeat Benita Johnson who clocked 31:58.

A host of saltires were in action and were led by the Captain in 6th place and 71:41.

1	T Lambert (Alton)	1h 09:09
6	S Wurr		1h 11:41
76	D Moore		1h 21:43
86	R Pitt		1h 22:25
147	D Pescod		1h 25:38
175	N Maloney		1h 26:49
463	A Johnson		1h 35:24
623	J Fea		1h 38:36

2466 finished

Naomi Warner ran a phenomenal 34:03 for 3rd place in the race and 2nd place in the CAU Inter Counties. Her Surrey team won CAU silver team medals.

Guy Dunscombe ran 1h 23:23 for 73rd place out of 5004.

Peter Woodburn ran 79:14 for 81st place.

Chris Hutber stormed to victory and put the current crop of runners at his alma mater firmly in their place. Chris was also backed up by Thames members Marc Hope and Richard Weston and Mark Henderson.

Tom Samuel finished 2nd out of 108 runners in this annual event organised by our friends across the Park and covered the 3.8 mile circuit in 21:32.

New recruit Sophie Wood stormed to victory in the Roman Road Run and a hard core of four other salties fought against the icy winds racing off the fens...

58.56 	Sophie Wood 	(1st lady)
60.47 	Ed Brady 	(12th man)
66.52 	Richard Clarke 	(18th man)
72.06 	Peter Blair-Fish 	(28th man)
79.12 	Ben Brown 	(32nd man)

A hardy bunch of Thamesmen survived the icy wind of the 10 mile challenge. Nick Altmann led home Nick Malynn and Larry Mathews, all of them having added some supplementary mileage with a variety of off-piste excursions from the unmarked course. Matt Bryant cleverly stuck to master pioneer Michael Worthington to secure the handicap prize.

Hugh Shields finished 12th out of 50+ in the 3000 metres in Linz.

Nic Gould set a PB and dipped under 75 minutes for the first time in finishing 8th in 74:23. James Whetman also excelled with 76:58 and 13th place.

Phil Tedd spearheaded the THH charge as the 23 saltires that ran convincingly beat Serpentine and a guest team from Westminster School. Always in charge at the front Phil showed that he is now clear of the virus that has limited him to only one cross country this winter. With a PB of 3:42 for 1500 Phil looked comfortable throughout and left the rest of the field in his wake. Great packing from the fell running squad via David Symons and Chris Daniels and then the experienced hands of Michael Goatley and Geoff Jerwood in 8th helped THH on their way to victory. Sophie Wood ran a very strong race for 9th place and it was great to see an encouraging debut run from Cambridge Blue Ed Brady.

Name				Club		Time	   
1. 	Phill Tedd		THH		26:08	   
2. 	Simon Wurr		THH		26:20	   
3. 	David Symons		THH		28:17	   
4. 	Chris Daniels		THH		28:58	   
5. 	Mike Goatley		THH		29:58	   
6. 	Jamie Thompson		Serpentine	30:16	   
7. 	Ed Brady			THH		30:31	   
8. 	Geoff Jerwood		THH		30:35	   
9. 	Sophie Wood		THH		30:51	   
10. 	Paul Fromme		Serpentine	30:57	   
11.	Richard Melik		Serpentine	31:14	   
12.	Tom Godfrey-Fausset	Westminster	31:34	   
13.	Tyrone Cummins		Westminster	31:35	   
14.	Chris Hutber		THH		31:42	   
15.	Dan Pescod		THH		31:45	   
16.	Harry Jeffrey		Westminster	31:55	   
17.	Paul Carlson		THH		32:13	   
18.	Laurie Brock		Westminster	32:17	   
19.	Rameez Khan		Westminster	33:01	   
20.	Alex Scott		Westminster	33:35	   
21.	Mark Wainwright		Westminster	33:36	   
22.	Sarah Edmunds		Serpentine	33:40	   
23.	Kate Symons		THH		33:57	   
24.	Alan Gibbons		THH		34:17	   
25.	Alistair Irvine		THH		34:54	   
26.	Hugh Shields		THH		35:16	   
27.	John O Connor		Westminster	35:21	   
28.	Vicky Filsell		THH		35:31	   
29.	Christian Foss		Westminster	35:43	   
30.	Joseph Gross		Westminster	35:52	   
31.	Jeff Armitage		THH		36:11	   
32.	Robin McNabb		THH		36:54	   
33.	Peter Ham			Guest		37:13	   
34.	Simon Gardner		Serpentine	37:24	   
35.	Doug Justins		THH		39:58	   
36.	Alex Marklew		Serpentine	40:17	   
37.	Cheryl Sacks		Serpentine	41:17	   
38.	Paul Newby		THH		41:57	   
39.	James Forbes		THH		46:11	   
40.	Paul Whitlock		THH		46:11	   
41.	Carole Wisdom		Serpentine	48:46	   
42.	Richard Weston		THH		51:46	 

Match:  8-to-score

1. THH			39
2. Westminster School	125
3. Serpentine		136

Vikki Filsell was seventh lady over the undulating Hertfordshire course in 1.34 - all good marathon prepraration.

Ben Reynolds ran a strong second half to finish 6th in 70:03 and won the New Jersey M40 event.

Hugh Shields took the bronze in both the M40 1500m and 3000m running 4:22 in the former.

David Symons clocked 2nd and 3.03 for this off-road marathon over the South Downs hills.

Keith Spacie destroyed the opposition to win the M70 class and ran 25:17 over the 6k course.

Two big losses in a week for the BoE...first £50 million and today Nick Altmann doled out a commanding display of front running to cruise to victory in a swift 27:04. Ultra marathon international Matt Lynas impressed in second just ahead of 16 year old Tom Samuel. Rhodri ran a well-judged race to pull through to 7th whilst Chris Hutber finished strongly to pip 15 year old newcomer Laurie Brock. Alison Carpenter was the first lady back. Thames won the 6-to-score from K&P, the BoE and Elmbridge with ease.

 
1	Nick Altmann	THH	27:04	   
2	Matthew Lynas	THH	28:32	   
3	Tom Samuel	THH	28:49	   
4	Larry Mathews	THH	29:35	   
5	Alex Thomas	KP	30:29	   
6	Ron Taylor	KP	30:32	   
7	Rhodri Davies	THH	31:29	   
8	Paul Sweeney	Elm	31:50	   
9	Steve Wright	KP	32:10	   
10	Chris Hutber	THH	32:31	   
11	Laurie Brock	THH	32:36	   
12	R Nicholson 	Elm	33:32	   
13	Graham Shaw	Elm	33:35	   
14	Alan Gould	BoE	33:38	   
15	Gwyn Jones	BoE	33:40	   
16	Mike Bruce	Elm	33:42	   
17	Alistair Irvine	THH	33:45	   
18	Alan Gibbons	THH	33:49	   
19	Andy French	BoE	33:54	   
20	A Carpenter (F)	THH	34:36	   
21	Paul Whitlock	THH	34:45	   
22	R McDonoush	KP	35:16	   
23	N Nicholson (F)	Elm	35:28	   
24	Roger Jackaman	Elm	35:30	   
25	Nicky Atkins (F)	KP	36:34	   
26	Nessa Sweeney (F)	BoE	37:22	   
27	Dave Walsh	THH	37:34	   
28	Ian Bright	THH	38:29	   
29	Peter Deadman	BoE	38:50	   
30	Douglas Justins	THH	39:25	   
31	Dave Gibbons	KP	40:01	   
32	Jeff Reid	KP	40:37	   
33	David Stone	BoE	41:46	   
34	R Weston - b/m	THH	52:13	 

Team:	6 to score
	
	THH		27 pts
	K&P		80 pts
	Elmbridge	83 pts
	BoE		110 pts

Many congratulations to Andrew and Alex Johnson who are now the proud parents of Libby (a healthy 9lb 7 oz).