You have to get up pretty early in the morning to catch out Thames runners. Unflustered by the unpleasantly early start to the Kingston Breakfast 8.2 mile race, Toby Pearson was first home and David Moore was first vet.

SLH's Jason Simpson set a fine pace ahead of Thames men Neil Chisolm and Tom Kingsnorth in second and third spot. Lucy Hasell kept up her record of wins here with a speedy 34:17.

1.	Jason Simpson	SLH	30:50
2.	Neil Chisolm	THH	31:02
3.	Tom Kingsnorth	THH	32:46
9.	Lucy Hasell	THH	34:17
32.	Dan Pescod	THH	36:50
202.	Lorna Celiku	THH	46:43

The going is getting rough under foot over at Wimbledon, making for slower times, but more fun! Thames men and women put in solid performances led home by Ian Higgins in fifth and Alison Carpenter second lady. Over at Bushy Park it was a little easier under foot, and was good to see Andy Howse returning to his old patch.

Wimbledon Common
5.	Ian Higgins  		THH	19.17
22.	Alison Carpenter		THH	21.48
27.	Keith Spacie		THH	22.20
36.	Maddalaine Ansel		THH	23.36
47.	Al Gibbons		THH	26.14

Bushy Park
4.	David Symons		THH	17.04
13.	Andy Howse		THH	18.05

Matt and Wendy Lynas swapped the wintery weather of the UK for Cape Town with Matt running an impressive 3:44:07 for the 56km ultra marathon and Wendy running 2:48:51 in the half marathon.

Neil Chisolm secured a fine win in windy conditions with a time of 1:10:14.

Naomi Warner was in fine form again today to place fourth lady with 1:20:16 with TH&H second claimer Alice Braham placing second lady in 1:16:57.

John Macfarlane was top placed TH&H man over the Bath course with a solid 1:08:02 closely followed by Andy Weir in 1:09:07 Toby Pearson with a pb of 1:12:09 David Symons in 1:12.17 and Alex Gaskell in 1:14:58. Alison Carpenter led home the TH&H ladies with a great V50 time of 1:29:16 with Charlotte Saunders not far behind and Natalie and Wendy making up the TH&H ladies quartet. Lucy Hasell also ran well to place high up the ladies field in 1:16:16 running for first claim club Bristol.

Ian Higgins was in good form as usual and Richard Weston made a suprise debut to run 28:28.

Team TH&H / AUS had a good pay day at Brentwood, with Phill Sly wining in a course record of 1:07:07 and Naomi Warner placing third lady, also inside the previous ladies course record in 1:20:33.

In form Liz Stavreski bettered her second spot in the recent 5mile handicap to take first spot ahead of Andy Weir.

Position			Actual	Handicap	Challenge 
1	Liz Stavreski	01:08:34	00:56:35	6
2	Andy Weir		00:57:44	00:57:02	1
3	Jeremy Denny	01:19:04	00:57:13	10
4	Tim Nightingale	01:13:56	00:57:22	7
5	Vicki Filsell	01:13:59	00:57:46	8
6	Will Cockerell	00:58:38	00:57:56	2
7	Andrew Johnson	01:25:32	00:58:02	13
8	Nick Altmann	01:00:13	00:58:48	3
9	Nick Malynn	01:03:16	00:59:02	4
10	Steve Pollard	01:08:25	00:59:15	5
11	David Walsh	01:23:14	00:59:37	11
12	John Skilbeck	01:56:00	01:10:11	15
13	David Jenkins	01:39:31	01:14:08	14
14	Wendy Lynas	02:10:54	01:25:05	16
	John Foss (G)	01:14:18		9
	John Greaves(G)	01:23:47		12

In form Liz Stavreski bettered her second spot in the recent 5mile handicap to take first spot ahead of Andy Weir.

Julia Bleasdale completed her run of recent victories with another good run in South Africa to win the last of a series of tough trail races.

There were some swift runners in action this weekend over traditional pre London race the Reading Half, and the Thames men ran well with Phil running 1:06:12 for 7th, John MacFarlane 1:08:08 for 12th and both Toby Pearson and Chris Wrighton running sub 1:13:00 for 44th and 45th places.

News from Alex Cook (nee Richmond), who is running well under the watchful eye of Robin Dickson, and placed second with 13.12 in a close finish at the 3.5km hilly and muddy North German Cross Country Champs.

Thames welcomed runners from Kingston and Poly, Stragglers, Bank of England, Westminster School and the Stock Exchange Athletic Club to run over the 5-mile course. Local knowledge won the day as Thames secured a comfortable victory. For some photos of the day see: http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/7757014

Team results scoring 7-a-side: