Congratulations to Naomi Warner on a clear win at the Dysart Dash, with a super speedy 35:54, making her County Champ for 10km.

Spurred on no doubt by close defeat at this week's Summer Handicap, Vikki Filsell powered to a new course PB over the Wimbledon Course with Ian Higgins and Colin Price making up the Thames runners for the day.

Chris Hutbur strode to victory in the summer handicap. Making the most of the beautiful evening conditions on the Common, Chris took the lead from Vikki Filsell on the final descent to collect his first Thames tankard. Andy Weir was the fastest on the evening. Results below.

			Handicap		actual	result
Chris Hutber		07:00		32:40	25:40
Vicki Filsell		10:00		36:07	26:07
Andy Weir			02:00		28:16	26:16
Simon Molden		04:00		30:28	26:28
Johnnie Powell  		04:00		30:54	26:54
Keith Spacie		10:00		37:22	27:22
Jeff Armitage		11:00		38:24	27:24
Jeremy Denny		11:30		39:20	27:50
Maureen Poole		16:30		45:00	28:30
Alison Carpenter		08:00		36:33	28:33
David Walsh		12:30		41:03	28:33
Larry Matthews		03:00		32:44	29:44
Andy Stainsby		09:00		40:27	31:27
Richard Weston		20:00		51:28	31:28
Elizabeth Stavreski	06:30		38:08	31:38
Al Irvine			07:30		40:19	32:49
Frank Carpenter		17:30		55:41	38:11

Some highlights from recent events at the WCTT. On 7 June Ian Higgins placed 2nd in 18:15, with V50 Anna Garnier 1st lady in 21:12. On 14th June new member George Garnier ran an impressive 16:48 to place 3rd, a couple of seconds slower than his 3rd place performance 3 weeks beforehand. Finally, on 21 June Anna finished 1st lady once more this time in a pb of 20:59, the race also witnessing a course PB from John Bryant in 27:56.

Chris Daniels finished second in the 9.2k Grachtenloop race in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The ever publicity shy Mr Daniels points out you can find a video of his finish if you follow the links to his race here.

Another Welsh weekend of glorious sunshine. Full results now on the Les Croupier website confirm that TH&H mixed senior team were crowned "King of the Mountains" and fourth overall. Individual stage wins included King of the Mountains wins for Andy Weir, John McFarlane and James McMullen and ladies stage wins for Liz Stavreski and Sonia O'Sullivan. The mixed veterans team placed 7th team but showed grit in the mountains to place third in the "Monarchs of the Mountains" contest.

Stage 1
36  Jeremy Denny (V)
40  Madalaine Ansel

Stage 2
39 Frank Dudbridge
DNF Anthony Hickson (V)

Stage 3
4  N Malyn
10 M Lynas (V)

Stage 4
12 Dave Kirk
54 Andrew Simon (V)

Stage 5
3  Andy Arbour
48 Dave Walsh (48)

Stage 6
12 S Molden
52 Mike Coram (V)

Stage 7
1  Andy Weir 
39 Chris Cheesman (V)

Stage 8
18 Nick Altmann
50 Maureen Poole (V)

Stage 9
11 Liz Stavreski
13 Bill Snellgrove (V)

Stage 10
7 David Symons
30 Rick Turner (V)

Stage 11
1  John MacFarlane
42 Rachel Disley (V)

Stage 12
40 Rachel Haining
44 Vanda Cox (V)

Stage 13
10 Sonia O’Sullivan 
42 Al Gibbons (V)

Stage 14
1  James McMullen
22 Richard Pitt (V)

Stage 15
22 Nick Malone
28 Ian Higgins (V)

Stage 16
10 Andy Howse
21 Mike Farmery (V)

Stage 17
7  Charles Copper
57 John Bryant (V)

Stage 18
2  Dave Moore
41 Richard O’Brien (V)

Stage 19
33 Vikki Filsell
44 Robin Dickson (V)

Stage 20
5  Chris Daniels
14 Larry Matthews (V)

For Photos from the weekend see: http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/53063766

For full results, as avialble see: http://www.lescroupiersrunningclub.org.uk/castles/

Another Welsh weekend of glorious sunshine. Full results awaited, but we are able to report that the Thames men were crowned overall "King of the Mountains". Individual stage wins included King of the Mountains wins for Andy Weir, John McFarlane and James McMullen and ladies stage wins for Liz Stavreski and Sonia O'Sullivan. The Welsh weather was kind once more and a good weekend was had by all.

For Photos from the weekend see: http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/53063766 For full results, as avialble see: http://www.lescroupiersrunningclub.org.uk/castles/

In the words of the Sunday Times "One of the toughest horse races in the world was yesterday nearly won by a man in running shoes and shorts. After powering over 22 miles, three mountains and two rivers, John McFarlane came in a close second in the Man Versus Horse race at Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales. Though McFarlane finished 30 seconds behind the winner, a horse called Dukes Touch of Fun, he beat 45 other horses and more than 300 runners". John then had an early start on Sunday morning to win his King of the Mountains leg in the Welsh Castles Relay....

For the full Sunday Times report see: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4138214.ece

Congratulations to Al and Olivia Irvine on the safe arrival of baby Lucy Nicole on Saturday morning - a prudent move not to attend the TH&H 140 year celebration the night before!

Thames ultra runners were in action at Dorking over the "sprint" distance of 10 miles with Matt Lynas and Chris Finill placing eight and ninth and second and third V40s. Also in action, good runs from the ladies, Vikki, Susan and Wendy.

8.	Matt Lynas		  58.05
9.	Chris Finill		  58.19
191.	Vikki Filsell		1.12.50
441.	Susan Snell		1.25.51
665.	Wendy Lynas		2.03.02