THE RUNDOWN 24TH SEPTEMBER: BERLIN MARATHON, MIDLANDS ROAD RELAYS, TISSINGTON HALF MARATHON AND PARKRUN ROUNDUP
Social Events/Dates for your Diaries!
A big thanks to this week’s guest Editor Amelia Crees for the Run Report, and also a note below of some dates for your diaries for some of our social actvities:
- Wednesday 27th September: social drinks at the Forest after Wednesday night club run- 7:30pm onwards.
- Sunday 19th November: morning social run and breakfast
- Friday 29th December: Christmas club run with tea/coffee and cakes afterwards.
Berlin Marathon
A huge congratulations to Mike McDonald, Lee Brotherhood, Rene Vergo and Kirsty Wise for completing the fast and flat Berlin Marathon, one of the 6 world majors!
A temperate 20 degrees with sunny intervals and light winds produced great racing conditions, causing our fantastic Knowle and Dorridge runners to return home in the impressive following times:
Rene Vergo: 02:50:40, Lee Brotherhood: 03:09:39, Kirsty Wise: 03:41:59 and Mike McDonald: 04:05:01
Tissington Half Marathon
Eleven Knowle and Dorridge runners took on the Tissington Trail Half Marathons, which took place on Saturday and Sunday this weekend.
Saturday saw Neil Letham, Amanda Marklew, Jan Hornby and Sally Anderson whilst Sunday saw 6 impressive sub 2 hour efforts and several PBs from those below, and 2nd and 3rd ladies for Hannah Donelan (1 hour 34 minutes) and Adeba Jama (1 hour 35 mins) respectively
Majority of the results are below (for those that added K&D to their entry!). Kay Adenipikun finished in just over 2 hours
| POS | NAME | BIB | GUN TIME |
|---|---|---|---|
| 252 | Neil Letham | 717 | 02:20:01 |
| 284 | Amanda Marklew | 775 | 02:25:58 |
| 280 | Jan Hornby | 667 | 02:25:32 |
| 174 | Sally Anderson | 422 | 02:06:39 |
| 75 | Chris Wellings | 1117 | 01:47:35 |
| 37 | Paul O Donnell | 371 | 01:39:47 |
| 29 | Kerry Thompson | 486 | 01:37:06 |
| 24 | Jason Pitcher | 390 | 01:35:18 |
| 23 | Adeba Jama | 216 | 01:35:04 |
Midlands Road Relays
This week was the first Road Relays of the autumn season. The ladies managed two teams for this race with Sallyann Sheppey and Ingrid Rochelle-Smith joining us for the first time. Also Jess Woolley returned from maternity leave to take on the first leg, and Monica Green and Katie Price returned from injuries or niggles, and Myshola Kirkham joined us for her first K&D relays having moved to us recently. As usual there was the chats with the men beforehand, long queues for the toilets and lots of youths making us all look old. But, we didn’t stop the K&D spirit with everyone giving team tactics, lots of praise and encouragement to ensure everyone was ready to take on the slightly hilly course of Sutton Park. All the ladies completed their legs in times they were all individually pleased with, and the A Team finished in 34th and B team were 62nd. Well done ladies, now its time to plan for the Nationals in two weeks.
Men’s report to follow
Parkrun Roundup
This weekend, we had 53 parkrunners from Brueton to Beacon Hill! With 12 different events attended, our runners have clearly been busy and eager to kickstart their weekend with a run.
A special mention to Darren Maggs with a 24.07 PB at Poole, and tp Katye Leeson for 1st Lady at Brueton
Well done to all our runners who ran, walked or volunteered at Parkrun this weekend. Full results in the table below:
| Parkrun | Position | Time | PB/Top 3 |
| Banbury parkrun | |||
| Ben JONES | 132 | 00:28:37 | |
| Coventry parkrun | |||
| Monica GREEN | 376 | 00:30:53 | |
| Brueton parkrun | |||
| Chris MORGAN | 4 | 00:18:06 | |
| Ainsley WAINWRIGHT | 6 | 00:18:53 | |
| George SPANN | 22 | 00:20:50 | |
| David ROSE | 26 | 00:21:11 | |
| Andrew CONNORS | 28 | 00:21:23 | |
| Russell DAVIES | 33 | 00:21:38 | |
| Kate LEESON | 35 | 00:21:53 | 1st Lady |
| Alan BLACK | 39 | 00:22:00 | |
| Nicola FERDINAND | 44 | 00:22:16 | 3rd lady |
| Neil DRAYCOTT | 58 | 00:22:55 | |
| Steve ARMSTRONG | 63 | 00:23:00 | |
| Alan GREEN | 71 | 00:23:16 | |
| Stephen RAY | 76 | 00:23:24 | |
| Jane HUNT | 109 | 00:24:48 | |
| Paul WINWOOD | 108 | 00:24:48 | |
| Martin HANCOCK | 114 | 00:24:56 | |
| Chris RAW | 122 | 00:25:16 | |
| Keith WHITEHEAD | 143 | 00:25:55 | |
| Joanne RAY | 146 | 00:25:57 | |
| Sarah CATTELL | 154 | 00:26:17 | |
| Nicky EVANS | 175 | 00:26:49 | |
| Sandra BOOT | 200 | 00:27:37 | |
| Lisa RAY | 218 | 00:28:10 | |
| James TAYLOR | 223 | 00:28:18 | |
| Nigel FOSTER | 230 | 00:28:34 | |
| Angela KIKUGAWA | 333 | 00:32:23 | |
| Carly MITCHELL | 344 | 00:33:13 | |
| Geoff LEWIS | 364 | 00:34:48 | |
| Marie HOWARTH | 399 | 00:40:44 | |
| Oxana HAFEEZ | 400 | 00:40:49 | |
| Kevin TOMKINSON | 405 | 00:42:43 | |
| Paul JEFFREY | 407 | 00:44:07 | |
| Tanya CRONIN | 412 | 00:46:20 | |
| Kerry Ann THOMPSON | 427 | 01:07:10 | |
| Karen RATCLIFFE | 430 | 01:14:42 | |
| Poole parkrun | |||
| Darren MAGGS | 204 | 00:24:07 | PB! |
| Claire MAGGS | 557 | 00:31:51 | |
| Kingsbury Water parkrun | |||
| Daniel GREGORY | 27 | 00:22:23 | |
| Tonbridge parkrun | |||
| Alison GIBLIN | 436 | 00:35:19 | |
| Warwick Racecourse parkrun | |||
| Max MLADENOVIC | 93 | 00:25:29 | |
| Oaklands parkrun | |||
| Siobhan COTTER | 16 | 00:24:15 | |
| Alan C MARSHALL | 44 | 00:29:42 | |
| Edgbaston Reservoir parkrun | |||
| Paul WILLIAMS | 38 | 00:21:50 | |
| Yarborough Leisure Centre parkrun | |||
| Kerry WHITEHILL | 105 | 00:28:24 | |
| Beacon Hill Country Park parkrun | |||
| Bruce HAMPTON | 51 | 00:27:35 | |
| Holbrooks parkrun | |||
| Ian Derek MAIDMENT | 46 | 00:27:52 | |
| Katie PRICE | 101 | 00:52:52 | |
