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Weekend Recap: Telford 10k, Puddington Fayre, parkrun Advent-ures,

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Telford 10k:

Telford’s AC’s end of year hurrah made a mockery of its winter date and proved to be hot enough to melt the polar ice caps. In a scorching race 17 men ran sub-30 for the 10k course, including the winner Joshua Grace (29:21). Joshua pipped 2008 Beijing Olympian Tom Lancashire (29:22) on the line by a single second. Evidence of the field’s quality showed with 2015 National XC Champion Charlie Hulson finishing fifth, with a total of 37 men running sub-31 minutes. Joshua Grace’s winning time ranks him 8th in Britain in 2016.

Kirk Giles was first K&D runner home in 35:33. He was followed by Darren John in 36:28. Both runners snuck into the top 200 taking 170th and 196th place. Ridiculous. Flick Sharp was third across the line for the club, and first lady in green and gold with a time of 42:13. She finished 335th overall but a very creditable 43rd in the ladies competition.

Darren Maggs was next across the line in 47:39 followed by Sally Anderson, 54:17, and Claire Maggs in 56:22.  Read more

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Weekend Recap: PB’s Galore

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Brueton parkrun:

Making light work of the previous night’s curry and shall we say… refreshments, Gareth Wainwright show’d he can handle his drink with a 17:11. He was first K&D runner home followed by Darren John. who had polished off two pizza’s the night before. Darren ran 18:15. No word on Anthony Dutton’s pre-race binge but his 18:52 was his fastest in a year. Which deserves a celebratory Chinese. 

Flick Sharp had clearly had her Weetabix for breakfast; paced by Chris Morgan she absolutely destroyed that 20 minute barrier that has been annoying her for so long. 19:32. A massive PB and thoroughly well deserved. Siobhan Cotter continued her consistent run with a 22:55 finish. She is peppering that 22:30-23:00 bracket with multiple runs. Sarah Cattell was third lady with a time of 23:58. 

Although the morning was cold the conditions were favourable for fast times; as well as Flick Sharp PB Corner is bursting with patrons.

Lynsey Drakeley ran 29:04 – PB!
Smita Deshpande ran 28:48 – PB!
Philip Lindsey recently joined the club, celebrating by running 20:46 – PB!
Brian Corr ran 20:50 – PB!
Mark Amyes ran 21:31 – PB!
Isabel Arthur ran 26:50 – PB!
Ann Spencer-Dowdeswell ran 26:32 – PB!
Subhash Agarwalla ran 25:53 – PB!

Bish. Bash. Bosh! 

Cannon Hill parkrun:

Big Dave Carbutt ran a storming 18:18. You guessed it. He also gets a pass to PB Corner. Move aside people. Another one coming through. This many people in PB Corner must be a fire hazard surely?

Quiet weekend gone, XC and Centurions madness resumes next weekend. 

Great Running Team!

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XC Race One Results: Cheltenham (M)

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Birmingham & District XC League Division One; Pittivale Park, Cheltenham

Stand-In Captain Tim Price carries more facial hair with a five-o’clock shadow than the entire Loughborough and Birmingham Uni XC Teams combined. Meanwhile we twice had to stop Rich Drakeley stealing kid’s lunch money and both Joe Read and Dan Ribiero were asked which of the rest of the team were their Dad’s. 

Somehow we have found ourselves in Division One of the B’ham & District XC League. Competing against the likes of the countries’ top sports universities. Aside from such youthful opposition in our division are the likes of minnows such as… Birchfield Harriers, Tipton Harriers, City of Stoke AC, Cheltenham AC and Coventry Godiva. Club’s who regularly make themselves at home on a national stage.

With the going under foot unusually firm the men quickly realised that what the kids lack in pension plans they make up for in quickness. Read more

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Weekend Recap: New Yoik, Centurions GP #1, parkrun

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New York Marathon

In the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, home of Ross, Joey, Chandler, Rachel, Phoebe and Monica, our very own Gareth Wainwright clocked in a sharp 02:52:52 at the New York City Marathon. That grabbed him a top 500 finish; officially coming home in 422nd. 

Centurions Grand Prix #1

14909900_1793083630904257_8844235640131075058_nCenturions, our nearest rivals, aren’t all bad. They do have the Centurions GP series to keep us going through winter so we’ll cut them some slack. Race 1 was blisteringly fast, an Irish ringer dropping in while visiting the area on a trip and leading the race home in a stunning 25:34. Ooft. 

Richard Dixon was first K&D male runner home in 29:52. Emma Donnelly took that honour for our ladies in 36:53. Congratulations to the ladies that took home three of the prizes available. Emma Donnelly, Jane Hunt and Kathy Bailey all getting the nod in the post-race ceremonies.
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Weekend Recap: PB Troublin’ in Dublin

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Over in Dublin Monica Green made a late in the year PB marathon dash. In the appropriately coloured Green of Knowle & Dorridge she finished 9th in her category. She ran a very swift 3:24:08. That is only just outside the top 100 in her age category on the runbritain.com rankings for the year. Hope she got a celebratory Guinness after.

Brueton parkrun

Not content with going sub 17 for the first time last week Gareth Wainwright did it again. Currently building up for New York Marathon Gareth is in cracking form and ran 16:48. Darren John’s recovery continued as he ran his fastest 5k since he broke himself back in July with an 18:41 for second K&D man. Right behind him was Paul Williams who was only 3 seconds off his PB running 19:12.

Siobhan Cotter was first K&D lady this week; and celebrated with a shiny new PB of 22:23. Kathy Bailey was close behind in 22:29 with Jane Hunt continuing her good form in 22:40. It’s great to see those ladies pushing each other on to faster times as a group. Read more

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MCAA XC Relays – Men’s Results

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There was some sensational running over at Aldersley Stadium in Wolverhampton at the Midland Counties Cross-Country Relays on Saturday. A strong men’s team put in a cracking performance to finish 15th overall. Our growing strength in depth was showcased with our B team finishing 35th. To have two men’s teams finish in the top 35 was a fantastic achievement and bodes well for our upcoming league campaign.
 

Special mention go to the K&D Debutantes Dan Rebeiro and Mark Aymes who put in two excellent runs.

The highlight of the day goes to a Mr. Joseph Read though who smashed out the 21st fastest run of the day. No mean feat when some of the countries top teams were represented.

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Weekend Recap: A parkrun three PB Jamboree

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With a number of runners off breaking their XC spikes in at the Midland Counties XC relays (a post forthcoming once results are out…) it was left for our parkrunners to hold the fort; and a number of them did so with aplomb.

A massive congratulations to Gareth Wainwright who’s 17:00 PB has been a lingering for far too long. After a number of very near misses he finally broke 17 minutes at Brueton. Smashing through to a 16:45. That makes him the 4th fastest K&D runner ever at Brueton, only behind Sharp, Bentley and Reid.

A sensational run by Jane Hunt saw her run 22:29. Not only is that a PB; it registered a massive 80.50% age grade rating.

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Weekend Recap: Birmingham vs. Manchester Half

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Birmingham Half Marathon

30 of you ran Birmingham Half on Sunday 16th October. Congratulations to those who ran their first half marathon’s ever, PB’s or even just ran well. Gareth Wainwright became the 7th K&D man to break 80 minutes this year. When will the madness end? Apologies for not highlighting all the PB’s etc. but look at you all! Literally too many achievements to list.

K&D results below:

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Weekend Recap: Three, Its the PB Number

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With the final WRRL League results coming later on here is the rest of this weekend’s recap…

Brueton parkrun:

A thirty strong contingent of K&D runners descended on Brueton on Saturday for the weekly parkrun pilgrimage. 12 Years ago this weekend the very first parkrun took place with just a dozen runners loosely affiliated to Paul Sinton-Hewitt, Ranelagh Harriers Running Club and a few others they happened to scoop up along the way. parkrun has been a great route into K&D over the years and long may it continue. Now to the club results:

Men:
1. Gareth Wainwright – 17:12
2. Rob Houlston – (PB) 19:02
3. Paul Williams – (PB) 19:09

Ladies:
1. Felicity Sharp – (PB) 20:17
2. Jenny Owen – 27:38
3. Imogen Rowe – 28:09

Congratulations Rob, Paul and Flick for their PB’s! All three of them are edging towards breaking through some big barriers. Getting results from great training and hard work. Read more

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Wochenende Rekapitulieren: Berlin, Ben Nevis, Nottingham, Trailffest

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Berlin Marathon:

Three of K&D’s finest, Chris Sharp, Sim14469676_10153766152355933_3314299884853849180_non Bentley and Torsten Roesler took part in the fast and flat Berlin Marathon this weekend. No idea what is happening here but just look at the fear in Chris’ eyes…

Simon looks worryingly at ease in the German neck massage dungeon.

Baljit Chohan also appeared in Germany according to the official results.

Chris Sharp ran 2:38:53
Torsten Roesler ran 2:57:07
Baljit Chohan 3:17:18
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Simon Bentley hit 30k in 2:04 however did not finish; we hope he was taking the sensible option and it isn’t anything too painful. Get a couple of early Oktoberfest beers down you captain, we’ll call them medicinal.

Here is Torsten introducing the guys to his big brother.

Ben Nevis Ultra

Continuing our recent trend of the K&D members going a bit wild is news of Phil Elwell doing the Ben Nevis Ultra – 40 miles round Ben Nevis in 7:39 ; 2nd year he has done this race. Because 40 miles isn’t hard enough, you might as well throw a mountain in there too. Read more

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