Salisbury 10
Remember this race for next year. We had loads of p.b's on a good course, there are hot showers, massage and Tim found a great country pub on the way back!
Despite the numerous p.b's, our men's team were pushed down to 4th, and our ladies' to 8th, as our rivals made serious attempts to haul us in!
Fantastic p.b's from both Lewis and Andy, as they pushed each other all the way. You can imagine the sprint on the track at the end! The poor guy from Alton who was with them on the track had no chance.
Wayne may have found Bramley a little too long after his Australian adventure, but 10 miles was much more to his liking. He looked very strong as he ran under an hour for the first time (watch out Lewis and Andy). Mike White ran another fast time as he completed the A team, and just headed the Green charge.
Only 30 seconds separated 5 of us. Dave, Tony, myself and Graham were the B team, as we comfortably won again, showing that we have the best strength in depth in this league by some way. This was further emphasised when our C team of Ray, Kev, Tim and John Williams finished ahead of all the B teams except Winchester!
John Blake gets faster with every race, and is now close to 7 minute miles. Here he chased Phil for most of the race, with Phil just managing to hold him off this time. Gordon had a faster chip time than both Phil and John. He must have been at the back as he started the race, giving most of us a 40 second start! Another to smash his p.b. was Richard, as he left Gill and Georgie early on to improve on his Ryde time by over 3 minutes. It was encouraging to see some new HRRL Stubbies – Rod was just ahead of Georgie and Tina, and Matthew, Angela and Brian ran their first HRRL race of the season. Alan ran well at steady 8 minute miles, just ahead of Eric and Paul. Paul was 2 minutes quicker than his best. Robert, who has run all 8 races, smashed his 10 mile p.b. and, like me, we can now drop our worst % of the season, as it's your 7 best races that count. For my part, dropping my worst result (Overton) means I am temporarily ahead of Dave, Graham and Tony. Dave has run 5 HRRL races so far, and beaten me in all of them!
Despite more p.b's from our ladies we really missed Susie's consistently high placing. We finished 8th in Division 1, easily our lowest team position, and that despite our scorers running at 7.30 minute miles, which is very strong running. We are still 3rd in the league, but have both Fareham and Portsmouth Joggers right behind us.
A fantastic personal best from Gill, over 2 minutes quicker than she ran at Ryde, led our ladies home. Georgie also posted an excellent p.b, more than 1 minute quicker than Ryde. She put much of it down to Tina running with her, telling her to attack every hill, and it certainly paid off. Lucy was just behind Alan, so 8 minute miling off sporadic training! More points here to maintain her place at the top of our Stubbington leaderboard.
Thanks to Chris Hall and Karen Gunner for cheering us all on!
With only 3 races to go in the HRRL we need to maintain our high team placings, so if you can run at Eastleigh, Alton or Netley it would be great to see lots of green vests. Currently we still have 26 Stubbies on the HRRL results table. That's more men than any other club and only Fareham have more ladies. Get your entries in early for Netley as there are limited places. I will chat to our Social Committee to try and arrange something (picnic/pub) after the Netley 10k. Mike Harper.
| Salisbury 10 mile HRRL race 8 | ||
| 12th | Lewis Chalk | 56.33 |
| 13th | Andy Simpson | 56.37 |
| 40th | Wayne Ewens | 59.33 |
| 45th | Mike White | 60.29 |
| 49th | Dave Jeffery | 60.40 |
| 51st | Tony Smith | 60.43 |
| 52nd | Mike Harper | 60.52 |
| 56th | Graham Bell | 61.03 |
| 61st | Ray Gunner | 61.46 |
| 78th | Kev Wheeler | 62.47 |
| 83rd | Tim Sullivan | 63.23 |
| 189th | John Williams | 70.42 |
| 205th | Phil May | 71.30 |
| 206th | John Blake | 71.33 |
| 212th | Gordon Westley | 71.49 |
| 246th | Richard Snell | 73.12 |
| 266th | Gill Rose | 74.12 |
| 286th | Roderick Nairn | 75.22 |
| 297th | Georgie Wallis | 75.52 |
| 298th | Tina Chantrey | 75.53 |
| 378th | Alan White | 80.42 |
| 381st | Lucy May | 81.02 |
| 405th | Eric Beck | 82.34 |
| 408th | Paul Southon | 82.46 |
| 450th | Matthew Abbott | 85.20 |
| 582nd | Robert Spencer | 97.02 |
| 603rd | Angela Benfield | 99.23 |
| 604th | Brian Benfield | 99.23 |
| 648 finishers |