News Archives 2006
| At next month's Stubbington Green 10k, LB Healthcare will once again be on hand to provide you with a pre and post race massage service. More.... |  |
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| SO, would you like to know a little more about the chairman? More.... |  |
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| HART Road Runners have been added to the Hampshire Road Race League, which has meant league tables have been adjusted ahead of the Stubbington 10km. More.... |  |
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| SO when some of you are all getting a little bit light-headed and furry mouthed because you've had one too many Babyshams on New Year's Eve, then spare a wee thought for me, writes Dave King. More.... |  |
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| THE Stubbington 10k road race is just weeks away, and race director, Gary Littlecott, has been very busy putting together the final pieces for the January 14th race to ensure it runs as smoothly as possible. More.... |  |
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| WHAT better way to start 2007 than a run round Bere Forest on New Year's Day morning at 11am? More.... |  |
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| AT last, the weeks of training on dark nights around the streets of Whiteley have paid off for the Kimber-nator. More.... |  |
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| THEY are the Magnificent Five. The quintet of Stubbies who have been handed club places for next April's Flora London Marathon. More.... |  |
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| INTERESTED in chewing the fat and gassing with other runners on the internet? More.... |  |
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| JOSEPH had his technicolour dreamcoat, Stubbington's Tony Allen is notorious for his technicolour shorts. More.... |  |
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| GUESS who's turning 40 in January?! More.... |  |
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| NEWS from Japan, where Tor Duffin, who apparently has a black belt in origami and sushi, is currently working. More.... |  |
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| ANDY Vernon warmed up for next month's Stubbington 10km with a storming run at the European Under-23 cross country championships in Italy. More.... |  |
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| IF you find yourself landed with any unwanted Christmas gifts, then Stubby member Chris Ryder would love to hear from you. More.... |  |
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| FEELING REJECTED and all London Marathon-ed out? More.... | |
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| JON Leigh is getting back to his best. More.... |  |
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| GILBERT Yeates decided to get out of the Christmas shopping, with a festive run-out in Guildford. More.... |  |
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| ZIPPY GRICE made it a hat-trick of wins at a mud-strewn Duck Pond Waddle. More.... |  |
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| STUBBIES took a short trip up the A34 to Newbury at the weekend for the latest round of the Hampshire Cross Country League where they picked the best of the weekend to race. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON'S Ladies are pushing for promotion in the Hampshire Road Race League. More.... |  |
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| IT was like Gene Kelly in running shorts, as runners competing in the Victory 5 were singing and a dancin' in the rain (well, it was wet and not exactly raining!) More.... |  |
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| QUITE frankly, March is an expensive month if you want to race. More.... |  |
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| CHRIS FURNELL has admitted what many of us have done, but failed to admit - he once missed the start of his own cross country race because he was ogling the ladies! More.... |  |
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| FOR MATHS undergraduate, Chris Munro, it was a matter of just six seconds. More.... |  |
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| HE is Juan Guillermo Luchador, aka John William Tussler. More.... |  |
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| WHAT better way to start 2007 than a run round muddy Bere Forest on New Year's Day morning. More.... | |
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| THE NEW Year heralds a couple of months of cross country championships, and as it the way, there has been some rejigging of dates and venues. More.... |  |
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| A LIMITED number of runners competed at the Wessex Cross Country League fixture at Newbury. Did this have something to do with the Hayling 10 on the same day? Or, more likely, the rest of the runners were probably nursing hangovers after the very successful Awards Night. More.... |  |
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| WONDERING what excuses to make this Christmas when you've got fed up with the dull TV, Uncle Bert's borish jokes, the noisy kids and endless turkey sandwiches? More.... |  |
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| THE B&Q Eastleigh 10km road race will be breaking new ground next Spring with a morning start. More.... |  |
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| THE Victory 5 is the new kid on the block this weekend for the Hampshire Road Race League. More.... |  |
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| FROM Malaga to Manchester, it was destination Hayling Island on Sunday for the Stubbington survivors. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON'S Andy Vernon has earned a call-up for the European Cross Country Championships in Italy. More.... | |
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| MICHAEL Aimable became the first recipient of the Stubbington Green Runners' lifetime achievement award. More.... |  |
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| CAN you help at the Stubbington 10k? Race director Gary Littlecott still needs more helpers for a plethora of jobs for the big race on Sunday, January 14th. More.... |  |
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| HE may not have been feeling on top of the world, but terrific Tim Crumpton checked in with his fastest 10km time for eight years at the Brooks Brighton 10km. More.... |  |
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| MIKE BAINBRIDGE enjoyed a spot of Dorset hospitality when he took part in the Wimborne 10. More.... |  |
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| PAUL HAMMOND shed a new light on the phrase pee-bee on his way to a personal best at the Gosport Half Marathon. More.... |  |
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| IF you are looking for a race with a difference next year, then how about the Inca Trail race which takes place at Ilchester near Yeovil in Somerset in February? More.... |  |
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| THERE'S a big double clash of races this Sunday - the day after the club's awards evening. More.... | |
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| STUBBIES were out in force for the second race in the Hampshire Cross Country League with good conditions under foot at Goodwood in West Sussex, and only a slight breeze to contend with. More.... |  |
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| CHRIS FURNELL made his Stubbington Green debut with a fine top 30 finish at the Today's Runner event in Petersfield. More.... | |
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| ARE you female runner and would you be interested in helping a study which looks at the effects of sports massage on running? More.... |  |
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| STUDENT life, it's all study, study, study, isn't it?!! Well it appears that today's university undergraduates actually have time to free themselves from their studies to enjoy themselves. More.... | |
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| FORTY minutes is widely regarded as the Holy Grail of 10km running. For those able to run under the 40 minute mark for the 6.2 miles of gut-wrenching torture, it's elevation to top class running; no longer a middle-packer, but heading towards the top echelons. More.... |  |
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| TWELVE months ago, Chris Haskell turned up to the Oaklands Leisure Centre in Lordshill croaking like a good 'un. The ladies captain looked like Rudolph with a bad bout of flu, and should have been tucked up in bed, rather than preparing to run the Lordshill 10. More.... |  |
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| FOR many years, Stubbington Green Runners has supported the Rainbow Centre in Fareham. This is an education facility for children with cerebral palsy and their families. More.... |  |
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| THE Stubbington 10km road race is filling up fast! More.... | SGRAC 10K |
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| BARRY HARDS was back racing after several weeks out through injury. More.... |  |
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WHY is Barry Hards edgy about showing his face in Shanklin again? And what was the unhealthy secret behind is superb 1hr 31min showing at the Portsmouth Half, his first ever race.
These secrets and more are revealed when the Hards-man takes to the black chair bathed in the harsh spotlight for another Stubbington profile. |
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STUBBINGTON'S men and women got off to a good start in the team standings following the opening Today's Runner league race of the winter. More.... |
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OKAY, hands up, and no sniggering at the back of the class, but who knows what "pussers pumps" are?!!
Phil Southall recalls the time of his first ever race, a 10 miler at Penryn in Cornwall when he completed the distance in the aforementioned pumps.
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| YOU can't keep a good man down! Mark Le Gassick has become December's hunk in trunks in the latest edition of Runner's World. More.... |  |
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| ALASDAIR Ewing was among 390 runners who tackled the infamous Dorset Doddlers’ Stickler. More.... |  |
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PENNY FORSE has endured a tough 2006 running-wise with niggling injuries which won’t go away. On her day, Penny is one of the strongest female runners at the club, but has spent much of this year resigned to watching from the sidelines at races, while giving up a lot of her time coaching. More.... |
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| THE COUNTDOWN is on to the Stubbington 10km Road Race. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON'S Andy Vernon laid down an important marker at the first big cross country meet of the season. More.... | |
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HE took a 15-year break from running, and then took part in the Stubbington 10km road race in 2001 and has been hooked on the sport ever since.
Jon Leigh has enjoyed an interesting and varied running career, which included a superb London Marathon run this year when he ducked inside his target time of 3hrs 30mins by one second.
Here, Jon tells us what makes him tick when it comes to the sport of running. |
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RUNNING is all about expanding your horizons, tasting new experiences, meeting new people. So far in his brief running career, Simon Holford has got to know a chiropractor, a physiotherapist and a podiatrist thanks to the club. At least he didn't say a shrink!!
Simon lies on the Stubbington shrink's couch for this latest dose of self analysis in our Stubby profiles. |
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THE Garmin Forerunner is one of those watches which looks like the flightdeck of Concorde and which many runners swear by. It tells the time, judges how fast you are running, the distance, calories used, maps the route, and all but makes the tea.
Trevor Tollett is a fan of the Garmin Forerunner as he is a fan of running in the New Forest and the Eastleigh 10km.
Here's Trevor's Stubbington profile. Please feel free to add yours by following the format of the questions and emailing your answers to Dave King at peekay63@aol.com |
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NEIL JARVIS put his dodgy ankle to the test by taking part in the Peter Driver Memorial Fleet 10km race. More.... |
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THERE'S only one Gary Littlecott. The man is a legend, especially to those who run behind him and follow in his smelly wake! But what makes the Littlecott tick? He's the latest Stubby to go under the microscope for another eye-opening, jaw-dropping profile. More.... |
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| STUBBINGTON Green's John Tussler is an Englishman abroad. He has been living in southern Spain for the past couple of years, enjoying the sunshine, the people and the rural runs. John also makes frequent journeys back to the south coast to catch up with old friends. And he'll be visiting these shores in November, taking in the Gosport Half and Hayling 10 along the way. Here's is John's latest Postcard from Spain - including an astonishing tale of how John accidentally took part in a 10km race and discovered it was a Gay Pride event!! More.... |
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| IT may have been cold, wet and blowing a hooley, but that didn’t stop over 12,000 runners from taking to the streets of Southsea and Portsmouth on Sunday, for the BUPA Great South Run. More.... |  |
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| The second race of the Today’s Runner Winter Cross Country league will take place on Sunday 12th November at the Queen Elizabeth Country Park on the A3. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON’S Dave King got more than he bargained for during Sunday’s BUPA Great South Run when he almost lost his shorts! More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON'S Nina Perry is no stranger to the BUPA Great South Run. She is about to clinch a hat-trick of taking part in the popular ten-mile road race taking place on Sunday. More.... |  |
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| WHAT is the ultimate running embarrassment? How about getting beaten by your mum at the Great South Run after finishing in what you thought was a perfectly respectable time! More.... |  |
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| COME in number 289, your time is up! Who could the bearded creature be running in his first big race? It's Michael Aimable. More.... |  |
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| A £15 Boots voucher – Stubbington’s Lucy Simmons hit the prize money big time at the Weymouth 10. More.... |  |
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| WHAT is it with beer mat towels and runny noses while out running? Stubbington ladies captain Chris Haskell reveals all as she goes under the microscope with her profile. More.... |  |
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| MARK Le Gassick enjoyed a confidence-boosting run at the Denmead 10k, ahead of next weekend's BUPA Great South Run. More.... |  |
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| IF you're looking to hire and fire, then maybe Jane Thomson is the person you're looking for. Jane works in human resources - remember the time when it was called personnel?! - for a logistics company based in Hedge End. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON’S ladies lie second after two rounds of the Hampshire Road Race League. More.... |  |
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| ONE hasn't run a half marathon for 10 years, the other has never completed the fabled 13-miles before, but both typified the spirit of Stubbington at the Hardley A Half. More.... |  |
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| THERE'S a lot happening in running right now. Some of it darn well pretty boring, with too much politics and not enough organisation. More.... |  |
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| THEY'RE back! After a long absence, and despite much clamour, the Stubbington profiles are making a return. More.... |  |
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| DON'T KNOW what to do with your old running shoes? Well, instead of just throwing them out, or allowing them to fester at the bottom of a cupboard, why not recycle them. More.... |  |
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| REMEMBER Toby Lambert? He's the fleet-footed fella who left our Mark Le Gassick trailing in his wake last January to win the Stubbington 10km. Well as his day job, Toby runs Alton Sports, and he's been in touch to let us know that next week they are having a mega sale. More.... |  |
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| THE Today’s Runner series of cross country races gets under way in West Sussex on Sunday, October 29th, with Midhurst Milers playing host to the first of the events. More.... |  |
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| HAVE you got a ticket to Ryde?!! Well, you should do if you are planning ahead for your races in January. More.... | |
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| NEVER mind the hotcakes, tickets for the Stubbington Green awards evening are flying off the shelf. More.... | |
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| IT'S all change in the wonderful, wacky world of the Wessex Cross Country League. More.... |  Change of Venue!! |
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| IT was just what the doctor ordered for Stubbington's very own medic, John Rawlins, who won his first ever race in some style at the weekend. More.... | |
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| NICK KIMBER was sweet 16 - and never been kissed! - with his 16th place finish at the Rose Bowl 5. More.... |  |
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| IT'S 97 days and counting - well, it was at the time of writing this piece of poetic prose, writes Michelle Simpson. More.... |  |
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| CHRIS VERNON led Stubbington’s charge up Farley Mount on a very successful opening day of the Hampshire Cross Country League season. More.... | |
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| BE safe and be seen. As the dark evenings are drawing in, it's important that all Stubbington members wear a high visibility vest on training nights. More.... |  |
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| LAUREN Coates ran one of the toughest marathons going – and survived! More.... |  |
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| TIM Crumpton is a man whose running career highlights include accidentally running into a sunkissed cove in Croatia to discover four delightful German stewardesses playing volleyball naked. (more about this astonishing revelation in the Green Runner soon!). More.... | |
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| WHAT a difference a year makes! Last year, at the Bishops Waltham 5, runners and spectators enjoyed almost perfect conditions - a clear, blue sky, pleasant early autumn sunshine and a cool air temperature. This year, however, it was business as usual - grey, overcast, with brief sunny interludes and a number of heavy, squally showers thrown in for good measure. More.... |  |
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| HE was leading at one stage, but lack of fitness told towards the end of Mike Bainbridge’s first 10km race in four years. More.... | |
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| ZIPPY Grice found the Isle of Wight hills to his liking by finishing fifth overall at the Isle of Wight Fell Running Championship. More.... | |
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| SHE is a member of Stubbington, and he is the most inappropriately named dog in NATO, but together Jane Heywood and Schindler are causing a stir in Germany. More.... |  |
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| BECKY GOUGH is having a phenomenal year on road, cross country and track. The Stubbington teenager was part of a squad who won bronze at the Nike South of England Road Relays at Aldershot’s Rushmoor Arena. More.... |  |
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| LIGHTS, cameras, action....birthday boy Michael Aimable was the star of TV at the Buster Hill Run. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON Green found the going tough at the Southern Road Relays in Aldershot at the weekend. More.... |  |
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| SO have you worked out how many shopping days there are left until Christmas? No?!! Oh well, if you are looking for a good skive from the festive High Street mayhem this December, then why not pack in a few races? More.... |  |
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| A WEEK after guiding Stubbington Green Runners to the most famous of victories at the Test Way Relay, Zippy Grice and Alasdair Ewing were shining at the Stansted Slog. More.... |  |
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| THE hills were alive with the sound of.....Marcus! The New Forest Half Marathon is not the easiest of 13-milers, with a few gentle hills thrown in along the route which starts and finishes in New Milton. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON Green Runners’ Michael Aimable celebrates his 80th birthday this weekend. But while most retired folk would opt for a gentle glass of sherry, some birthday cake and a party surrounded by family, Fareham-based Michael will be running up one of the steepest hills in Hampshire. More.... |  |
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| WHO said Scotsmen can’t swim?!! Wee Gordon Reid didn’t need armbands or his rubber ring as he waded through parts of the River Test to steer Stubbington Green Runners to victory in the Test Way Relay. More.... |  |
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| DID you miss out on this weekend's New Forest Half Marathon, but still fancy a run-out? Due to injury with one club member, a number has become available for Sunday's race which starts in New Milton at 11am. More.... | |
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| RUNNING is often a very individual sport, but through our own efforts later this autumn we can make a big difference to others. Sunday, November 5th has been designed World Run Day to End Child Hunger, and there’s an event taking place in Hampshire. More.... |  |
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| TOM Mellor joined almost 900 runners by taking part in the Reading 020 10km road race. More.... |  |
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| JUST champion - that's Stubbington Green Runners' men's team who won the Test Way Relay in sensational fashion. More.... |  |
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| IT'S new, it's bold, it's bright, but it is still green! Yes, that's the September version of the Green Runner. More.... |  |
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| IT was the 13th running of the infamous Beast, and it was an unlucky 13 for the 480 runners took part in the challenging race which starts and finishes near Corfe Castle in Dorset. More.... |  |
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| FIFTY THOUSAND hits and still counting! That's the staggering number of people who have logged onto the Stubbington Green Runners' website in the past 12 months. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON'S Joe McDonald just failed to beat the two-hour mark when competing in the picturesque Vale of Pewsey Half Marathon. More.... |  |
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| HERE'S the choice...given the pick between a leisurely Sunday lie-in, perusing the papers and being treated to breakfast in bed, or sweating your socks off in the rain and mud on a twisty, turning and hilly cross country course, which option would you choose? More.... |  |
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THE track and field season is not quite over - not while the last embers of the blazing hot south coast summer remain. More.... |
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GET ready France, Caroline and Glen Street are taking to their bikes again next month, without a string of onions or a beret in sight. More.... |
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YOU can be Streets ahead in your running courtesy of Stubbington's very own Glen Street. More.... |
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What a lovely pair! More.... |
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| GREY, cloudy, overcast and drizzle are nouns that are usually met with weary groans of dissatisfaction when mentioned during the weather forecast. However, on Saturday, at the Overton 5, they were welcomed with unbridled cheers of joy. More.... |  |
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| JUST in from Costa Del Cheapo are pictures of the drastic new airport security measures which are being taken at Magastrewth Airport. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON Green will be entering four teams for next month's Test Way Relay. More.... |  |
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| If you were hoping to run at this year's BUPA Great South Run but left it too late to get your entry in, you still have a chance to run for charity. Gosport-based charity, the Harbour Cancer Support Centre, has a number of guaranteed entries to the race which takes place on Sunday 22nd October. To secure your place, you are asked to pay £50 deposit (refundable if you raise £100 or more in sponsorship). If you would like a place, you've got to act fast as the deadline for charity places is midnight on Friday 25 August 2006. If you are interested, you should contact; The Harbour Support Centre on 023 9250 1503 or you can email them director@harbourcancer.org.uk . |  |
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| JUST like the football season starting again, seemingly so quickly after the final matches of the season, so the Hampshire Road Race League is nearly upon us. More.... |  |
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| THE charity Perennial still has a few places left to run in the BUPA Great South Run. More.... |  |
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| ANOTHER successful season was brought to a close at Portsmouth with a comprehensive win for Stubbington in their final Southern League Track and Field Meet of the summer. More.... | |
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| MARK LE GASSICK'S brave bid to win the RR10 title faltered at the Hursley Park finale when he was out-muscled by a Winchester double whammy. More.... |  |
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| ANYONE for cricket? Well, if it's not the thwack of willow you like then how about a run round the Rose Bowl, the home of Hampshire County Cricket Club? More.... |  |
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| READERS of Richard Askwith's book "Feet in the Clouds" will be aware that the Borrowdale is considered one of the classics of the Lake District fell running calendar - 17 miles with 6500 feet of ascent, including England's highest mountain. This year's race conveniently coincided with James's summer holiday, and Graham James had no excuse not to do it. Here's Graham's tale of his adventures oop north! More.... |  |
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| HOW DO you fancy spending your Easter holidays in the Channel Islands? Then why not join fellow stubbies for a weekend in Guernsey for the Easter Running Festival. More.... |  |
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| MARCUS LEE ventured over the county border for a spot of Sussex hospitality in Midhurst. More.... |  |
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| FANCY running in the Great South Run this October? The Hampshire Autistic Society has three places still up for grabs for the race, which takes place in Portsmouth on Sunday, October 22nd. Runners need to raise a minimum of £100 sponsorship for the Whiteley-based charity. That includes the entry fee. For more details contact Sally Stemp on 01489-880881 ext 203. |
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| WHO said running is an individual sport? Coming up in September are two big relays, and Stubbington are planning to enter both. More.... | |
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| NOVEMBER'S race diary is short on quantity, but big on quality, with the likes of the Gosport Half and Hayling 10 filling the autumn time schedule. More.... | |
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| TWELVE months travelling around the British Isles running in races the length and breadth of the country. That's the challenge facing Stubbington's Dave King, who has been preparing for this year-long project. More.... |  |
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| THE Watts, Stubbington's West Country ambassadors, had runs in the sun at Yeovil in midweek. More.... |  |
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| SOME runners take August off as a time to recuperate, but the Whittakers have been chalking up the races big-time. More.... |  |
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| WINCHESTER's Farley Mount, not the flattest of places, heralds the start of the Hampshire Cross Country League season. More.... | |
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| SO, given the choice of a gentle Sunday morning lie-in, a chance to read the newspaper in the August sunshine or to run 21kms across the West Sussex countryside, what would you choose? More.... |  |
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| REMEMBER your mum reading the tale of The Three Bears to you when you were a kid? Well if Goldilocks and the gang freaked you out, then don't even think about the Grizzly next March! More.... |  |
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| HOW do you fancy running a marathon this autumn? Okay, not a full marathon. Well, not even a half marathon - more like 10km, as part of a marathon relay team. More.... |  |
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| CAN you believe it, the final RR10 of the summer is here? More.... | |
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| OH we do like to be beside the seaside! Well, Barry Hards had fun in the sun when he competed in the Swanage Half Marathon to finish eighth on the day. More.... |  |
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| MARK LE GASSICK holds a one point lead at the top of the men's table going into the final RR10 race of the season. More.... |  |
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| WITH a race limit of just 500 runners and despite its fearsome name, The Beast tends to have no shortage of takers. More.... | |
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| FORTY years young. That's Lesley Harding who marked her coming of age with a party at the Tusk Indian restaurant in Fareham. More.... |  |
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| THEY were under starters orders and off at the Thruxton Race Circuit for the ever-popular 10km race which is jointly organised by the Rotary Club of Andover and Andover Athletic Club. More.... |  |
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| THE serene surroundings of the New Forest. Ponies strolling along the side of the roads, acres upon acres of picturesque woods, heathland and small lakes....the perfect setting for a gentle and pleasant race. You've got to be kidding! More.... | |
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| TWENTY FOUR hours after enduring a tough ole RR10 course in the New Forest, RAF man Ben Whittaker was flying high in Winchester. More.... |  |
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| THE Egdon Easy 10km provided a summer-time blast around Weymouth for Stubbington's Neil and Tracie Jarvis. More.... |  |
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| DAVE WOOLCOTT set a new club record in the shot, as Stubbington's track and field team collected an encouraging third place in their latest Southern League Division 3 meet. More.... | |
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| PETER Moreton was the lone Stubbie who ventured to Dorset to take part in the Charmouth to Golden Gap Challenge near Bridport in Dorset. More.... |  |
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| RACE Eight of the RR10 takes place on the edge of the New Forest on Wednesday, July 19th, with a 7.30pm start. More.... | |
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| EVER tried The Stickler? This is one of those must-do races on the south coast which is part of the Saucony Dorset Three Peaks Challenge. More.... | |
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| MARK LE GASSICK stepped on the gas to win the New Forest 10 in some considerable style. More.... |  |
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| SO how do you beat the cramps? This was the question Stubbington runner Paul Hammond was asking after competing the Marathon du Mont St Michel in northern France. More.... |  |
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| LAUREN COATES and Paul Farquharson headed for Portsmouth's Mountbatten Centre to take part in the second Portsmouth Promenade 5km event. More.... |  |
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THE rain clouds held off but Stubbington's RR10ers served up a storming performance at Itchen Valley Country Park near Eastleigh on Wednesday evening. More.... |
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| SUMMER may be here, but there's no letting up in the Tuesday and Thursday night training sessions. More.... |  |
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| GLEN Street's Thursday speed sessions have been proving popular. These are staged at 6.30pm each week at alternate venues - Locks Heath Sports & Social Club off Warsash Road, and the Crofton Community Centre in Stubbington. More.... |  |
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| THE Harder they run, the Harder they succeed. That's the Hards family who have become something of an institution at the popular Seaford 10km race in East Sussex. More.... |  |
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| IT'S all aboard the 6.05 Special which, providing there are no leaves on the line, will be arriving this July. More.... |  |
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IT was a case of Stubbington's very own version of the double-barrelled shot gun - or the two Gunners - who picked up the silverware at the Summer Cross Country event which was held at the Queen Elizabeth Country Park near Petersfield, writes Ryan "Scoop" Gunner. More.... |
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THE only way is up - in a manner of speaking - for the Butser Hill Challenge which takes place on Sunday, September 24 th . This week, race organisers handed over a giant cheque for £18,000 to the Portsmouth Hospitals' NHS Trust Rocky Appeal, to launch the autumn race. More.... |
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TIM CRUMPTON has been struggling lately with a niggly injury, but he put that all behind him at the Lordshill 10km. More.... |
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The SGR & AC fleece, incorporating the new club logo, has arrived and is now available to order. More.... |
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| NICK KIMBER, the Alan Whicker of Stubbington Green Runners who seems to spend most of his time on holiday, headed for the wilds of West Sussex to compete in Chichester Runners' Midsummer 5. Suitably sun-tanned Nick finished 54th in the race which was based around Lavant, coming home in a time of 34min 52sec. The race was won by Chichester's James Baker in 29:11 with Christine Thomas from Poole Runners the first lady in 31:13. |  |
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| PAT and Dennis Woodward were honoured at the club's annual meeting when the Stubbington Green stalwarts picked up awards for their services to the club. More.... |  |
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| ITCHEN Valley Country Park beckons for the next round of the RR10. The seventh round takes place on Wednesday, July 5th with a 7.30pm start - and after marshalling at Manor Farm Country Park we can run this one. More.... | |
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The heat was definitely on at the final Hampshire Road Race League fixture of the season, the Brading 10k, on Sunday, with both the mens' and ladies' individual overall titles still up for grabs. More.... |
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| We had only 8 athletes at Basingstoke due to an unfortunate clash with the South Downs. More.... | |
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| HOW do you know you are a runner? No, we're not talking about one of those fancy dan lightweights who you see pounding the streets on January 1st, who invest in a new pair of running shoes at Christmas, and whose New Year's resolution to keep fit lasts no longer that the final festive repeat of Only Fools And Horses. More.... |  |
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| ALL aboard the Hayling Billy, which made its ninth annual appearance on a sun-kissed evening this week and which attracted a dazzling dozen Stubbington runners. More.... |  |
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| HE'S only here for the beer! Andy Simpson, Stubbington's lager than life character, was in spirited form at the Braishfield Beer Race. More.... |  |
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| IT WAS a family day out for the Watts who ventured from their west country home to Salisbury at the weekend to compete in the City of Salisbury 10-miler. More.... |  |
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| If you are heading over to the Isle of Wight on Sunday for the Brading 10k, then you might like to take advantage of one of the special offers that Wightlink are running once again this year. More.... |
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| STUBBINGTON'S Mark Le Gassick has it all the play for in the final race of the Hampshire Road Race League. More.... |  |
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| THE Hampshire Road Race League campaign still isn't over, but already next season's calendar has already been finalised. More.... | |
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| DAVE WOOLCOTT pulled off the shot of the day to set a new club record at the men's Southern League track and field meet. More.... | |
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| YOUR social committee needs you. Yes you! No, don't try to ignore this story and click your mouse to the next boring item about some boring race with some boring sweaty people, running la-di-dah times in la-di-dah places. This is serious stuff!! More.... |  |
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| SHE'S home for the summer! Rachel Openshaw is back on the south coast from her studies at the University of Surrey in Guildford, and she was one of a number of Stubbington runners who took part in the D-Day 10km Race. More.... |
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| PUT a prawn on the barbie and come running with Stubbington Green Runners this Friday. More.... |  |
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| IT was a bit of a cruise for Noel Charlton at the latest round of the RR10. The Stubbington runner, who serves as a navigator on board one of the major cruise liners, is back home on six weeks' leave, and was pleased to get a rare run out for the club. More.... | |
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| WITH the Tour De France just around the corner, Stubbington spies have discovered that the man widely known as the Milky Bar kid is in secret training for the world's toughest cycling race. More.... |  |
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| THE best things in life are three - and so it proved for Stubbington Green Runners at the South Down Relay. The club won not one, not two, but three awards from the stamina-sapping 100-mile relay, staged across some of the most picturesque parts of the south coast. More.... |  |
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| LAUREN Coates claimed fifth place in the Ladies Senior category at the Ropley 10km road race, with a time of 46min 54sec. She finished six minutes behind ladies winner Erica Fogg from Belgrave Harriers, who clocked a time of 40:07. Lauren, who has been enjoying an outstanding season, was the 17th fastest female and 129th overall. More.... | |
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STUBBINGTON Green will be going for an unprecedented fourth win on the trot at this weekend's South Downs Relay. More.... |
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THE latest round of the RR10 turned out to be a mudbath in May - but no-one cared! More.... |
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STUBBINGTON Green Runners have ruled out any chance of a merger with City of Portsmouth. More.... |
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| AS marathons go, the Isle of Wight Marathon is one of the hardest, but that didn't deter Stubbington's Debbie Masson from taking part. More.... |  |
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| ALASDAIR Ewing led the Stubbington charge at the Hope 10km road race, organised by Winchester & District Athletic Club. More.... |  |
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TRACK STARS of the future will be put through their paces at a series of evening open meets taking place at the Southampton Sports Centre this summer. More.... |
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| EVERY September, Colin Elderfield is prone to a bout of madness! You see Stubbington's fleet-footed run, well known in winter for the flashing red light he wears in the dark, sets himself the ambitious target of competing in two tough races in one weekend. More.... | |
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| IT was supposed to be a Run In The Park, but turned out instead to be a soggy Run In The Rain at the Royal Victoria Country Park in Netley. More.... |  |
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| BUENOS DIAS, welcome to Tarjeta Postal de Espana - or for those whose chat up line on the Costas is limited to "dos cervezas por favor", welcome to the first in a series of postcards from Spain, courtesy of John Tussler. More.... | |
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| EVER wanted to increase your speed? Is your r unning getting boring? Not sure about trying out the club's Tuesday and Thursday speed/hills sessions? Then maybe an answer is at hand. More.... | |
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| TIM Crumpton just missed out on ducking under the 40 minute mark when he took part in the Moors Valley 10km Race. More.... |  |
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| SUMMER time in Sweden? You've got to be kidding! Stubbington's Tor Duffin joined more than 26,000 runners who braved chilly conditions to complete in the Gothenburg Half Marathon last weekend. More.... |  |
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| YOU can't keep a good man down. A month ago, Mark Le Gassick wasn't the happiest bunny after fifth place at the Totton 10km. But in the latest round of the Hampshire Road Race League, the Alton 10, Mark was once again at his best by chalking up a superb victory to strengthen his grip at the top of the leaderboard with one race remaining. More.... |  |
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| IT was a Pisa cake for Stubbington's Nick Davies who took to the streets of the Italian city to compete in the Pisa Marathon. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON'S men's track and field team will be in action at Southampton Sports Centre this weekend for the second Southern League meet of the summer. More.... |  |
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| JAMILLE HOGG was one of Stubbington's star performers at the two-day Hampshire AA Track & Field Championships, staged at the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth. More.... |  |
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| MARK Le Gassick was forced to settle for second place to rival Andy Morgan-Lee at round three of the RR10 series. More.... | |
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| LAUREN Coates had a fine promenade around Hilsea with a sixth place finish in the Portsmouth Promenade 5km. More.... |  |
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THE sun was out, the sky was blue - didn't we have fun at Marwell Zoo?!! A large contingent of Stubbington Green Runners turned out for the Marwell 10k in beautiful Spring-time sunshine. More.... |
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| THREE club records marked a successful opening track meet of the season for Stubbington's men team. More.... |  |
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STUBBINGTON Green Runners merge with City of Portsmouth AC? It sounds pie in the sky, but it has been mooted by one of the most respected figures in south coast running. More.... |
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| IF you were thinking of entering for the BUPA Great South Run in Portsmouth this weekend, then you're too late. More.... | |
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| LET'S hear it for the girls! New combination, same result, as Stubbington's ladies ran superbly at the second round of the RR10 at Ashurst - a race won by the club's Mark Le Gassick. More.... | |
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| WHAT does Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Danger Mouse and the Joker, all have in common with one Stubbington runner? More.... |  |
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| OKAY, so the lighter evenings are here, Big Brother 7 is due to begin for an 13-week run on May 18th - just weeks before the launch of "Love Island" and "Celebrity X Factor" - so why stay at home? Why not get down to one of the Stubbington Tuesday or Thursday night training sessions? More.... |  |
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| IT'S only a mile, but it's a mile well worth running. That's the annual Macmillan Mile, an event which has become part and parcel of Stubbington Green folklore, raising money for the cancer charity. More.... |  |
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| IT'S annual meeting time. Oh nooooooooooooo, how boring! Well, with chairman Mike Clarke keeping law and order, Chris Hall on bodyguard duties, and the choice of meeting venue always a surprise, it's well worth popping your head round. At the very least, you might get a drink off the chairman!! More.... |  |
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| HAVE you ever dreamt of embarking on a cruise to a far-away island where the air is fresh and the sand is as white as the driven snow? Throw in a run that takes you through the beautiful countryside of said island, and you're into the realms of a perfect paradise! More.... | |
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| OKAY, so you've booked your summer holidays, so you intend to let your running take a bit of a back seat during August - but there are still a fair few interesting races around to plan ahead for. More.... | |
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| STUBBINGTON GREEN'S Ben Whittaker claimed 15th place at the Bluebell 10km Trail Run in West Sussex. More.... |  |
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| AFTER a promising start to Stubbington's first season in the RR10, the next race in the series takes place at Ashurst on Wednesday, May 3rd. More.... | |
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| WHO'S that with Jon Leigh on the morning of the London Marathon? Apparently the guy ambled up to Jon at breakfast on the Sunday, said he looked good in green and had heard that Andy Simpson was struggling with numbers for the cross country, so asked if could he join Stubbington Green Runners. More.... |  |
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THEY are Stubbington Green's 14 heroes. Fourteen men and women who came, took part and conquered the 2006 Flora London Marathon. More.... |
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| Good luck to all SGR&AC members running the Flora London Marathon on Sunday! |
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| IT is a four-mile gut-wrenching slog. There are no medals, no crowds, no water stations - just the satisfaction of taking part in the monthly Stubbington Green Runner four-mile time trial. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON Green Runners made an impressive start to their RR10 debut. More.... |  |
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| MYSTERY surrounds the holiday injury sustained by one Christopher "Pompey Till I Die" Hall while on a recent beach holiday. More.... |  |
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| MOST sensible folk choose to take Easter Monday as a time of rest. A day to get over the excesses of the weekend after over-indulging on Easter eggs and hot cross buns. But for some, such as Stubbington's Nick Crane, they like nothing better than tackling a 900-foot climb on the Isle of Wight! More.... |  |
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| THE picturesque island of Guernsey was the setting for the annual Healthspan/Visit Guernsey Easter Runs, with Stubbington once again sending over a contingent of sun-seekers and hardy runners for the four race series. More.... |  |
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| BEN WHITTAKER was Stubbington's lone runner on the seafront at Bournemouth over the Easter weekend. More.... |  |
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| Hello everybody and a Happy Easter to you all! More.... |  |
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| WELL done Stubbington's Becky Gough, an England gold medallist. More.... |  |
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IT'S halfway in Paul Hammond's schedule to the Marathon De La Baie - and his wife still thinks he is mad! More.... |
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| ALL roads lead to Oxford for the start of the track and field season. More.... | |
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IT is one of the most popular summertime midweek races, as entries are now being accepted for the Hayling Billy 5. More.... |
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| NICK Kimber is bidding to complete his fifth successive London Marathon in less than two weeks' time, and the Stubbington runner rounded off his race preparations at the Reading Half last Sunday. More.... |  |
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If, in the early part of the year, the cold, grey English weather is holding you back and de-motivating you, then a spell of warm weather training may be just what the doctor ordered. More.... |
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| STUBBINGTON's Nick Davies enjoyed springtime in Paris to compete in the 30th running of the Marathon de Paris. More.... |  |
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| HOT cross buns and jars of honey - what next as race mementoes? Stubbington's Tor Duffin found that he got more than the usual boring medal and t-shirt when taking part in the Benson 10km race in Oxfordshire. More.... |  |
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| BEN Whittaker was the fastest Stubbington runner competing in the Arundel Park 10km Road Race. Ben finished in 33rd place with a time of 43min 16sec, with team-mate Neil Jarvis clockng 47:17 to claim 70th spot. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON Green Runners' beginners course issproving a stunning success. More.... |  |
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| Boarhunt Garage - sponsors of the Stubbington 10km road race. More.... |  |
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| LAUREN COATES is heading towards the top 20 pop-pickers, in the latest Hampshire Road Race League standings. More.... |  |
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| DON'T think about your holidays yet, surely you've got time to plan a few summer races. Check out the latest updates on our extensive race diary, including events across the south for July. More.... | |
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| PAUL HAMMOND pulled off a great performance at the South Coast Half Marathon by finishing in eighth place. More.... |  |
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| HAVE you got the running bug and don't know what to do about it? A tendency to feel hot and sweaty, a regular urge to put on a pair of running shoes in all weathers, you've heard the word fartlek but aren't sure if it's swearing, and you've taken a sudden liking to lycra?!! Well, let Dr Stubby help you who can prescribe an eight-week course of treatment for you. More.... |  |
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| OH we do like to be beside the seaside - and so it proved for John Flynn who headed down the coast to Dorset for the Bournemouth Bay Half Marathon. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON'S Tor Duffin was involved in a tight finish at the White Horse Half Marathon in Oxfordshire. More.... |  |
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| INSPIRED by the Commonwealth Games? More.... |  |
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| FOR Jenny Hearnden, Sunday's Totton 10km road race was simply about taking part. She has not raced for four years, and this was one race where finishing was a victory in itself. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON Green's Richard Roche was the first green vested Stubby to finish at the Worthing 20. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON'S Andy Vernon found the pace hot at the World Student Cross Country Championships in Algeria, North Africa. More.... |  |
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STUBBINGTON coach, Penny Forse, was a proud lady after the English Schools, Cross Country Championships. More.... |
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HE is the king of the Wessex Cross Country League. All stand to pay tribute to Stubbington's Mark Le Gassick. More.... |
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| THE Royal Victoria Country Park in Netley hosts the first RR10 of the season on April 19th - and Stubbington will be taking part for the first time. More.... | |
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THE COUNTDOWN TO the London Marathon is less than three weeks away, and for many of the 26.2-milers, all roads pointed to Cranleigh in Surrey. More.... |
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| IF you fancy trying something athletic and a little different this summer, then Veronica and Peter Wright have an idea or two! They are hoping Stubbington members might be interested in two fun events this Spring/Summer. More.... |  |
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| New Stubbington Green Runners & AC Logo. More.... |  |
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THE clocks may have gone an hour forward, but that didn't catch out Stubbington Green's Mark Le Gassick with a timely win at the Two Saints 10km. More.... |
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| ARE you looking for a career in the running industry? Could you see yourself running a specialist running shop? If you are an enthusiastic runner, a good communicator and the above applies to you, then Peter Staunton would like to hear from you. More.... |
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| MARK Le Gassick has been knocked off top spot at the head of the Hampshire Road Race League standings. More.... |  |
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HAMPSHIRE Constabulary has had a change of heart over charging for policing running events in the county. More.... |
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| RACE entry forms are coming in thick and fast, and judging how quickly races are filling up lately, it pays to be organised and to get in quick. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON'S Jon Leigh ran close to a personal best half marathon time at the Fleet Half Marathon. More.... |
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IT was ladies day at the B&Q Eastleigh 10km road race. Stubbington turned out a veritable flock of females for the prestigious event around the streets of Eastleigh, which formed race seven in the Hampshire Road Race League. More.... |
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| SILVERSTONE, home to the British Grand Prix, played host to hundreds of runners for the annual adidas Silverstone Half Marathon. More.... |  |
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SO who is the Stubbington runner who once turned up to the traditional four-mile summer time trial, waited on his own in the rain, only for the penny to drop that this was the last Tuesday of the month - and not the first?! |
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| THE BUPA Great South Run will increase its entry to 18,000 runners this autumn. Organisers have pledged to build further on the reputation of what is now regarded as Europe's Premier 10 mile running event when it returns to the Naval City of Portsmouth on October 22nd. More.... |
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| Who won the 1978 World Cup in Argentina? More.... |  |
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| SO have you got the summer holidays planned? Will it be Butlins or Barbados this year - or maybe you will be a few weeks at home finishing off all those jobs you've been meaning to get round to?!! More.... | |
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| BECCI Gough rounded off the cross country season in some style with a superb performance at the Inter-County Cross Country Championships in Nottingham. More.... |  |
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THE Grizzly: Twentyish muddy, hilly, boggy, beachy miles of the multiest-terrain edge-of-sanity running experience you will find this side of the end of time. |
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| DESPITE threats of snow, Stubbington's Tor Duffin put on his skates to win the 15-mile Banbury Run. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON Green Runners' men hold third place by the narrowest of margins in Division One of the Hampshire Road Race League. More.... |
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| THE scene is the start of a fog-bound Meon Valley Plod, and a poor woman with a megaphone is trying to bellow out instructions to runners at the start of their 20-mile trek. But hold on, who are those two strange characters in the centre of the photo ignoring her plaintive words - the guy with the bald head and green Stubbington vest waving his arms and chatting to the guy in the hat, blue all-weather top and girly orange running shoes? More.... |  |
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THE RR10 season kicks off at the Royal Victoria Country Park in Netley next month. More.... |
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| FANCY A bit of scrumpy and a ride on a combine 'arvester this weekend?!! More.... |  |
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| YOU couldn't separate them at the finish, as Stubbington team-mates Jane Butler and Kathy McKain both crossed the line together at the Steyning Stinger where a free breakfast awaited them! More.... |  |
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| NEVER mind the distance, Mark Le Gassick's radar reaches from five miles to 20 miles as he proved in some style at the Mad March 20 on Sunday. More.... |  |
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| "RUNNERS, prepare to be tested by this tough Multi Terrain course. Experience mud, hills, water, mud, blood, sweet and tears, oh and more mud". And that's just the warning on the entry form! Two Stubbington runners put their bodies on the line at the weekend for a race whose name strikes fear in the weakest-willed runners: The Terminator! More.... |  |
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| JON LEIGH pulled off one of his best ever results in a Stubbington vest with 23rd place in the Today's Runner Cross Country at Staunton Park in Havant. More.... |  |
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HAVE you ever thought about changing your diet to improve your running. Last summer Stubbington's Andy Lee decided to dramatically alter his diet after his wife and eldest son were forced to change theirs because of a medical condition. More.... |
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| WHO needs to be leaping around Maypoles in the merry month of May when you have a veritable feast of races on offer in the region. More.... |  |
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| LAST YEAR it was snowing, this time around the mercury in the thermometer was hovering just around the freezing mark as there was sleet in the air for the Hampshire Chronicle Winchester 10km Road Race. More.... |  |
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I would like to complain about last months Green Runner, and in particular the blatant omission of my race time for the Stubbington 10k. More.... |
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After being held at Birmingham last year and in Leeds in 2004, the 2006 National Cross-Country Championships returned once again to the south and the legendary Parliament Hill course, on Hampstead Heath. More.... |
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| ONLY a late call of nature denied Chris Hall a top 10 place at the City of Salisbury 10km. More.... | |
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STUBBINGTON Green Runners & AC have been invited to join the RR10 league for 2006. More.... |
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YMCA Fairthorne Manor, Botley near Southampton is holding a 5km, 2.5km and 1 km cross country fun run on Sunday 30 April. More.... |
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| THE rain barely stopped, but Stubbington's Spring-time marathon runners came and conquered the first major 20-mile race of the year. More.... |  |
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| STUBBINGTON veteran Michael Aimable kept on going through the mud |