Road Results 2012

Sun 19 Feb 2012

Brighton Half

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Kate reports: " I ran today in Brighton Half marathon, great day to run and good running weather, I did this one in 3.09.02, which I was pleased with, considering I had just had an op at Gatwick park on Friday evening, I managed to keep a steady pace and managed to get round quite comfortably. Looking forward to Tunbridge Wells half next Sunday, and Eastbourne half marathon on 4th March. Also looking forward to Banstead Parkrun and sharing this one with Andy for the 200th landmark and again on Saturday 3rd March."

The organisers confirm that the distance was actually 13.4 miles and have published an adjusted chip time for all:
Rachel 02:03:07
Richard: 02:03:06
Sandhya: 02:17:06
Doug: 02:19:29
Kate: 03:09:02

Sat 18 Feb 2012

Fetch Mile - Battersea

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Alison reports: "We got soaked! We ate cayke (chocolate brownies made by Aimee!)."

Sun 12 Feb 2012

Valentine's 10k

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24 runners from Collingwood - more than any other club in the race. Well done to Jim and Robert on PBs, Gill, Rupert and Annette on CBs, and Nicola on her debut 10k.

Sat 11 Feb 2012

Enigma Marathon - Day 3

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Mel reports: "Yesterday I ran in the third day of the engima 4 in 4 marathons. It was very very cold and the course was still icy in parts. I have run this course before at other Enigma events. It is 7.5 laps of Caldecotte lake in Milton Keynes organised by my good friend Dave Bayley.

I planned to run slowly as I was entered into the Punchbowl the next day. I found that I was not able to run quickly anyway, the dreaded stomach/groin pain was back. I plodded around the lake lap after lap, the lake looked nice all frozen over and it was amusing watching the ducks skating on the ice. The atmosphere was good as I was overtaking runners who were running in the 4 marathons and it was great to be able to encourage them and I wondered how they could run this course 4 days in a row (rather them than me) although it is a nice course one day of 7.5 laps is enough. I finished in a time of 4 hours 28 min not happy with that but it was the best I could do. I decided that evening that I would not risk running the punchbowl and making things worse."

Sun 29 Jan 2012

Marrakech Marathon

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Annette was 4th Brit lady, and very well done on a PB by 7:01.

Sun 29 Jan 2012

Marrakech Half

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Sun 22 Jan 2012

Gloucester Marathon

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Mel reports: "I really really struggled round it in 4 hours 34. I was suffering these pains in my stomach just as I did in the 100 club handicap marathon. I decided to rest all week, see how they were and attempt the Battle of Northampton on Sat 28th."

Sun 22 Jan 2012

Gran Canaria Marathon

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Rob was 1st M75 in his 413th marathon.

Sun 8 Jan 2012

100 Club AGM Marathon

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Mon 2 Jan 2012

Tadworth 10

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A great turnout for two hilly laps of mixed trails and roads! 18 Collingwood members ran the challenging Tadworth 10. A course best for Ruth and Richard (14s), and a PB for Andy, beating his previous best at the 2009 Great South by 9:29, and Elaine beating her Epsom 10 time from this year by 2:17.

Sun 1 Jan 2012

Liverbird Double - Marathon 2

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Mel reports: "On the 31st and 1st of Jan I ran the Liverbird double marathon. I went into this quite anxious as have been suffering with a groin strain - of course the doc said to rest but I just cant do that! The course started alongside the Mersey on the footpath, however when we arrived the gate to the footpath was padlocked " no problem said one guy" and returned with a hacksaw and continued to saw off the padlocks.

Kaja, the lady who organised it carried out a very funny race brief (wasn't supposed to be funny) she said that we didn't have to run around the chinese restaurant when we reached it but to simply run through it. The race started at 12 noon, there were about 65 runners on the first day. The course was 3.3 mile along the footpath, turn at the end then back again, four times. It was not the most inspiring of courses. It was good to see fellow runners on the way back and shout encouragement to each other. I managed to do this for Dave Freeborn who was trying to get a sub four. I took it fairly steady and was in a bit of pain, but finished in 3 hours 58. I saw Dave at the end I knew he had finished under four I congratulated him, he replied I am now retiring, I hope he doesn't!

At the finish we were presented with a nice medal with the Liverbird on it. I was 4th Lady, not bad I thought, if only I was 100%. I must be honest I was not looking forward to the next day, facing the 4 times up and down that footpath, seeing the same sites, running through the chinese restaurant, well not quite, just beside it.

The next day the groin strain didn't seem so bad, perhaps the champagne to celebrate hogmany had numbed it. So off I went again at 12 noon, legs felt a bit stiff, I ran with a very nice chap from Gloucester for the first 6 miles, then decided he was going too fast for me and I eased off. I carried on up and down the footpath, shouting encouragement to the others and them to me. My aim today was not to let my husband catch me up, he hadn't yesterday but just finished as I started my last out and back, he had beaten the course record and I was so proud of him. Unfortunately he did catch me on the second day, he caught me when I was on my third time back, he was on his fourth, never mind I thought and carried on running, I did struggle a bit, but finished in 4 hours 20. I was 7th lady today but 4th, 5th and 6th had not run yesterday. Overall over the 2 days I was 3rd lady, so pretty happy with that. For finishing day 2 we got a nice plaque with a Santa on it. Not sure I would do it again, the course is quite tedious, although I would like to do it being injury free to see just how well I could do."