Over the weekend, fellow south londoners raced further afield than Epping Forest.
In New York, Stuart Major and Robbie James were taking part in the International JP Morgan Corporate Challenge. Stuart came 12th and Robbie 16th. Full Results.
In Bristol, David Freeman and Nicky McGarry took part in the Bristol Half Marathon. Full Results.
Due to an unfortunate series of events, we lost our domain yesterday, having to temporarily browse the website using the http://www.slhtriclub.org.uk/~southlon/ address .
Today we took ownership of southlondonharriers.org. The site moved swiftly over to the domain, and the new task is to try to spread the word of our new web address http://www.southlondonharriers.org/. We'd like to request that people change their book marks, and anyone linking to the website from another, to make the appropriate changes to their web pages. Thanks.
Well done to all who ran and supported at the Orion vs. SLH Mob Match today. I believe it was the most we've turned out for the Orion Mob Match in a few years, with 41 runners turning out. The Results are not yet on the Orion site, but after a few hours work, we have them on ours. Just let's not talk about the results.
We now have the long awaited results for the Will Bolton Memorial Cross Country Relays in our results section, or the Full results are available on the Blackheath and Bromley Harriers AC website.
The women's fielded one team yesterday and after initial nerves that we were only going to be three, new joiner Nicky McGarry brought us home into 20th place (A teams). Nicky broke down on the A3 and had to be rescued by one of the (supposed to be) very nice men from the AA. She however had to use her powers of persuasion to get him to work fast as his belief was if you were not going to win it did not matter much!!!
Christina ran well having the hard task on a classy fast first leg, Ruth had a good leg after completing a seasons best time in a 25mile bike TT the day before. I did good too, a bit slower than my best ever in 2003 but I was happy indeed.
Thanks to John for sorting us out, Sunday being his second time to Rushmoor in two days .... that's dedication!
Full results are on the site.
SLH were represented in all the Mens categories at the south of england relays with solid runs in the Senior event, the V40, V50 and V60.
Our V60 team excelled for the club taking the Silver medals. A really excellent acheivement.
Full report and results are on the site.
Photos from the Weekend's Road Relays courtesy of Brian Gardner can now be view online here.
Natalie Harvey, our former Australian International runner achieved qualifying times for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in the 5000m and 10000m. She ran the 5000m in Heusden, Belgium in a time of 15:25 on the 23rd of July and ran the 10000m in Stanford University, USA in a time of 32:49 on the 1st of May. Further to this she was selected last week to run for England in the 5000m, the Games will be taking place in Melbourne, Australia in March 2006.
SLH had a huge turnout of runners at the Relay Championships to share our amazing day of success.
A summary of our success is below:
Everyone ran exceptionally and it is difficult to highlight individual efforts but as Surrey Champions we can celebrate our Senior Men's team for their success. The Senior team results are below. The full results will be available from here:
Leg 1: Pat Canavan: 15:25;
Leg 2: David Baker: 16: 20;
Leg 3: Jason Simpson: 15:22;
Leg 4: Robbie James: 15:30;
Leg 5: Tim Chidgey: 17:06;
Leg 6: Stuart Major: 15: 11
A lot of effort goes into organising the event and our thanks go out to everyone for their efforts without which SLH would not have been able to be represented today.
The Auckland Castle and AAA 10k took place on the 21st of August, in an absolutely talented line up of international athletes on Sunday, Natalie Harvey came 2nd lady overall in a fantastic time of 33:15. Natalie was the AAA 10k champion as the overall winner was Kenyan Olga Kimayio who clocked a time of 32:45. As well as running for SLH, Natalie helped Surrey to secure 2nd place in the Inter-County team competition. Click here for full results.
SLH are now promoting the 5 and 10 Mile Cross Country races, the 'Gibb' 5 Mile and the 'Pirie' 10 Mile respectively. The Applications are now available online, click the name of the race to download an Application.
SLH finished third team in the last of the Surrey Road Race series for 2005. Belgrave and Herne Hill Harriers finished first and second on the day. Scoring SLH finishers were Francis Staunton, David Baker and Chris Phelan.
SLH finished second overall in the Road Race series with Belgrave holding the title.
SLH had individual successes in the Surrey County Athletic Association category prizes with Chris Phelan taking the overall M40 plate and Ian Kitching winning the overall M50 plate. Chris was also winner of the Southern Counties Veterans AC championship.
Well done to Eleanor Baker who ran internationally in an U23 3000m on Saturday the 6th. She won the race in 9:16 beating Charlotte Dale by 15 secs. Last 1000m in just under 3 mins which is good. France won the match, which was held in Sport City, Manchester.
Men's Southern League track team hopeful of staying up The men finished in 3rd place at Plaistow in their final match of Division 3 South Southern league, which should be enough to avoid relegation and secure another year in the division. They finish the season second from bottom, level on points with East Grinstead, but with a far superior cumulative match points total. We await final confirmation from the league on whether it will be 1 down rather than the normal 2 since the league started the season with only 15 teams instead of the required 16. Full results.
SLH hosted an Aquathlon Mob Match vs our local running rivals Croydon Striders. This inaugural event, the brain child of the ever enthusiastic Nigel Costiff, attracted 31 competitors with 15 from the Striders. The overall winner was P Finch from Croydon Striders in a time of 19m32s, but superior packing from SLH meant we run (and swum) out winners. First female was our Nice Ironman heroine, Ruth Hutton in a time of 20m39s. Full report and results please check out the SLH Tri Club site
Well done to both the Men's and Ladies teams for completing the relays at Milton Keynes this afternoon, and especially to John Quaintance and Nigel Costiff for stepping in last minute. The full results should be available on the Milton Keynes Athletic Club site mcs.open.ac.uk/mkac The Men were 36th out of 51 and the ladies 12th of 28.
Special mention to Paul Mitchell who joined myself and others for the Croydon 10K this morning and then completed a long leg in the relay this afternoon. Results of the Croydon 10K are to be found at www.croydon10k.com but as of 9.30 tonight still not posted.
Kevin Tilley and Dave Ogden ran in the Fleet Half Marathon. Stuart Major, Chris Phenlan and Paul Mitchell were also running at Worthing in the Worthing 20. Meanwhile Natalie Harvey was running for Great Britain in the World Cross Series.
Ian Kitching ran in the Reading Half Marathon. Also runing this weekend were Natalie Harvey, Eleanor Baker, Robbie James and Stuart Major in the Inter counties.