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ERR 6 mile/9 mile Results

Author: erradmin 18th November 2012

Hope everyone enjoyed the woods, sorry I couldn’t be there with you. Despite a couple of late withdrawals, I think this is the most runners we have had for this event.

The jokers are as reported to me, and any gaps in points are due to people not being in the ‘right’ league, or not being club members (yet).

Update (31/12): Nicola won the wine, and her report follows the results. 

Short Race Results:

Name Time Also SL Pts Jonathan Marks 41.42 Joker 2×50 Sarah Kerswell 41.42     Natalie Dawson 43.24     Kevin Kavanagh 44.29   49 Steve Butler 45.29   48 Martin Johnson 46.24   47 Ian Spencer 47.21     Adrian Pinnock 47.47   46 Jane Bishop 51.16   50 Susan Cross 51.34     Charmian Maskell 51.42     Marisa Keeley 52.09   49 Jan Kavanagh 53.06 Joker 2×48 Rachel Green 53.23   47 Jess Brown 53.24     Ali Berrett 54.05   46 Kate Rigby 54.22     Gail Morris 54.42   45 Nicola Coppuck 54.43     Esther Muir 55.09   44 Emma Muir 55.49     Joan Ryan 55.52   43 Elaine Butler 55.56   42 Sasha Cox 55.59 Joker 2×41 Sam Harrison 58.07     Liz Micklewright 59.15     Jennie McGibbon 59.29     Marie Chuilon DNF

Long Race Results:

Name Time CC Pts Robert Storey 49.43 50 Dafydd Warburton 52.55 49 Simon Walker 57.32 48 Kevin Dawson 57.53 47 Roger Bradley 57.53   Mark Schofield 59.33 46 Nick Sheard 60.04 45 Tony Whitlock 61.48 44 Katherine Bates 62.29 50 Mark Creasey 62.47 43 Arthur McEwan-James 63.33   Kate Williamson 64.21 49 John Bishop 65.22 42 Luke Dawson 65.22   Jacky Pinnock 67.08 48 Lesley Parry-Jones 67.46 47 Larry Poole 68.46 41 Paul Creasey 69.08 40 Ian Keeley 72.16 39

Breakfast run at Wytham woods

My first timed event since joining Eynsham Road Runners, my first Eynsham 10k just weeks away and I’ve been following Ian’s training plan for the 10k, for which we’d done some tempo training the day before. So it’s fair to say that I left my house slightly nervous of the scheduled ‘easy’ run that Ian had timed to fit with the breakfast run. A cold but beautiful morning calmed my nerves slightly and meeting the other runners changed those concerns to anticipation of what doing the Wytham Woods run would be like..

Setting off it was a very cautious start, running along the toll bridge path single file with traffic whizzing past. Follow this with that ‘infamous’ climb up into the woods and I was beginning to wonder what possessed me to leave my lovely warm house that morning. But then, with a right turn at the top of the hill I was transported into the most amazing scenery – dappled light, bright blue skies and autumn leaves…wow, what a place to run!!!

Seeing the marshal at the half way mark was a relief but also an incentive….knowing the hills were behind me and that I was really enjoying, rather than enduring, the run gave me the extra encouragement to relax and up the pace a little. The return journey just seemed to fly and soon the Talbot was in sight again, and I finished just shy of 55 minutes. I was left in awe of the joint 6 mile winners Jonathan Marks and Sarah Kerswell, finishing in 41.42 minutes and the 9 mile winner Robert Storey in 49.43 and of the marshals giving up their time to make sure this event happened.

I also found myself wanting to immediately plan for my next chance to do this run…..think it’s safe to say I now know about a ‘runners high’ and have definitely caught the bug….thanks everyone!