Hornton 6 Results
Well done to all those who braved the water jump at Hornton (I’ve seen the pictures).
At the moment, these results are ‘joker-free’, so let me know if you played yours.
Update 21/7: Apparently Simon played his joker. 31/7: So did Larry.
Denise won the wine, and her report follows the results.
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Some of us were gallivanting in London, slopping about in mud watching the monumentous occasion when Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney were silenced by some London Council. Others headed north to Hornton to run 6 miles.
It wasn’t raining when we left, but it certainly did while we were heading up there! The further we travelled the more torrential it got, by the time we reached the single track lanes heading towards the village, there were huge puddles spanning the road, coming half way up the wheels and you could feel the car aqua plane despite five of us in the car.
We arrived, cake is being served, to eat before , after or both? All strategies were covered in some way by different members of the club.
We lined up for the start just before 7pm, the rain had now abated but our official referee, Mr Combover, announced that if it should start again, the race would be abandoned as there was already surplus water on the course that we would have to run through.
So off we toddled, if you haven’t run this race before, it goes up, then down, then up quite a lot, down a bit, up again, then down a lot. As you reach the top of one hill, you can see the leaders going up the next. There was one instance of standing water in the road, about 15m long, we divided into those who did and those who didn’t …..run through. I was going to but the edges looked easier, so I wimped out.
The finish is at the bottom of a very steep hill, apparently only ¼ mile but it felt much longer. There were lots of hands waving in the air and screaming as people hurtled towards the end, out of control, hoping they wouldn’t crash over the wall that met them as they crossed the line.
So the results, Mark Schofield was first Eynsham home; I was second lady overall, How did that happen? No one else was there! Kate got the Kate award. A special mention to the Johnson family, who had four in attendance and acquitted themselves superbly. I think maybe the first race for Sasha.
The evening finished in the local pub with two glasses of red to rehydrate. The journey home was mainly amusing comments fuelled by alcohol, about not much. Only Jacky our driver was talking sense by then and she didn’t have the ability to pull the plug on the rest of us!
