Results

Well done to Mark for another excellent performance, and what I believe is an ERR record for that course (at least it was the best we could find since 2001).

Welcome to Tess on her Motavation debut, and welcome back to Katherine and Lisa after their first Motavations in a little while.

Hopefully the series results will be out shortly.

There were 277 finishers overall.

Too many hills and a few too many metres at Englefield for it to be a PB course, but well done to our ladies category winners. A smallish ERR turnout made for a fair few jokers to be played, and I hope people notice that we were led home by 'Team Acre End'.

Tess wasn't in club kit, so no points and a return of the jobsworth hat, although by all accounts she was relieved just to turn up in time for the start, so the Club Championship was of less importance.

Also, Luke was there and was certainly seen finishing, but isn't in the results. 

Below are the results from the 2nd Combe Motavation. Well done to Mark and Robert for finishing so high up the field.

As I wasn't there I'll rely on our ace roving reporter Tara, who related the following tale.

A decent ERR turnout at Wycombe. Well done to Arthur and Gemma for some pretty big PBs.

Apparently Robert's time was a PW, but he still finished 9th, so not all bad.

An excellent turn-out of 31 ERR people at Waddesdon.

Particular congratulations to Kate and Jacky for their category prizes, distance specialist Chris for his PB, and Tom for beating his dad so comfortably.

Any jokers or PBs that I've missed, let me know.

37 ERR finishers among the 283 finishers, plus quite a few walking wounded watching (and cheering) from the sidelines.

Jonathan was the only one I know of to play a joker, but let me know if there were any others.

Some pretty impressive improvements on handicap times - normally this is won with a time 3 or 4 minutes better than handicap, so well done in particular to Elaine, Jennie and Sam.

Category winners are in italics, and juniors first.

Congratulatons to everyone who helped the club to record its best results ever in this event.

The ERR A team finished 5th, our highest position ever, and the overall time of 10 hours 28 minutes beat our previous best by 13 minutes.

The ERR Ladies team finished 27th overall, in a time of 12 hours 14 minutes, which was 35 minutes better than the previous best, and just over 2 minutes away from winning the ladies' prize.

The ERR B team finished 29th, and the time of 12 hours 22 minutes was 30 minutes better than 2012, and just 4 minutes off the best ever.

More importantly than any of this, we beat Alchester (this is just in response to various comments on their website).

The individual results are below:

A very healthy turnout of 41 ERR runners out of the 302 finishers overall.

Still no jokers played that I am aware of.

Well done to Denise and Arthur for recording PBs in conditions that weren't exactly suited to such things.

Congratulations also to Kate and Denise for their category prizes, even if the latter of those has still to materialise.

John won the report, and his epic tale follows the results.