Results

Well done to Denise for a PB, another club record and an FB (see below), to Nigel and Steve for their PBs, to Ben for completing a marathon with practically no training, and to me for, er, finishing in one piece.

Thanks again to our wonderful roving pack of supporters, and to Lesley for setting up the ERR feeding station outside her house.

Unfortunately Robert suffered a fall on the lap of the track at the start, and eventually had to pull out at about 16 miles.

A decent long league turnout for what proved to be a very pleasant wander around the lanes of North Hampshire.

Well done to Robert, Denise and Kate for winning their categories.

Nice to see Lesley returning to action, even wearing her WAG shades, and even if it was because she thought it was in Tackley.

Another decidedly limited ERR turnout for a Blenheim race (must make a note for next year's fixtures), which at least meant an excellent time for John to play his joker.

Rachel and Claire weren't in club colours, so a belated welcome back to the jobsworth hat.

John won the wine (again), which Jane may or may not have drunk. Anyway, his report follows the results.

Another pretty small ERR turnout at Woodstock meant that it was certainly a joker day if you hadn't already played it.

Well done to Jacky and Kate for winning their categories. As is traditional at Woodstock, I won the wine, so you can blame me for the report.

I normally have to remind people that along with winning the wine comes the additional ‘prize’ of writing the race report, so it’s a bit embarrassing to remember that my name was drawn out after the Woodstock 12. This is a repeat of events 2 years ago, although bearing in mind the number of ERR runners who ran the event, it’s not such a coincidence.

On the day, event organiser Mike Shipway asked me beforehand if Eynsham were ‘out in force’. Errr… not exactly; there were 7 of us present, including cross country specialist Keith Baker, and random race-chooser Nik Roberts. Steve Butler was using the event for Abingdon Marathon training, as were Denise and I, hence his running back after the race, and our running to Blenheim beforehand.  This meant that most of us weren’t exactly running it as a race. Among those that were, Kate won another Kate award, and Jacky won the ladies’ V45 prize, with exactly the same time as the second-placed finisher. Nice to see that all that practising of the dip finish paid off.

Or 'what we did on our holidays', at least from a running point of view.

Firstly, Nick Sheard completed the 100km '7 Valleys' (and quite a few hills) Challenge in 16 hours 47 minutes and 18 seconds. If he describes an event as 'brutal' then it must be pretty tough.

While he was doing that, some of us were running the 10k, and the results are below. To be honest, it was a bit downhill, but the PBs should stand, so why not the club record?

Then, on Sunday, some of took part in the marathon relay, which consisted of 3 legs of 10k, and 1 of 12k to finish it off. 18 teams took part, and we understand that the first 2 to finish were Polish national squads (well, it makes the 3rd place look impressive).

Remember this? The various issues with the results have been sorted out, so here they are from an ERR perspective. Any remaining problems, please let me know.

Well done to Kate for winning her series and to Jacky for being 2nd LV45 for the series.

A pretty small turn-out all round for the first Motavation to be held on a Sunday morning.

There were 23 ERR runners amongst the 182 finishers overall.

Well done to Kate for winning what Michael Collins very nearly called the Kate Award.

Well done to all those who enjoyed the rolling countryside round Hook Norton.

Nik wasn't in club colours, so no club championship points (I'm sure he'll cope). 

Any missed jokers, please let me know.

PS John won the wine, and has finally produced his report, which follows the results.

A wet night at Chipping Norton, which may explain the slightly lower ERR turnout of 29 runners out of 257 overall.

The results don't mention Esther, but I'm pretty sure that she ran, so will update when I know her time.

Update (11/8): The Court of Arbitration for Sport (well, Kidlington Running Club) have agreed that Esther did run, so her time is added.

41 ERR folk took part out of 252 overall, which seems a pretty healthy percentage.

Let me know if anyone played their joker, or if I've put anyone into the wrong league.

I don't remember seeing Laurence in club colours (although I'm happy to be told otherwise), hence no points and the jobsworth hat for me.