Archive for February 2008
Lliswerry LCL Cross Country - 24th Feb
20/02/2008 by Andy.
Meet at the Leisure Centre, ready to leave at 10am on Sunday, for the next round in the Leisure Centre League cross country series.
Alternatively, get yourself to Hartridge School Link to Map - just off the Coldra Roundabout (M4 J24).
The race starts at 11am.
For those of you unfamiliar with the leisure centre league, this is a competition that runs throughout the year between local running clubs. It’s a friendly environment with a range of standards represented. For the cross country, the men typically run around 5-6 miles, with the women doing slightly less. These are proper cross country, rather than multi-terrain or fell, races - so studs or spikes are recommended.
If you’ve never tried one, why not come along and give it a go? Be prepared to get a bit muddy, but it’s all good fun!
This is the penultimate one in the series - the final race will be in Chepstow (so no excuses!) on Sunday 9th March, also at 11am. Further details will be available nearer the time.
Tough Ten and Plymouth Hoe 10
17/02/2008 by Gerry.
Whilst 59 club members were running the Magor Marsh course there were some Harriers busy elsewhere:
Well done to all the runners who ran at the Weston tough ten on sunday. (Message from Mark Jeffries)
Mark jeffries 1:08.05 pos 109 pb
Royston Toon 1:19.16 pos 392
John Sterry 1:19.54 pos 410
Stephen Hill 1:22.49 pos 499
Lesley Sterry 1:40.22 pos 919
At the same time Becky Merriman got oh so close to the elusive target with 70:27 at Plymouth with Andrew following with 78:44.
Magor Marsh 10K practice
17/02/2008 by Andy.
A cold day dawned and 59 runners, plus a few hardy marshalls, gathered at Undy FC for the practice running of July’s new club race - Bill Bewg’s Magor Marsh 10K. The sun shone brightly (though not particularly warmly!) on the pancake flat course - oh, and the slightly undulating last kilometre too…
For a number of the club, this was the culmination of several weeks’ 10K specific training and all were focussed on their personal time targets (after the group warm-up and huddle).
Some fine racing and performances followed, with the field led home by Martin Pengilly, just breaking the 36 minute barrier. Next in was Mark Harvey, in a new PB time of 37:02 followed by Richard Matthews (37:21). First lady was Kath Matthews (8th overall) in 38:39 followed by Sam Mulligan (41:03) and Lou Summers (41:41). Amongst the many great efforts, special mention goes to Suzie Shepherd and Jenni Bell who both broke the magical 50 minute barrier for the first time, commiserations (but a hearty well done) to Jane Bayliss who just missed the target by four seconds. Perhaps in July??
Many thanks to Bill and his helpers for putting on a fine race - I for one am looking forward to the re-run on 20th July (which will be the East Wales Championship 10K for 2008).
Magor 10K results
Magor Marsh Champs scores (attempt 3) - correction to Ladies’ scores
Club 10K on Sunday (members only)
15/02/2008 by Andy.
Don’t forget there’s a trial run on the course that will provide our latest open race in July - Bill Bewg’s Magor Marsh 10K, starting from Undy Football Club.
Details are on the website, but the important ones are:
Meet at Chepstow Leisure Centre at 9:40am to share cars if possible (limited parking at the football club).
Register in the clubhouse from 10am.
The run will start at 10:30am - and it’s a Club Championship event so times will be taken and points awarded!
Showers, changing and bar available afterwards.
Come along and support this new venture by the club!
Bulletin (chat) board now LIVE on the website
10/02/2008 by Andy.
Go back to the website and click on “Discussions”.
There is now a link through to the new bulletin board! This is for Harriers only - you’ll need to register (and have your registration authorised by the site administrator) before you can view or add to the discussion.
You asked for it… now use it!!
Gwent League Brecon 9th Feb (Eric Bailey)
09/02/2008 by Gerry.
On a beautiful sunny day at Brecon, Chepstow again showed their potential with some excellent performances in the fourth Gwent League fixture of the season. Let’s start with our ladies team. Not only did they maintain their lead in Div Two they increased it to 338pts, over nearest rivals Bridgend. With only one race to go they are almost certain of promotion to the top division. Well done to everyone who turned out. Leading home the team was Sam Mulligan with a 9th place finish, closely followed by Becky Merriman in 14th. Team Captain Lou Summers in 32nd and Sain Edwards in 60th place completed the team who ended up 5th overall out of all the teams on the day.
Following on from the excellent women’s effort the Men’s team showed the same spirit, led home by Philip Matthews. Phil was 10th on lap one and slowly worked his way up the field and finished an amazing 5th place, the highest placing by any Chepstow Harrier ever in this League .Behind him we some storming runs by Martin Pengilly 31st Steve Harris 77th and Ivan Teed in 96th place. Behind them came the battle to be our 5th scorer with Bill Savage just easing out Mark Jefferies on the last lap with positions of 123 &135 respectively. Ably backing up the front runners was Syd Wheeler and ever improving returnee Dick Finch in positions 190 and 191. With an overall 10th placing on the day the Men’s team hold on to 3rd place in their division.
On the individual front both Phil and Sam are in fourth place and only a couple of points behind the first 3 runners in their categories, with an excellent chance of a Top Three Finish at the end of the season. Already in line for a Top Three Finish is Becky Merriman who currently holds 3rd spot in her age group.
With only one fixture to go it looks like a good season in the Gwent League for Chepstow but we still need as many as possible to turn out at Bristol in March.
Eric Bailey
The Darren Fell Race
09/02/2008 by Gerry.
There were three Chepstow runners who took part in this event, part of the Winter League Short Fell Race Series. Colin Prosser is getting better event by event. I felt leaden and then a “Superman” trip on the way down left me with a grazed knee and stomach! Sue was chasing me (I got past her due to her navigation error). She ran over my prostrate body with hardly a break in her stride. I chased her down the hill, finishing under a minute behind. Fast and furious - not for wimps! Sue won her age category (and a bottle of wine). She is trying to hold on to her Welsh Championship for another year.
Roadents Reverse 10 (Steven Harris)
03/02/2008 by Gerry.
Hi Gerry, Sam and Becky volunteered me to write this for them (I think it’s because they both set PB’s and club records!!!)
A few bleary eyed Harriers ran the Roadents reverse 10 the (early) morning after the awards night before. The main warm up involved yawning and trying to figure out why mile 1 had a number 9 on it. For those of you sensible people still in bed it was pretty cold and windy through the whole race but everyone ran pretty well in spite of this.
Steven Harriers led the Harriers home in 43rd (The first and last time that’ll ever happen I would think)
Samantha Mulligan came in 4th Lady and set a new club record of 69:23, she was tracked for most of the way by Becky Merriman who cut about 2 minutes off her PB to win the Vet lady 35 category and also set a new club record of 70:14.
Royston Toon, Andy George, Philip Scriven and Lorna Toon also ran well for the Harriers.
Cardiff Blackweir Time Trial
03/02/2008 by Gerry.
I have just been told about this 5km time trial that starts on Saturday 16th February and is repeated every week, a 9:00 start atthe big Tesco Extra in Cardiff. Simply register at www.parkrun.com then turn up and run. If you do go along then let us all know how it goes.
