Archive for 21/08/2009
Sorry and Thanks
21/08/2009 by Lou.
Thank you to everyone for being so patient about the disastrous hash run last night. I apologise to all those who got lost, cold and generally knackered. As it began to get dark and only a handful of runners had arrived at the Fountain, I began to get really worried and realised the course was far too long. I was very grateful for Syd and Gill’s help at the finish with finding and accounting for the runners. Thank you both.
The original route was to be from Wyndcliff Car Park to the Fountain. We measured this route on a Garmin on Wednesday and found to our surprise that it was only 4.5miles ( sadly anyone who ran this last night even with no wrong routes knows that it is more like 7 miles ). So not wanting to short change anyone we thought we should add on a bit. Thursday bought more problems; on checking the course we found the flour arrows had been washed away. Mark was then tasked to mark out the course from The Piercefield to Tintern in 45mins!
I felt so bad last night – I’m so sorry to anyone who ended up running in the dark on their own not knowing where they were. But thank you to everyone for being so good humoured about it, even after all that, people still said thank you!
Leisure Ctre League Season Results
21/08/2009 by Dick.
The LCL final Summer Season results have confirmed that our women’s team finished in first place overall. Congrats to Lou and all her team.
Our men’s team were second to Fairwater. Well done Mark and team.
Our women also triumphed in the combined cross-country and road season, while our men were second over the 10-race year.
Individual age category winners were Brenda Avery, Gill Stott and Niki Morgan. Silver winners were Lou Summers, Jan Morris and Dick Finch. Bronze went to Marianne Gittoes, Geoff Bayliss and Mark Harvey.
Out of the medals but first for Chepstow in their cats were Gill Ellis, Karen Elvers, Bill Savage (4th), Kevin McEntee (4th), Chris Rees and Paul Lidgett.
Well done to every Harrier who turned out to run for the Club. Every point scored and every other person beaten contributed to our success.
We expect the medals will be presented at an awards evening. Watch this space for details.
Hash Report
21/08/2009 by Dick.
As Club Coach I would like to apologise for scheduling last night’s hash run so late in the Summer, I took part myself and enjoyed it, but it was getting very dark by the time I got to the ponds, and can understand how other runners had difficulties.
I heard that a few cross words were directed at Lou and Mark, but from my point of view thay seemed to have done the best they could. There was so much flour and tape out there, they must have spent hours of their time laying the trails. And they had the nice ideas of age group prizes (home made cakes) and helping the slower runners with a short cut. I hope they’re not too discouraged by the criticism, and would ask any disgruntled hashers to direct their wrath at me for thinking it was a good idea to plan a hash for 20 August!
Thanks are also due to Gill and Syd for dashing about searching for missing runners and ferrying us to and fro.
We’re also learning lessons on how to make things better in the future. Syd has suggested giving everyone a sealed envelope with directions to the final destination inside, to be opened in an emergency.
