The 10,080 Minutes Ahead
19/10/2009 by Dick.
The ever-popular* Elm Road on Tuesday. Choose 4, 5 or 6 sets of two. Those who find it takes ages to get themselves up to Tutshill should leave the LC at 6.55.
It’s the ever-popular* Mathern run on Thursday.
Plenty of races this weekend including that OMM thing we’re getting fed up of hearing about on the Bulletin Board. Lavish prize for the best version of what those initials mean.
Downhill addicts can enter on the day the ever-popular* Torfaen Half on Sunday morning. Get yourself an easy PB. It’s certainly mine.
*Never trust a coach who tries to encourage runners to do sessions or races by using this tired old phrase (Your ever-popular Editor’s advice)
Cardiff Half Marathon 18th October 2009
19/10/2009 by Lou.
23 Chepstow Harriers ran the Cardiff Half Marathon yesterday with some fantastic results. Ivan was first Harrier – 40th SM (1:18), Kath Matthews first female harrier 4th SF (1:21).
Congratulations to all particularly the runners from the improvers group.
Some highlights from
Matt:·
Seeing the Harriers support crew at 9 and 12 miles - thanks all, the cheering helped massively·
Finally staggering over the finishing line - that is a loooong finishing straight.·
Seeing the impressive number of harriers running strongly in both directions along the barrage - it made we realise how good our club is.·
Just looked at the Power of 10 rankings, we now have two women (Kath and Marianne) ranked in the top 15 in Wales over the half marathon. Brilliant running ladies!
Paul L:
From the sidelines… it looked like a great race. Fantastic to see a steady stream of Chepstow Harriers throughout the race. And looked like a good few PBs (including Caroline by 8 minutes!!). Well done all.
Marianne:
It was a great event …. impressive running from everyone.·
A great performance from Caroline who came in well under 2 hours for the first time - a brilliant effort and a well-earned reward for lots of training. ·
An excellent race from Matt Creed, who came storming past me at about 9 miles and was pushing hard all of the way to the finish.·
My students handing me water at miles 3 and 7 (not embarrassing at all)·
The 30 minutes stood in the baggage queue, where the only entertainment was trying out all of the powerade flavours we were ‘testing’ for the powerade team!·
The brilliant support from ‘Team Chepstow’ - Sian, bump, Rich, Joseph, the Lidgetts, the Wrights. You were definitely the loudest bunch of cheerleaders out on the course and I could hear Gill Wright all of the way down the finish straight, just as my legs were starting to buckle.·
Lots of happy harriers waiting at the finish - making our day was Matt’s ‘I’m just going to enjoy it’ brilliant PB by over 6 minutes.·
The pride at being a Chepstow Harrier club member - it was a great feeling to show off our club for the day.
Also - the running was quite fun too!All raced out!
Ivan:
Brief report of my race:
Myself and chief cheerleaders (sian+bump) got up nice and early ( ) to have breakfast and rendez-vous with Matt & Marianne to get a lift there - thanks guys. What started as a dark cold morning, when reaching cardiff was still cold - didn’t remove my wooly hat until the last moment!! 20mins before the start it was time to don the vest and head for the start pens. A bit of dodging through and Matt and I eventually located ourselves near the front to be met by Kath looking ready! A quick introduction by organiser and a goodluck from Jamie Baulch and it was a couple of minutes to the start - everyone shuffled forward towards the line - GO!
The immediate start was a bit of a blur - i missed seeing the first 2 mile marks, but heard some friendly cheering - thanks Sian, first marker i spotted was mile 3 - not sure how accurate it was - but i was about 1minute up on my target time at the point - slightly worrying (in fact this was probably also close to my 5k PB!!!). After winding around the docks a bit, the course leaves all the fantastic supporters behind and heads out onto the barrage - I started to have a rougher patch around here, and people seemed to start streaming past me. 5 miles, 6 miles time for a gel, water (struggled to drink that today) was now steadily loosing that minute that i had gained but the gel started to kick in and i felt a bit better. 8 miles - not far now. Whoop whoop the sound of friendly harrier voices - Paul.L, Sian & Rich M - closely followed by Rob Jones. 9 miles - water station soon - time for last gel. 10 miles - great only 3 miles (don’t forget that 0.1) to go - feeling better - time to push on try and gain some extra time back, clawed back a few places and could see a fairwater chap ahead, finally I’ve started to gain on him again.
Out of the bottom of the park - can’t be far now - 12mile marker - how good does that look - Sian & Rich again - thanks guys. Out onto the main road, now all i have to to is push this last mile - time seems ok. This year they had a short dogleg section - slightly demoralising seeing the runners ahead heading back down the dog leg and turning off towards the finish - just try and block it out. Focus. Starting to get hard again now - running alongside the fairwater chap - we’ve been taking it in turns to lead for the last couple of miles - it’s going to be all down to the finish…. aargh!
Back up the dog-leg - there’s Matt coming the otherway - come on!
Turn off the dog-leg - i can see tha last corner, move past fairwater, turn corner into the last street - OMG how far away does that finish look, AAARGH fairwater has moved back past me and is pushing hard - i can’t do it anymore…. manage to hang on to him - 150m to go - COME ON - crowds are brilliant - i can hear the tannoy - push, push - manage to get back past fairwater - come on it’s all about the time now - pushpushpush - i gan hear Gill, Darcy & Paige calling from somewhere - thanks guys wihout that i would probably have just stopped there 20m from the finish - where is the clock i can see it - come on last push…… Whooop whoop.
I’ve done it - PB great - wander through the finish, medal goody bag, water powerade - marvellous. I can hear sian again - where is that voice aha! Shortly after - Matt arrives - followed by Kath, and then a whole stream of harriers. Well done all
IVAN TEED MSEN 01:18:55
MATT LEATHARD MSEN 01:20:42
KATHERINE MATTHEWS FSEN 01:21:25 5th Female!
GARY DAVIES M50-54 01:25:09
MATT CREED MSEN 01:25:14
MARIANNE GITTOES FSEN 01:26:02
JOHN WRIGHT M40-44 01:28:01
PETER HUTTON M50-54 01:28:40
BEN BROOKSHAW M40-44 01:32:51
MICHAEL GORSHKOV M40-44 01:49:01
IAN ROGERS MSEN 01:51:06
CAROLINE LIDGETT F40-44 01:54:51
CHRISTOPHER O’DRISCOLL MSEN 01:54:26
GLENDA JACKSON F55+ 01:53:19
CHRISTOPHER FOSTER MSEN 01:57:22
CRAIG DUN MSEN 02:08:43
KATHRYN THOMAS F40-44 02:11:41
TANYA FOREHEAD F35-39 02:11:41
SARAH JENKINS FSEN 02:06:31
CLAIRE MUNDY FSEN 02:11:06
ANNE MASTERS F55+ 02:15:17
REBEKAH LANE FSEN 02:23:10
JACQUELINE WEBB F45-49 02:24:19
