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WITNEY ROAD RUNNERS

July Results

Published on 14th July 2023 by web editor

Saturday July 29th

Railway Ultra 9 Mile

Lisa Kay 1.13.16 1st

Thursday July 27th

Combe II Mota-vation

Matthew Lock 22.04 80.93 1st
Tegs Jones 24.17 81.36 2nd VM40
Luke Edwards 25.03  71.26
Edward Hooper 25.14 70.76
Max Cunningham 25.16 72.13 3rd U19M
Jack Gavin 25.48 69.22
Isabel Stubbs 26.30 76.54 2nd SL
Graham Ferris 27.32 77.11
Will Downey 28.10 67.50
Murray Lawrence 27.59 63.88
Fraser Howard 28.11 71.14
Thomas Dobson 29.21 61.55
Calum Langan 29.41 60.20
Lisa Kay 30.05 70.16
David Cadywould 30.08 62.15
James Hackney 30.24 58.71
Tony Lock 31.16 68.47
Mark Crosby 31.13 65.82
Toby Clarke 31.33 65.12
Sally Howard 31.44 70.20
Harriet Howard 31.36 64.35
Paul Ainslie 32.23 69.00
Dan Wymer 32.10 59.99
Chris Gardener 32.39 65.01
David Worley 32.48 62.16
Holly Palmer-Reade 32.44 62.40
Bethany Jones 33.09 63.73
Graham Le Good 33.17 73.24 3rd VM70
Michele Hustler 33.22 74.09 2nd VL55
Lisa Holland 33.24 71.38
Brian Moore 33.17 65.42
Chris Babbage 33.31 55.88
Kim Perry 33.46 61.73
Simon Welch 33.51 55.75
Alan Jones 34.00 61.94
Alice Abbott 34.03 59.57
Andy McIntyre 34.08 56.99
Helen Ashton 33.57 61.41
Harriet Bowyer 35.09 51.03
Rob Green 35.02 61.11
Will Spracklen 35.36 59.64
Jess Wright 35.38 59.24
Martha Holland 35.42 60.55
Tracey Andrews 36.58 57.01
Matthew Clatworthy 36.57 52.64
Karen Bisp 37.44 59.68
Stephen Ratcliff 37.47 58.73
Stephen Roberts 38.23  57.20
Dave Johnys 38.56 49.21
Andy Richards 38.56 46.23
Peter Rendell 39.33 55.08
Paul Molyneaux 40.02 61.70
Keith Morgan 40.43 61.52
Kate Gardener 41.03 58.79
Megan Hill 41.09 49.29
John Green 41.17 50.58
Judith Le Good 42.01 68.87
Anna Flory 42.06 55.10
Claire Brennan 43.07 52.23
Jean Overbeck 45.27 57.90
Jo Cook 45.43 49.83
Tamsyn Wymer 45.50 46.79
Nor Hoey 46.06 44.00
Trevor Jennings 46.11 55.09
Regina Johnys 49.08 43.64
Fred Ford 49.34 53.82
Becky Edwards 49.48 41.29

Thursday July 20th

Time Trial

Stephen Young 20.34 -31 PB
Luke Edwards 20.51 -27 PB
Mark McLeod 21.42  21
Isabel Stubbs 21.46 -24 PB, Course Record
Murray Lawrence 21.51 -54 PB
Andy Green 22.50  5
Nick Dalton 23.03 -47 PB
Thomas Dobson 23.37 -23 PB
Dan Wymer 24.35 30
Jon Mills 24.41 -44 PB
Paul Ainslie 24.58 -57 PB
Harriet Howard 25.09 -47
Chris Gardener 25.14  14 PB
Sarah Fry 25.21  11 PB
Will Hudson 25.49 -1 PB
Alan Jones 25.56 -4
James Field 26.23  8
Chris Babbage 26.30  0 PB
Brian Moore 26.31  56
Lisa Holland 26.34 -21 PB
Nick Morley 27.01  36
Andy Richards 27.23  23
Sarah Whatman 27.44 -37 PB
Will Spacklen 28.29  144
Matthew Clatworthy 28.42 -53
Stephen Ratcliff 28.46 -29 PB
Ita Moore 29.08 -53 PB
Nick Pagett 29.17 -28 PB
Karen Bisp 29.30 -30 PB
Emma Winder 30.46 -69 PB
Peter Rendell 31.01  101
Dave Johnys 31.05 -40 PB
Lee Vanstone 31.20 -10 PB
Kate Hudson 31.39  74
Keith Morgan 31.43  3
John Green 31.47  27
Megan Hill 32.18 -62 PB
Hayley Mills 32.59 9
Katy Wise 33.14 -51 PB
Becky Edwards 38.11 106
Freda Ford 38.27 -73 PB

Wednesday July 19th

South West PB Series

Kyle Turner 16.53

Ducklington Dash

Paul Taylor 20.03
Tony Lock 20.25 2nd VM50
Lewi Shorter 21.22
Rachel Stanley-Evans 22.43 2nd VF40
Sarah Fry 22.43 1st VF50
Holly Palmer-Reade 22.43
Andy Richards 22.49
Will Spacklen 22.57 3rd VM50
Martin Bate 23.29 3rd VM60
Colin Tidy 24.30
Peter Rendell 26.06
Karen Bisp 26.27
Ita Moore 26.29 3rd VF60
Kate Hudson 28.28
Anna Flory 29.37
Nor Hoey 32.11
Freda Ford 36.05
Hannah Makins 41.40

Sunday July 16th

Ilkley Half 

John Green 2.22.48

Compton Verney Half Marathon

Graham Ferris 1.31.48 2nd MV55

Sunday July 9th

Race to the Stones 50K

Andy Green 4.39.33 1st Male
Lisa Kay 5.16.36
Richard Curtis 5.43.42
Kim Parry 5.45.55

Evesham 10K

Sally Howard 45.45
Harriet Howard 49.10

Sunday July 8th

Race to the Stones 100K

Simon Arnold 13.49.16
Colin Tidy 14.20.11
Debbie Marshall Thomas 19.22.33

The journey started in December 22 when I was on holiday and decided, as I’d done day 1 (50K) last year, maybe I should have ago at the full 100k.  Fast forward a month and I started thinking how I could make this a more meaningful challenge, so I decided to raise money for Charity alongside.  Our neighbours lost their daughter Emma last January and so I decided I wanted to do something to remember her, so I chose Young Minds, who had helped Emma and also her parents following her passing.  I got my Young Minds T-Shirt and had it emblazoned with “Remembering Emma” on the front and “Running 100k 4 Emma” on the back and then got myself a proper training plan, which I fairly rigidly stuck to (hence my absence from club nights this year).

So, the 8th of July came around, the training plan was done, I’d also been working pretty much once a week on strength training, so I was ready.  However, the enormity of the whole thing suddenly dawned on me the night before and so I’d had virtually no sleep worrying about whether I’d be able to actually complete it.. Nevertheless, Rach (my wife and number one supporter) dropped me at the start line for the 7:10 start and I was off, aiming to be done hopefully before it got dark, but to be honest, any time would be ok, so long as I got to the finish.  The hills were just as brutal as I’d remembered from last year in that first half, however I got chatting to a really friendly lady and we whiled away a few hours (and a few nasty long and steep hills) we tackled Grims Ditch which, although is downhill and should come as a welcome relief, is rutty, holey, full of roots and to make things worse, the weather then turned, still despite a fall about half way down from stubbing my toe on a root, I got back up and carried on.  Checkpoint 2 then came around and I was feeling quite good, I’d followed the game plan which was to run it slower than I’d done last year, I fuelled up, took another salt tablet and then trudged on nice and steadily, knowing that Goring was coming up and that horrible 3km or so hill.  I can unashamedly say that I power walked that one, rather than trying to run it like I’d done in the previous year, instead, I followed Rachel Stanley-Evans and Flora Hurrell’s advice to the letter (these guys definitely know a thing or two when it comes to Ultras) run the flats and downhills and walk the hills – sage advice.

Having had so much rain, I used the time walking to text my wife to get my mate to bring a new set of shoes out to me at Bury Lane (the 42.5k point) where I was also unexpectedly met by Emma’s parents cheering me on, this was all really quite overwhelming and just so heartening. I then also met up with my friend who provided me with the change of shoes, I dried my feet off, taped up my toes, on with a pair of new socks and different trail shoes and then I was off again – no blisters at this stage.

50k (and Basecamp) then came along and this was not a good stage of the race for me at all, I was struggling and I was starting to hurt (I can see that now in the photos the kids took of me) and even thinking about another 50k at this point was starting to upset and frustrate me, I kept it in though, popped into the marquee and got a change of T-Shirt, a quick plate of pasta (eaten whilst walking around to stop my legs seizing) 2 paracetamol and another salt tablet later and then I was on my way.  I ran to the point where the kids couldn’t see me any longer (I didn’t want to walk in front of them) and then there was a little incline (in my mind – an excuse to power walk).  At this stage I met up with a different runner (a fellow accountant called Justin from Cambridge) we got chatting and by the time we’d cleared the incline, I was running again and to be honest, I don’t know what happened, but I felt really strong again.

Then at 65k just past the White Horse Hill, a friend from Bampton joined us for about 5k, we were trotting along really well and steadily at this stage (though Strava said it wasn’t particularly quick).. then a few hills later, whilst running down hill towards the 72k aid station, who should I see, but fellow WRR Alex Harris, he’d mustered up a load of the other spectators and got them to cheer me on and shout my name, this was just so amazing and not expected (thanks Alex).  I then met him at the aid station and he helped tape my toes (the things mates do for each other..) Alex also spotted that I was quite dehydrated and so ensured that I had a load of water and some flat coke, as it was another 10 miles to the next Pit Stop.

Out of the Pit Stop and then up that next big hill was just pure cruelty, it wasn’t even a ‘walker’ I’d describe it as more a ‘climber’ of a hill, still, we pushed on, then using a mixture of walking, running (which probably looked more like shuffling at this point) we arrived at the final Pitstop at 88k where, once again, the marshals were just exceptional, as was the array of sugary treats, electrolytes, flapjacks and fruit. The marshals were filling bottles for you, getting food, offering words of encouragement “Just one more small hill and then it’s downhill all the way”.  So, out of the Pit Stop and on we went, meeting my wife and kids again at 90k during a rain storm of biblical proportions, the section between 92k and 95k can only be described as a slippery motorcross style section, not for the faint hearted (I wouldn’t have fancied that in the dark and the sun was quickly going down at this stage).  Justin then started working out what the finish time might be, this alone took away any annoyance of that nasty section we’d just done, it was looking like I might even beak 14 hours.. and this just spurred me on more.. on we ran, down into Avebury, round the traffic cone (I know, it should be called race to the Traffic Cone, not Race to the Stones) double back for a kilometre and then down to the finish line and all this in a chip time of 13 hours 49 minutes and 16 seconds – I have never felt so elated after a race as I did on Saturday night.

I am still, whilst I write this, on a massive high, though they are not the words my legs would be using at the moment.. and to top it all off, following a flurry of donations on the day, I ended up having raised just over £2,000 for Young minds (doubling my initial target) the perfect end to a perfect day.

Sorry it’s a long read, I am just so full of joy and excitement still, before you ask “yes, I’m definitely going to do another one” got the Ultra bug good and proper now.. following in Rachel, Flora and Chris G’s footsteps.. anyway, now my mind turns to the next challenge this year, the Snowdon Marathon, so that will make it 2 Marathons and 2 Ultra’s I’ve raced in this year – quite a year..

Simon Arnold

Wednesday July 5th

RAF Inter Unit 5k Road Relay
Championships

Kyle Turner 16.52 PB

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