1 WinterRoadhoggs edition 2006 Leicester A.C. March/April 2015 Established 10/08/1984 Affiliated MCAA,LRRL, DRL,RWA. Thank You Dave Dave Swan has stepped down as Chairman after over 20 years at the helm. He, more than anyone else is responsible for the values and ethos that make Roadhoggs more than just another running club. In recognition of his outstanding service to the club, members voted at the AGM to award him the title of Honorary Life President. Dave, a sub-3 hour Marathon runner in his prime, also found the time to serve a term as LRRL Chair and has been one of our League delegates for many years. LRRL 2015 End of Term Reports Winter League Whilst for the most part we’ve had excellent Sunday 29th March: Desford 6 turnouts for the Derby Runner XC races, we Sunday 17th May: West End 8 haven’t made a big impact on the individual Summer League rankings. However, James Bostock achieved th Sunday 7th June: Swithland 6 8 place in the ultra-competitive senior th th Sunday 21st June: Prestwold 10K category and Dale (6 ) and Jerry (8 ) made Wednesday 1st July: Hungarton 7 the top ten old fogeys (V50). For the ladies, th th Wednesday 5th August: Joy Cann 5 Becca (20 ) and Vicky (25 ) were our top Sunday 23rd August: Hermitage 10K senior contenders. Sunday 6th September: John Fraser 10 Roadhoggs AGM 3/2/15 In This Issue As a result of the AGM there have been a few Cross country reports (page 2), For the record changes. Dave Lodwick has taken over as Chair (page 4), Road race reports (page 5), Fell and John Stew as Vice-Chair. Dan Bannatyne will running (page 7). be taking over from Steve Martin as Membership Secretary. Like Dave Swan, Steve has given Picture Credits many years of service to the club and we are all extremely grateful for his contribution. Keith SL Images, Dave Lodwick has returned to being Social Secretary and Mark Ramsden is our new Men’s Road Running Captain. Thank You Everyone! Member News A big thank you to everyone who contributed to A big welcome to our new members Brian, the success of the Kibworth 6. It was great to Mark, Michael, Jacqui, Tim, Louise and Edgar. see ex-members and friends of the club helping We are also pleased to welcome back Janet. out on the day. This not only helped us to stage That brings current (renewed) membership to the race but freed 31 members to run as well. 80 (including 15 honorary). 2 Lod, big Sam and Steve R completed the team. Getting’ Muddy with Kim For the girls, Becca, Victoria and Jackie all Derby Runner League Race 5 - finished close to each other, with Ruth making Bosworth 15/2/15 the last team place. Because this was a smaller field than last time at Bradgate, everyone finished higher up the order, with Dale, Sam and It was grey and cold as people started to arrive Ben much higher so must have had better runs at Bosworth Park for the penultimate race of this anyway. Mark Coulson and Mark Jowsey made season’s cross-country league. The car park their cross-country debuts for us … you wait ages entrance bollard rising and falling between every for a Mark to turn up and then 2 come along at car caused a lot of early queues until Hinckley, once. the host club, found a way to keep the damn thing down. As this was Valentines weekend I expected a few Roadhoggs couples to celebrate by coming to the race together, and I’m sure that the Pearce-Browns, Robinson-Hermanns and Bostock-Bostocks found the romantic side of running through mud and water. John and Trudy were there as well but John didn’t run and spectated with me instead. Before the race, I watched some of our runners going through their pre-race rituals: Dale got his foot and shoe-horn stuck in his running shoe, Ruth and Clare did some strange squatting, and Jerry picked up an orange and announced he was going for a pee somewhere … leaving us wondering why he took fruit with him. Mark making his XC debut The men maintained their team position in division 2 whilst the girls improved theirs. The combined team are still stuck at the bottom of division 1, but with one more race to go there is still a chance we can avoid relegation if we score really well at Holly Hayes in a fortnight and Wreake or Ivanhoe do not. Trudy’s home baking and coffee after the race went down very well as always. There is talk of skipping the racing altogether and just becoming a cake eating club. RESULTS (6.2m): MEN: 7th James Bostock 36.15, 16th Dave Pearce (V40) 37.18, 59th James Dunham 41.21, 90th Dale Jenkins (V50) 43.51, 102nd Jerry Wilkes (V50) James: Second counter at Bosworth 44.39, 107th Steve Wheeler (V40) 45.06, 120th The Bosworth course is a mixed bag of parkland, Dave Lodwick (V50) 45.57, 129th Sam Jolly 46.32, woodland, tracks and fields, not particularly 135th Steve Robinson (V40) 46.54, 136th Terry hilly but quite long at 10k. There were three Woodhouse (V40) 46.55, 153rd Colin Bowpitt water crossings early on and the hardest part (V40) 47.58, 171st Ben Milsom 49.10, 172nd Fabio was getting round a field about halfway which Caraffini 49.12, 188th Mark Coulson (V40) 51.47, was undulating and all clinging mud. We had 25 219th Baz Barrett (V50) 54.25, 224th Martin Capell Roadhoggs and once again our teams were led (V50) 55.26, 240th Chris Peach (V50) 58.02, 255th home by James and Becca Bostock. James Mark Jowsey (V50) 61.52, 269 finished. bagged a top 10 finish, his best so far. Next in was Dave Pearce but regretfully he does not LADIES: count for us as he is a second claim 37th Rebecca Bostock 50.06, 39th Victoria Sutton member. James D, Dale, Jerry, Steve W, Dave 50.31, 41st Jackie Brown (V50) 50.35, 77th Ruth 3 Stevely (V40) 56.15, 89th Clare Mendes 58.12, woodland paths. It is narrow in parts, so with 109th Trudy Sharpe (V40) 62.33, 128th Barbara 400+ runners it did get a little crowded and you Hermann 67.57, 144 finished. could only overtake on the wider sections. And there were queues at the rocky stream crossing, TEAMS: Men (dvn 2) 4th, Ladies (dvn 2) 7th, where runners had to choose between rock Combined (dvn 1) 7th. hopping or water wading. TEAMS AFTER 5 RACES: Men (dvn 2) 6th, Ladies (dvn 2) 8th, Combined (dvn 1) 10th. Derby Runner League Race 6 – Holly Hayes Wood 1/3/15 Coming into the last race of this season’s league, the Roadhoggs combined team were in last place in the top division and facing relegation. But our runners came along and gave it one last shot, and we very nearly saved our place for another season. In the end, we finished on equal points with Wreake and only lost out on a count of all the individual runners’ finishing positions – a bit like goal difference. Becca: a season-long battle with Vicky One or two Roadhoggs were suffering from sickness or injury, and one or two more had run the 16 miles Belvoir Challenge or a Reaper challenge the day before, but still they came and ran at Holly Hayes. James B set off in 5th and held on to that place for the whole race, his best ever position. Dave Pearce also bagged a fine 11th place but sadly he doesn’t count towards our team score as he is second claim. Further down we packed quite well to finish the team with Robin, Dale, Jerry, Steve W, Tim, Steve Rob and Fabio getting the points. Tim scored team points for the first time. Fabio did too, and beat many other runners for the first time with his best ever run for us. The girls had a real race with our top 3 pushing each other all of the way round. Vicky kept ahead of Becca and James has had a really strong season Captain Jackie. Jackie managed to get by Becca It was grey and cloudy as we assembled in the in the latter part of the race, but all 3 finished clearing. The strong breeze made it harder to close together as they brought out the best in get our Transportable Event Needs and each other. Clare was suffering a stomach bug Treatments centre in place, but we managed it and a little unsure whether to run, but in the and then helped the team next door who were end she did and had one of her best runs of the struggling to secure their own T.E.N.T. in the season! Thanks also to John H, Peter S, Ben, breeze. I had assumed that the course was the Chris, Ruth, Trudy and Barbara, and Tim’s dad same as last year, but they switched it around David who guested for us. and the runners turned right after the uphill start, not left, and the course took in the same In fact, my thanks to all of our runners in all the loops but in different order which I suppose at cross country league races this season. We are least offers some variety. Next time I will pay the smallest club in the division and we did the more attention to the course map.