'i^^jtz$?^,f!;^ - *« November 1999 Newsletter of Lordshill Road Runners (Lordshill RR affiliated to S.E.A.A.. A.A.A.E.. A.U.K. and HA.A.) 11.00am SUNDAY 21ST NOVEMBER 1999 <J As you will probably know, unless you are very new to the Club, we are about to run our annual ten mile Club Championship race, again at Bournemouth - by popular demand! Inside this issue: In case you are not familiar with the idea, the Bournemouth Ten has Chairman's Chat been selected as the race where we in Lordshill Road Runners can race against each other (within appropriate age categories ofcourse) Race Reports Begin... 3 with prizes being presented at the New-Year party. For the Club Championships to be as meaningful as possible, we The Dublin Marathon 6 need as many ofthe membership as possible to take part - so why not make this your nexttarget. An Entry Form has been included Puma Edinburgh 7 Marathon with this issue of Lordshill News. Cross-Country Series 8 After the race, it is suggested that we meet in the Belmoor Tavern, 1999-2000 Hill Lane, Shirley, to 'rehydrate' and compare notes on the morning's ^s-*ew! Prize Puzzle 9 racing. Page!!! (Please note; Second claim members are not eligible for prizes in the Club Comprehensive 10/ Championships~sony folks- but why not run and compete anyway?) Events Diary 11 Lordshill 10 Mile - November 7th 1999 The CLUB CHAMPION Our 10 miler Is now upon us and it is now we need 'all hands on SHIPS - Forms deck', with the usual marshalling duties. By the time you read included this the race may be underway (!) but if not PLEASE, PLEASE CrossCountry be available for all the usual crucial jobs that are needed to Details make this eventa success. You will probably have already Extended heard from our CHIEF MARSHAL, Jenny Dawes, but if not Events Diary please call her on Soton 789492 and indicate your availability. Page 2 LnBinnan S Chat —Derek Goodchild (Reprinted from Chairman's Report AGM, 1999) Derek, standing.... This is not the first time Ihave risen from awarm seat with apiece of paper in my hand, surrounded by fellow runners. Neither is it the first time I have looked across aroom at acrowd of Lordshill Road Runners, with aglass of red wine in front of me. It is, however, the first time I have ad dressed the AGM ofthe club as ifs Chairman and I am pleased to report that the Club continues to thrive. Derek takes hisseat...your relatively large Committee has met on eight occasions during the year and used ifssize to set up smaller working parties to organise various events, all as far as I am aware, having been successful. The two road races, the 10 miler and the 10km, were well attended by runners and our members and their friends and families turned out in force to help make them asuccess. We have failed to find any ma jor sponsors for the races, which causes headaches for the race organisers, but Dave Clothier, Paul Bur- nage, Jenny Dawes and Terry Prynn deserve the Club's gratitude for all their efforts and the income those efforts generated. The fine evening of the 10km event and the absence of any major sporting event on Revision that evening saw something like 80 entries on the day, making aconsiderable profit Our two off-road events, the CC5 and the RR10, were equally successful, particularly as we moved the RR10 to a new venue. Thanks are due to all who helped atthese events, and all the social events as well. It is worth mentioning again the part played by many ofthe members' children at our events, which was acknowledged at the annual prize giving bash. The usual major social events were the post-Christmas bash and Club awards ceremony, this year at a new venue, and the New Forest 10 Barbecue, blessed with warm weather that almost always makes this agood day out for all the family. Another barbecue was held after the last race ofthe RR10 series, with quite acrowd ofhungry members benefiting from Ryan Letheren's culinary skills, and Dad, Mike, ar ranged a successful skittles evening at the Mortimers at Ower. The Club Newsletter continues to improve thanks to the efforts of the Editor and his Publisher, Roger and Jim, but I must echo Roger's recent plea for race reports from other members; it would make Roger's job easier and avoid him having to write about events he did not actually get to! The year has seen the development of the Lordhill Road Runners French HQ, courtesy of Geoff and Jenny Dawes, whose generous hospitality has been enjoyed by several members. The race profits for the next ,jwyears will have tobe increased to pay for the installation ofmore showers and toilets chez Dawes be cause the queues before and after runs have been particularly long and smelly. Geoff also arranged a house in Anglesea for the large contingent who went tothe Snowdonia Marathon last year, booked the whole ofthe lamb and Flag' at Rhayader for the Round the Lakes 20 Miler in March, and found another very pleasant Gite for the trip to Caen. Several members have gone 'ultra' in the last year. Laura Savill, Mike Newman and Roger Bradley have all covered distances longer than the marathon and the Medoc team have recently covered the marathon distance in an ultra-time ofalmost six and aquarter hours, with the solo finisher taking considerably longer after drinking beer (on a wine race) with some of the 100-Marathon Club. Various individuals have won prizes ata number ofevents, the major success ofthe year being our women's team atthe South Coast Marathon, who picked upa team prize aswell assome individual prizes. Keith Langford had a great 8th place atthe New Forest Marathon, with 3rd vefs prize as well; all on a training run! Numbers are well upwith a steady stream of new members being signed up and even some old faces re turning to the streets in their kit. Training nights still have a variable turn-out but theTuesday effort ses sions, coached by Laura and Dave are still the biggest draw for numbers of runners and the results can be seen inthe improvements shown by manymembers I hope that the new yearand the new Committee will see the Club to continue to thrive. 4 fy?§» *. e J%. tog* ^ ~*Z^t*W^fi&**$k'*t> )V^v,vvtwT t:-V/F7) fc't * *"' rvt'-?-^f^5^^' Page 3 Sunday September 19th 1999. The Great South Run Southsea. We were up early after avery wet and windy night to get to Portsmouth in time for the children's event starting at 09.35. As weapproached Portsmouth on the Motorway the weather started to im prove but Southsea Common was pretty squelchy for parking acar on. We watched our children run along with nearly athousand others in the Junior Great South Run which they manaqed to complete in the dry. i * r Over 5000 runners packed the starting compound for the main event to be told that there was aten minute delay. The heavens opened and we were drenched before we set off. After some urgent clapping from the runners we were sent on our way. It was not quiet as bad as the London Mara thon but it took some minutes before everyone cleared the start. As the publicity tells us the route passes many points of historical interest but Ido not think that many of us took them in. The heavy rain persisted until well past the Victory in my case. There are two large switchbacks on the route. The second one on Southsea front allowed me to see the leaders pounding back to the finish. Afew ^ears ago Iwould have missed that sight Although this is aflat course it was not fast in these conditions. Unless you are near the front there are just too many runners on the course, and the organisers want to attract 10,000 next year. It is not clear how all those people are going to get into the city on time. While Dilys, despite aloo stop, managed avery respectable time, Iwas rewarded with apersonal worst and the help of a first-aider a short while after the finish. Our day was made, however, when the children's results were collated Their race was held over two miles and was open to 7to 15 year-olds. Esme, our 8year old won the under 11 trophy for girls and Laurence was third boy home under eleven. They both received Golden cups and we were naturally very proud Perhaps we will now have to ease out gracefully, become spectators and take up bridge! JerryGartside. Sunday September 26* 1999 - Nottingham Marathon and HalfMarathon. Soistance running is not dying, as entries were up for the fifth year running on what has become a big day in Nottingham. With a large piece of lace as a momento, two different patterns for the full and half, runners do have the incentive to run both races in their running career. The full Marathon uses the same course asthe half for its first thirteen miles which, after taking the runners through the old market place and round Nottingham Castle, threads it'sway out to Wollaton Hall. After running through the Hall's parkland and then round the outside we all had a look at Nottingham University before heading south tothe River Trent, but not crossing itas this isleft tothe Marathon runners. As thetwo setsof runners parted atthestart ofthe finishing straight the longer course heads east for a big loop round Colwick lake and Nottingham Race Course before crossing the Trent for two smaller loopssouth of the river.