1st February
Halewood 5K

11 Dale Higham 17:31
17 Lawrence Eccles 18:04
26 Chris Lee 19:09
39 Robert Bruchez-Corbett 20:09
49 Marty Hirrell 20:53
53 Martin Kelly 21:23
59 Kathryn Starkey 22:01
67 Andy Cantwell 22:30
72 John Kelly 22:47
76 Greg Hocking 23:13
91 Michelle Kelly 25:27
100 Jo Sutherland 28:41

Pb for me at Halewood!

Alsager 5 mile Sun 2 Feb 2014

Cristina Puccini F45 266 0:34:58 PB
Andrew Leslie M 275 0:35:14

Not sure if Andy's was a pb. Weather beautiful, road generally free of potholes, small tshirt is massive. Missed out on a prize by 6 sec gun time although the chip time is faster. Serves me right for not starting nearer the front. Met Karen Leslie's dad, who is a lovely man. Another lovely man told me we were heading for sub-35 when I was beyond adding up and gave me the confidence of giving it a good go, wish I could remember which club he was from. My lovely go faster shoes still have a job but the shoelaces are sacked. Right. I think even Dave Cain would be proud of the commentary by now.

Not for me Cristina. My race report is as follows. Lovely sunny day, race was well organised but felt like there was at least 100 too many runners for the course and surrounding facilities. Pancake flat course.

I learned that a chippy tea the night before is a valid nutrition strategy (carb loading) and I have the reaction times of a fighter pilot when it comes to jumping over a fallen runner in the mass at the start.

I too just missed a prize (about 11 minutes) so was disappointed with that!

Karen's feedback
Not enough seating to eat pancakes whilst the race was taking place. The pancake was good though.

01-Feb-14 5k
Heaton parkrun
John Jensen 00:21:38

01-Feb-14 5k
Maidstone parkrun
Cheryl Pace 00:26:40


01-Feb-14 5k
Princes parkrun
Barnaby Hirons 00:19:58
David Griffiths 00:21:26
Craig Hawley 00:22:49
Simone Capponi 00:22:59
Paul Riley 00:23:07
Mark Thomas 00:23:21
Dave Lynam 00:23:36
Hannah Bruce 00:23:39
Joe McGlynn 00:23:58
Matthew Tollitt 00:25:37
Cath Nevin 00:25:43
Esther Van Ginneken 00:26:19
Oonagh Jaquest 00:27:01
Kate MacFarlane 00:27:42
Laurinda Atkinson 00:28:38
Rachel Rick 00:29:24

Cheers all

Andy

11.1.14 Albert Park Parkrun - Melbourne, Australia.

43. David Cain 21:52
57. Susan Cain 22:44

248 runners (the last finisher 1:22:23).

10. Sonia O'Sullivan 18:58 (never been a PLS member but thought I would mention her).

This course was one lap round a lake on a surface of very fine gravel. The Formula 1 Grand Prix is actually staged on the road in and around this park. Luckily, with the start being 8:00 a.m., the temperature was only 26 degrees.


8.2.14 Workington Parkrun

27. David Cain 22:07
29. Susan Cain 22.38

63 runners.

Yes we are now back home, the weather was very windy and about 6 degrees (very cold to us). We were lucky that the rain started when we were having our after race tea in the sports centre.

Mad Dog 10k - 09.02.14

1789 runners

Chip position and times:

27 Lyndon Easthope 41:05
40 Chris Lee 41:41
45 Marc Littlefield 41:55
79 Rob Bruchez-Corbett 42:58 PB
103 Rachel Williams 43:45
112 Jerome Doyle 43:59
185 Andrew Leslie 45:53
205 Laura Sanderson 46:20
229 David Griffiths 46:54
291 Hannah Bruce 47:43
310 Ben Freeney 48:11 PB
328 Dave Lynan 48:31
331 Louise Warn 48:35 PB
537 Tommy Gates 51:35
672 Clare O'Callaghan 53:23
704 Matthew Tollitt 53:45
709 Mark Thomas 53:49
733 Mike Welsby 54:06
792 Dave Mangan 54:45
974 Ruth Fisher 57:04
1032 Kev Mooney 57:53
1122 Terence Long 59:05
1183 Jo Bruchez-Corbett 1:00:01
1184 Eamonn Brady 1:00:01
1620 Caroline O'Neill 1:11:54

Apologies if I've missed anyone or any PBs

9th February
Birchwood XC

Men:
1 Martin Swensson SM
8 Lawrence Eccles SM
10 Neil Kelly V40
11 Neil Bullock SM
26 Ian Russell V40
28 Jonathon Toft SM
30 Simone Capponi SM
39 Thomas Rimmer SM
43 Colin Dobbs SM
81 Tony Man V40
82 Tommy Burke V60
92 Mike Devereux V60

Women:
14 Cristina Puccini FV40
17 Pam Thurtle FV35
20 Kathryn-Adele Sharkey SL
41 Rachel Rick FV50
46 Eunice Nopondo FV40

Mad dog 10k

Steven Renshaw (newly registered with pls)

12TH 39:25

16th February
Wrexham Half-Marathon+

Pos Time Name
10 01:17:15 Martin Swensson
57 01:27:09 Lawrence Eccles
87 01:30:51 Steven Maguire
140 01:37:12 Adrian Loughrey
199 01:44:21 Mike Roxburgh
215 01:46:37 Emma Kearney
219 01:46:51 Cristina Puccini
410 02:28:39 James Stansfield PB

15.2.14 - Workington Parkrun

11. David Cain 21:43
13. Susan Cain 22:35

45 runners braving the not too nice conditions.

There's a formula on the Wrexham site to work out the time it would have taken to run 13.1 miles. Mine came out as 1:41:30…..don't know if this counts for anything but it sounds more respectable

Everyone's Wrexham time calculated using the formula on the website…..with a little bit of rounding so don't shoot me over seconds

Martin 1:13:35
Lawrence 1:23:02
Ste 1:26:35
Adrian 1:32:36
Mike 1:39:25
Cristina 1:41:48
James 2:21:36 …..even more of a PB

Just putting these here as well cos that's where Stato picks them up.

Parbold Hill race Sat 15 Feb.

12 19 012 Lawrence Eccles M (008/129) Penny Lane Striders 00:46:52
14 270 014 Dale Higham M (010/129) Penny Lane Striders 00:47:27
15 414 015 Steven Renshaw M (011/129) Penny Lane Striders 00:47:31
20 169 020 Neil Bullock M (015/129) Penny Lane Striders 00:48:00
25 307 024 Neil Kelly M40 (007/065) Penny Lane Striders 00:49:16
28 190 027 John Connolly M40 (008/065) Penny Lane Striders 00:49:30
49 11 046 Chris Anderson M40 (013/065) Penny Lane Striders 00:52:55
74 338 070 Simon Maskill M40 (019/065) Penny Lane Striders 00:54:21
83 61 078 Simone Capponi M (036/129) Penny Lane Striders 00:55:06
119 422 111 Ian Russell M45 (015/050) Penny Lane Striders 00:58:13
121 407 009 Cristina Puccini F45 (002/022) Penny Lane Striders 00:58:19
136 260 126 Rob Hardwick M40 (031/065) Penny Lane Striders 00:59:25
205 275 184 Martin Hirrell M45 (028/050) Penny Lane Striders 01:04:30
270 200 039 Gill Darby F50 (003/014) Penny Lane Striders 01:09:15
279 294 043 Oonagh Jaquest F35 (008/020) Penny Lane Striders 01:09:49
334 334 278 Dave Mangan M55 (026/029) Penny Lane Striders 01:14:31
343 211 060 Jane Eardley F (015/031) Penny Lane Striders 01:15:20
374 459 301 Billy Taylor M50 (034/039) Penny Lane Striders 01:18:33
389 8 310 Andrew Richards M40 (060/065) Penny Lane Striders 01:20:07
399 425 313 Billy Sergeson M45 (048/050) Penny Lane Striders 01:22:10
400 382 087 Eunice Nopondo F45 (015/022) Penny Lane Striders 01:22:10

.....ignore mine Stato they rely on dodgy maths!

Emma, apologies for any egg sucking and the teaching there of but I think the majority who ran the race the 'wrong' way ran around 13.9 miles so just enter your time into a pace calculator with that distance

http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/4/4_1/96.shtml

then change the distance to half marathon and you'll get a more accurate time

your 1:46:37 comes out as 1:40:33

Lawrence's is still rubbish though, wasted to much energy snotting me at Parbold the day before

Wrexham is turning into the fastest long run I've ever done. Every time I look on here I find I've gone further.

I heard the ones who went the 'right' way ran 13.4 - the 'wrong' way (defo Martin S) 13.9

to be on the safe side do Wilmslow or the Great North West Half @ Blackpool instead

Thanks John I'll accept that!

22nd February

Standish Hall 10k

7 Neil Bullock 00:40:04
16 Nigel Grant 00:42:07
64 Tommy Burke 00:50:46

Great times. I had meant to run this race, but got locked in the Endurance store car park. unfortunately I was giving Cristina a lift so she did not make the race either. I have now spent my Endurance store vouchers at least.

Me and Nige were wondering where you were! Was I hallucinating or did I see Cristina cheer me on??

Anything worth getting from the Endurance store, or does getting locked in the car park make it not worthwhile!

We did get to the race and joined in the second lap, so it was Cristina that you saw and not an hallucination. I was just about to run Nigel down, but got side tracked.

The Endurance store is fine. I got socks and food. They have a lot of the specialist kit for ultras which is not available in shops in Liverpool.

February 23rd. Rhyl 10 mile

Pos Time
117 1:16:36 BRADY, Paul
309 1:30:34 LONG, Terrance
330 1:31:46 RICK, Rachel
396 1:37:31 MOONEY, Kevin
425 1:42:23 BRADY, Eamonn
426 1:42:23 BRUCHEZ-CORBETT, Jo

23rd Feb Oulton Park Half Marathon

132 John Jensen 01:43:56
186 Dave Lynam 01:49:23

23rd February Great North West Half Marathon

33 Dale Higham 1:25:42
372 Craig Hawley 1:44:00
832 Eunice Nopondo 2:01:12

22/2/14

Darlington South Park parkrun

Louise WARN 00:37:23

Princes parkrun

Martin SWENSSON 00:17:15
Robert BRUCHEZ-CORBETT 00:19:46
David GRIFFITHS 00:20:47
Craig HAWLEY 00:22:55
Neil HANNETT 00:23:05
Stephen GORMAN 00:23:11
Joe MCGLYNN 00:23:26
Mike WELSBY 00:24:26
Catherine Elizabeth NEVIN 00:25:10
Mark THOMAS 00:25:25
Shane KNOTT 00:25:29
Cheryl PACE 00:26:19
Carolyn HOUGHTON 00:27:23
Tony HEWITSON 00:29:54

South Manchester parkrun

Genna CARR 00:33:06

Warrington parkrun

Andrew LESLIE 00:21:41
Michelle KELLY 00:25:35
John KELLY 00:25:35

Workington parkrun

David CAIN 00:21:11
Susan CAIN 00:22:14

Netherhall 10 mile, Maryport - 23.2.14

70. Susan Cain 81:20 1st V55

There were 133 entries but, presumably because of the very stormy conditions, there were only 104 finishers. This race included the British Masters 10 mile race and the winner did 55:17 (last year's winner did 52:00). Very good buffet afterwards. David marshaled at one of the windiest spots where there seemed to be a tornado going on.

Massive well done to Sue Cain, Neil Kelly and Rob Hardwick great result's for you guys this week end.

As highlighted the rain and wind was horendous on Sunday so, big pat on the back to all the other striders who managed to run/shuffle along in races on the coast, in parks, in woods, up valleys or down dale.