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Result for the North Eastern Harrier League XC (Thornley Hall Farm, Peterlee), 10-Feb-2018

Thanks to Catherine Gough for the following report and photos: “The future of distance running in Durham is coloured orange” according to a Durham City Harriers coach. This is my first season running in the North Eastern Harrier League cross country, running in an orange vest. You can’t fail to notice the North East is very hilly, making the Newbold Comyn hill look flat in comparison! All the children, men & women run in the the same place on the same day.

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Results for the Charnwood Hills Race, 04-Feb-2018

Thanks to Kev Naughton and Craig Pears for the following race reports: This is a fell race of approx 14 miles and follows public footpaths, open country involving 1200 feet of ascent over Bradgate Park, Broombriggs and Beacon Hill country park. Weather on the day was ideal…dry, bright and fresh. Conditions under foot very tricky with lots of mud. All effort in going forwards seemed to go either sideways or backward!

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Results for the Centurion Grand Prix (5 miles), 04-Feb-2018

7 Sphinx completed the 5 mile senior race and 2 youngsters completed the 2km fun run. Results: http://centurionrc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/040218-5M.pdf Pos Name Time 35 Kevin Dick 34:48 41 Barry Allen 35:28 48 Anthony O’Brien 36:27 56 Mitch Timms 37:36 91 Karen Timothy 41:31 101 Rachel Allen 43:24 113 Victoria O’Brien 45:45 http://centurionrc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/040218-2K.pdf Pos Name Time 9 Atlanta O’Brien 10:25 10 Alexander O’Brien 10:34

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Results for the Watford half-marathon, 04-Feb-2018

Andrew McIntosh, Laura Duggins, William Robertson and Imran Ali completed this popular half-marathon. Results: http://results.eventchiptiming.com/Results.aspx?CId=16202&RId=8084 Pos Name Time Net Time Category Cat Pos Gender Gen Pos 561 ANDREW MCINTOSH 01:41:24 01:39:49 M40 181 Male 505 766 LAURA DUGGINS 01:46:09 01:44:34 W35 38 Female 103 1002 WILLIAM ROBERTSON 01:52:59 01:51:21 M40 291 Male 827 1090 IMRAN ALI 01:55:14 01:53:39 M40 310 Male 882

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Results for various parkruns, 03-Feb-2018

Congratulations to Jason and the teams at Coventry parkrun on their 8th birthday! Congratulations and well done to Ellie Davies, Laura Pibworth-Dolinski and Katie Timms on PBs at Coventry, Rugby and Brueton respectively. Mitch informed that Katie’s was “a LIFETIME 5k pb of 27:07, beating her previous best by 2 mins 12 secs. Very proud mum and dad”. Coventry 25 Sphinx AC runners/family/friends ran this weekend, with no first-timers and 1 PB.

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Results for the Midlands Police & Services XC League (race 8 – Milford Common, Stafford), 31-Jan-2018

Mitch and Jackie Timms completed this services xc league race, with Tom Marchi marshalling at this one. Results: POSITION NAME TEAM CAT TIME 54 J.TIMMS GUEST FV50 50m 26s 55 M.TIMMS GUEST V55 50m 27s

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Results for the Gayton 10k, 28-Jan-2018

Mitch and Jackie Timms completed this 10k race for the second year in a row. Results: http://www.onyourmarksevents.org/results2018-gayton.html Pos Name Time Gender GenPos Category CatPos 121 Jackie Timms 0:56:08 Female 32 50-59 4 122 Mitch Timms 0:56:08 Male 90 50-59 24

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Results for the Midlands XC Championships (Wollaton Park, Nottingham), 27-Jan-2018

Thanks to Wayne for the following report: 8 sphinx blokes and 5 ladies made long trip up the m1, with some travelling a lot further on that road than what was needed !!!!!!!! to finally arrive at wollarton Hall, Nottingham for this year’s Midlands xc championships, The course was a mixture of hills, swamp, more hills and toped off with more swamp over a 8km course for laddies and 12km course for the blokes Thanks to all that took part Final league races of the season is Saturday 10th February with the ladies at Wolverhampton and the blokes at Aldridge.

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Results for various parkruns, 27-Jan-2018

Congratulations to Sue Gough on her 200th parkrun. There was a bit of parkrun tourism as Alex Bartlett and Vicky Brewin were first-timers at Sandwell Valley, where Alex enjoyed running around the lake so much he decided to do some extra laps! :) Coventry 22 Sphinx AC runners/family/friends ran this weekend, with no first-timers and no PBs. Official results are here: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/coventry/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=401 8 Jack Edwards 18:47 SM25-29 68.68% 8 PB stays at 18:41

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Results for the Midlands Police & Services XC League (race 7 – Delapre Park, Northampton), 24-Jan-2018

4 Sphinx runners completed this cross-country race in the Services XC league. Results: POSITION NAME TEAM CAT TIME 37 M.TIMMS GUEST V55 66m 41s 38 J.TIMMS GUEST FV50 66m 41s 44 J.STEWART GUEST FV60 76m 37s 45 T.MARCHI PRISON/CIVIL SERVICE V75 78m 32s

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