Well done to all who competed in the second instalment of the Sphinx Virtual Handicap Series. Much like last month, runners were made to choose between racing in blistering heat or torrential rain! Despite that, 53 runners crossed the line - a great turnout. First over the line was Vickie Hand, knocking an impressive 2:37 off her time from last month. Chasing Vickie was Matt Mold in second place, improving on his May performance by 3 minutes!
Well done and thank you to all who took part in the inaugural Sphinx Virtual Handicap. The event was a rousing success with 55 runners crossing the finishing line. Conditions were tough as competitors were forced to choose between running in heat or a hurricane, but in spite of that many of our athletes recorded impressive personal bests! A baffling number of runners managed to crossed the line at the exact same time giving the organiser a considerable headache with allocating position points!
Thank you Kevin for organising this virtual competition with our fellow Coventry clubs, and for his write up below. Also, a big thank you and congratulations to all Sphinx runners who took part and won us yet another Mob Match! Firstly, thank you all who took part in out parkrun mob match and running your little socks off! With ages ranging from 9 to 66 (I’ll let you guess who that may be), it shows the broad range of people we have in the club.
Unfortunately due to the Coronavirus we have made the decision to cancel the Summer 5 this year. If you have already entered then you will receive an email from our race director to confirm details of your refund.
Sphinx would like to congratulate Dave Phillips from Masseys on receiving an MBE for all his fundraising for charity through running.
All the times and positions from the 2019 Coombe 8 race
Thank you to Paul Bergin for the following write up of Coombe 8. Final results will be provided in the next post As ever the race at Coombe Country Park starts with the course set-up on Saturday. The volunteers are split into two teams to lay out the two main areas of the race - this year the team leaders where the ever-dependable Wayne Broadbent and Jackie Stuart. In addition we had another old faithful in the shape of Kev Naughton and two of our new members, Graham Mulvaney and Sam Ward and joined later by Sally-Ann and her daughter Phoebe.
Well done to those who took part in this half marathon...…..well I hear it was cut a bit short! Results are in | Name | Time | | --- | --- | | Pawel Langer | 01:11:24 | | Ian Gower | 01:15:29 | | Barry Allen | 01:18:50 | | Lucian Morogan | 01:19:58 | | graham Nicholson | 01:26:01 | | ANDREW TAYLOR | 01:34:29 | | Rachael Allen | 01:42:18 | | Karen Timothy | 01:43:26 | | Ian Ward | 01:43:27 |
The results from the Great North run Name BIB Pos Finish Time Barry Allen 7768 1700 01:36:16 NARINDER BAINS 4134 3402 01:43:04 Jane Edwards 4137 3404 01:43:04 Mark Norman 9016 3977 01:44:57 Simon Abbott 2587 4315 01:46:01 Wayne Broadbent 32843 8451 01:55:37 craig spencer 31023 15745 02:08:49 Mark Moran 27170 19092 02:14:52 Jodie Charley 35434 23478 02:23:14 Graeme Smith 30256 24424 02:25:08
Thank you to Laura for this write up of her Parkrun tourism. This parkrun took place on walls of the historic city of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy. Because the wall is only 4km round, the first part of the parkrun course involved running up to a monument and back before running anti-clockwise on the wall. After the yoga warm up, the parkrun briefing was delivered firstly in Italian and then in English.
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