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Results for Club La Santa international running challenge, 26-29-Nov-2017

Thanks to Lisa for the following report: Thursday 23rd November and 7 finely tuned athletes and support headed out to the Lanzarote Running Challenge to represent Sphinx Team GBR 😉 We stopped in the sports complex Club La Santa which offers everything from kayaking and mini triathlons to morning gymnastics, making for a busy timetable. We took part in four races over consecutive days. The only thing that was missing was the Mitch Timms rigorous timetable which left more time for sun bathing.

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Baby Sphinx

Congratulations to the Halletts on their new arrival, and thanks to Darren for the lovely picture and words: I thought that today might be a suitable day to bring a little cheer to the Sphinx world. Please see attached picture of Erica Ruth Hallett. Born a week ago today and already dreaming of running in Sphinx colours. [caption id=“attachment_9689” align=“aligncenter” width=“768”] Adorable Erica[/caption]

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Results for the Clowne half-marathon, 26-Nov-2017

Amazingly there were other races on Sunday, not just the Coombe 8 (I know, hard to believe :) ). One such race was the Clowne half-marathon, where Andy Mc, Ninj and Jane ran, with Jane finishing in 2nd place in her category. Photos courtesy of Clowne Road Runners:  Results: http://www.ukresults.net/2017/clowne.html Pos Num Gen Pos Forename Surname Cat Cat/Pos ChipTime ChipPos GunTime 122 504 108 Andrew McIntosh M40 (046/158) 1:38:25

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Results for various parkruns, 25-Nov-2017

Congratulations and well done to Jack Edwards and Alex Bartlett on PBs at Coventry. Elsewhere, Dave West was a first-timer at Worcester Pitchcroft and the O’Briens were first-timers at Huntingdon. Coventry 21 Sphinx AC runners/family/friends ran this weekend, with no first-timers and 2 PBs. Official results are here: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/coventry/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=394 6 Jack Edwards 18:41 SM25-29 69.05% 6 New PB! 18 Paul Slatford 19:23 VM35-39 69.39% 18 PB stays at 18:11

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Result for the Coventry 10k, 19-Nov-2017

Congratulations to Lisa Abbott on setting a PB for 10k, in a time of 45:37. Results: https://www.eventrac.co.uk/race-results/coventry-10k-10km-19-11-2017-10-00#anchor Pos Name Time 26 Lisa Abbott 45:37

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Result for the Tempo 10k Winter Series, Race 2, 19-Nov-2017

Vicky Brewin completed this undulating 10k that around Ilmington, race 2 in the 5-race series. Results: http://www.racetecresults.com/results.aspx?CId=16418&RId=410 Pos Name Time Category Cat Pos Gender Gen Pos 150 Victoria Brewin 01:02:11 F sen 7 Female 49

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Result for the Run for Rotary Winter Trio Race 2, 19-Nov-2017

Well done to James Abrams on winning his category in this 10k race around Draycote Water, finishing in a time of 40:44. Results: http://rfr.1060.org.uk/results Pos Gen Pos Cat Pos Name Chip Time Gun Time 7 6 1 James Abrams 40:44 40:47

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Results for the Matthew Walker 10k, 19-Nov-2017

4 Sphinx runners completed this race on an undulating course around Shipley Country Park. Results: http://www.heanorrunningclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017Heanor10K.pdf Gun Pos Gun Time Name Chip Pos Chip Time 77 00:42:40 Andrew McIntosh 78 00:42:34 126 00:45:39 Narinder Bains 130 00:45:31 186 00:47:28 Jane Edwards 186 00:47:17 428 00:55:08 Imogen Edwards 438 00:54:57

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Results for the Broadway half-marathon and marathon, 19-Nov-2017

Jackie and Mitch Timms completed the half-marathon and Rachael Allen completed the full marathon, beating her previous best for a trail marathon by over an hour. Thanks to Jackie for the following photos: Results: http://www.cotswoldrunning.co.uk/results Half-marathon Name Gender Overall Position Time Mitch Timms Male 114 3:12:07 Jacqueline Timms Female 115 3:12:07 Marathon Name Gender Overall Position Time Rachael Allen Female 89 5:52:23

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Result for the Dirt half-marathon, 18-Nov-2017

Helen King completed this trail half-marathon starting and finishing in Leighton Buzzard. Results: https://resultsbase.net/event/4190/results Pos Gun Time Chip Time Name 680 02:26:37 02:25:00 Helen King

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