Beat The Bore

So, did you Beat the Bore?

The inaugural Beat the Bore in association with Sculpture Box and organised by Cotswold Allrunners, took place on Easter Sunday, 8th April 2012.

Nature was kind to us and the Bore arrived at Arlingham, 5 miles away on time, giving the runners the 10 minute warning.

Then at 9:15am the race was officially started with a field of 47 runners beginning their challenge to beat a 3* Severn Bore.

The route from the Anchor Inn at Epney follows the Severn Way to Weir Green, nearly 7 miles away. With this being completely off-road and traffic free, apart from several stiles to negotiate, the main motivation for runners to keep going was the imminent bore and whether it would pass them before the finish line.  See below to see what happened

#	Pos	Name	Surname	Min		Secs	Gen	Cat	Affiliated Club
685	1	James	WILKINSON	48	:	00	M	SM	Almost Athletes
684	2	Allister	KEATING	48	:	03	M	MV40	Cotswold Allrunners
680	3	Ian	SANDERSON	48	:	19	M	MV40	Valley Striders
650	4	Nigel	CHAPMAN	48	:	28	M	MV40	Clevedon AC
672	5	Tim	BARNETT	48	:	52	M	SM
676	6	Oliver	BELL	50	:	47	M	SM
696	7	Phil	MANNING	53	:	06	M	MV50	Stroud and District AC
679	8	Sarah	LAUDER	54	:	07	F	SL
678	9	Simon	GILL	54	:	16	M	SM
686	10	Nick	SPICE	54	:	39	M	SM	Almost Athletes
661	11	Colin	DOWNEY	54	:	48	M	MV50	Stourbridge Running Club
675	12	Deborah	PHELPS	55	:	05	F	SL	Holme Pierrepont Running Club
669	13	Mark	RICKARD	55	:	13	M	SM	Gloucester AC
694	14	Mark	THOMAS	55	:	14	M	MV40	Cotswold Allrunners
651	15	Dan	PERRY	55	:	44	M	SM	Cobra Running Cclub
655	16	Rob	JORDAN	55	:	45	M	MV40	Tewkesbury AC
671	17	Tom	GILLMAN	56	:	00	M	SM
695	18	David	MICHAEL	56	:	45	M	MV50	Cotswold Allrunners
660	19	Peter	BARRETT	56	:	47	M	SM	Cotswold Allrunners
693	20	Barry	O’DRSICOLL	57	:	20	M	MV40	Tewkesbury AC
691	21	Keith	WATERS	57	:	35	M	MV50	Cotswold Allrunners
			THE BORE	57	:	42
666	22	Stephen	PERRIS	57	:	52	M	MV50	Cotswold Allrunners
683	23	Jennie	MARSHALL	57	:	58	F	LV45	Cotswold Allrunners
653	24	Neil	CLARK	59	:	30	M	MV40	Cotswold Allrunners
658	25	Rob	GILES	60	:	20	M	MV40	Clevedon AC
659	26	Matt	EVANS	61	:	13	M	SM	Cotswold Allrunners
657	27	Al	ARTHUR	62	:	25	M	MV40
654	28	Gerard	NEWMAN	64	:	05	M	MV50	Cotswold Allrunners
677	29	Brian	EVANS	64	:	35	M	SM
664	30	Sonia	ROBINS	65	:	00	F	LV35	Hardley Runners
692	31	Claire	WATERS	66	:	19	F	LV35	Angels Running Club
665	32	Kate	PERRIS	66	:	34	F	LV45	Cotswold Allrunners
652	33	Gavin	TOWNSEND	67	:	35	M	MV40	Cotswold Allrunners
689	34	Stephen	THACKER	70	:	32	M	MV50	Cotswold Allrunners
690	35	Paul	KNUCKLE	70	:	53	M	MV40	Cotswold Allrunners
670	36	Riki	MOODY	72	:	02	M	SM
656	37	James	CLAY	72	:	16	M	SM	Clevedon AC
681	38	Tina	LANGE	73	:	50	F	LV35
668	39	Clare	GERBRANDS	76	:	16	F	LV45	Cotswold Allrunners
673	40	Andrea	PLAYLE	76	:	35	F	LV45	Cotswold Allrunners
663	41	Coralie	PEARSON	78	:	45	F	SL	Almost Athletes
662	42	Ray	PEARSON	79	:	35	M	MV50	Almost Athletes
667	43	Deanna	HODGSON	79	:	35	F	SL
682	44	Marcia	THOMPSON	87	:	05	F	LV35	Cotswold Allrunners
674	45	Aileen	FRASER	87	:	20	F	LV45
687	W	Simon	CALLADINE	112	:
688	W	Tracey	CALLADINE	112	:

If you spot an error or something missing please get in touch

 

 

 

Forest of Dean Half Marathon 2012

A big congratulations to the Cotswold Allrunners in this years Forest of Dean Half Marathon

If you ran and have something to say about the race and your experience, please get in touch via the contactform

Results:

Results 2012, 1st April

Pos	#	NAME		TIME	CAT
246	1629	Allister	KEATING	01:35:53	MV40
798	234	Rose	NILAND-SMITH	01:49:48	FV50
861	1887	Peter	BARRETT	01:49:30	MSNR
958	1687	Lorna	ADAMSON	01:52:18	FV50
1021	477	Jennie	MARSHALL	01:53:33	FV45
1039	490	Nicola	FOWLES	01:53:44	FV35
1800	1880	Dinah	BENNEWORTH	02:13:56	FV50
1806	1882	Mal	WALKER	02:14:03	MV60
1834	392	Val	KIRBY	02:14:51	FV60

Official results can be downloaded from http://www.forestofdean-halfmarathon.co.uk/

or you can download a copy of spreadsheet from www.iamoutdoors.co.uk/_docs/27_214_1.xls

Minchinhampton 10K – 2012

A classic early Spring Road Race through beautiful Cotswold surroundings combined with a fun offroad Common run for Juniors

At 10:30am a horn echoed out across the quiet School fields in Minchinhmapton to signify the start of the 3rd Minchinhampton 10K.  With a full to capacity race of 180 entrants, the streets of this scenic Cotswold village were filled with runners taking on this undulating/hilly course.

 

 

Full results available at www.Minch10k.co.uk/results

We hope everyone enjoyed their Cotswold Allrunners 10K experience and would like to see you at another event soon.

Our next event: The Sizzling 6 (Sat, 14th July)

 

 

 

 

 

A farewell to Jeannie and Alastair

Giving Jeannie and Alastair a great farewell

written by Simon Barnes on behalf of all Cotswold Allrunners

It’s not often in life when you can honestly say, I don’t want you to leave, but in this instance it’s so very true.

Sadly, Jeannie and Alastair Hignell are leaving Stroud.

The reasons behind it are fully understandable.

Not as I had originally thought, that Jeannie hated hills, as she first told me as I chaperoned her up Selsley Hill on a cold Thursday evening nearly 3 years ago, in preparation for the 2008 Stroud Half Marathon.

But instead to improve Alastair’s independence and wellbeing.

As we all know Alastair has Multiple Sclerosis and moving to Brighton with the fresh sea air, flatter routes to get around and no doubt the viewing of the Ladies Brighton Beach Volleyball Club every Monday and Saturday evening will improve his wellbeing.

However, it seems like only yesterday when Jeannie turned up at Archway School the training ground of Stroud & District Athletic Club, to prepare herself for the Stroud Half Marathon, that her husband had entered her for. Every week for about 12 weeks, Alastair would be there at the sidelines, to support her!

Over the weeks more flocked to the group voluntarily, although according them it was more of an ambush. On introduction to new runners, I would always ask, “Do you run often, what is your motivation behind the Stroud Half Marathon?”.

The many responses I got, started to make me realise that perhaps Higgy’s Heroes, or should I say Alastair, was maybe encouraging members of his family, as well as the general public to take on a challenge they had no idea what it actually entailed.

Here are a few of the answers I got;

“We popped into lunch, had a glass of wine or two and when we left, we had entered a half marathon“, Aimee and Anthony Lax (now club Chairman).  “I‘ve never ran before but Alastair says a half marathon isn’t far“, Angela a friend.  And the best of all, “we just turned up to give the Hignells a quote for some decoration work and here we are, training to run 13.1 miles“, local Stroud painters.

I think you all get the idea of how Higgy’s Heroes started, but how can you refuse? Higgy’s Heroes, a part of the Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre (MSRC) charity, who offer huge amounts of support and advice to MS sufferers and Alastair being one!

Since 2008, Higgy’s Heroes has grown and many of us at Cotswold Allrunners have supported the charity at the Stroud Half Marathon, London Marathon and other national events, for various personal reasons and this this support is essential.

So, as a thank you, On Sunday, 11th September we organised a farewell for Jeannie and Alastair at the Pavilion, Brimscombe.  Well, considering it was a Sunday evening after some Cotswold Allrunners had taken on the challenge of the Woodchester Park 8mile Multi-terrain challenge only a few hours earlier, it was a great send off for them both.

The great news is, Alastair will stay on as President and Jeannie has been made an honoury member of Cotswold Allrunners, so will still play a part in Cotswold Allrunners and as promised we will keep in touch.

So here we are, time to say farewell!

On a personal level I wish them all the best for the future and thank them sincerely for their input in making Cotswold Allrunners the friendly running club it is today and on behalf of all Cotswold Allrunners a very big thank you, too.

Thank you!

Bristol 10k

The Bristol 10k saw 4  Cotswold Allrunners, take on the challenge with 11,000 other runners on a lovely sunny day.

[private]Donna Findlay who completed the Bristol Half Marathon last September returned for this event along with three of the clubs more recent members who all work together and seem to help bring the best out in each other.  They are Jackie McCormick, Jo Wheeler and Sam Welbourn.[/private]

Official results are available at

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