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Rob Tipping, SE Fitness leader extraordinaire, beat his own 10K record this morning finishing in 42’54.  Jon Hartland finished 2nd in under 45 minutes.  They both had 41 points in the Grand Prix before this event but did either of them manage a Season’s Best?  All will be revealed at the Summer Social!

For the girls Heidi Ryan was first lady over 10K in 56’29 closely followed by Tracieann Richards.  Great running ladies!

Adam Barnes (in white) and Chris Mitchell came home first and second for the boys on Saturday in great times of 20’32 and 20’33 respectively.  Not quite fast enough to beat the new record Adam set yesterday.  Next time lads!

For the girls Rosie Thompson was first back in back in under 25 minutes shortly followed by our own lovely leader Amanda Baxter.

Thank you to Malcolm Ward who took some great pictures of the Time Challenge on Saturday.  Go to SEFitness/Events/TimeChallenge to see them.  This one of Dan Porter beating the old folks is one of my favourites.  What’s yours?

10km Records

Congratulations to Rob Tipping who posted a new record for SE Fitness. He has reduced Matt Gibbons previous best of 43 mins 46 seconds by 17 seconds. The SE Fitness 10km Family Time Challenge record is now 43 mins and 29 seconds!

Michelle Wills narrowly missed the Womens best which was set in June 2013 by Rebecca Pritchard by a mere 5 seconds. Poor Michelle has run the fastest time on this course for a number of years and is getting closer to the record every time. Rebecca’s record stands at 47 mins and 29 seconds.

5km Records

In the 5km Jon Hartland’s record of 21 mins and 25 seconds from June 2013 still stands. Adam Page missed this record by just 14 seconds.

However, Helyn McConnell’s record set in the same event of 25 mins 22 seconds was taken by Ali Stewart who ran an amazing 23 mins and 23 seconds! Another new record for SE Fitness!

Congratulations to Dan Porter!  He set out to beat us oldies (friends of his Mom) over the 5K route and if Adam had not dropped out of the 10K he would have. Well done Dan!

5K Saturday Results

1st Adam Page 22’24, 2nd Dan Porter (age 13) 24’58, 3rd Michelle Stammers (one of our own leaders) 26’33.

10K Saturday Results

1st Rob Tipping (another leader) 43’29, narrowly beating John McConnell (husband) at 46’19.  Well done Michael Forker in third place with 47’22.

Michelle Wills 1st woman over 10K in 47’34.  Michelle also provided the post race refreshments: a wonderful selection of homemade cakes which made her a winner in everyone’s book…. especially the dog!

We had a wonderful morning and I hope you did too.  Thank you to everyone who turned up and helped make it such a success.

For full results go to: www.sefitness.com/events-courses/results/family-time-challange-results.

Well done to everyone who took part in the Time Challenge this morning.   Winner of 5k Adam Page in 21:39.  Winner of 10k Corrinne Neville in 49:00.  For full results and more photos go to the website Time Challenge Friday 27th February.  Please email Sally to add your result to the Grand Prix.

Despite a bit of rain first thing runners still turned out for the final disc run of the season. Great to see so many new disc runners 9 first timers out of a total of 14. Congratulations to Simon Braggington who ran 2 seconds faster than ever before and Clive Sayer who knocked off 7 seconds! Newcomers Paul Stonuary goes into 3rd place on our top 10. Rich Sharred 6th and Roy Humpherson 8th.

Congratulations to all those who took part this morning! – results below.

This is our 9th Saturday Disc Run and we have now had a total of 120 different people taking part.

Due to the busy Summer schedule of events we have decided to stop the disc run until September 3rd. Put this date in your diary.

What a fantastic day for personal bests!

Of the 23 starters 6 improved on their previous best and 14 were new to the Saturday Disc Run.

Congratulations to Nigel Barnes whose ‘pb’ moves him up to number 2 spot on the all time fastest top 10 men. Also to Fiyaz Mohammed and John McConnell who come straight into the top 10 at number 4 and 6 respectively.

Newcomers Kate Johnson and Anne Barber also make the top all time womens lists filling 4th and 6th positions.

We had great weather and a great atmosphere. Congratulations to all those who took part!

Thanks to Duncan Burton and Yvonne Malone for doing a grand job on registration and helping to erect the gazebo.

Thanks to Nigel Barnes and Duncan Burton for volunteering to support our next event which is April 2nd. Hope to see you then.

Where we lacked quantity we gained quality: just 11 finishers (lowest ever) but 5 personal bests! So, for those who were put off by the wind & rain read on…..Michelle’s new pb takes her up one place to number 8 on the fastest womens times and Laura’s pb puts her at number 10. Nigel’s pb keeps him at number 3 on the fastest ever mens times and rookie Graham goes straight in at number 7. Simon is our 5th participant to gain a pb.

Thanks to our volunteers today : Caroline & Duncan.  

See you all (and your friends!) for the next disc run : Saturday March 5th @ 9am. Volunteers for March : Duncan & Yvonne….thank you.

Congratulations to all those who braved the January Disc Run.

After the snow brought Suton Coldfield to a standstill on Friday morning, we were awoken to a windy Saturday morning.

Runners and Walkers battled their way up to the Jamboree Stone and so, it was no surprise that the only personal best times were seen by those who were attending their first ever disc run. Fastest runner of the day was Andrea Deathridge.

The next Disc run takes place on Saturday February 5th.

Thank you to our Volunteers for the day: Rob Cherry & Charlie Smart.

Thank you to Yvonne Malone, Caroline Hobbs and Duncan Burton for volunteering for our February Disc run.

Results: January 8th 2011