London Marathon Draw - Marshal Places - the 8 London Marathon places for the Marshals go to the following:

Catherine Leather	Alex Eyles	Julie Molyneaux	Susie Rees
Lee Hinton	Irene Liming	Louise Cooper	Ian Giggs

London Marathon Draw - The draw for 5 club places for the London Marathon took place on Wednesday 2nd of November at 9pm. The results are as follows, congratulations to the lucky 5 winners.

The successful 5!
1 Steve Siddel	2 Julie Thompson	3 Mark Smith	4 David Caswell	5 Emma Noonan
The following were drawn in this order:-
6 David Leake	7 Tina Wilson	8 Simon Denton	9 Derek Finnie	10 Bob Thomas
11 Timothy Clements	12 Richard Sherman	13 Graham Spratt	14 Simon Davis	15 Lorraine Bailey
16 Shane Leather	17 Pete Morris	18 Claire Seymour	19 Simon Brimacombe	20 Philip Scott
21 Stephen Pearson	22 David McCoy	23 Chris James

New Arrival - Contratulations to Paul Roberson and Andrea Bennett on the birth of Mabel Elsie, born 22nd September 2011 at 10am and weighing 8lb 3oz.

RR Vet Ladies win SEAA Road Relays - It was gold all round for our V40+ 'A' Team at the SEAA Road Relays on Saturday 24th September at Rushmore Arena, Aldershot. Holding off a strong challenge from Winchester AC, Windsor, Slough & Eaton AC, Woking AC and Reading AC the sterling efforts of the Reading Roadrunners ladies was second to none.. Belinda Tull took the first leg (15:40), Jackie Perrin second (14:41) Lesley Whiley third (15:25) and Carol Bowker on the glory leg (15:09) winning in 1:00:55, 2 mins 17 clear of Winchester AC and 2 mins 33 clear of Woking AC in third. This was a well supported event by Reading Roadrunner Ladies with 16 runners in total participating in two other Vet teams and a Senior team.

 

 

 

 

MOTI Shoe Fit Lab Session - MOTI will be at the track session on Wednesday 28th September to provide Reading Roadrunners with a shoe fit lab session and will be bringing a huge range of Newton and Merrll barefoot shoes for you to try

Social Relay - There is a social relay from Bristol to Reading taking place on 11th September, check out the details on the social page.

April Fools SAD Club Handicap Mile Carl Woffington won the April Fools Handicap Mile, results can be found here.

Sarah Gee Runs for England (26.09.10) - article written by Stan Eldon
A great triumph for Sarah Gee of Reading Roadrunners running her first international race at the age of 46 years. She led the English team of three home in the Toronto Waterfront Marathon run at 7:30am on Sunday morning. In a top quality field including many of the best world top female runners she finished 10th female in 2:38.31, just outside her PB set at Edinburgh earlier this year. She ran a very sensible even paced race and was never outside the top 12 and moved through to 11 th and then 10th in the latter stages. Her first 10k was run in 37:48, and she reached halfway in 79:30, 30k in 1:53.03 and 40k in 2:30.22 (an average of 37.36 each 10k),  very sensible even running.  The race was won in a new record for the event of 2:22.43 by Sharon Cherop (Kenya) and all the runners ahead of her were well known established international marathon runners, 2 Kenyans, 4 Ethiopians, 2 Russians and a Japanese.
I followed her race on the very good live website as the race was run and it was great to see the way she tackled the event. A first international can be a daunting experience but she took it in her stride and again ran faster than any of the British girls in the recent European Championships Marathon. Although missing out on one of the top 8 place prizes she did very easily win the Masters prize.
The England team of mixed gender and based on finishing positions won bronze medals with Sarah the leading runner on position male or female. Canada were the team winners from Japan and England.
Sarah told me on her return “I’m well and truly happy with my performance although not a PB, but you can always have PBs. The first time I have run internationally for England and there were lots of changes to cope with. Long flight, time change of 5 hours, sharing a room and it was all new to me….I also liked getting the Masters title and it is nice to have my name on a Canadian trophy (it stays in Canada)

An Evening with Rosie Swale-Pope MBE  + PRESENTATION OF LONDON MARATHON TEAM MEDALS – Wednesday 14 July 2010, 8pm at Palmer Park. Guaranteed to be a fantastic evening listening to Rosie’s stories of her various adventures of “Running Round the World” and “26 Marathons in 26 Days” to name but a few!!
Rosie along with a representative from England Athletics will be presenting the London Marathon Team Prize to the rightful winners – Sarah Gee, Karen Hathway and Nikki Aitken.

Ridgeway Relay - The A team finished 3rd in just under 10 hours, 4 minutes behind Headington in 2nd place. The Winners VOACC (Vale of Aylesbury) finished in just under 9h30min setting a new record. The B finished 22nd and Vets team 38th.

South Downs Marathon Relay The “A” team came in 3rd place out of 100 teams and 12 minutes behind the winning team.

Help needed for Dinton Pastures Relays Richard Hammerson is looking for helpers at this years Dinton Pastures Relays on Thursday 8th July. Dont worry if you want to run as you will still be able to....see Richard for further details and check out the Help Poster on the Dinton page.

Reading Roadrunners Ladies wins Team Gold at London Congratulations to Sarah Gee (2:40:06) Karen Hathaway (2:57:06) and Nicki Aiken (3:13:16) who put together a sterling team performance to win Gold for first team at the Virgin London Marathon.

Sarah Gee wins London Marathon Sarah Gee, running in the Championship race at the Virgin London Marathon on Sunday 25th April finished 1st lady and 1st vet lady in 2 hrs 40 minutes and 06 seconds, a personal best by 5 minutes and 29 seconds.

Overall Sarah was 25th lady, 8th British lady and 1st vet overall beating Romania's Constantina Dita's time by over a minute. An awesome achivement for Sarah, well done.

London Marathon Well done to all 48 runners who completed the course after months of hard training, our marshals and supporters.

Gait Analysis MOTI Run-Fitness-Triathlon Specialist Store located in Alfred Street, Reading, will be at Palmer Park on Wednesday 19th May offering a free Biomechanical Assessment and Video Gait Analysis.

Discount MOTI Run-Fitness-Triathlon Specialist Store, 5 Alfred Street, Reading is now offering Reading Roadrunners 10% discount on production of your membership card along with The Sweatshop and Lace Ups. Cotswold Outdoor Store in Basingstoke Road offers 20%.

Cross Country Championship Carl Woffington has now published the results of the Club Championship which is run throughout the Sunday cross country season. Full details along with rules are found on the Cross Country page.

Car Boot Sales Please see the Charity webpage for details of the Charity Car Boot Sales. If you need any further information please see Tim Povey or Geoff Chaffer on a Wednesday evening at Palmer Park.

Membership renewals The deadline for renewal of your membership has passed. If you missed the deadline you will now have to rejoin as a new member for the higher fee. Membership form is on the Join Us page. Any questions regarding membership please email – membership@readingroadrunners.org.

London Marathon Coach - Seats are still available on the coaches ferrying runners and spectators to Charring Cross Station from Palmer Park at 6am on Sunday 25th April. Tickets are priced at £12 and you need to pay when booking your seat at a Wednesday track session. This is a good stress free way to travel to London.

Reading Half Marathon - Well done to all that helped out at the Reading Half Marathon on Sunday 21st March. There were lots of helpers behind the scenes as well as at the start. It is much appreciated by the organisers. As is the support of the ladies in our tent supplying refreshments much appreciated too. We had a good turnout for our charity, well done to all the bucket runners who raised over £600 on the day. And finally, well done all of you that ran, showing our huge presence on the streets of Reading. Wear your club colours and be seen.

Club Kit - Details of our kit are now on the Club kit page. An order form is in the process of being created and details how to order will appear soon.

Team Events a new page for team events has been added to the website. This was earmarked for the Results page but as club results are reported in the newsletter it was decided to change it to Team Events.

Charity 2010 As no Charity was put forward at the AGM in February it was left for the main charity committee to pick a local charity, or a few, for us to support for the year. Tim Povey and Geoff Chaffer has come up with Daisy's Dream (see Charity page) and dates for Car Boot Sales will be added to the Charity page soon.

Mortimer 10km The Entry for for the Mortimer 10km is now available.

Bramley 20/10 The date of 20th February has been set for the 2011 race.

Sarah Gee competed for GB in the Barcelona Half Marathon Championships on Sunday 14th February 2010. After unexpected snow on the start line, Sarah ran a person best time of over a minute and a half, 1:16:01 to finish fourth overall and 1st vet and 1st British lady. A fantastic run and achievement, well done Sarah.

Sports Personality of the Year Awards - Reading Roadrunners was awarded 'Team of the Year' in the recent Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Sarah Gee was awarded Veteran of the year for her sterling efforts throughout 2009.

Website Update - The website is being revamped for ease of use and updating news now Lee Hinton has passed over control. Please be patient while everything is converted to the new format. The committee is looking into a more professional site where members will be able to log in, order kit, update results etc.....watch this space.