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Athletics Report 11
Southern & National of the race where we finished then Richard Webb, Michael
12 stage Road Relays a respectful 20th place to Skinner, James Poole, Fintan
qualify for the final, phew! Parkinson, Jonathan Vintner,
The Southern road relays Dan Kennedy and Chris
was a dramatic performance The final Winter Schedule Tuck finished up in an overall
all around. Having struggled drew to a close on with the reasonable 31st. Not a bad
to field a team initially, all National 12 Stage Relays at performance overall.
the stops were pulled to get Sutton park, Birmingham. In
together a team last minute! very much the same vein, we London Marathon
Run at the same venue as struggled to field a significant
2015, Milton Keynes, it was team to contend with the big The London Marathon is not
quite a windy/rainy day. 12 boys owing to the proximity a formal part of our Winter
stage relays are always the of the London Marathon, fixtures, but it affords such a
hardest events to pull a team but needless to say we had place in our running hearts,
together for, and yet again some strong commitment and it always deserve a mention.
2015 did not disappoint. solid performances from the Scott Overall finished in a
We had somewhat of a stalwarts of the season. solid 2:13:13 and finished in
ramshackle outfit, but with 13th place overall. Other great
a determined and solid Alex Bruce-Littlewood performances came from
commitment from all we powered through a long Fintan Parkinson 2:33:13,
managed to pull through. leg with a solid 5th placing, Ian Taylor 3:10:01, Gareth
getting us off to a cracker. Griffin in 3:12:03, Peter
VP Tim Ayres, ferried up a Phil Sesemann outperformed Rogers 3:29:31, Adrian Stocks
bunch of our runners, who even himself to come in 1st 3:32:00, Iain Swatton 3:32:33,
cracked on with the early place, leaving the baton over Chris Pike 3:45:36 and
legs. Having a sterling start, to Danny Brewer, who despite Richard Griffin 4:33:34.
we had a very fast leg from his best efforts, finished up
Alex Bruce-Littlewood who in 18th place. Steve Cooper, Andy Rayner, Dan Brewer,
outperformed himself to Peter Tucker held us in 18th, Jon Vintner
bring us in 4th, with Phil
Sesemann steaming us ahead Club competitors at the London Marathon saluting the camera before
in 2nd with a cracking short they are about to die!
leg time. Peter Tucker kept
us in contention in 9th, and
then Richard Webb held us
in at 8th. Tom Desborough
performed well in 17th, with
Will Fuller running a very
fast short leg bringing us in
at 17th. Jon Vintner, Will
Ruiz, Dan Kennedy, Georges
Vacharopoulos, James Poole
and Rob Yates kept us in
contention for the remainder
