22 September 2019 - SEAA Road Relays at Crystal Palace
After a brave effort by all involved, we failed to
qualify a team for the National Road Relays after winding up 36th out of 74
complete teams at the SEAA 6 Stage Road Relays Crystal Palace on Sunday.
This fixture has been fertile ground for us in recent years, but a
combination of injuries, training commitments and European Club competition
left us slightly depleted this time.
After a later promotion to the first leg of the A
Team, Tom Desborough battled to 70th in the most competitive leg of the day
to set the team up. Alex Gibbins promptly got the chase under way by
elevating the team to 64th. From one Alex to another as Alex Bruce-Littlewood
ran a barnstorming leg to make up 19 places and bring us up to 45th and give
the team hope in the second half of the race. Joss Barber, on his way to
full fitness after a summer in New Zealand, continued the chase with a
further escalation to 39th. Dan Kennedy could only add another couple of
places to this while carrying a niggle, leaving James Habergham, in his road
debut for the club, too much to do, although he ultimately left us in 36th.
A huge gain from the start, but not enough.
In addition a 2 man incomplete team of Jason Meers and
Ifetobi Salako made the most of the occasion to place 85th and 83rd in the
extremely competitive first 2 legs of the day. They were joined by a vets
team consisting of L. Crowder, Dave Beadle, Adrian Stocks and Andy Lawes who
began in 21st and rose to 20th out of 22 complete teams with committed runs
from everyone.
Full results are attached:
http://seaa.org.uk/index.php/results/road-running
Up the Heath!
Chris, Dan & Ross
26 May 2019 - Edinburgh Marathon
|
Pos |
Name (Number) |
Chip time |
|
|
54 |
Daniel Brewer (266) |
2h 52m 35s |
Male |
|
10k: 37m 13s |
|
Half: 1h 19m 56s |
|
30k: 1h 55m 19s |
|
Gun Time:2h 52m 38s |
|
449 |
William Brindley (1225) |
3h 21m 14s |
Over 45 : Male |
|
10k: 45m 31s |
|
Half: 1h 35m 39s |
|
30k: 2h 17m 10s |
|
Gun Time:3h 23m 26s |
|
554 |
Matt Bullen (1935) |
3h 24m 32s |
Over 50 : Male |
|
10k: 44m 50s |
|
Half: 1h 37m 19s |
|
30k: 2h 20m 51s |
|
Gun Time:3h 25m 42s |
|
573 |
Steven Pairman (1635) |
3h 25m 12s |
Over 55 : Male |
|
10k: 45m 8s |
|
Half: 1h 36m 15s |
|
30k: 2h 17m 32s |
|
Gun Time:3h 26m 45s |
9-15 May 2019 - 2019 EMU
6 Day Race World Trophy, Hungary
All over now, John did 554 km and
David 353 (walking)
15-05-19
1 second down just less than 5 days 23 hrs 59
minuses and 59 seconds to go!! John Turner & David
Hoben
2019 EMU
6 Day Race World Trophy. 9-15 May 2019. John
bib 34, David bib 31
24 March 2019
- Southern 12 Stage Relay, Milton Keynes
So yesterday saw 12 of Blackheath and Bromley's finest
athletes head up to the more Northern parts of the South of England for the
SEAA 12 Stage Relays.
It was with great relief that 10 of the 12 were at the
course prior to the 1st leg. Something that was a pleasant surprise to the
team management and a theme that continued in to the race.
1st leg was undertaken by Will Fuller who made the
declaration prior to the start that he had 'forgotten how to race'. A quick
instruction from team management that it was left foot, right foot repeat
was well received as he came storming back in to the track in 1st place. The
6th fastest long leg of the day.
Off set Lewis Mills and despite the fear and
instruction of the team management to not go off to fast and manage his
effort for the whole leg he flew off but came back flying as well still in
first place and 8th fastest short leg.
Next up was Josh Schofield who went off in first place
but with a number of clubs breathing down his neck. He managed to return to
the track in third but put in an early showing for what is to come for the
summer season as he managed to use the last lap of the track to full effect
and get the team back in to 2nd place.
The unenviable job of taking over in this lofty
position fell to Marco Arcuri but he really dug in and stuck to the task
well to keep the team well up pecking order in 7th.
Alex Bruce-Littlewood then took on the next long leg
and found himself in quite the fight with a lot of teams in and around him.
It was this fact that left the team managers delighted to see him back on
the track in a strong 10th place just ahead of the half way stage.
This half way stage leg was for the ever on the come
back trail Will Ruiz and he would have fooled most people that he hasn't
been running as he climbed to 9th.
The ever green Alex Gibbins had the next long leg and
whilst he might have dragged the average age of the team up a bit he did
nothing to drag the team down and came back with the team still in the top
10.
Even Danny Brewer had arrived with enough time to not
panic everyone and despite his skin tight short being rather baggy. (To the
point where Tom Desborough's purple shorts might have been a better option),
he put in a strong leg for 12th place but most importantly in the mix with
those in front and building distance on those behind.
Fresh from a self designed warm weather training camp
and with nearly 100 miles in the legs and a questionable tan Ross Braden had
the next leg and pulled us back in to 10th place.
10th leg was left to team manager/uber driver/U23 day
care provider Chris Tuck and despite a lack of form, training and a whole
host of other excuses managed to hold us in 10th even with the slowest team
leg of the day.
11th leg went to Charlie 'tempo run' Davis whose
version of a tempo run was still at least 20 secs quicker than the leg in
front of him. Holding us in 10th place and a minute lead on 11th.
12th and final leg went to Callum Myatt making his
senior team debut. He did not let the fact he had had to wait all day for
his leg and worked hard on what is a very lonely leg to bring the team
across the line in 10th place. 1 minute 30 secs ahead of the chasers.
This is as far as we can tell the best finish we have
managed at these Championships since 2005 when we finished in 9th. So a
great effort and with such a large part of the team at the lower end of the
senior men age bracket this is something that we can look to improve on in
the coming years.
The first step to build on this is the National 12
Stage which we have qualified for in two weeks time on Saturday 6th April.
Could we please ask that everyone regardless of weather you ran on the
weekend let us know of your availability so that we can try and pick the
strongest possible team to try and turn our highest Southerns position in a
number of years to a highest National finish.
Please note that anyone 17, 18 or 19 on 31st August
2018 can run in the senior team for this event.
Up the Heath.
Dan, Ross, Chris
