Club Champs Update No 16 - Monday 30th September

 

Two Breweries

Congratulations to Oli Jepsen, Simon Hammond, Danny Lavin, Colin Williams, Thomas Jones, Craig Walling, Alex Bain, Dorien Kimenai & Mike Goddard who all managed to make it over the hills and complete the Two Breweries race on Saturday. Some impressive times all round on what is the toughest course in the Champs this year. Shout out to Mike Goddard who was the oldest finisher and first MV75, so some hard earned podium points there.

Beyond that, there has been a steady flow of Park Run activity as we approach the closing stages of this year's Champs.

Overall Standings

No change at the top of the leader board with Carol in the lead, Gillian in second and Coreen in third. It's close behind that with 10 folk now over the Champs Medal Threshold and a similar number within a race or two of passing that mark before the end of the champs.

Full Champs Spreadsheet

Next Up

The next race is The Great Scottish Half in Glasgow on Sunday, followed by the final Age Graded TT on Tuesday 15th Oct and then the choice of Lillesleaf 10k or Devil's Foot Half/10k on Sunday 20th. 

As always, errors, omissions, Park Runs and anything else to declare => MoorfootRunnersSecretary@gmail.com

Martin

Club Champs Update No 15 - Sunday 22nd September

 

The 22nd event in this year's Champs took place today with 5k, 10k and Half Marathon options on offer at The Wild Deer Trail event in Dalkeith.

In the half, Moorfoot Junior James Moore finished an impressive second and first male in a very quick 1:31:46. Super impressive on any course but given all the twists, turns, ups & downs that is a mighty fast time.

For the seniors Ian Munro had a great run picking up podium points for 3rd place in MV60, closely followed by Tim Warner with his canine companion. Jen Misak also started but wasn't feeling 100% so opted out of lap 2.

In the 10k there was a very strong Moorfoot performance with 4 Moorfoot finishers in what we believe were the top 8. The official results look a little wonky to some of us, and we think a tail end finisher in the 5k is currently showing as the ladies winner in the 10k!😖 The results have been appealed and I think after the "stewards enquiry" the results will show that Dean Carr finished 3rd (1st in MV50), Carol Moss was 4th (certainly 1st in FV60 and actually the First Lady minus the interloper), Martin Holt 7th and Gillian Carr 8th (1st in FV50). Coreen McGovern was 1st in FV50 and Scott Gourlay rounded up the Moorfoot team "just topping his points up"!😉

UPDATE: The results were amended as expected so Carol was indeed the winning lady and placings as above.

Aside from today's efforts, Carol Moss and Ian Munro were in action last weekend at the Sedfield Serpentine 10k with Carol winning FV60. Also David Carter-Brown had a great run at the Glencoe Marathon winning MV40.

There have been the usual selection of Park Runs etc - too numerous to mention.

So with seven events left to go in this year's Champs the standings are as follows:

Carol has a 50 point lead over Gillian in second and Coreen has overtaken Jen to move into third. David Carter-Brown has moved up significantly and is in Two Breweries action next weekend so there is still all to play for. Meanwhile the spreadsheet elves are off to work out how many Championship medals to order?😃

Full details in the link:

Club Champs Spreadsheet

Next up it's The Two Breweries then the Great Scottish Half.

As always, if there any errors, omissions, Park Runs or anything else to declare then => MoorfootRunnersSecretary@gmail.com

Martin

Club Champs Update No 14 - Friday 13th September

 

Well done to all those who braved a chilly Tuesday evening down at Tweedbank Track. Another amazing run from Carol Moss saw her post an age grading time of 93.00% and take maximum podium points. David Carter-Brown was fastest on the night and came second in the age grading, and the podium was completed by Neil Jackson in 3rd place for seniors (although great credit to his son David who was third in the age rankings but not eligible for Club Champs points). The other runners were Cameron Munro, Sarah Burthe, Dorien Kimenai, Andrew Fish, Sam Layton, Mark Newell and Scott Gourlay. Mark became the 54th person to register points in the Club Champs this year.

Thanks are due once again to Mike Goddard for organising and Kerry Law and Pete Caddick for timing and lap counting. 

Tuesday's points mean that in the overall standings Carol Moss now has 260 points and a lead of 45 points over Gillian Carr in second with Jen Misak in 3rd on 185.

Club Champs Spreadsheet

There are 8 events still to go in this year's Champs with bonus points still available for additional runs of 10k, Half-marathon, marathon & ultras for those who've not bagged these. Also don't forget there are "Team Player" points for anyone who joins a club relay team.

Next up are the Wild Deer Events in Dalkeith Country Park on Sunday 22nd with 5k, 10k and Half Marathons all available. It looks like they are still taking entries.

As always, if there are any errors, ommissions or you have park runs or any other events to declare then => MoorfootRunnersSecretary@gmail.com

Martin