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Chiltern Harriers have gone to town on the creativity front this week! We wanted to know what our members were doing in lockdown, and to show us them doing it in their kit. Well, they didn't disappoint. Enjoy this selection of videos and 'still life' submitted on social media. Sound needed.
UPDATE: The Results Are In! 1st Place: Neil Bates is working 9-to-5 2nd Place: Ben Hetherington's Barefoot Boy 3rd Place: t's Raining Men in Alex's life Meanwhile junior athlete Savarnah Pandya has run a marathon this week. Savarnah ran just over 6k everyday for 7 days around the local fields and roads where she lives. She has raised more than £900 (!) for local charity, Florence Nightingale Hospice, which is suffering from the lack of fundraising events in the current circumstances. Well done, Savarnah! If you want to sponsor Savarnah, please visit JustGiving. Next weekend's #HarriersChallenge will be in honour of #VEDay75, so get thinking. Full details at the end of this post.          After the success of the Virtual 1k Relays last week which featured athletes from Nick Hughes’s group, Chiltern tackled a 2k Relays event this week. This saw a great turnout of 125 runners across 25 teams and included runners from Nick’s group, Steve’s group, Brian’s group, the senior group, and assorted coaches and parents.
Any 2k route whether on grass or road was permitted and there were a diverse range of circuits that the athletes attempted. Those with Strava could measure their efforts with precise accuracy. The winning team ended up being Team 15 in 35 minutes 40, which featured good runs from Angus Williams (5.56), Katy Repper (7.06), Charlie Stone (6.44), George Brown (7.02) and Simon Dent. In second in 36.23 was Team 19 which included two of the fastest runs from Richard Slade (5.45) and Sam Howell (6.01). Completing the team were Daniel Munn (6.55), Jinaan Lockwood (7.32) and Millie Glenister (10.10). Flying the flag for the seniors in 36.53 in third were Team 24 comprising Ellie Bates (7.50), Neil Bates (7.42), Andy Hickman (6.55), Tom Powell (7.24) and Andy Wiseall (7.02). On an individual basis there were some extremely impressive efforts. The top three were all within a whisker of each other with Richard Slade (5.45), Aran Davidson (5.46) and Will Perkin (5.47) all completing great runs. Others in the male top ten were Angus Williams (5.56), Sam Howell (6.01), Max McGarvie (6.09), Harry Cox (6.12), Ben Jackson (6.25), Luke Martin (6.29) and Will Shield (6.30). These were all seniors, U20s or U17s but there were also very strong runs from U15s Thomas Askey (6.32) and Oakley Denson (6.33) and there were a host of impressive U13 times led by Max Baxter (6.38). Leon Doran (6.46), Isaac Jessop-Tranter (6.48), Euan Pinder (6.48), Archie Pinder (6.48), Daniel Munn (6.55) Ethan McCall (7.02) and Alex Hughes (7.06) were just some of the other great U13 efforts. On the girls side Zoe Gilbody again came out with the leading female time of 6.22. Others impressing included Frankie Baxter (6.46), Lesedi Nkoane (7.05), Katie Repper (7.06), Maddie Hughes (7.11), Marea Logan (7.11), Charlotte Gilbody (7.14), Hannah Ashby (7.25), Izzy Martin (7.31), Sav Pandya (7.32) and Jinaan Lockwood (7.32). Amongst the seniors Hannah Wardley ran well to log 7.08 on a course with some dead turns which slowed things down. Many other great times were logged by runners across the age groups and more virtual challenges are likely in the coming months. Nick Hughes’s group, aided by some coaches and parents, inserted some competition into the current fallow athletics environment by running a virtual 1k relay race.
Teams were made up of five runners and there were thirteen complete teams. Each runner ran a 1k route either on grass or road and were timed by someone from their household. Those on it were able to use data from the Strava app. Many runners in the club are keeping their running going on an individual basis, aided by guidance from coaches, and it was great to see athletes laying down some times and putting their training into practice. What a bunch of musically-minded people you Harriers proved to be! We received a plethora of entries for the Ultimate Playlist of running themed tracks. Thank you for taking part!
Following a public vote, it can now be revealed that your top three were as follows: Ellie Bates: A Life in Running Abi Chapman's Race Neil Bates' parkrun PB Playlist Sue Elliott and Tim Dawson were highly commended. You can view all of the entries below... who knows, maybe a few of these tracks might feature on the night at our Awards Evening & Social on 4 July? ;-) Chiltern Harriers didn't disappoint when set the challenge of coming up with something creative for Easter.
Following a vote on a shortlist of six, the top three entries were as follows: Katherine Day's poem Alistair Melville-Smith's Easter Bunny Strava art Katie Royals' biscuit race Well done to everyone for their wonderful entries, which display the full range of CHAC creativity. All of them are included below. (Sound recommended for the videos.) Well, it had to happen at some point. There are no races to report on, I don’t think you fancy pictures of Spring flowers (although they are truly beautiful), and I am not techy enough to create funny videos. I’ve written you a poem!
Well today was the first day of British Summer time and I, for one, am enjoying the fact that I am looking at my window and it’s still light. And I think I’ve made excellent use of it: in the last hour I have continued to feed my recent addiction to Spooks on BBC iPlayer, made some very questionable flapjacks and and ferreted about in my shed (without needing a torch).
Good Evening Race Report fans. I know that people look forward to Sunday evening Race Report, so in these extraordinary times, I did not want to leave you bereft! Given that there is more than enough content out there on the Internet about staying fit and healthy, and I did not think anyone needed to hear a lengthy account of the inner workings of my mind, I thought some pictures would brighten everyone's day.
Based on guidance issued by England Athletics, regrettably, we have had to cancel this evening's session and all club activities until the end of April at the earliest.
Stay strong, stay healthy, help each other. We'll get through this! Twenty-five Chiltern Harriers were taking part for their County Schools teams in the English Schools Cross Country Championships, held this year at Sefton Park in Liverpool. This is the big end-of-season young athletes championship with three age groups - Juniors (Years 8 and 9), Intermediates (Years 10 and 11), Seniors (Years 12 and 13).
It was a dry day but the flattish course was muddy and featured some standing water, so a challenging test for the runners. Zoe Gilbody grabbed the headlines again with a win in the Junior Girls race. That makes it a hat-trick of National titles for the Shropshire Schools runner, after National and Inter Counties success in the past few weeks. |
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