Well done to the night owls Jack and Sophie who took part in the 7k Blickling Night Run this weekend.
Special congratulations to Jack for being the first Junior home.
Great running guys.
Blickling Night Run
Mud and Mayhem Duathlon
Well done to the quartet of RntS who decided they wanted to get down and dirty and take part in the Mud and Mayhem Duathlon today at Thetford.
A 5k run followed by a 12k cycle and then another 5k run.
Official Times:
Ant – 1:26:35
Paul & Mat (Relay) – 1:32:55
Hayley W – 2:04:59
Coltishall Mad March Hare
A squadron of RntS landed at ex RAF Coltishall this morning to take part in the first of 3 trio of runs organised by the Jolly Jaguars. This year, the three medals all join up to make a BBMF grouping.
The runners taxied their way around the perimeter track and technical site before taking off as they hurtled towards the finish line.
Great running by everyone today included a couple of runners who were taking part in their first official 10k event.
As always, very well organised but as the runs get bigger, so do the queues for everything (see picture below!).
Official Results:
Paula – 49:08.3
Chris P – 57:01.2
Lucy Mc – 57:29.3
Chris L – 57:43.7
Kirsty – 59:21.9
Ceri – 59:37.4
Tasha – 1:01:05.6
Laura – 1:07:04.5
Marie – 1:09:23.0
Claire – 1:13:09.8
Angie – 1:13:26
Denise – 1:17:02.5
Shirley – 1:17:02.9
Teresa – 1:17:06.3
Lucy – 1:23:30.2
Gail – 1:23:31.0
More pictures to follow once Truprint get their act together…..
Bath Half
Brilliant sub 2hr running by David who ran the Bath Half Marathon today on his countdown to Comrades 2019 (83 ish days to go).
Official Time:
1:58:09
Hunny Bell X Country
So, apparently this is a true conversation overheard at the Hunny Bell X Country today:
“What’s that noise? Is it thunder?”
“No, that’s a heard of RntS galloping across the Stody Estate!”
Well, maybe that didn’t actually happen, but I think the run today is bordering on being the most well attended event by RntS so far!
With three juniors and an amazing 23 seniors (we’re not all that old are we?!) taking part there were more white shirts on show than at Fakenham laundry! Also, from what I can tell, that was more representation than any other club there today!
Not the greatest of conditions due to heavy rain over night and rain during the event, but good (muddy) fun nonetheless. With the reward of cake and coffee in the village hall at the end, it was a very well organised run for a worthwhile charity.
Well done everyone. Same time next year?
Official Times (Juniors):
Cam – 16:36.9
Ambie – 16:37.3 – 3rd in category
Jazz – 20:04.0
Official Times (Seniors):
Ant – 31:35.1
Kevin – 36:23.0
Glyn – 36:35.8
Paul – 37:54.0
Amanda – 38:01.7
Cat – 41:16.1
Roland – 41:54.2
Bunny – 41:58.2
Mark – 43:53.9
Hayley W – 44:04.0
Chris L – 44:19.7
Lucy Mc – 45:13.2
Nat – 45:35.9
Evette – 45:55.3
Libby – 46:35.2
Sophie – 50:31.3
Robert – 50:39.1
Hayley J – 51:26.8
Janice* – 52:03.0
Vikki – 53:29.0
Jim – 57:29.8
Lynne – 58:00.4
Claire – 1:01.3
Gill – 1:07:09.4
* RntS Mum & Nan
Pictures (thank you Mat ‘David Bailey’ Eyre):
Ringland Half Marathon
A fine turnout of RntS for the inaugural Ringland Half Marathon held at Roarr! (the dinosaur park) in Lenwade.
A great location for a race HQ and very well organised. Something really nice was the different running clubs manning the water-stations along the route (maybe something RntS could help with at an event?)
If anyone knows Ringland and the area, they’ll know it’s not completely flat and there were a couple of lovely earth wrinkles along the way.
A couple of PBs were gained in the rain and a few runners were taking part in their first ever HM event. Well done to everyone.
Official Results:
Ant – 1:28:29.9
Hayley M – 1:52:53.9
Cat – 2:04:49.0
Mark – 2:05:20.6
Lucy Mc – 2:07:52.5
Vikki – 2:14:31.0
Hayley J – 2:19:10.1
Kerrie – 2:21:09.1
Ceri – 2:27:43.2
Claire – 2:39:05.7
Cambridge Half Marathon
A bit of a journey for David and Kirsty who headed to Cambridge to be among the amost 8500 or so other runners taking part in the Cambridge Half Marathon.
It looks like the worst of the rain held off and both RntS have very good runs.
Official Times
David – 2:03:30
Kirsty – 2:15:52
Belvoir Challenge XC Marathon
Bi big kudos to Glyn who completed the Belvoir Challenge XC Marathon yesterday.
Not wanting to make it easy for himself, he did it in boots and with a 35lb bergen!
In his words “Belvoir Challenge XC Marathon. EXO Mountain Gear Bergan with 35lb plus boots just to challenge myself a bit. Not a great time as there were a lot of bottlenecks with 1200+ people taking part but pleased I did it. “
Great work Glyn.
Official Time:
6:41 (TBC)
Thetford Trails 10k Series – Race 3
Well done to the awesome foursome who completed the 3rd and final race in the Thetford Trails series. By the looks of the weather (and the report from Paula that shorts would have been a sensible choice) it would appear that a number of seasons have been covered during this series!
As you can see, those that completed all three races obtained the full set of medals which join together.
Well done guys.
Official Times:
Paula – 48:48.1
Allison – 54:49.9
Chris P – 1:02:50.8
Ceri – 1:03:03.7
Couch to 5k 2019!
This Spring/early Summer, Runners-next-the-Sea will again be hosting a Couch to 5k course at the Alderman Peel High School.
The course will be about an hour long and will run on Thursdays 6:30-7:30pm. The course will finish with a 5k graduation run at Holkham parkrun.
The dates are:
Thursday 23rd May, 30th May, 6th June, 13th June, 20th June, 27th June, 4th July, 11th July with the parkrun graduation on Saturday 13th July.
The cost for this is £25.00 which will cover the 8 week course and also, for those that graduate, unaffiliated membership of RntS until the end of January 2020 (allowing graduates to take part if regular RntS weekly training sessions).
Members of RntS are welcome to join in and support this in any way possible and to also spread the word!
Posters are available to download from our Members & Downloads page.
The Facebook group for members of the course (and also helpers) is still at the same place – https://www.facebook.com/groups/RunnersNTSC25k/