Haverhill Running Club

Ding Ding Round 4!! 🔔 🏁

It’s Kevin Henry time again…

Thursday 29th June hosted by our friends at Saffron Striders

It was a very successful week for Haverhill Running Club. On Friday, Mary Ann Tuli won some nice silverware for being first FV45 at the Framingham 5 with a speedy 34:03. On Saturday Tony Bacon came 2nd at the Great Notley parkrun, finishing just 12 seconds behind the winner in 18:22.

On Sunday there was a tremendous turnout at the Steeple Bumpstead, with 34 HRC in the 10K and 3 in the 3K!
In the 10K Michael Gilbert came in first! In a great time of 35:51, considering the sweltering conditions. Also defying the hot conditions were Alex Smith and Peter Miller who had a great battle for 4th place, which pushed them both to PB’s! Alex beat Peter by just 2 seconds (40:29)! It was Alex’s 6th PB for this year, and he is now joint 2nd in the PB league.
Peter finished in 5th place with 40:31. Martin Lawrence also finished in the top 10, he came 9th in 42:39. Carl Oldford ran his first 10K race in 1:00:53.
In the 3K Jed Randall came 12th in 15:07. Jacob Catten had an amazing run and was 1st in his age category (age 4-7), running 17:34! Adam Everitt also had a good run coming in 39th place in 19:18, out of 138 runners.

At the Hatfield Forest Hoohaah 10K, Westley Walker came 8th in 41:16. Nigel Fitch ran an impressive 45:49 in his first 10K for the club in 27th place.

Shirley Fowler’s granddaughter ran the Subway 5K in Cambridge in 41:14, not bad for a 2 year old!!!

Check out the rest of the results and PB league here:

https://haverhillrunningclub.com/results-2017-2/
https://haverhillrunningclub.com/pb-league-2017/

On 20th July we will be running a guided trail run from The Dog and Duck pub in Linton. As before these are runs without leaders but written instructions for you to follow – don’t worry, if I can follow them so can you!! This will be INSTEAD of the usual club run from the leisure centre.

This route takes you through the lovely countryside behind CamGrain in South Cambridgeshire and through Hadstock or Abington depnding on which route you take. There are two options, one longer route – approx 7-7.5 miles and one shorter route – approx 4.5 (I think, we will be re running these routes this weekend and will update). The routes are majority grass, gravel tracks and pavement with a few hills but nice downhills too!

Runners can arrive and depart any time between 6:30 and 7:30 on Thursday 20th July. Just sign in and out with Hayley or Janet. If it’s nice we will be sitting outside, around the back of the pub. Once you return then have a swift rehydration session at the pub – its a lovely place with a great selection of drinks!

Parking at the pub is limited – there is a public car park with the Doctors Surgery car park on Cole’s Lane

Any questions please message me on Facebook or email hbrod@hotmail.co.uk

Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Don’t forget this event available this week:

Hempstead Highwayman Trail Run (approx 7 miles)
Thursday 22 June 2017
Starts from 5:30pm – 7:30pm
From the Bluebell Inn, Hempstead CB10 2PD

No marshals, no route markers, no water stops, no event t-shirts, no medals …….. just you and a written route description.

£4 affiliated (£6 unaffiliated) including £2 drinks voucher.

Also, we are planning to donate any profit to the Haverhill Foodbank ……. every little helps.

Finally: We have also been asked to provide a shorter 2-3 mile option (ideal for walkers) so there will something available for everyone.

www.hempsteadhighwayman.co.uk

it actually exists!!!!

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A date for your diary: 6th July

A bit of a change of scenery! Instead of the usual club run we are planning to do the Kedington Kevin Henry route to refresh our memories and let any new people get a feel for the course.

Meet at 6:50 for a 7pm start at The Meadow on Arms Lane in Kedington. Just near the Barnardiston Arms.

Often people run there from the leisure centre – it’s about an 8.2 mile round trip including the KH route and going over the fields via Wilsey Farm (my mapping skills aren’t great though). If you want to do that then feel free to make your arrangements or post on the group to see who else wants to do that.

See you there!

Your club needs you 👉🏃🏼

We are hosting our own KH event on Thursday 13th July but for it to go ahead we need volunteers for marshalling, water tables, stop watch & funnelling

Please comment below, message me or email me karen.martin09@hotmail.co.uk

Kelly Mepham had an absolutely fantastic run at the Newmarket Kevin Henry 5K. She came 2nd Female and took an incredible 43 seconds off her previous best running 19:29! This puts her 2nd on the club records. She still doesn’t like 5K though, she would much rather run a Marathon!
Michael Gilbert put in another great performance running 16:21 and came 3rd overall! Andrew Bell put in a great sprint finish to come 9th and beat Saffron Strider rival Tony Bacon.
Alex Smith wasn’t far behind in 13th place and a 3 second PB with 17:41, which moves him up to 5th on the club records. Mark White (19:08), Andy Quick(19:17)and Yusuf Firat(19:31) also had great runs to be the top 6 Haverhill men.
Keeley White took over 4 minutes off her PB!!!! She ran 30:42.
Rob Goodwin beat his PB by 1:01 (26:25)! Nigel Fitch got a 9 second PB. Josh Iron got a 4 second PB. Kevin Millard got a 1 second PB (20:55)!
Kirsty Millard also had a great run to be 2nd Haverhill female and was just 3 seconds of her PB running 21:43. Sian-Marie Lucas & Rachel Darvill were 3rd and 4th Haverhill females.
Yusuf’s 5 mile handicap race on Sunday looked like lot’s of fun. Dave Greenham was first in, followed by Daniel Everitt in 2nd (taking almost 4min off his PB!) and 3rd in was Melanie Mansfield. Kevin Millard is on fire at the moment and got his 2nd PB of the week, taking 2minutes 21seconds off his previous best! Rob Goodwin also got his 2nd PB of the week and showed fantastic improvement, finishing in 48:56, chopping over 5 minutes off his previous best! Alison Goodwin also got a big PB taking almost 2 minutes off her previous best!
In the Sutton Mini Beast 2.5K Jed Randall ran 12:41 and finished 13th out of 300 runners! He was also 3rd in his age category!
https://haverhillrunningclub.com/results-2017-2/
https://haverhillrunningclub.com/club-records-2/
https://haverhillrunningclub.com/pb-league-2017/