Tiptree Road Runners

The Benfleet 15 was run in extremely windy conditions, but that didn’t stop three Tiptree Road Runners from setting personal bests. Paul Dellar improved by more than five minutes with a run of 1:54:55:  61^st ,Tracy Harrington took six minutes off her previous best with a time of 2:04:42 to take 3^rd place in the F45 category and Vicky Knight’s time of 2:09:47 was a two minute improvement. James Haskey-Jones was first home for the club in 1:44:15 to take an excellent 19^th place. Craig Dawson made his debut at the distance, running 1:52:48 for 49^th place. There were also good debut runs from Mark Lawes 2:09:54, Andy Goodson 2:10:59, Joanne Dickman 2:50:18, Jo Roblin 2:50:21 and John McVelia 3:04:58. Graeme Moon had an encouraging run of 2:11:59 after a long injury spell. Other Tiptree times were  Martin Avent 2:19:17, Simon Morgan 2:23:49, Anthony Knight 2:27:09, Paul Shewbridge 2:32:30, Carolyn Bownes 2:41:53 and Tina Clarke 2:41:58.

In the junior 3K, Abigail Morgan was first U17 girl.

Ted Skinner completed the Kingston Parkrun 5K in 21:50.

‘PLIMSOLLS ON, EYEBALLS OUT: The Rise and Horrendous Fall of Marathon Legend Jim Peters’
By ROB HADGRAFT
Foreword by Dave Bedford

A mild-mannered dispensing optician from suburban Essex, when Peters pulled on running kit he became a demon running machine. His motto was „kill or be killed‟ and his fierce training programme horrified friend and foe alike.

Read more here

The next four club races will be:

Benfleet 15 on January 22nd (enter in advance at http://www.benfleetrunningclub.com/benfleet15/

Great Bentley half-marathon on February 5th (enter in advance at http://www.gbrc.org.uk/GBRC_Half.htm

Grizzly or Colchester half marathon on weekend of 10/11th March

Braintree 5 on 1st April

For the new season we have changed the league table points system for club races. Everyone will get the same points - 20 points per race.

Full results available now at http://tiptree10.org.uk/results.html 

TheTiptree 10, which this year featured the Essex county championship, saw a record entry. The men’s race saw a clear victory for Winchester’s Tom Payn in 52:22, over 30 seconds ahead of Kent AC’s James Connor in 52:55, with Nick Shasha of Orion Harriers taking third spot in 54:42 and leading his club to victory in the team event.

June Allen of Springfield Striders was an equally convincing winner of the ladies race running 63:08 to take her team to victory as well. Runner-up in the ladies event was Sarah Ivory of Colchester Harriers in 63:54, followed by clubmate Marie-Louise Shirley oin 67:52.

In the veteran men’s groups Stephen Murtagh of Harlow took the M40 title in 57:51, David Butler won the M50 category in 57:26, and Roy Steven of Harlow was first V60 in 66:04.

Fiona Halls of Saffron Striders won the F35 category in 69:31, with Debbie Cattermole of Colchester Harriers taking the F45 title in 71:33 and Lyn Tanner of Springfield Striders was first F55 in 74:21.

Tiptree’s Paul Mingay capped his superb season on the road with a top 20 place and an Essex V50 bronze medal in a personal best of 60:02.

Thank you to all club members, clubs and especially volunteers from other running clubs who helped this year. The Tiptree 10 is over for another year.

Let me publically thank you all here, but I will write and thank you all formally over the next few days. First I have to validate and publish the results and I know this will take a little time.

Should you have any feedback and ways to improve what we did, please do let me know.

Mark