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Bourne Frostbite Pics
Marcus's excellent pics from the Frostbite at Bourne are now up in the Gallery. Enjoy!
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Frostbite Bourne photos
Photos to follow in a day or so when I've finished sorting through them all
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Frostbite League - Bourne
Well done everyone who made the long trip to Bourne for the fifth Frostbite, one which was even muckier than last year's mudbath. I think the turnout was impressive in the circumstances. The juniors were excellent again, finishing fifth on the day but unluckily slipping a place to fifth overall. In the seniors, well, I don't think any club could have beaten the awesomely strong Nene Valley Harriers squad today, and we didn't, but third place on the day consolidates our second place overall, and we still have an outside chance of taking the title next month at BRJ. Well done Werrington for an impressive (and annoying) second place today.
Individually we had some outstanding performances, and Steve Watterson's first place is well worth celebrating. Not far behind, Mike Salt took third place and Noel Carroll made it three C&Cs in the first four, easily the best set of results at the sharp end I can remember. Congratulations, chaps. Alan Pritchard (17th) and John Ferguson (22nd) also featured prominently. First C&C female was Jemma Clarry, 16th-placed female.
In the junior event, Hollie Parker was in fine form again, replicating her result from Ramsey and finishing ninth overall and second girl. Matt Rogen was close behind in 16th, just ahead of a fine battle between Lucy Parker and Charlotte Murphy for 18th. Follow the link for full results.
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Great Bentley Half
Half marathon news from Essex - top running by John Oakes (1:18 and second Vet 50), David Edwards (a PB in 1:27) and Diana Braverman (1:42 and second Vet 55) at Great Bentley. Good going!
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Cambridge parkrun
Another good showing at the Cambridge parkrun in Milton today, with three C&C runners in the top five finishers, Jonathan Escalante-Phillips running the fastest junior time, and Johanna Jones coming in as first lady.
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Frostbite Call-to-Arms
An important message from Alan, James and Adam - click here!
Don't forget - there's an 8.45 meet on Sunday at Wilberforce Road for sharing lifts. Let's see a big C&C turnout.
Hi Athletes.
If we are to win the Frostbite league we need a massive turn out at this event at Bourne. Traditional this is the weakest event for every team. So if we can put out our strongest team in numbers, we can over turn our deficit with N.V.H and go into the last race at B.R.J on the 7th of March level with them or just in front. We are 2 points behind N.V.H.
If you need a lift to this event see James, Adam or myself. Lets give the club its first win in this event. Turn out for the white and blue, you can make a differance, one place can make a differance so lets be havin you and turn out on the 7th.
Alan,James& Adam
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SEAA Cross-Country Championships
Results are up (thanks, Christof!) from the SEAA Championships at Parliament Hill. This is a seriously high-class event, but despite that we had a fair few prominent finishers amongst our strong squad. Here's Christof's report...
The day started bright and cold, with plenty of car drivers who could have done with spikes on their tyres. By the start of the first race Parliament Hill had warmed-up just enough to turn the puddles of ice to a rather nice, slippy cold paste. There were some excellent performances on what is one of the toughest of cross country courses. Will Clarke got a respectable 11th place, George 12th and James Cochrane and Nathalie Richards came in 24th and 27th place respectively. Frankly, on that course, anyone who finished was a winner. Great event with some of the toughest competition in England.
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First Parkrun in Cambridge
Well done to all who turned out (especially the Marshalls and Organisers!!!) at 0900 on a Sat with unexpected Snow on the ground, for the first Parkrun in Cambridge (http://www.parkrun.org.uk/cambridge) in Milton Country Park. I live so near the Country Park - how could I not turn up!? My conscience would not let me. My running is pretty poor at the moment but I was re-invigorated by the event. Katie SD took first place for the women (this is the third time she took 1st in the Parkrun events). C&C were well-represented in all capacities. I definitely recommend this event. Results are online pretty quickly. But you do need to print off a barcode to register and participate.
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Sports Quiz and Dinner on Monday
via James, about an event you may be interested in:
The Sports Dinner is on Monday evening (1st Feb), 7.45 for 8pm start. It's a sports quiz with a three-course meal and a talk on 'Inside Sport . . . Gold!'
Click here for info and here for a map.
If you are interested, e-mail Steve Nicholson on nicholson.steve@gmail.com by the end of Sunday.
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Parkrun Reminder
Don't forget - it's the first-ever Parkrun at Milton Country Park on Saturday morning at 9am and every week thereafter. Check the website for full details, or see the news item below - you'll need to register (free) online before the day. Well done Simon R and chums for setting this up.
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Suffolk Winter League
A very handy ninth place, and first in category, for John Oakes at Bury St Eds (not for C&C, sadly!). Nice one, John.
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Paul Evans session
This has now been rescheduled for Thursday 11th February, 6.30, at the track. There's a link to a poster giving more details on the main C&C site - if you would like to attend, you need to register with June Swift, the Greater Cambridge Network Activator: jvswift87@yahoo.co.uk or 07772 427338
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An invitation from CUHH
CUHH is the Cambridge University endurance running club and they have invited us to join their events. Andy has put the events on the fixture list - is anyone able to get teams out? The invitation is from their captain, Robin Brown, and he has asked us to pre-enter at www.cuhh.org.uk/registration.
Sunday 14th February: Coe Fen Relays (Fen Causeway). 2pm start for the first of our relay races - 4 x 3km for the men and 3 x 3km for the ladies. The course goes out to Trumpington Street and back to Fen Causeway across the park.
Sunday 21st February: Selwyn Relays (Wilberforce Rd). 2pm start for the finale of our College league - 4 x 4km for the men and 3 x 4km for the ladies. This course goes out of the track around Wilberforce Rd, Madingley Rd, Physics department and returns along the cycle path before re-entering the sports ground for a lap of the jogging trail.
Pre-entry for both of the relays will be available online and hopefully we can have options for your clubs included in the registration form. We'll welcome any more competitors to these races and they're all usually quite fun, light hearted fixtures. We also organise a marathon and half marathon around Cambridge (the Cambridge Boundary Run) which will be on March 7th this year – details on http://www.cuhh.org.uk/competition/boundaryrun/
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Folksworth 15
Well done to our team at the 21st anniversary of the always-excellent Folksworth 15. Chris Pyle led us in in 1:37 for 24th place, and Caz Pritchard (1:51), Katie Toynton (1:49) and Meinou Simmons (1:51) successfully defended our female team title.
Al's photos are now up in the gallery.
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Frostbite Pics
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Cambridge Winter Beer Festival
A few of us dedicated drinkers are taking a break from training to attend the Cambridge Winter Beer Festival at the University Social Club in Mill Lane tonight from approx. 5.30pm onwards (admission £2.50). All welcome to come along and enjoy the beer!
http://www.cambridge-camra.org.uk/2010/waf.html
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Frostbite League - Ramsey
Well, the wind held off this year, but the mud was extra-filthy for this year's Ramsey Frostbite. A brave band of C&C runners kept our title challenge going, and though Nene Valley pipped us by one place, we're just two points behind going into the last two fixtures.
Things started excellently thanks to a fine fourth place by our junior team, which took them to fourth overall, ahead of the strong Bourne squad. Hollie Parker and Claire Wilson starred, finishing second and third girls, with Thomas Heylan in between, eighth boy.
In the senior race, Katie Toynton's glorious form continued, and she finished third female. Alessandro Coianiz is also flying, taking ninth place. Miguel Branco and Alan Pritchard also featured in the top 20, whilst just outside it a trio of Johns finished in sequence; 22nd, 23rd and 24th. Good packing at the sharp end earned us third place on the day, and though we're likely to need to beat Nene Valley twice, we've put a nice gap between us and third-placed Fenland.
Superb. Well done (and thanks) to all.
Photos are up, more to come.
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Wellingborough Series
Congratulations to the unstoppable George Schwiening for taking yet another win, this time over a multi-terrain 5K in the Wellingborough race series.
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Ryston Runners XC
'On the country', our team contested the latest in the monthly Ryston Series, just over the Norfolk border. As ever, plenty of good performances were recorded, and particular noteworthy were our top-three finishers James Cochrane (first U15), Mary Holmes (second V55), Alice Newcombe (third U11) and Nathalie Richards (third senior).
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Rollicking Good Fun
Maria and Simon Brightwell ventured to the Southwest to revel in the messiness of the Thornbury Running Club Riverbank Rollick. With an 8.7 mile course alongside the River Severn featuring varying depths of mud broken only by deep pools of cowmuck and the occasional stream Simon finished 36th in 1:06 and Maria a more leisurely 192nd in 1:31 of 258 finishers.
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Frostbite, Sunday 17th January, Ramsey
The next Frostbite is on Sunday 17th January in Ramsey (details can be found on the following website - www.frostbiteleague.org.uk). The junior race starts at 10:15am and the senior race starts at 11am. Please note the two different courses for the 2 races, which can be found through the above website.
We're meeting at the track at 9am and if anyone can offer lifts, that would be really helpful. I hope we can maintain our previous outstanding performance in December.
Thank you and see you next Sunday. The following race is in Bourne, Lincolnshire on Sunday 7th February.
Adam
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Saturday Morning Hill Sessions
from Robert:
I'm going to continue to run the Saturday morning hill sessions throughout the winter period. The next two will be on 23rd and 30th Jan start at 8.30 am usual meeting place Gogs carpark just up the hill from Stapleford (the free one).
The first week will be 12-15 x 50 secs hills in three sets (or less reps if necessary)
Second week will be two sets of long hills with a tempo run sandwich.
The content is subject to change depending upon weather / participants etc.
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Cambridgeshire Cross-Country Championships
Another impressive set of results at the County Championships at a snowy Priory Park, and the junior results in particular were stunning. Individually, our new County Champions are Thomas Heylan (U13), George Schwiening (U15), James Cochrane (U15), Kim Masson (V45) and Diana Braverman (V55) - many congratulations to them. We also had no fewer than thirteen top-three finishers - well done to them too. One particularly good race for C&C was the under-15 girls, where we swept the medals and took fifth too. Full team results will follow when published, and Carmel's pics are up in the gallery. Finally, many thanks to all of the C&Cs and others involved in running the event for Cambs AA - hope you've thawed successfully.
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Cambridge Parkrun
From Simon Redfern:
Cambridge parkrun is a new FREE weekly 5km event for runners of all standards, which will take place every Saturday at 9am in Milton Country Park, starting on 30th January.
Details are here: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/cambridge/
It is not a race against other runners, but a 5k timed run and it can really be whatever you want it to be, whether that's for fun or as part of a training plan.
It offers an opportunity for all the local community, male or female, young or old, to come together on a regular basis to enjoy this beautiful park and get physically active into the bargain. We want to encourage people to jog or run together irrespective of their ability - this event is truly open to all and best of all it really is FREE!
Taking part is easy - just register in advance by 6pm on the Friday before your first ever parkrun here. The great thing is that you only ever need to do this once. Then just set your alarm for Saturday morning and get yourself there.
After the run, if you don't have to get off straight away, there will be the chance to socialise with everyone at the Milton Country Park Café to maybe swap stories about your run that day, chat to other runners over a cup of tea or coffee and just be an important part of this new running community.
So whether you are a complete novice looking to get yourself started on your own "running journey" or a seasoned athlete wanting to use this as a part of your training schedule, you’re welcome to come along and join us.
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Sunday League - Royston
Quite a few C&Cs took advantage of an unusually amenable fixture list and raced for the club in our cross-country Sunday League fixture at Royston. Noel Carrol and Mike Salt (fourth and fifth) were right up at the sharp end, and John Oakes and Alex Downie took third place in their categories. Diana Braverman led (and in fact was) our female team, again finishing first in her age group. We even beat several other teams - very encouraging! Good going, everyone.
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Ely New Year's Eve 10K
The New Year was seen out in traditional style at Ely, where C&Cs turned out in huge numbers. Despite some forecasts, it was a pretty good day for running, and it certainly suited Will Clarke (unfortunately representing the Tri Club, but we know he's C&C!), who won in 30:05 to break the course record. We had first-claim glory too, in the form of Bob Watson (17th in 35:48) and John Oakes (22nd in 36:25), who rounded off their outstanding racing year by respectively winning the Vet 45 and 50 categories. Congratulations to both. First C&C female was Katie Toynton, a superb eighth place in 41:49. Also top-3 in their categories were Alessandro Coianiz (second MV40 and 12th overall), Simon Brightwell (third MV45) and Alex Downie (third MV60). Alan Pritchard (16th), Katie Samuelson-Dean (12th) and Alejandra Pascual Garrido (17th) also managed top-twenty finishes. All in all, the Christmas pud wreaked very little devastation on our form, and all kinds of good times were recorded. Full results now up, Madhuri's photos are also up in the gallery.
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Buntingford Results
To update Meinou's report, the results are up and in addition to Steve Watterson's second place, Victoria Knight was first female. Magnificent!
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Will's Boxing Day Record?
Will Clarke took six seconds off the course record for the C&C Boxing Day 4-mile race, winning spectacularly in 18:32, beating Greville Tuck's record from the 1970s. Congratulations, Will. Congratulations too to Nathalie Richards for taking the women's race in 27:14. Both Will and Nathalie were defending their titles from last year. Full results now up, and Madhuri's photos are now online too in the Gallery.
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Buntingford 10
This was a fine 'undulating' race (in Amy's words) on a very cold day. Most of it is on country roads through scenic villages, with signposts to other curious village names (including 'Nasty'). There are a few higgledy piggledy bits around a housing estate at the start and end. It was well marshalled. It may even be worth doing for the race momento: which was a silver/golden mini engraved trainer! Stephen Watterson came 2nd which was great. It seems Victoria Knight, Simon Bowen and Meinou Simmons were the only other C and C runners. I recommend it as a good way to burn off the excess Christmas calories!
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C&C Boxing Day Race
In between bouts of over-consumption this Christmas, don't forget the time-honoured (and free) C&C Boxing Day Race, which leaves Fen Causeway for a four-mile round trip to Trumpington at 11 a.m. sharp. Bring your family and friends.
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Christmas Party
We had another excellent Christmas party at Jesus College last night - thanks once again to Chris Brown for his sterling efforts in organising it. Well worth battling through snow and ice for. The, er, 'lucky', um, 'winners' of a London Marathon club place were Hazel Turton, Carmel McEniery, Alan Pritchard and Andrew Marshall. Well done to them.
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Endurance running session at the track on 14th January
The new Greater Cambridge Athletics Network (of which we are founder members) has arranged an endurance running event on Thursday 14th January as below. Paul Evans has visited us before and delivered a really enjoyable session.
ENDURANCE DEVELOPMENT SQUAD
The Greater Cambridge Athletics Network are delighted to announce a 'flying coach visit' by Chicago Marathon Winner Paul Evans.
Date: Thursday 14th January 2010
Time: 6.30pm-8.45pm
Venue: Cambridge University Athletic Track, Wilberforce Road.
Paul will share his knowledge and experience of how to successfully organise your training programme towards spring half/marathons. The session will include a mixture of discussion and practical training (track-based).
For more information and to confirm your attendance please contact June Swift on either jvswift87@yahoo.co.uk or 07772427338.
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Cambridge Cambourne 10K
Entries are now open for our race, via the big, shiny link on the left. If you're not going to be on duty on the day, remember this filled up in three weeks last year...
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Sunday League - Trent Park
The C&C flag was ably flown by Diana, Sue and Peter in our cross-country fixture at Trent Park on Sunday, Diana finishing second Vet 55.
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Calvia Marathon
Impressive news from far-flung shores. Dave Pell ran 2:45 in the Calvia Marathon, Mallorca, taking third place. Phenomenal, Dave, congratulations!
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Frostbite League - Hunts AC
Just to update Adam's post, the official results are now up from Hinchingbrooke. We had 26 seniors and a brilliant ten juniors, and in the senior race Mike Salt took third place, Will Mycroft fifth and Noel Carroll seventh, Helen Zenner was fourth female with Jemma Clarry twelfth. Miguel Branco, Alan Pritchard, Dave Johnson, John Oakes and John Ferguson all finished top-25. Our juniors were led in by Claire Wilson (14th) and Mark Mitchell (15th). As Adam said, congratulations everyone on a brilliant team performance.
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Ryston XC Series
Just over the Norfolk border, a small but select band of hardened C&C cross-country runners took on the third in the Ryston Runners series. All did well, with probably the best result going to David Pettitt, third in the competitive Vet 40 race.
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Bedford Half Marathon
On a busy racing day, the Bedford Half drew the biggest field in the region with over a thousand finishers. Nick Beer turned in another high-class performance to finish fifth in 1:12:56, and not too far behind was Alessandro Coianiz, 1:16:51 and 18th place, third Vet 40. Congratulations to them, and well done too to Katie and Kris.
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Frostbite League - Hunts AC
From Adam:
Thank you and well done once again to all the runners, both juniors and seniors who turned out today for the third Frostbite. We did exceedingly well and the results are as follows -
Juniors (our best turn out yet), 115 points, 3rd position today, which has taken us to 5th overall position.
Seniors (another excellent turn out with 6 runners in the top 20), 501 points, we came first today, we are still in second place overall but now only one point behind NVH.
I hope we can maintain this momentum in the next three races, with the next being Sunday 17th January in Ramsey.
Once again thank you and congratulations to all.
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Nene Valley 10
The Nene Valley 10 is a high-quality race on a flat, fast course, but somehow doesn't attract many C&Cs. Make a note for next year! Alessandro Coianiz ran 59½ to finish 12th and Kim Masson was sixth female in 1:07.
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Eastern Counties Cross-Country Championships
First major championship of the mucky season was the Easterns, at Colchester. Huge congratulations to our new champions Claire Wilson (U13) and George Schwiening (U15), as well as runner-up Nathalie Richards (U20) and third-placed Thomas Heylan (U13), Joan Lasenby (Vet 45) and Nick Beer in the Seniors. Check the results for more outstanding runs - a day for much C&C pride.
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Norwich Half
News of the Norwich Half. It's one of the premier races in the East of England, and Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha's fourth place, in 1:12:42, is a spectacular achievement. John Oakes's last pre-C&C race earned him 26th, and 2nd Vet 50, whilst David Johnson was 42nd.
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Firenze/Florence Marathon
A high attrition rate thinned out our field for the Firenze marathon (Florence, if you like), but three C&Cs made it to finishing line glory. Ish Badr threatened to repeat his sub-3 from Berlin, running 3:02, and Helen Parfrey (3:49) and Fiona Downie (3:59) impressed too. Serpie Steve Watterson (2:39) needs to be poached as soon as poss!
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Great Bentley Half Marathon
Great Bentley, Essex, Sunday 7th February 2010 - 13.1 miles (accurate), 826 finishers.
Winner: 1:08:06 M, 1:16:28 F.
Web: http://www.gbrc.org.uk/GBRC%20half.htm
Frostbite League - Bourne
Bourne, Lincs, Sunday 7th February 2010 - 413 finishers.
Winner: 27:15 M, 32:11 F.
Web: http://www.frostbiteleague.org.uk/
[Photographs]
Cambridge Parkrun
Milton Country Park, Cambridge, Saturday 6th February 2010 - 5 km (accurate), 85 finishers; 54 male, 31 female.
Winner: 17:24 M, 22:02 F.
Web: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/cambridge
[Photographs]
SEAA XC Championships
Parliament Hill, London, Saturday 30th January 2010
Web: http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mkac/10seaaxcresults.htm
[Christof's report]
Cambridge Parkrun
Milton Country Park, Cambridge, Saturday 30th January 2010 - 5 km (accurate), 71 finishers.
Winner: 17:29 M, 26:08 F.
Web: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/cambridge/
Suffolk Winter League XC - Bury St Edmunds
Nowton Park, Sunday 24th January 2010 - 5.5 miles, 163 finishers; 118 male, 45 female.
Winner: 29:11 M, 36:23 F.
Web: http://www.raceres.org.uk/0910fwwlbury.htm
Folksworth 15
Folksworth, Cambridgeshire, Sunday 24th January 2010 - 15 miles (accurate), 416 finishers.
Winner: 1:22:03 M, 1:35:22 F.
Web: http://www.yaxleyrunners.org.uk/
[Photographs]
C&C 1st Female Team (Katie Toynton, Caroline Pritchard and Meinou Simmons)
Wellingborough Series Race 1
Wellingborough, Sunday 17th January 2010 - 5 km, 99 finishers; 49 male, 44 female.
Winner: 16:49 M, 18:12 F.
Web: http://www.justracinguk.com/files/2010%20R1%20(5k)%20results.pdf
Ryston Runners XC
Shouldham Warren, Norfolk, Sunday 17th January 2010
Web: http://www.rystonrunners.org.uk/
Riverbank Rollick
Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Sunday 17th January 2010 - 8.7 miles, 258 finishers.
Winner: 54:47 M, 1:03:33 F.
Web: http://www.thornburyrunningclub.co.uk/
Frostbite League - Ramsey
Ramsey, Cambs, Sunday 17th January 2010 - 5.2 miles, 404 finishers.
Winner: 28:40 M, 31:24 F.
Web: http://www.frostbiteleague.org.uk/
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Cambridgeshire Cross-Country Championships
Priory Park, St Neots, Sunday 10th January 2010
Web: http://www.cambsaa.org.uk/
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Percentages shown above are WMA age/gender gradings
(accurate distances only, 5 km minimum).
† - C&C second claim/other
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