Beckenham Group Email

Posted on 21/08/2011 by Nolan in Everything Else | Leave a comment

Hello everyone, it’s been a quiet summer on the running front with not much going on as everyone seems to be on holiday…( although a few are off to the Henfield Half Marathon today, hopefully more on that tomorrow!)

So time for alittle bit of house keeping. I think there’s been a problem with subscribing to our email, as in I haven’t received any notifications of people wanting to join! If you have recently joined the club and want to subscribe to our group email where you can keep up to date with track sessions, races, sunday runs etc then you can try a couple of things. I’ve updated this Link click on it and follow the prompts. Once you’ve done that email me at nolanwilkens@hotmail.com then I’ll know you’ve been trying, and I’ll send an invite if it’s not worked.

The highest marathon in Europe

Posted on 04/08/2011 by Nolan in Races & Reports | Leave a comment

Kens “boy” Peter Baksh completed the Davos marathon, allegedly the highest marathon in Europe climbing 1600 metres to approx 2800 metres at peak…(like climbing Canary Wharf 5 times…but more scenic, complete with snow) Provisional results show overall position 143 from 1154 runners,6th Briton from 58 Time 4 hours 41 mins …winner 3 hour 21.When quads recover ,he swaps running shoes for swim trunks and tri-bars for next challenge Detail

The Piece of Cake – Summer special

Posted on 25/07/2011 by Site Admin in Club Events, Everything Else, Piece of Cake | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

It has often been noted that the Piece Of Cake, South London’s Legendary cake-shaped cycle sprint consists of 3 parts,  Left Leg, Right Leg and third (pub leg) well it could be that last thursday was a record entry, but for the pub leg. We seeemed to fill most of the back of the jolly woodman celebrating our various summer travels. Which is a mystery because initial legs of the piece of cake were represented more exclusively.  Well done simon, by the way.

                Left Leg            Right Leg

Nicky     5.06     5.11
Andy      4.38     3.36
Simon     4.12     4.12
Sophie    4.51     4.52
Ben       5.16     5.10 (Thats bromptons for you).

Beckenham’s unofficial Velo Club does the Dunwich Dynamo

Posted on 18/07/2011 by Nolan in Monday Musings | Leave a comment

The downpours which blighted the weekend for most of us didn’t look like ideal cycling weather, but somehow the ‘weather gods’ saw fit to leave open a 9 hour window of dryness which was enough for this lot (plus a couple of others) to ride over night to complete the Dunwich Dynamo. Starting in Hackney they arrived at the beach of the small Suffolk coastal village after riding a grueling / epic 120 mile route across London, Essex and Suffolk  to arrive by sunrise for some rest and sleep by the sea. Awesome effort lads and ladette!

Here’s Simons garmin info Dunwich Dynamo

Riders prepare for the off

Sunrise in Dunwich

British 10k London

Posted on 11/07/2011 by Nolan in Races & Reports | Leave a comment

Simon Harris reports on the British 10k

British 10k 10/07/11 London –

After being advised to get there early for this race I was up yesterday at 5am to ensure getting to the baggage drop off point at 7.45am – Way to early for a Sunday morning !!

After walking up to the start i was amazed to find a few hundred other people already there for a race that was billed to start at 9.35am..Far to much time hanging around although the general banter was very good amongst the other runners. However I was glad that I did as I was reasonably near the front. There was another 25,000 other people there as well all waiting for the race to begin which finally started at 9.45am.

To say that a fast start was needed to avoid being trampled would be a understatement and I was virtually sprinting for the first 500 metres just to get a bit of space. However once we got past the 2k mile things settled down a bit. I was bang on target and was started to enjoy it. Mission on the day was a Sub 39.30 Mins. I got the first 5k done and then pushed on for the second half which started to become a bit harder. The time was starting to slip on the sat nav but thankfully a bit of determination kept me going and running down The Mall with a big smile on my face felt oh so good…Fnished in 39.18 and then straight off for a few well earned beers

I would do this race again as the course is great and a traffic free route with a huge suppor tmakes all the difference but the start is hard going.

Lord Mayor’s 5k City Centre Classic

Posted on 11/07/2011 by Nolan in Races & Reports | Tagged | Leave a comment

Race Report:

This 5k is abit special and certainly an experience.  The race is a prelude to the Lord Mayor’s Parade which allows the route to take advantage of closed roads through the city centre, but due to a tight schedule the race has a strict 20 minute time limit. If you don’t make half way in 10 mins you’re hauled off the course! Back in my hood on my home turf, I thought I knew Norwich City Centre well, but running gives you a whole new perspective on the profile. A hill and a long drag up into a breeze was abit of a challenge but this was offset by coming back down again on the 2 lap out and back route. Due to the cut off it was a relatively small field so feeling like an elite amongst the 105 starters off we set along the crowd lined route. The crowds were amazing and very noisey, at least 3 deep all the way, it was like a condensed London Marathon! The start was frenetic, the hill on the second lap was lung busting, and the downhill finish most welcome! The prize pot was big, so the race attracted a high quality field of racing snakes, the top 13 all finished in under 16 minutes, and 6 were in under 15:00!! I was happy to finish on the 1st page of the results half way down the field in 47th in 17:40.

Check these out for a high quality set of results

Nolan

Flashing abit of thigh for the camera...

Did anyone else race this weekend? If so tell us all about it?

Grand Prix: Orpington 10k

Posted on 07/07/2011 by Nolan in Grand Prix | Leave a comment

Sorry for the belated report….moving doesn’t half take it out of you!

But…..there were some brilliant results at the weekends Grand Prix Race the Orpington 10k, congrats to the following winners…(but really we’re all winners…pass the bucket!)

1st Female Mel Burdett
1st MV40 Stuart Scott
1st FV45 Helen Garrett
1st Ladies Team (Mel, Helen & Gail)

Full results are here

Click on the Beckenham 'Massive' to see more photo's by Rara.

Introducing our new Associate Membership

Posted on 01/07/2011 by Nolan in Everything Else | Leave a comment

Beckenham Running Club are pleased to announce that we now offer two levels of membership:

As of today 1/7/11 you can now join our running club as an Associate Member for £30 per annum (£35 inc EA Affiliation) per year. This entitles you to run with us on Wednesday club nights and use of the extensive facilities at Beckenham Cricket (multi-sports) Club on Foxgrove Road,  including access to changing rooms, showers, and bar for the important post run food and drink refueling! Please note that there are no additional on-the-night subscription charges to pay. Associate members are also welcome to train with us at other times when we meet at other locations ie for track sessions, represent Beckenham at races (subject to 1st/2nd claim status) and join in on club events and trips.

Full Running Club Membership includes all of the above and full social membership of the Beckenham Cricket (multi-sports) Club so you can use the facilities and bar 7 days a week (so not just on club nights) for £90 a year.

Whether you’re new to running,
or fancy running with like minded indiviuals who enjoy keeping fit,
or want to push yourself and run further and faster than you thought possible,
or want to join in with the camaraderie at  races and compete in competitions,
or just want to be social and run for fun and make some friends…

Then why not pop along on a Wednesday to find out what we’re all about. We meet at 6:45 every Wednesday for organised group runs leaving at 7pm.

If you’ve got any questions then feel free to email beckenhamrunning@yahoo.co.uk  or download the Beckenham Running Club Application Form and bring it along.

parkrun

Posted on 27/06/2011 by Nolan in Everything Else | Tagged | Leave a comment

Nothing to do with my 50th run (honest) ….

parkrun in Bromley has been going for nearly 2 years now, and has provided a great way to get an early weekend run in and be sociable too. It’s also been popular with us Beckenham runners. 45 of us have run at least once and here’s the list of who has run 10 runs or more… between all us we’ve run 591 times at an average of 13 runs each. That’s alot of missed lie ins!

Athlete  ? Best  ? Avg  ? Worst  ? Best  ? Avg  ? Worst  ? Runs  ? Runs  ?
Georgina SELWAY 22:33 24:32 28:23 71.54 % 65.59 % 55.73 % 53 53
Richard P SELWAY 18:16 19:15 22:36 77.43 % 73.36 % 62.76 % 52 53
Paul CREGG 24:25 27:08 29:15 59.93 % 53.68 % 49.51 % 53 53
Nolan WILKENS 17:28 19:38 23:09 74.43 % 66.76 % 56.16 % 40 50
Ruth BUNN 24:36 26:11 27:56 71.48 % 68.25 % 63.72 % 44 44
Jim ADDISON 16:57 18:21 21:59 79.71 % 73.58 % 61.18 % 38 39
Stuart J SCOTT 17:48 19:12 22:44 79.03 % 73.28 % 61.88 % 28 28
Deborah FORD 24:57 26:58 29:41 62.32 % 57.61 % 51.99 % 23 23
Will WITHECOMBE 17:08 18:50 20:00 75.29 % 68.61 % 64.50 % 19 22
Christopher LYDON 18:14 19:46 25:02 80.26 % 73.86 % 57.99 % 20 20
Melanie BURDETT 19:32 20:27 22:30 76.88 % 73.35 % 66.44 % 16 19
Gail ARNOTT 21:45 22:56 24:32 77.78 % 73.59 % 68.14 % 16 16
Melanie WARD 23:42 24:23 26:54 62.45 % 60.75 % 55.02 % 14 15
Simon C CARTER 18:32 19:22 21:01 70.41 % 67.66 % 62.41 % 12 15
Ameet PATEL 22:48 24:08 25:57 62.21 % 59.18 % 55.04 % 15 15
Stephen WINFIELD 20:17 21:12 22:28 71.57 % 68.32 % 64.09 % 14 14
Nicky HOWARD 22:59 24:45 27:46 67.66 % 62.95 % 56.00 % 14 14
David Andrew REES 22:56 24:14 25:17 67.01 % 63.36 % 60.25 % 10 10
Carolyn TUSTIN 27:12 28:04 29:48 65.44 % 63.34 % 59.73 % 10 10

Jim places again! And other news….

Posted on 27/06/2011 by Nolan in Races & Reports | Leave a comment

4th last Sunday at the North Downs 30k, 3rd on Wednesday at the Dulwich 5k and 2nd place at the Weald of Kent 10 mile race yesterday in 57:32… I see a pattern emerging here! So a win next week then Jim? If you need any running shop vouchers, then Jims your man!

Weald of Kent 10 mile results

Meanwhile the rest of the club were either cycling (lots) or walking (very far)