It was a beautiful spring morning in the idyllic setting of Eynsford, where Beckenham took part again in the Darent Valley 10k. It’s an up and down course as you’d expect with the name “valley” in the race title, but what goes up must come down as the course descends back into Eynsford for a fast and furious final mile (if your legs survived the steep hill at 7k that is!)
We’re now deep into marathon season, so with a fair number of folks not “racing” properly, or not at all as they save themselves for an impending 26.2 miler, the numbers were down abit but some great results produced Darent Valley Results
But congratulations for the following roll of honour.
2nd lady, Mel Burdett
1st V55, Ruth Bunn
1st Team, Beckenham (7 men, 3 ladies)
Stuart Scott
Craig Williamson
Nolan Wilkens
Will Withecombe
Ed Osbourne
Richard Selway
Ben Calascione
Mel Burdett
Kate Marchant
Georgina Selway
Click on the picture for a link to the official race photos.
On Friday I got email after email with tales of sick notes and injuries so I was a little worried that I’d set up a mob match that no one was going to attend! In the end we had a healthy 29 runners pitch up to take on the impressive numbers of Petts Wood and Orpington, thanks to everyone who came. And if it was your 1st parkrun, welcome to the cult that will take over your Saturday mornings 😉 . The race it self took place in bright and breezy conditions and seemed to have inspired the whole of Bromley to come along! Numbers swelled to a huge 266 runners smashing the previous record of 188. Fortunately Martin Cunningham has set up a slick team of volunteers who coped with the numbers excellently (but they always need more if you’re at a loose end).
The actual race was hard fought and (sorry to the Petts Wood guy I accidentally elbowed!) competitive. We dominated the top positions but the key to mob matches is the middle order, which Petts Wood had plenty off!. Results are still under deliberation and appear very close! But I’ll post them up as soon they are agreed. But all in all a successful event, which I hope that we can make a regular fixture………
| 1 | Jim ADDISON | 17:40:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 2 | Clare ELMS | 17:53:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 5 | Nolan WILKENS | 18:07:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 8 | Christopher LYDON | 18:26:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 10 | Craig WILLIAMSON | 18:40:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 11 | David William SCRIMSHAW | 18:42:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 14 | Richard P SELWAY | 18:47:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 16 | Chris MINNS | 18:57:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 18 | Simon C CARTER | 18:59:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 22 | Simon HARRIS | 19:11:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 23 | Will WITHECOMBE | 19:24:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 30 | Ben CALASCIONE | 19:54:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 38 | Melanie BURDETT | 20:20:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 39 | Theunis BOTHA | 20:23:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 65 | Hugo DAVIS | 21:23:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 75 | Steve FERRAR | 21:37:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 84 | Kate MARCHANT | 21:56:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 90 | Ken BAKSH | 22:09:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 95 | Paul David Joseph FLETCHER | 22:18:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 96 | Andrew HINDS | 22:19:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 114 | Andrew SMALL | 23:02:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 119 | Georgina SELWAY | 23:14:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 127 | Nicky HOWARD | 23:29:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 129 | Pat KERRINS | 23:38:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 130 | Ian S MCCARTHY | 23:45:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 150 | Paul CREGG | 24:56:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 165 | Deborah FORD | 25:39:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 170 | Ruth BUNN | 26:07:00 | Beckenham RC |
| 190 | Carolyn TUSTIN | 27:12:00 | Beckenham RC |
The masses are off!
Here’s Orpington’s Jason Cherrimans video on face book, not sure you’ll be able to see but here goes…. parkrun
Jen Writes:
For those that knew Will Smit, he was a South African who used to belong to the club and has since moved to Singapore. He and his wife Toni had a baby early on Saturday morning, 2nd April. She weighed 6.6 lb and is called Mia Rose.
Mia Rose
