Cambridge Harriers

Sunday Summary 29 November 2009

Lacy's London Champ

There were two other medals for Cambridge Harriers on the day too.

In the under 15 girls race of the London CC Champs, Grace Derome, running for Kent, came 21st of 89 finishers in a time of 16:08. Grace was 3rd scorer for Kent. Also scoring in 3rd place for Kent was the quick Steven Ball in the U13 boys, finishing 20th overall.

South of The Thames CC 5 Miles Team Race
Cambridge Harriers Men came sixth from 27 teams in the four to score event in the South of Thames Cross Country Team race at Sparrows Den.

Leading the charge was Dave Reader, finishing in 27th, finishing the five mile course in 30:30. Ian Brankin, who led the CAmbridge field overhalf way, was just 12 seconds behind for 30th place and was followed by Mark Ashby in 36th, in 31:03. Completing the team was Andy Knight, behind Mark in 31:10 for 37th spot.

Also running for Cambridge were Clem Dixon finishing in 32:30 (54th) and Pat Austin, 38:40 (138)

Kent Fitness League (guests)
Mark Penny took part as a guest runner in the Kent Fitness Leagu cross country race at Meopham.

Maark gained 14th place from 416 runners in 35 minutes and 23 seconds.

Florence Marathon
Helen Perera made the trip to Italy this weekend to compete in the Florence Marathon. Running well, she completed the course in 3:38:49

Website hits 250,000 mark!
This week the Cambridge Harriers website recieved it's 250,000th individual visits, in just under two years since it's launch.

A big thank you to everybody who has helped and contributed to make the website so informative and useful to such a wide audience, not just Cambridge Harriers members!

Our statistics show that we average over 10,000 visits to the site each month, with regular visitors from as far away as Australia and the U.S.

We also get a few Canadian visitors, but I wonder whether they end up here when looking for their own Cambridge Harriers in Ontario!

Dean club xc

London CC Championships & SEAA Inter-Counties

Dean Lacy gained second place and became champion of the 2009 London Cross Country Championships at Parliament Fields, last weekend.

Dean finished 10 seconds behind a foreign runner in first place. He then followed up the race by running in the UKA McCain UK Cross Country Challenge in Liverpool, where he finished 41st on the 10k course with a time of 30 minutes and 18 seconds.

This week in history...

A new feature where we look at club news from years gone by.

Cambridge beat the Americans
1985 - Keith Penny came 2nd in the Tallgrass 10k at Battersea Park, losing out to American Rod Berry with a time of 29:37. However, Cambridge beat the Puma U.S.A team as Paul Williams gained 6th in 30:35 and Paul Johnson 8th in 30:49.

Glynis Penny won the ladies race in 33:29.

Even back then, the hardy Les Wright was a vet of merit and won the vets race in 34:15.

Club notices

Club Handicap
The annual club handicap open race will be held on Wednesday 9th December, starting at 7:15. Please ensure that you have registered for the race at the clubhouse by 7PM on the evening. Entry is £4 and there is a mystery lucky dip prize for every runner.

Please come along and support the event on this special
evening, where we will hold the draw for the annual club raffle and for club entries in to the 2010 London Marathon.

Olympians and previous illustrious members
We have begun developing profiles of the clubs olympians and illustrious members. Please have a look and be inspitred on the Olympians page.

If you have any details, stories or stats of our illutrious members from the past, please email us cambridgeharrierspress@hotmail.com or click here

New address!
You can now access the Cambridge Harriers website through an eaiser to remember address, cambridgeharriers.net. This is in addition to the existing address.