A quick look back at the last two sunny Sunday league races, which both featured a great turnout from the club. At the Gaddesby 7 on 21st May, 29 Hinckley runners completed the 7-mile race:

Chris Limmer – 42:39, Chris Langham – 42:59, Nick Moore – 45:09, Joe Langham – 45:25, Harry Langham – 47:30, Rolf Hoelmer – 49:33, Tom Wormleighton – 50:05, Rob Pratt – 50:33, Tim Payne – 51:29, Celine Guery – 53:02, Kate Perkins – 53:24, William Pither – 55:10, Sarah Garford – 55:12, James McBean – 55:30, Penny Masser – 56:10, Greg Pollard – 56:07, Michelle Fowler – 57:32, Jenny Green – 58:25, Richard Guest – 1:00:10, Kerry Wittering – 1:02:37, Nicola Dutton – 1:02:55, Geoffrey Oliver – 1:07:27, Elizabeth Aspden-Mansfield – 1:09:55, Andrea Earley – 1:13:25, Odette Foxall – 1:13:21, Sarah McSharry – 1:15:10, Elaine Wischhusen – 1:14:55, Judy McSharry – 1:15:12, Diane Wildbur – 1:17:52

And at the Swithland 6 on 4th June, Hinckley’s 32 finishers were:

Chris Langham – 35:54, Joe Langham – 38:01, Harry Langham – 38:10, Tom Wormleighton – 39:39, Mark Jones – 39:36, Rob Pratt – 41:41, Rolf Hoelmer – 42:52, James McBean – 43:59, Rebecca Gould – 44:38, Celine Guery – 44:47, Kate Perkins – 44:51, Ali Higgins – 45:28, Leanne Byard – 45:44, Penny Masser – 46:50, Jenny Green – 46:51, William Pither – 47:48, Michelle Fowler – 48:22, Edward Nixon – 49:55, Ian Sylvester – 50:17, Jane Wheeler – 50:55, Richard Guest – 51:30, Kerry Wittering – 51:56, Nicola Dutton – 52:06, Emma Thompson – 52:48, Julia Waite – 53:59, Charlotte May Sinclair – 54:40, Elizabeth Aspden-Mansfield – 57:10, Erica Fisher – 59:19, Odette Foxall – 1:01:48, Stephanie Harris – 1:02:46, Elaine Wischhusen – 1:03:04, Judy McSharry – 1:03:24

Full results as usual on the results page.

League wise, the women’s team have lifted themselves out of the relegation places with the strong showing of the last two races putting them firmly 6th. Meanwhile the mens team have dropped a little and are battling Desford for the 5th spot.

 

I took some pictures at Swithland and these were my two favourites:

Thanks to Team Anstey and Birstall RC for putting on these two excellent races. The next LRRL league race is the Wreake Runners Hungarton 7 on 5th July – enter here!

26 Hinckley runners ran the West End 8 on Sunday 7th May – the first race of the LRRL summer league. It’s a scenic 8 mile road race on the country lanes near Syston, “undulating” at first, with a tough hill in the middle and a nice downhill finish.

A massive turnout from the ladies, with 19 running. It was Hinckley ladies’ best result of the 2017 season so far, coming 4th in the division. The men’s team was a bit short on numbers, with just 7 men racing this one, and we were 7th in our division behind all the teams with the full eight men (but still ahead of Coritanians who had zero men…)

Now the ladies are up to joint 6th in div 1, and the men have dropped a place to 5th in div 1. Still 6 races to go.

The full HRC roll of honour was: Chris Limmer – 47:03, Chris Langham – 48:36, Nick Moore – 53:39, Harry Langham – 54:59, Bethan Padbury – 58:36, Kate Perkins – 59:00, Celine Guery – 59:36, Leanne Byard – 01:00:36, Greg Pollard – 01:02:42, William Pither – 01:02:52, Penny Masser – 01:03:27, Jenny Green – 01:04:11, Richard Guest – 01:08:20, Kerry Wittering – 01:10:35, Nicola Dutton – 01:11:57, Emma Thompson – 01:13:35, Elizabeth Aspden-Mansfield – 01:16:40, Jodie Brown – 01:16:58, Julie Hudson – 01:17:14, Andrea Earley – 01:19:33, Diane Wildbur – 01:21:40, Odette Foxall – 01:22:23, Sarah McSharry – 01:22:54, Judy McSharry – 01:22:51, Erica Fisher – 01:23:25, Stephanie Harris – 01:26:58

Full Results

Well done to all the runners and welcome to league racing to Jodie Brown running her first race in Hinckley colours. Runners of the day: Jude McSharry, who finished the race together with daughter Sarah, and Greg Pollard who ran a cracking race (and just beating Will Pither at the finish, a possible rivalry developing…)

Thanks to West End Runners for putting on the race. Next LRRL races are Gaddesby 7 (21st May) and Swithland 6 (4th June) which are both now closed for entries. Then the Hungarton 7 on 5th July which has just opened for entries.

The Livingston Relays were held on Sunday 30th April at Braunstone Park, Leicester. It a relay race in which each competitor runs a single lap of 3 miles. Official results are here. Hinckley’s teams were:

Under 15 Girls category (8 teams)
5th Place – Olivia Sykes 21:43, Isobel Sykes 23:31, Isabella Wrightam 21:16 – Total 66:30

Senior Women category (45 teams)
3rd Place – Hinckley “A” – Bethan Padbury 20:07, Kate Perkins 20:53, Rebecca Gould 20:50 – Total 61:50
16th Place – Hinckley “B” – Jenny Green 22:13, Emma Thompson 25:39, Céline Guéry 21:21 – Total 69:12
25th Place – Hinckley “C” – Andrea Earley 27:47, Debbie Moore 22:51, Elaine Doran 23:32 – Total 74:10

Senior Men category (44 teams)
9th Place – Hinckley “B” – Richard Whitelegg 16:36, Simon Earley 18:07, Chris Langham 17:49, Dave Masser 18:05 – Total 70:37
20th Place – Hinckley “A” – Ben Harding 15:52, Harry Langham 18:22, Joe Langham 17:55, Ben Masser 22:51 – Total 75:00

The senior ladies “A” placed 3rd in the medals, however their medals were given out to a different team on the day and the result was later corrected; hopefully we will get the medals back!

With the excellent weather it made for a really good day out and we hope to be back next year. Our thanks to the organisers for putting on this great local event.

Hinckley Running Club is proud to present HRC Training T-shirts. These are Hinckley blue with the logo on the front and Hinckley Running Club on the back in white. See the photos below, kindly modelled by Ben.

These will be on sale shortly, and as with other kit, at cost price and in a range of sizes kindly organised by Penny. They cost £10.

The club would like to give away 10 t-shirts. To be in with a chance, you just need to turn up to the Leisure Centre and take part in a Tuesday or Thursday session during May 2017. Each time you do we will put your name in a hat. At the end of May we will draw 10 names. So the more sessions you go to, the more chance you have.

I will be at the Leisure Centre to take a register of names at each session. Good luck everyone. We all look forward to seeing these out and about in the streets of Hinckley, or even further afield!

The Derby Runner Cross Country League  2017 season has come to a close and the results are in.

Well done to the Ladies for coming first in Division 2.

Final Tables

Men

League	Pos	Club	Tot Pts	Count	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7
1	1	Hermitage	66	2281	10	9	10	10	10	7	10
	2	Derwent	51	3875	9	7	3	7	8	8	9
	3	S.Derbyshire	50	3730	3	6	6	9	9	9	8
	4	Shelton	47	4340	8	10	9	5	2	10	3
	5	Barrow	42	4509	7	8	8	6	3	5	5
	6	Derby Tri	32	5333	5	1	4	8	6	4	4
	7	Hinckley	30	4508	6	5	2	3	7		7
	8	Beaumont	28	4777	4	4	7		4	3	6
	9	Hatton	20	4776	2	3	5	4		6
	10	Leicester Tri	15	7438	1	2	1	2	5	2	2
2	1	Badgers	130	2862	18	19	18	19	19	18	19
	2	Ivanhoe	126	3621	19	17	17	18	18	19	18
	3	Westend	122	3818	17	18	19	17	17	17	17
	4	Poplar RC	98	7340	14	13	10	14	15	16	16
	5	R.Hoggs	90	8161	9	12	11	16	14	14	14
	6	Birstall	88	8324	10	14	12	12	13	15	12
	7	Desford	86	6970	16	16	16		12	11	15
	8	Wigston	72	8197	13		15	13	10	10	11
	9	Huncote	68	6879	15	10	14		16		13
	10	Shepshed	67	9057	11	9	8	15	11	13
	11	Wreake	40	4727	12	15	13
	12	Coalville Tri	26	9225	7	8		11
	13	R.Royce	20	7371	8					12
	14	Team Anstey	20	8441		11	9
	15	Team Derby Runner	9	6096						9
		Harborough
		Soar Valley		1896
		Stilton		2292
		Fleckney		4861

Ladies

League	Pos	Club	Tot Pts	Count	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7
1	1	Westend	66	465	10	9	10	10	9	8	10
	2	Hermitage	59	624	9	8	7	8	10	9	8
	3	Ivanhoe	58	619	8	10	6	9	6	10	9
	4	Derwent	50	913	6	7	9	7	7	7	7
	5	Birstall	30	1384	5	5	2	4	8	4	2
	6	Shelton	29	1450	7	4	1	6	2	6	3
	7	Leicester Tri	29	1477	3	2	8	2	5	3	6
	8	Barrow	27	1576	1	6	5	5	3	2	5
	9	Desford	24	1505	4	3	4	3	1	5	4
	10	Shepshed	13	1850	2	1	3	1	4	1	1
2	1	Hinckley	129	1057	19	19	18	17	19	18	19
	2	Poplar RC	125	1161	18	18	19	16	17	19	18
	3	S.Derbyshire	113	1576	13	17	14	18	19	17	15
	4	Hatton	106	1779	12	15	17	19	10	16	17
	5	Badgers	91	2226	10	9	12	15	14	15	16
	6	Wigston	89	2336	14	13	8	14	13	14	13
	7	R.Hoggs	78	2849	7	6	15	13	12	11	14
	8	Team Derby Runner	71	2797	15	5	7	12	9	13	10
	9	Wreake	63	990	17	14	16		16
	10	Huncote	57	1872	9	16	5		15		12
	11	Derby Tri	57	2304	16	7	13			10	11
	12	Beaumont	47	2669	8	10	6	11		12
	13	Team Anstey	34	2553	5	9	9		11
	14	Coalville Tri	32	2403	11	13			8
	15	Fleckney	30	1945		11	10			9
	16	Stilton	17	1193	6		11
	17	R.Royce	4	1320			4
		Harborough
		Soar Valley		494

Combined Team

League	Pos	Club	Tot Pts	Count	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7
1	1	Hermitage	69	1989	10	10	10	10	10	9	10
	2	Ivanhoe	57	3315	9	7	6	8	9	8	10
	3	Shelton	49	4195	8	9	9	7	2	10	4
	4	S.Derbyshire	46	3801	3	6	7	9	8	7	6
	5	Derwent	42	3702	7	4	6	6	6	6	7
	6	Barrow	38	4586	4	8	8	5	4	4	5
	7	Hinckley	32	4662	6	5	2	3	7	1	8
	8	Hatton	21	5127	2	3	4	4	3	5
	9	Derby Tri	17	5471	5	1	3	2		3	3
	10	Leicester Tri	14	6844	1	2	1	1	5	2	2
2	1	Westend	131	3139	19	19	19	18	19	19	18
	2	Badgers	128	3512	18	18	18	19	18	18	19
	3	Poplar RC	106	6569	15	13	13	16	16	17	16
	4	Beaumont	97	5591	16	17	17		15	15	17
	5	Birstall	90	7807	11	14	10	13	14	16	12
	6	R.Hoggs	88	8526	9	11	11	17	13	13	14
	7	Desford	87	6598	17	16	16		12	11	15
	8	Huncote	80	6920	12	12	12		17	14	13
	9	Wigston	72	8354	13		15	14	9	10	11
	10	Shepshed	66	8689	10	10	9	15	10	12
	11	Wreake	54	4833	14	15	14		11
	12	Coalville Tri	34	10459	6	8		12	8
	13	Team Anstey	24	10086		9	8		7
	14	Team Derby Runner	16	8065	7					9
	15	R.Royce	15	8424	8		7
		Harborough
		Soar Valley		2390
		Stilton		3053
		Fleckney		6332

Individual winners and placings can be found on a previous article:

Final Individuals Standings from the Derby Runner XC League

Results and runners of the day can be found on our results page here:

Races 2016/17

Well done to everyone who has taken part, either as a runner, supporter or volunteer.
100% finishers of all the XC races go to the following; Ben Haring, Joe Langham and Bethan Padbury.

There was a big contingent of Hinckley RC members running the Virgin Money London Marathon yesterday. Some running their first ever marathon and some old hands. Results are below. Hope you all had an amazing day whether you beat your goals or had a tough one.

If you’re inspired to run it next year and you don’t have Good For Age or Championship time, the ballot opens on 1 May! And if you don’t get in we will have club places. This year Martin Lynch and Ben Masser had our club places, which we as an England Athletics affiliated running club are allocated each year.

Place	Gender Pos	Name	Category	Time
339	334	David Limmer	18-39	02:40:50
852	836	Chris Limmer	18-39	02:50:12
1387	1344	Matt Johnson	18-39	02:56:28
2103	2019	Chris Langham	45-49	03:01:43
2498	2384	Dave Masser	50-54	03:05:35
2748	2608	Matthew Knight	18-39	03:07:55
3815	3526	Paul Clayton	45-49	03:15:05
4884	4392	Stephen Penney	45-49	03:22:19
6126	801	Céline Guéry	18-39	03:29:12
6429	5549	Simon Earley	50-54	03:30:37
6640	5688	Paul Ashby	18-39	03:31:56
9299	1849	Katy Grainger	18-39	03:44:49
9533	7611	John Padbury	45-49	03:45:50
9872	7857	Rolf Hoelmer	40-44	03:47:22
10359	2183	Penny Masser	50-54	03:49:32
10889	8509	Ben Masser	18-39	03:51:48
16305	12060	Martin Lynch	45-49	04:13:10
18229	4922	Lucy Masser	18-39	04:20:47
18258	13327	Will Pither	40-44	04:20:53
27584	8939	Charlotte Sinclair	18-39	04:58:33