Warwickshire Road Relays Sutton Park 18th March 2006 Race Report.

It was too cold for road relays, much too cold, but we still had three and a half teams out despite the usual contingent of ill and injured. Not going to do a blow by blow account today too many of you! Tho’ one of you bought me a chocolate cake; I see this as the way forward.

 In the A team, Faye Manger , the baby of this team; Clare Grice, clearly had the run of the day for us; and Rachel Cook, once again struggling with the aftermath of an illness, combined well to finish in 2nd place only narrowly missing out on victory by a few seconds.

In the B team Fliss Bemrose, (short for Felicity) with supporters club, made her debut in splendid style; this Lady is a vital part of our future (she bought the cake).

Michelle Tanner bubbly as ever, and Louise Heavy Metal Harman, with supporters club, were terrific back up. They finished 6th.

In the C team were Hannah Hore, Clare Beaumont , and Rachel Denham, who finished 11th.

Finally, my thanks to Pam Rayment, and the ever present Wendy Morant  in the C team.

If one or two more of you brought supporters clubs we could have a competition for them also.

 Thank you to Josie Grey for helping me with the timing, she also froze to death.

Regular readers of this rubbish will notice that gradually the names are changing, with one or two exceptions, and new faces are coming in; team spirit is as good, if not better than I’ve ever known it.

I struggled manfully from the course with seven bottles of red wine in my rucksack, these belong to those of you running in the men’s and women’s A teams. Any unclaimed bottles will be raffled off at the Awards night on April 1st which I hope as many of you as possible will attend. 

TIMES  

Faye Manger-17:25. Clare Grice-16:05. Rachel Cook-17:37

Fliss Bemrose-17:12. Michelle Tanner-18:27. Louise Harman- 18:46

Hannah Hore-19:27. Clare Beaumont-18:53. Rachel Denham-21:10

Pam Rayment-24:58. Wendy Morant- 23:02

 

Eddie Cockayne.