Hardley Runners News
Hardley Runners News
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Mick Anglim, Chairman of Hardley Runners, is now a double World Champion having won Gold in the Over 60 category in the Long Distance Duathlon World Championships to add to his short distance World title.
The Long Distance Championships were held in Geel, Belgium on tortuous town centre circuits which included cobbled streets and dead turns on which several competitors crashed in the wet conditions. The first run of 18kms consisted of four laps on which Mick led a trio of Germans by less than a minute. The technical bike course was 74kms over four laps and Mick made the most of a week of cycle training in the French Alps to extend his lead. After the final 9 km run Mick completed the event in 4 hours 9 minutes to collect the O60 Gold medal with a lead of over 4 minutes from the second placed German. The Bronze medal was taken by another German over 10 minutes in arrears.
Mick was the only male Champion in the Great Britain squad which had two other World Champions in the Ladies events. Emma Dews of neighbouring New Forest Runners won Gold in the O30 category and set the fastest time of all of the Age Group women.
Mick has also won the 2008 O60 European and British Duathlon Championship titles and will defend his short distance Duathlon World title in Rimini, Italy in September.
To say farewell to Andy and Jane as they leave for the Far East (well at least for three years), a run/lunch has been organised in recognition of their valued service to the club for the past 25 years!!! Details are here.
We were the hosts for the 6th RR10. Thanks very much to everyone who turned out to help and made it such a good event. It's great to be able to put something back by way of a thank you to the people from other clubs who help us.
It was a lovely sunny evening. Turnout of runners was down a bit, particularly among the men (163 men and 127 women). Could this have been anything to do with Germany 3 Turkey 2? Or perhaps New Zealand 246-9 off exactly 50 overs?
If a picture is worth a thousand words then this is going to be a long report. The gallery shows us setting up. Then people joggging (and other things) in the half hour before the start. Then the surge of runners going past (proof that you can take pictures and hold out your hand to direct the runners at the same time; but not very well). Then the sweeper and then the late starters. After that I joined the last runner and we tried to catch Chris, the sweeper. On the way we met a very young marshal. Then it was time to help someone who was unwell. Then Paul and I jogged round the rest of the course, picking up (and in some cases it was quite a challenge as they were tightly tied to fuzz bushes) red and white tapes on the way. Then the finish where, despite Paul's worries, the water had not run out. Sue showed off her tri T shirt, Judy showed off her glowing aura and Linda showed off her grand child. There was also a film crew. They are making a programme about midweek events; we'll publish more information when we get it. Then off to the Forest Home where Mick showed off his handbag and we all enjoyed some well earned rehydration and nourishment.
All in all, it was an excellent evening. Thanks very much to everyone who made it so.
Ian Berry from Winchester took a set of over 400 photos including pretty well all the runners. You can see them here
This year the Club Championship was the Winchester 10Kon Sunday 8 June. Results are on the results page together with a link to loads of photos.
Every year, in March, Hardley Runners spend a very enjoyable day in Brockenhurst. There is a morning spent running or walking with a choice of various distances around the surrounding forest.
Showering and changing is courtesy of The Forest Park Hotel, which then provides a delicious lunch.
This year 65 Hardley Runners partook of the exercise and good food which was then followed by the annual presentations and awards.
art during the Victory '5' at Portsmouth.And this year, by popular demand (well maybe because the camera was on the wrong setting) we have a movie of the awards. Take care though as it is over 2MB so it may take a while to load..
Over the last few years a few Hardley Runners have joined us for the annual Dieppe weekend.
Dieppe Cyclotourists Club organise a number of cycling events and 2 walks, there is something to suit everyone. This year there is also a lovely new swimming complex that opened last summer. The weekend takes place from 7th - 9th June. Routes range from 20k to 200k and an array of awards are presented.
Details for this year's Dieppe trip are now available from the web site: http://www.dieppetour.com/ Both Entry and Travel Forms have been published. Please note that Group Travel bookings MUST be finalised by 4th April. If you cannot access the forms then just let me know and I'll contact you direct.
Give me a call if you want to know more about the weekend. I look forward to receiving your entry forms. Please feel free to pass these details on to anyone who you believe may be interested.
Caroline Street caroline.street@ntlworld.com. 01329-845330
There was an excellent turnoout of over 50 runners for the Christmas handicap. For those who don't know, you have to predict your time for the 9.6K course and then run without your watch. The person nearest to their predicted time wins. This year Guy Lawrenson, who was only one second out, took the honours. There was also a fancy dress prize which went to Santa Jeremy Barber (30 seconds out). Everyone got a certificate and there were spot prizes galore. The run was followed by mulled wine and then a convivial lunch at the Royal Oak at Hilltop. All in all an excellent event and thanks go to everyone who worked so hard to make it so. You can see the full results here.
Oh and a grey digital watch was left behind after the event. Would the owner please contact Mick Anglim (see contact us tab).
Well done to everyone who represented Hardley in the above event on our
tough Dibden Inclosure course. An even bigger thanks to the very small
number of members who sacrificed their time to ensure that this
prestigious event ran smoothly.
Particular congratulations to our ladies who braved the mud, cold, wind
and rain as they won Bronze medals in the Veteran's Team category. Details of these and other Hardley results are on the results page (link above).
The Lymington Times have awarded three Hardley Runners "Sports Personalities of the Year", namely Malc Renyard, Jane Morgan and Howard Doe. Well done all three
There was a nice article about us in the Echo on 22 November. I can't find it on their site (if you do please email me - see contact us page) so here's a PDF.
Hi All
24 of our runners took part and over 30 marshalled, meaning that we had excellent support from Hardley Runners - aren’t we all wonderful! Thank you very much to all those who marshalled. Here are the results from the race and details of the next one.
Jenny & DaveThe world record was smashed at the top of the field. But for most of us to have participated is the prize. For the story of our runners, Leonora Stovell and Sarah Hean click here.
Weather for the last race at Hursley wasovercast and drizzly. Those who did the Test Way Reccy a few days earlier had the perfect excuse for poor results. Mick showed awesome dedication by running the 1500 and the 5000 in the Civil Service championships and then coming straight to the RR10 (and he was still accelerating when he overtook me!).
Overall, we had excellent turnouts for the first four races. Down a bit since but still good. We have both strength and depth with teams going as far a H (men's) and G (ladies). Full results are on the RR10 site. As an added bonus Linda has prepared a chart showing the Hardley turnouts which you can see here. Everyone who took part contributed to the team results as follows
| A Team | B Team | C Team | D Team | E Team | F Team | G Team | H Team | |
| Ladies | 3 | 13 | 18 | 25 | 36 | 38 | 47= | |
| Men | 5 | 12= | 19 | 24 | 34 | 37 | 45 | 49 |
Finally, thanks very much to everyone who turned out to help with our RR10 on 20 June. We all benefit from similar help at other races and it is wonderful that runners are so good at helping each other. Well done!
It was a lovely sunny day and around 25 of us including some visitors from Stubbington Green ran from Inpen to Forton where we had lunch, a swim in the river and a slice of Ray's 56th birthday cake (thanks Maggie). The most hardy among us then carried on the Chilbolton. There were various stops on the way including the George and Dragon, the Coronation Arms, The George, The Bourne Valley Inn (not strictly on the route those last two but there's no holding back Ray and Brian), The Plough and The Mayfly. Good to see that hardley Runners striking a sensible balance between running and drinking. Click here for some pix. They are reduced in quality to make the images easier to load. If you'd like a full scale version of any of them please email the webmaster.
By popular demand our Half Marathon was held on 7 October on its usual course winding through the New Forest around Exbury and along the Solent shore at Lepe Beach.
The long standing name of the Solent Half Marathon has been revived to reflect the scenic nature of the course. There's lots more information on the Solent Half pages - just click on the tab at the top of this page.
Please click here for a mesage from our Chairman, Mick Anglim about subscriptions to UK Athletics.
Our M60 duathlon World Champion, Mick Anglim has done it again. He took the M60 gold medal at the European Championships in Edinburgh on 17 June by a massive 5 minutes. On a course decribed as both technical and hilly his times were 10K run 37.43, 40K bike 1.09.25, 5K run 21.48. Well done!
Click
on the little picture to see a big one. Well done to Mick Anglim (M60 Gold)
and Howard Doe (M55 Bronze) who have won World Duathlon championship medals.
Also to Kevin King who battled a stomach bug and finished a creditable 14th
M45 and then took gold at the British Sprint Triathlon a week later. Report
here.
Well done to three Hardley athletes who were up in the medals. Details here.
The sun shone on us on 18 March 2007 for the Hardley Hill Half. Over sixty members enjoyed runs from 8 to 18 miles or walking. And it was all followed by an excellent lunch at the Forest park. All in all and excellent day and thanks very much to all who arranged it.
Andy took a group photo. Like him later that morning, it is a little over exposed but, nonetheless,it is a good record of (some of) our happy Hardley team.
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