Bracknell Forest Runners

We are in the process of getting next season's dates sorted for the XC league. 

Next year's Wokingham Half is on February 8, Bramley is on February 15, the Grizzly is on March 8 and Cranleigh is on March 29.

Currently therefore there are no clashes between those 4 events and the 8 cross country events.  We will do our utmost to keep it this way so that all those 12 events can be built into our 2009 London Marathon training.

You can download an entry form here.

The JF10k together with the Beachy Head Marathon are the last 2 remaining events in this year's club championship.

For those keen mountain bikers amongst us, the Gorrick Mountain Biking Club (who build and maintain the trails we often use at The Lookout) are organising a 12 hour enduro event near Yately on the 6th September, sponsored by Torq Fitness.

"The course designed by Jon Lucas and Paul Howard is taking shape - it will be approximately 7 miles in length and is a 'typical Gorrick course', i.e. flowing with sinuous singletrack through pine forest and a few technical challenges interspersed by short fireroads to aid recovery and refuelling. So we can assure you there is no riding round grassy fields of mud!"

Solos, pairs or teams (3 or 4) can enter. The race is from 12 noon until midnight (so powerful offroad lights needed from 8PM). More details here.

Some photographs from this year's Mud Run are now available here.

Seems that saving money is getting more and more important - don't forget when you're looking for new gear that there are local shops who will give you a discount when you produce your BFR membership card.
More details here.

It’s exactly 100 years ago today, 24 July 1908, that he and 55 other racers set of on the first marathon to be run at its now recognised distance of 26 miles 385 yards.  The race started at Windsor Castle and finished at the White City stadium at the London Olympics.  Finishing first he was then disqualified but became one of the best known people not to win Olympic gold.  So tonight when you’re out training and wondering why you’re putting your body through all this torture – its Dorando’s fault!

We've received an update from Windle Valey Runners.

The venue for their relay marathon is now at Lightwater Country Park with the entire event off road.  It will still consist of a 10 person relay, limited to 20 teams.

Please let me have names ASAP so that we are not disappointed if we want to enter extra teams.

I am doing some volunteer work in Zambia this summer, renovating and extending a primary school in a shanty town on the outskirts of the capital, Lusaka. The trip itself is all paid for but we have been asked to raise funds for the cost of building materials etc.

So I am contacting everybody I know to come to my recital for double bass and piano on Thursday 24th July at 8pm in St Mary's Church, Maidenhead SL6 1YY. The programme includes pieces by Handel, Eccles, Bottesini and Faure.

Tickets are not required but donations are welcome.However, if you can't make it to the concert, you can still make a donation anyway via www.justgiving.com/lucyheath2 where there is a bit more information about the trip. You can also check out www.missiondirect.org to find out more.

Please do donate something - even a quid counts!

Thank you so much!

Lucy

Congratulations to Mike Brock in completing Austria Ironman in 10:53. great achievement.

(That is 2.4M Swim 112K Bike 26M Run) 

One of our most recent new members won our club 5k on 16 July.  Paul Sweeney estimated his time at 19:00 minutes and finished in 18:56 minutes, just  4 seconds out.  Barbara Crandon was pipped by just 1 second finishing in 30:25 against an estimate of 30:30 a miss of 5 seconds.

Biggest miss was Corinna Tannian who at 35:18 was a whole 7 minutes 54 seconds ahead of her estimate, which probably shows how rapidly she is improving following the birth of her second baby.

Full results are available here.

We had a fantastic turn out for the NF10 held on 13 July with 35 members completing in the main race and a great BBQ afterwards.  Many thanks to Linda for the superb organisation.

Congratulations to Hazel Bent (1:51:23) and Jim Woodbridge (1:57:02) both of whom achieved age related club records.

Congratulations also to Ben Martin-Dye for finishing third overall and to Joanna Williams for finishing second senior lady.  In the team event BFR men came fourth and the ladies a superb second.

The results for the 2008 Bounders Relay are now available here.

The 2008 Bounders Relay was held in Crowthorne Woods on July 8.  The event was a great success with 27 teams completing the event.  Thankfully the rain held off for the night. First team home were Sandhurst Joggers A, second Bracknell Forest Runners A and third Reading Road Runners A.  First ladies team was Reading Road Runners and first corporate team was Fujitsu. Full results will be available here soon.