Linda Franks 4.2 - Sunday 29th Jan

With wins for Simon Hall and Angie Sadler, plus a turnout of 17 club members and some excellent individual performances, the second event in the KOTR series was a real success. The results are available here, but they may be out by as much as 30 seconds. Here's a photo of Simon receiving some handy sprint finish tips from Rob Jordan, plus Angie in full flight.

Results - Cross Country League , 21 January 2006

Andy Hawkins reports these results from the last County Cross Country Race held at Cinderford last Saturday, run over a demanding course close to Heywood School. Consisting mainly of 3 undulating loops through a wooded area it was a true Cross Country course with ankle deep mud, water and hidden objects.

Men
38 Andy Hawkins 41:48
99 Stuart Dudfield 47:57
113 Phil Howells 51:06

Ladies
14 Angie Sadler 31:14
19 Cathy Dudfield 33:23
22 Carol Cowley 33:36
46 Sandie Harwood 39:35

Angie finished 2nd Lady Vet 45 overall for the series and Andy finished 12th overall.

Quiz Night Details - Numbers needed!

The quiz night is confirmed as Friday 24th March. Contact Cathy Dudfield (cathydudfield@hotmail.co.uk) for more info.

Result - Not The Roman IX, 22 January 2006

Lisa Gutch reports....

Tewkesbury AC's Brother and Sister team, Jason Draper and Lisa Kane took part in Stratford AC's 'NOT THE ROMAN IX' Road Race on Sunday January 22nd. Lisa is one of Tewkesbury's newest members and was running her first competitive race in club colours as part of her preparation for her target race which is the Bath Half Marathon in March. Her time of 61:14 was extremely pleasing for her as her target time for the race was around 70 minutes. Jason, meanwhile, ran 47:45.

5 mile Club Handicap

The plan is to hold this on March 12th (same day as Gloucester 20). Let Rob Jordan know if you want to run

King of the Road 2006 -Full listing

Remaining races for the 2006 King of the Road are

Aug 2nd 1930hrs Bugatti 10k
Sept 3rd 1000hrs Oldbury PS.10m
Sept 16th 1800hrs Severn 5m
Oct 22nd 1000hrs Stroud 1/2 M

plus any Marathon

Fixtures for Glos X-Country League 2006/07

Date Venue

14th Oct 06 Gloucester Black Bridge (Hosted by Gloucester AC)

18th Nov 06 Cheltenham Pitville Park (Hosted by Cheltenham Harriers)

9th Dec 06 Gloucester Plock Court (Hosted by Severn AC)

20th Jan 07 Droitwich (Hosted by Droitwich AC)

Results - County Cross-Country Champs, 14 January 2006

We had two Tewkesbury runners in last Saturdays County X cty championships at Plock Court

Angie Sadler took part in the ladies race and finished 12 out of 30. She finished first LV45 in a time of 25m:32s, on the course that was approx 6k.

Andy Hawkins was in the mens race and finished 15th out of 47in a time of 34m:19s on the course that was approx 6miles.

Results - New Years 10, 8 January 2006

Seven Tewkesbury AC members took part in the Gloucester AC organised New Year 10 on 8 January. Run from the Anchor Inn at Epney this tough course usually has a wide range of clubs participating helped this year by it being the first of the County Road Race Series. The most impressive performance for Tewkesbury was by Stuart Dudfield who had only come off a night shift 3 hours before but ran out of his skin to beat his PB by just under 5 minutes and also two other club members in the dash for the line. Two of Tewkesbury’s lady members also had fine runs both recoding PBs.

48th Jason Draper 66m 55s

67th Stuart Dudfield 70m 09s (PB by just under 5 mins)

71st Barry O’Driscoll 70m 18s

76th Stuart Buchan 70m 37s

95th Carol Cowley 73m 36s (PB)

98th Cathy Dudfield 74m 14s (PB)

114th Phil Howells 76m 36s

About us (& contact details)

Welcome to Tewkesbury AC. We are a friendly running club that welcomes runners of all standards. There are training runs at 7pm every Wednesday of between 5 and 9 miles. We meet from 6.45pm at Tewkesbury Rugby Club, which is at the end of Gander Lane behind Tewkesbury Abbey.

If the access from Gander Lane through the Vineyards is flooded, there is a rear access to the Rugby Club off Despenser Road in Priors Park.

Secretary: Steve Wiggall (01242 692617)

Webmaster: Clive Sentance (01386 725309)