The Barnes Bugle, news from...

May 2008

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ON THEIR BIKE
Best of luck to the Barnes Runners (cyclists?) taking part in the etape Caledonia highland Perthshire on May 18.
It’s a 130km (81 mile) race with a total ascent of 1,949m. Perhaps I’ll leave the Brompton at home this time.
BARNES RUNNERS QUIZ NIGHT
A date for your diary: Leave Friday, June 13 will free for the Barnes Runners Quiz Night. The event takes place at the Treehouse, White Heart Lane. Sarah Hornby will once again be in charge, with or without her recently-acquired megaphone. There are several weeks in which to bribe Sarah about the range of her questions. Non-runners welcome. More details to follow soon.
If you can’t wait until the handicap race on May 31, why not try the Parkland Relays in Richmond Park on Wednesday, May 14? Barnes Runners entered a couple of teams last year. We didn’t win but it’s the taking part that counts and it was good fun.

Brent Davis is putting our squad together. Contact him at brent_dvs@yahoo.com.au. As an added incentive, the club will pay members’ entry fees.

PARKLAND RELAYS
The plan is to hold the handicap race on the last Saturday of every month at 9am, with a trophy awarded to the monthly winner. The next one will be held on May 31st. See you there.

Here are the full results in glorious technicolour, painstakingly collated by Sam and his team.

Thanks, too, to the marshalls, to Dan Walker for the front page photo - and to Fulham Running Club for despatching a couple of members south of the river to join in.
Congratulations to Rob Katschmaryk who won the first Barnes Runners handicap race on April 26. Rob led home more than a dozen runners across the finish line near the grandstand at the Barn Elms track after following a flour trail for 7k around Barnes.

The handicap race gives everyone a chance of winning. Slower runners start ahead of the faster ones, in theory leading to a mad dash for the finish line as the handicaps even out pace differences.

The results were given added unpredictability, as one or two members took a detour near the old Barnes Cemetery.

A gold medal goes to Sam Allpass for putting in a lot of work to create the event and organise it on the day. He even raided the Allpass kitchen for flour to lay the trail.


ROB ROMPS HOME!
LONDON MARATHON UPDATE
Congratulations to Sam Allpass, who broke three hours in last month’s Flora London Marathon.

Sam was the 921st runner home (out of 34,000+) in 2:58:15. Sam was one of four Barnes Runners -

Mark Weight ran 3:13:17 to finish 2,223rd;
David Cornock ran 3:17:36, finishing 2,763rd
and Suzi Hall finished in 4:46:26, coming 23,508th.

Thank you to those of you who sponsored me. NCH, the children's charity, will bank more than £4,500 from my run (after gift aid) - even more if more of you discover www.justgiving.com/davidcornock before the site closes!

Entries for next year's event have already opened - go to www.london-marathon.co.ukto find out more. Let's hope we can have a bigger club turnout among the 2009 runners - I'll be on the sidelines cheering you on.....