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Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon, London – Sunday 12th October 2014

If you want that London experience but the Marathon is too much then I would highly recommend the Royal Parks Half Marathon (and it is over with in half the time so more time to soak up the atmosphere!). You see more of the best parts of London and run through 4 of the 8 Royal parks. You feel like you are doing the last part of the Marathon backwards but at the start of the race while you are still feeling quite fresh to take in the surroundings.

The route starts and finishes on Kensington road at the bottom of Hyde Park. You run out of the park, down Green Park and past Buckingham Palace. Run down Birdcage Walk, past Houses of Parliament and loop out and back over Westminster Bridge. You run along the embankment for about a mile before returning through the Admiralty Arch, up the Mall and past the palace again. Back up through Green Park and into Hyde Park. You are roughly at halfway point by now and the remaining route loops through Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens before finish back where it started.

There is a good Festival Area with a charity village, stalls and food and drink. There are around 16,000 runners so there is a great atmosphere. There was plenty of support along the route with the majority in Hyde Park. My friends saw me 4 times throughout the race without them having to move very far due to how the course loops.

Entry for the race is via a Ballot which opens towards the end of Feb for about a week and you find out if you were successful the week after so no long wait like VLM.

Oliver Thomas – PB time of 1:42:08

Hi All

Training for this week:

Tuesday 14^th October:

Route A – Town circular backwards

Intervals

Thursday 16^th October:

Route B – Central Town

Social at the Narrowboat – don’t forget to let Jan know if you are going.

Results:

Parkrun – Sat 11/10 – 99 runners

4 Joel Dalby 19:24 (PB)

10 Mel Ives 22:07

25 Peter Wood 24:21 (PB)

39 Sally Ann Harrison 26:38 (PB)

40 Emma Yiu 26:58

73 Colin Shackleton 30:17

Richmond Castle 10K – Sun 12/10 – 407 runners

10 Neil Maloney 37:50

217 Hilary Seward 51:50

Yorkshire Marathon – Sun 12/10

What a fantastic day in York although couldn’t see much of it due to the fog.  Everybody had a great run with all of us gaining PBs. I would definitely recommend this race especially for your first marathon as really well organised and great support en route (especially from fellow Skipton AC members Chris, Paul, Rick, Steve, Jan, Pam and Barbara).

Ann-Marie Bulcock 3:15:01 (3^rd in age group, 16^th female)

Emma Newbould 3:52:28

Sue Marshall 3:53:07

Rebecca Malin 4:31:43

Gillian Elsworth 4:32:25

Victoria Wilson 4:40:34

The hard work was over and the mud had been cleaned off the shoes for another year, and it was time for the presentation night for the WYWL, being held at the Copper Beech Club in Balidon on Friday 21st March.

A good turnout form the Skipton team, although some did get lost on the way there (Jayne,Michael) cough (Hilary) cough! 🙂 The food was great and once again plenty of raffle tickets were bought by our team. The results were announced with the following awards given to these individuals

Julian Hood – 3rd Men’s Overall

Michael Keedy – 2nd M40

Neil Maloney – 3rd M40

Jayne Butterworth – 2nd F45

Overall Skipton really did perform well over the winter finishing in the positions below for each category.

7th Mens Team Overall

5th Female Team Overall

3rd Vets Team Overall

5th Team Overall

WELL DONE TO EVERYONE INVOLVED! And here’s to WYWL 2014/15

Jez Lamb

Hi all,

I’m going to reccé this (Wharfedale Off-Road Half Marathon) on the 4th May 2013 at 10:00am at Aireville Pool, Skipton. Car sharing possible…

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/194191612

Hope you can come along… this is NOT a race, running together to learn the route/terrain & gear/water needed/test.

Thanks

Mike L

Who’s to say which type of training and racing is harder? It’s relative and subjective. An elite-level sprinter might argue that sprinting is really the hardest of all. Think of all the effort you have to expend and precision you have to master when fractions of a second count.

http://www.therunnerstrip.com/2013/03/road-marathons-vs-trail-ultras/