Here’s the latest position in the Club championship. John McGargill is still well out in front but the battle for 2nd place is very tight with only 0.2 points between the Chairman in 2nd and James in 3rd with Neil only 1.7 points further back! Good to see another McGargill in the top 10, well done Fiona, the highest placed woman at number 9. There are still a few park runs left (to end of October) plus the Jedburgh 10K and half marathon so still time to push for a prize. Its worth trying to get your 4 qualifying scores in for a chance to win the lucky dip prize.

Talking of prizes the committee met on Sunday and agreed the following generous prizes of Start Fitness vouchers for

First
Second
Male Athlete of the year (chosen by the club committee)
Female Athlete of the year (chosen by the club committee)
Lucky dip 1 – a random draw from those who have completed all 4 qualifying races (1 short + 2 medium + 1 long)
Lucky dip 2 – a second random draw

Limit of 1 prize per person. The winner gets to hold the trophy for a year. Prizes to be presented at End of Year Party.

I have tried to check the results as best I can but please have a look through your row in the spreadsheet CC Oct 7 2015 to check for typos and omissions.

If you want to check what a certain time equates to as points go to

http://www.howardgrubb.co.uk/athletics/wmalookup06.html

select the distance on the “road” button, enter your age on Jan 1 2015 and your time in hh:mm:ss format and click age grade

any queries email me at clubchampionship@ponteland runners.org.uk

Dave L

Here’s the latest table. John still has a good lead with only a few events to go up to the end of October. Participation has grown to 64 now, a great effort by all runners involved,

Any errors or omissions please email  clubchampionship@pontelandrunners.org.uk

Here is the latest on the Club Championship (points table and spreadsheet) . There has been a great effort by many members in taking part in the qualifying races which is helping to promote the club around the region – well done! The table now has 55 entrants in the Club Championship which is more than half the membership. At the moment John McGargill has a good lead but with several events coming up there is still time for a late surge. The Coastal Run and Jelly 10 were popular long runs but were both tough courses so scores were on the low side; this weekend’s Great North Run is likely to be the best long run for many so I will update the results next week to see how thing change.

Any queries please email clubchampionship@pontelandrunners.org.uk

Another good turn out for the region’s best half marathon (IMHO). Weather was mostly cloudy (though I still managed to get sun burnt!) with quite a stiff headwind. The terrain was the usual mix of sand, rocks, grass and tarmac. Joanne led the club home closely followed by John McCargill running as Paul H – that should have boosted his Run Britain handicap!