Author Archives: Elaine Chapman

2020 was the year of no championship due to Covid restrictions. After a cautious start to the year, we were able to have a club championship in 2021. As it was late to start, and events were still uncertain, we returned to the original format of one championship with a reduced number of races, including a very low key club time trial in Fairford. With a few changes as the year progressed, the Secret Santa 10 mile race in Hullavington was the final race in the 2021 Running Somewhere Else Club Championship.

It was so lovely to be back out racing in our yellow vests, we certainly had a strong field in a lot of the races. As a team we’ve shown spirit and support, and we’ve even picked up a few prizes on the way. I think I can speak for myself and Dave when I say we are very proud to be club captains of such a fantastic bunch!

The complete results are available here. Here is a summary of the prize winners:

Men’s Championship 2021:

1st Place – Mark Garrett

2nd Place – David Witnall

3rd Place – Paul Robertson

Masters trophy: Darren Jenner

Ladies Championship 2021:

1st Place: Rosie Hartland

2nd Place: Sharon Smith

3rd Place: Elaine Chapman

Masters trophy: Sarah Reynolds

Well done to our new club champions, a new name on the ladies trophy and a familiar name on the men’s trophy! Well done to Mark for competing in the most club races this year too.

Thank you to all who took part in our championship this year. Fingers crossed we can have a good year’s racing next year.

Happy Running,

Elaine and Dave, Club Captains

After a break in 2020 due to Covid, the RSE Club Championship is back for 2021. We are sure we speak for many in saying that it has been fantastic to be back racing in the yellow vest.

We had a delay in starting this year whilst awaiting the lifting of restrictions. We also wanted to ensure the safety of our runners, before starting the championship again.

This year, we have returned to the old format, and will not have the 2 sub-categories (endurance expert, short stuff specialists) – there will be 12 races, best 7 results count.

We have run 3 races so far – Fairford 10km time trial, Bourton mile and the Stroud Beer race.

Fairford 10km:

We eased into our championship, with a quiet time trial held at Fairford, setting people off in small waves, club captains timing the race. 8 ladies and 4 men competed.

Fairford results: Ladies top 3

1. Rosie Oates – 10 points
2. Ellie Taylor – 9 points
3. Sharon Smith – 8 points

Fairford results: Men’s top 3

1. Tom Razanan – 10 points
2. Mark Garrett – 9 points
3. Darren Jenner – 8 points

Bourton Mile

Second race was the Bourton Mile. A smaller turn-out this time (3 ladies and 4 men), but some great results, including 5 county medals!

Bourton results: Ladies top 3

1. Rosie Oates – 10 points
2. Elaine Chapman – 9 points
3. Felicity Crotty – 8 points

Bourton results: Men’s top 3

1. Mark Garrett – 10 points
2. David Witnall – 9 points
3. Ollie Hazel – 8 points

Stroud Beer race

Race 3 in the championship is a new race to the championship, a lovely race near Minchinhampton common, with just a few hills. We had a fantastic turnout on a warm summer evening – 11 ladies and 2 men!

Stroud Beer results: Ladies top 3:

1. Rosie Oates – 10 points
2. Nia Glover – 9 points
3. Sharon Smith – 8 points

Stroud Beer results: Men’s top 2

1. David Witnall – 10 points
2. Istvan Vegh – 9 points

Ladies overall results so far:

3 races in, and an amazing start by Rosie Oates, full 30 points! It is close between 2nd and 3rd place, with 1 point between them. Still early days though, with plenty more races still left to go!

1. Rosie Oates – 30 points
2. Sharon Smith – 16 points
3. Elaine Chapman – 15 points

Men’s overall results so far:

The men’s competition looks like it will be an exciting competition this year, with 2 runners currently tied for first place, but still early days, and many good runners to challenge for the top spot too.

1. David Witnall and Mark Garrett – both on 19 points
2. Darren Jenner – 15 points
3. Tom Razanan – 10 points

Our next club race will be the Two Tunnels half marathon near Bath.

Remember, any questions or queries about the championship, please speak to Dave or Elaine – your club captains.

Happy Running,

Elaine and Dave, Club Captains

As announced during the AGM, your Club Captains (Elaine Chapman and David Witnall) would like to run a 10km time trial at Fairford. We’re hoping this will be an opportunity for club members to get the chance to do a covid safe race/event before the end of the year.

The date for the event is the 15th November and the first wave will be setting off at 10:00. We’ve done a lot of research into how we can run a covid safe event – for example we will be setting people off in small waves of 5/6 runners with a decent gap between groups. For more information, look at the link below

• https://www.runningsomewhereelse.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Fairford-10k-TT.pdf

Finally, we are in the process of setting up the event on the run together app so you can book in. More info will follow. For now, if you are interested, drop a message to Elaine or Dave.

The Cotswold way relay is a favourite club event. This crazy year meant that the official event was cancelled. The good news was that Team Bath decided to run a virtual event instead. We had until the end of July to complete and record our times for our assigned legs. A few changes to the format meant that we could choose to run all 10 legs, or choose to run the legs closest to you – Northern legs 1-5 or Southern legs 6-10. We decided to go for the Northern legs.

20 of you were keen to take part, so we had 4 virtual North teams.

RSE Mens team: Mark Manley (1), David Daniels (2), David Witnall (3), Ollie Hazel (4), and Henry Church (5)

RSE Ladies team: Sarah Reynolds (1), Elaine Chapman (2), Ellie Taylor (3), Nadine Brown (4) and Sharon Smith (5)

RSE Mixed 1 – Liz Farooq (1), Ben Chapman (2), Martin Sherriff (3), Kevin Joynes-Creed (4), and Sarah Page (5).

RSE Mixed 2 – Ann Gardiner (1), Vanessa Poole (2), Felicity Crotty (3), Gareth Roberts (4), and Cathy Steer (5)

We all had great fun getting back out on the Cotswold way, it was great to have the opportunity to take part. There were many adventures, and several members took a few detours!

The results have been added under the Cotswold way section of the website, where you will find your individual times and positions for your legs.

In terms of team results:

RSE Men finished in a time of 9:15:33, and were 5th in the mens category (5/10).

RSE Ladies finished in a time of 11:02:08 and finished 5th in the ladies category (5/8)

RSE Mixed 1 finished in a time of 10:58:26 and finished 8th in the mixed category (8/10)

RSE Mixed 2 finished in a time of 11:27:56 and finished 10th in the mixed category (10/10)

Well done to all who took part and thank you for sending us your results.

Elaine and Dave (Club Captains)