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RSE Captain’s Time Trial – Fairford 2020

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

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.

RSE Race Report – Sunday 27th September 2020

Goodwood Motor Circuit Marathon

The Goodwood Motor Circuit Marathon took place on Sunday 27th September. This event gave runners a unique opportunity to run a marathon around the world famous Goodwood Motor Circuit, home to the Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival. The race involved running around a smooth traffic free tarmac motor racing circuit 11 times. Goodwood motor circuit is the only classic circuit in the world to remain entirely in its original form. Goodwood Motor Circuit originally opened its gates to the public on September 1948, to host Britain’s very first post-war motor race meeting at a permanent venue.

Representing RSE was Linda Edwards who completed the race in 4:26 and came third in her age group. Great effort Linda

RSE Race Report – Sunday 20th September 2020

Hullavington 5K

The Hullavington 5k took place on Sunday 20th September. This was a road race over a flat, fast and picturesque course, which started and finished in the village of Hullavington, Wiltshire. It was also the first race reported on since the postponement of races following the COVID19 outbreak.

Represnting RSE was Dave Witnall who finished in an impressive time of 19:45. He was followed by;

Elaine Chapman – 23:24

Felicity Crotty – 29:02

Great effort from you all and it is great to see RSE runners involved in races again.

Cotswold Way 2020

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)