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Cirencester Summer Sizzler

The sun shone on this Wednesday evening race, which is part of our Club Championship and there were plenty of RSE runners taking part, with great support from other RSE members.

The junior races (150-ish entrants) took place before the adult race and showed that the future is bright in our area. Well done to our very own Robbo for organising the junior race.

“Absolutely amazed to manage a 45 minute 10k, something I never thought was possible. A new PB by over a minute! Some great racing with Jon and Jen, helping me dig in.
The second time up that hill never gets any easier, at least the sun had gone away by then. Great evening with the RSE runners.”

Alan P.B. Powderhill

“What great support from RSE, and advice just when I most needed it, (thank you Dave).
Now it’s done I remember all the good bits but looking at the grim expression on my face in the photos reminds me of how hard it was.  That road after the hill seemed to go on forever.  So helpful having someone to follow, thank you Zoe.”

Sue Navin

“A pb by 2min2secs 😃”

Phil Scoble

“What a great event, fabulous atmosphere and the huge turnout from RSE at the Sizzler, that did not disappoint.
It was a hot and sticky evening, and I felt stronger on second lap surprisingly but slower than last year. Finished 106 and 6th in my category with a very strong field as usual.”

Phil Hudson

“I only came second in the Mark Garrett category, but at least I finally got to meet the other one before the race, which was fun. Not only is he faster than me, he’s younger and better looking.”

Mark Garrett

Blaydon Race

“This is very much a Geordie club race starting which started in 1981. It starts on the Quayside in Newcastle with spectacular views of the bridges over the Tyne and the Sage. The race finishes in Blaydon. The route race follows the same route described in the famous northern song of 1862 by George Ridley ‘ the Blaydon races’ and is always held on the 9th June. Just before the start of the race the runners join in with the song. Unfortunately the weather was awful, the cold and rain seemed to dampen the sprit of the race and like everyone else I was keen to get started. This was a race I had tried to enter through the ballot for many years and was fortunate to get a place this year.”

Park Runs

Tamar Trails

Harcourt Hill

Swansea Bay

Cirencester

Fire Service College

Centre Vale

Stratford Park

Wedding!

Finally, huge congratulations to Nia, who married Matt on Saturday 7th. Best wishes to the happy couple.

Fairford 10K

The 10K route starts and ends in Fairford  and travels along a rural route to Quennington and back – undulating with some steeper inclines. It is part of the Fairford festival. The race, which was first run in 2012, is organised by Running Somewhere Else masterminded by race director Kevin Joynes-Creed with his team.   According to my fairly dubious calculations there were 40 or so members of the club participating in various ways, plus a number  taking part in the run as well.  Really nice prize giving ceremony at the end.  And it didn’t rain! Great atmosphere. A great morning.

First time for me to take on the Fairford 10k. I’d been warned about the hills, and many of my marathon training runs took me through Bibury, through Coln St Aldwyns and up to Quennington. I feared the worse for THAT hill… (if you know, you know!).
Thankfully the route does not take on that incline, and these hills were not anywhere near as bad as the Stroud beer race.

Great turnout, fantastic organisation and support from team RSE!

A great event – thank you!
Oh – and a PB for me too – breaking a sub 50 min 10k!

Tom Burdett

Mark Foyn                        00:45:24.72

Tom Burdett                     00:49:15.19

Phil Newman                    00:51:21.36

Sarah Kaminski                00:51:30.93

Jess James                        00:56:21.80

Claire Miers                      01:02:49.76

OMM Lite

The OMM Lite took place between Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June 2025.  Carol and Andy Sworn took part. I’d never heard of it but it sounds amazing.  See below! (Does anyone ever get lost doing it?)

The Grasmere Gallop Trail Races and OMM Lite joined together recently to form the Lake District Running Festival, a weekend of great routes, good food, a fabulous location to race and lots of like minded people gathered in one location to enjoy all things trail! Andy and I took part in the OMM Lite, this is a 2 day event where you have a set time to find as many checkpoints as you can and get back to HQ before your time runs out. Our event was 7 hours on Saturday and 5 hours on Sunday, we adopted a fairly relaxed approach to collecting points but still managed approximately 40kms and 1800m of elevation gain over the 2 days. The weather was typically ‘lake district’ ie very wet, cold and windy but we had a great time out on the hills……may even have visited a coffee shop at one point for some welcome shelter and warmth! It is a fabulous weekend with races ranging from 5K to a full marathon as well as the orienteering challenge. If anyone fancies something a bit different we can highly recommend this, next year’s event is already in our diary……29/30/31st May 2025. Maybe we can persuade a few club members to join us next year…..?

Carol Sworn

Parkruns

BEGINNER’S GRADUATION – CIRENCESTER PARKRUN 7th JUNE

RSE has been hosting a beginners running group for the past nearly 8 weeks. Everyone in that group has done amazingly well.Their achievements were celebrated at Cirencester parkrun on 7 June.  What a turn out!

Rebecca SOUTHERINGTON        22:43

Paul BILLINGHURST                    22:58

Phil NEWMAN                                 23:43

Darren JENNER                              24:35

Robert BAKER                                 25:41

Alison BOOTH                                 26:13

Claire SHARP                                   26:14

Katy MILLER                                    27:12

Andy SWORN                                  27:13

Rachel SMITH                                 28:24

Mark GARRETT                              28:54

Elaine CHAPMAN                           29:40

Felicity CROTTY                              29:53

Samantha WARD                            30:04

Maria YATES                                    30:22

Anne-Marie DAVIES                      30:28

Vicki MASON                                   30:37

Paul ROBERTSON                          30:57

Rachel WEAVER                             33:20

Carol SWORN                                 40:07

Cathy STEER                                   40:13

Abigail BALL                                    40:34

Sylvia WARMAN                             40:34

Amanda BALL                                  40:36

Jessica JAMES                                 45:33

There were lots of photos. Here are a few smiling faces

If you ran and your name isn’t on the list above, it’s probably because you need to put the club’s name in your profile on the parkrun site

Nadine’s fundraiser for Cruse Bereavement Support

Cotswold Way Ultra Challenge 2025 · 21 June 2025 to 22 June 2025

Here’s the link if anyone would like to sponsor Nadine :

https://www.justgiving.com/page/nadine-brown-cotswold-way?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL&utm_campaign=015