Bent & Bongs Marshal Points

See marshal points for the Bent & Bongs 10k
Number 1  is Josie Maley which is the rocks

Any problems please see Craig Bradbury or myself.
We would also like mobile numbers of all marshals - please can you email stevensgary@hotmail.com or facebook me your mobile number.

Cheers Gary

Bike Rack - message from Dan and Mike Reason

Hi all, just wondering if anyone had a bike car rack I could use for Sunday. Me and Mike are doing the Cheshire Cat so would only need for one day. Any help would be really appreciated.

Dan - 07973566350

Cheers, The Reasons.

Open Water Swimming at Salford Quays - Sat 14 April

The first open water swim will be taking part at USwim Salford Quays on Sat 14th April. Everyone welcome, more the merrier as moral support will be needed before we jump in the cold, murky waters of the Quays!
Feel free to email me if you fancy coming along but want some more info: claroj@hotmail.com

Manchester Live Tri Challenge - Sat 4th August

We have been invited to take part in the Triathlon England Live Site on Sat 4th August. The day is set up to celebrate and promote triathlons as a sport and also give people a chance to take part in a mini challenge.

If you didn’t take part last year or you need a reminder, teams of three will race over five minutes. One will cycle, one run as far as they can over five minutes. What does the swimmer do? Well they swim in the Endless pool for five minutes with flow of the water increasing, should they touch the back wall before the five minutes then that teams race is over.

The women’s and men’s races will be shown live on the big screen in the square so no one will miss any of the action from Hyde Park. Teams can be all men/women or mixed but must be 18 or over.
(Sat 4th is the Women's Olympic Tri, Tue 7th Aug is the Men's Olympic Tri on the big screen)

A few of us took part in this last year and it was really good. Our women's team won! You don't have to be brilliant at any of the events, it was more a bit of fun, nice afternoon out and a way to promote the club (as a running and tri club). If anyone is interested in putting their name down please can you let me know. The closing date for entries is at the end of May so I will need to know by then.

claroj@hotmail.com or txt me 07753 618809 or facebook me

Thanks

Clare

Liverpool Half Marathon by Paul Basnett

On Sunday 13 A&T members made their way down the A580 for the 2012 Liverpool Half Marathon. The convoy started, after toilet relays, at 7.30 from the Baron's Palace before we went onto the pick up more for the convoy in Pennington. The journey down was pretty uneventful except for me unwittingly trying to lose the other 2 cars in the convoy for which I am sure they were most pleased.

We arrived with plenty of time to spare which turned out to be a good call as we obtained a parking spot without issue. Then it was off to check out the public conveniences for the event before stripping down into our race gear. The start area was rather congested and this year none of us got an ideal spot. The race started at 9.30 but the queue to get into the start funnel was rather busy to say the least. Bacon Mon said the race will be starting soon to which I replied it started 5 minutes ago, pointing to people running in the distance, and that I had no chance of now winning this race!

It took us over 10 minutes to finally get across the start line, by which time the leader would have been at least 2 miles into the race. The first 2 miles had uphill climb where it then undulated for the next 7 miles before flattening out onto the waterfront for the final 4 miles. For the whole race the path in front you was rather busy and having to frustratingly dodge in and out of people or check your stride. Not ideal and even I got a bit of race rage.

Meanwhile back at the start\finish area the A&T cheerleaders, Michaela and Christine,  were trying to be poached by someone saying he was famous. I have tried that line myself upon occasion to no avail but it seemed to work for him. I think they said his name was Kriss Akabusi. Thankfully his so called agent pulled him away. Joking aside though the ladies said he was really nice about having his picture taken even though his agent was trying to drag him away. He always comes across as a jolly decent chap on TV so it's good to hear it's not just for the cameras.

Steve Coleman, who also had his own fair share of race rage, was first across the line for A&T with a time of 1.27.59. Chris Scholes had another good run on the back of his Trimpell 20 effort recording 1.41.02. Then it was Ian "Bacon Mon" Hamilton putting the marathon training to good use with 1.41.57. The Baron followed Bacon Mon on in a few minutes later with 1.45.28. Anthony Hart, who had been working the night before in Liverpool until 2.30am, came next with 1.47.14. KellyAnne Towns had a very good run to be our first lady home with 1.47.52. Louise Hampton also had a good race finishing not far behind KellyAnne with 1.51.14. Anne Garvey and Kim ONeil both running their maiden half marathons came next with 2.04.22 and 2.05.17 respectively. I don't think Kim enjoyed the experience but I'm sure she will be back to give one another go. And completing the A&T line up were Tracy Waterfall-Chadwick and Joan Cooke who both ran the course together but must have decided to race each other in a sprint finish. This time Joan was outsprinted by Tracy with Tracy recording 2.20.36 and Joan 2.20.45.

For our troubles we all received a finishers medal and a decent technical tshirt. Then it was time to pose for a few pictures and a bit of post race analysis before making our way back up the A580 for home. Also thanks to Tracy for the post race cake and Bacon Mon for the chocolate.

Amberswood 10k Nr.Wigan - Sunday 1st July

Its Dave Collins at Wigan Harriers.

I wonder if you could do us a favour please and publicise a trail race within your club – link below, flyer attached.

http://wiganharriersendurance.wordpress.com/amberswood-trail-race-series/

A local football club organised a 5k / 10k version last year – Gary won the 5k J, and Shaun Moran ran in the 10k. However, the football club didn’t want to be involved this year and it looked as though the event would die. We thought it was too good a race to just let go and so we’ve taken over its organisation.

We’ve decided to target a 10k trail race, to appeal more to the club runners, but have also brought in a 2.5k race for youngsters and people who fancy giving a race a go.

Any support that you can muster would be very much appreciated.

Many thanks

Dave

Poll

We asked if members would like to run from the Gin Pit or Atherton on Thursday nights.

74% said Gin Pit and 26% Atherton