Author: smoggypaul

Well done to Mick and Cynthia for keeping the Joggers name on the list of finishers – I think between them they have done more Fun Runs than anyone this year!

Mick Dee        47:52

Cynthia Dee 1:10:23

Congratulations to ex-Jogger Mark Halls, who broke the record for the V50

age category in Iceland yesterday, winning that category in 1:19:07. He ran the Reykjavik half marathon, in gale force winds and rain (just like home then!). Great to hear this from Ilidia.

After a lot of investigative work the boffins at Worthing Striders have finally worked out who was who on the night, and therefore we now have the final results. Well done to Mark who was ‘on fire’ that night, must have been a great holiday!

Mark Skilton 35:28
Marcus Dwyer 36:10
Rob Thornton 37:42
Brian Turrell 40:01
Michael Dee 43:55
Sarah Payne 49:44
Cynthia Dee 1:15:00

Well it was a fine day for the Henfield Half today……Mrs C and I were

lunching at the Crabtree on our wedding anniversary so missed all the fun, but congratulations to Andy Massingale who came 5th overall in 1:24:41, and Gayle who did this without actually training in 2:58:16. To quote Gayle:

I must admit stupidity caused me to enter having not run for at least a month…I thought the miles would not be too bad but I was a bit wrong, it was hot then it rained then it was hot again!! Still the marshals were awesome as so many were Joggers! I wasn’t quite the last over the finish line and I got in under 3 hours so i was pleased but I really must learn that the half marathon distance is not something that can be winged – it needs to be thought out and planned for. Lesson learnt!!!

There are several other runners down in the results as Joggers who, in truth, I’ve never heard of so some funny shenanigans there! Congratulations everyone who either helped or ran, and of course to Mark as Mr Course Manager!

Full results at: www.henfieldleisurecentre.co.uk/

We launched the new website on January 25th, and I thought it worth publishing how we have been doing since then.

To give you the ‘raw’ numbers (‘cos they look impressive! :)) to date we have had:

4,134 visits to the site, from:

2,123 unique visitors, who viewed a total of:

12,475 pages, on average being:

3.02 pages per visit, which on average lasts for:

3 minutes 15 seconds 

The most popular pages are:

1. Home Page
2. News Pages
3. Gallery
4. Pub Runs
5. Saturday Morning Blog
6. Events

And for those ‘geeks’ out there, the most popular browsers have been:

1. Safari (Apple)
2. Internet Explorer
3. Chrome
4. Firefox
5. Android

And how people have accessed the site is from:

1. Desktop (58%)
2. Tablet (27%)
3. Mobile (15%)

Thank you so much for visiting – come back soon, it’s constantly changing!

Paul/Webmaster

Just to let everyone know that the next Start Running course for people wanting to take up, or return to, running will be led by Lesley and starts on Wednesday 11th September at 7pm, as always at the Leisure Centre in Henfield.

For further information contact Lesley on: lesleybesson@hotmail.co.uk or 07789 900295

What a disaster! Thanks to some idiot planner in Reading Councils roads division, they closed the key A329 road in and out of Reading (next to the Cemetery Junction famous for being the title of the Ricky Gervais film) from Wednesday this week, leaving the whole place gridlocked. I couldn’t even get out of the car park, despite leaving at 4:30pm! It was never possible to make the time up after that, and I arrived home at 7:15pm for a race that was starting 10 miles away at 7:30pm. Lesson learned – always have the telephone numbers of the others entered as I was the one collecting the numbers! In future, when I ask you that, you know why! So things were chaotic, as this note from Rob Thornton implies:

As the runners were on top of the hill before we caught them up (we heard the starting hooter when we were on the way back from the tennis club), I think we started at least 3 minutes after the rest.  We faffed about putting our numbers on, etc plus we had a lack of enthusiasm.  The officials had taken down the start flags and we passed them up the track a couple of hundred yards.  Could have been almost 5 mins.

However at least we had ‘some’ results! Well done to all those who took part despite the organisational failure. I’d say ‘heads will roll’ but, er, I’m a bit attached to it. SORRY!!!

226 – Rob Thornton – 37:42

269 – Brian Turrell – 40:01

320 – Mick Dee – 43:55

Oh frabjous day – its Truleigh Scrumptious this weekend – c13 miles down to Upper Beeding and beyond, up Truleigh Hill, down down again, then back to Henfield! Thanks Hugh – but the weather and views will be worth it! As always, any queries to Hugh!

Great coverage in the County Times – thanks to Chris for locating these. They’re also in the Gallery – fame at last eh! The quality of the images is simply because they came from a newspaper, I’ve improved them as much as I can but this is as good as it gets!