Dave kindly took some photographs of our sojourning in the evening sun this week – you can find them all here in the Gallery!
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Saturday Morning 28th June 2014
Right then, this is the agreed plan for Saturday after general discussion at Wednesday evenings meet at the Shepherd & Dog……..8am at the Leisure Centre as usual, then we’re heading down to Shoreham, along the river. At Shoreham, Mr & Mrs Kaelin have kindly arranged transport for all back to HLC. How far? Danielle thinks 11 miles, just doesn’t seem that distance, and of course it won’t feel it with the good company and vibes we’ll all be sharing – but let’s see! Of course if anyone WANTS to turn around and run back to Henfield, feel free! Any questions, just leave a Comment on this post. Oh, and as Hugh is away somewhere furtively walking (or should that be walking furtively?) and we don’t have a map for this route, at HUUUGE expense I’ve commissioned a high-resolution map of the route below – we’ll be expecting Hugh to keep this high standard up when he returns! 
June Handicap Results
We enter the Summer Holidays for the Handicap with the leaderboard showing that Emma Smith still leads the field, with Nikki Hargrave retaining second place and Michele Longmore breathing down her neck!
The full results can be found here:
The Handicap returns in September, but there will still be Club events organised for the first Wednesday in July and August so don’t go away (unless of course you’re going on holiday!)
South Downs Way Relay Report
Awesome!
That’s your report for the moment – I have so much to do to get this down it will have to wait a day or two while I get everything done – 200+ photograph’s to document the event and the individual acts of personal commitment that characterised the whole day. The summary is that Henfield Vets finished the 97.6 miles in 13 hours 48 minutes, the Henfield A team finished a mere 16 minutes later in 14 hours and 4 minutes. The report from the Marshalls at Saddlescombe is separate, but let me tell you that pulling into Saddlescombe after the torrential downpours in the hour or two before was a terrific boost – it felt like ‘home advantage’! Thanks to EVERYONE who made this day possible, and of course especially to the two drivers, Richard and Mark, without whom we may as well have stayed in bed! More to follow, but you can see all the photographs in the Gallery here! (Note that these are quite low resolution and un-improved by cropping etc – if anyone wants a ‘proper’ version (and there are some good individual shots) just drop me a line and I’ll send you a copy of the high resolution image!)
South Downs Way Relay Marshalling Report
Well as so often is the case, the thought of something is very different to the reality. Persuaded beautifully by Rosie, we signed up to Marshall at the impressive South Downs Relay. To be honest, hours of hanging around watching others exercise wasn’t my first choice for a Summer Sat morning, but….. Oh how we underestimated the pleasure of feeling part of an event and representing our club where we are fortunate to have a great bunch of people, either admirably running or in support.
Having committed, imagine our despair at preparing to leave home with the rain 
absolutely falling out of the sky. Sorry runners, you at least are moving, the prospect of just standing in such conditions …… But we wouldn’t let Nick out support team organiser down. Well they say the sun shines on the righteous….. After a team briefing, Liz and I took up our post and after a very short spell of light rain, we found ourselves basking in sunshine amongst our beautiful countryside. We even managed to find time for the coffee we brought with us! The excitement of waiting for the runners and the importance of shouting their numbers to Danielle and Fabian 
who were stopping them from running into the road and directing the next team member off, made the few hours fly by. Well I say directed, ordered was more like! Danielle certainly found her voice and how perfect it was for today – crystal clear! As 2 cyclists riding the South Downs Way said, heard for miles before seen!!
absolutely falling out of the sky. Sorry runners, you at least are moving, the prospect of just standing in such conditions …… But we wouldn’t let Nick out support team organiser down. Well they say the sun shines on the righteous….. After a team briefing, Liz and I took up our post and after a very short spell of light rain, we found ourselves basking in sunshine amongst our beautiful countryside. We even managed to find time for the coffee we brought with us! The excitement of waiting for the runners and the importance of shouting their numbers to Danielle and Fabian 
who were stopping them from running into the road and directing the next team member off, made the few hours fly by. Well I say directed, ordered was more like! Danielle certainly found her voice and how perfect it was for today – crystal clear! As 2 cyclists riding the South Downs Way said, heard for miles before seen!!We kept the local residents sweet by being gatekeeper not just for the runners but for every time they moved their cars in and out! We also spoke with so many lovely people and almost sounded like we knew what we were talking about as we described the event going on! One chap even expressed interest in participating so we directed him to the HJs website – always recruiting!
Nick did a great job on checking on us all and making us feel appreciated and that we played an important part in the event. Even the race Director, Richard and his son chatted with us!Once Chris confirmed the last runner was through and we could close ‘our leg’ of the race, there was a lovely mini get-together over the most delicious chocolate brownies made by Tina and excellent toffee apple cake made by Cathy, (great volunteering Girls at Club Night!)! As always, we manage to get food involved in any kind of social!
So, anyone knowing in the future they won’t run the South Downs Relay (and nothing changed our minds on that one today! Full respect to the HJs team though!), don’t hesitate to get involved in the support team – it was good fun with great camaraderie.
Well played all.
More photographs from the day can be found here.
Gill
The marshals who joined me at Saddlescombe were awesome. The whole thing ran so smoothly it was like clockwork. If the same helpers would do it again next year I would be very pleased to organise it again. Thanks guysNick
And from Chris:
Saddlescombe checkpoint manned successfully. 60 teams passed through.One team considered that Saddlescombe is one of the two most difficult checkpoints to handle – because of the busy road, poor visibility, layout of the junctions, and need for teams to park elsewhere.Thanks to all of our Joggers for their efforts marshalling.Danielle’s work was particularly noted – in shouting start orders from the far side of the road. Loud and authoritative, and much admired.Some wondered whether she took particular pleasure in being able to shout at the mainly male field of runners!!Chris
Hove Park 5k
Well it was pretty warm out in Hove Park at noon on Sunday, I thought only Mad Dogs and Englishmen went ‘out in the midday sun’, well add ‘mad runners’ too! The results are at the bottom, so scroll down, but here are some comments, and photographs here – well done everyone!
Hove was really good – great display of green shirts and we reckon Michele did us a pretty good time as well (although she was playing it right down). Thankfully there was a nice bit of coolish breeze and shade around the course and headed straight to the beach after. Perfect day really.
Liz
And if, like me, you thought people were clutching cocktails in the group photo:
We thought (hoped) that and were disappointed to find they contained something called water ??!Great day for all, very well organised event – Lesley and Nikki’s “first anniversary” run apparently.Guy
24:23 Michele Longmore
24:37 Alan Barwick
26:38 Guy Gibson
29:47 Gill Hamilton-Orr
29:53 Emma Smith
30:05 Liz Pamment
30:47 Nikki Hargrave
32:45 Lesley Besson
CORRECTION! Revised Handicap Results……
Well it isn’t often that Results-meister Chris gets anything wrong, but after scrutinising the results he has realised that due to an entry error he had miscalculated the results – SO……..Nikki Hargrave was showing incorrectly – correcting this means that we now have a top 3 of Emma, NIKKI, and Michele! Belated well done to Nikki, now doesn’t that make next Wednesdays final Handicap before the summer break in July and August interesting! Corrected results are available here.
Latest Grand Prix reports
Just wanted to remind everyone that Jenny Cobby writes reports and results for every Grand Prix event, and you can find the latest updates here:
May’s Handicap Results are in!
Yes they’re in, the May Handicap results are here. And despite May being dominated by Katie, Tina, Louise and Many, the top four cumulatively are looking very tight – Liz in 4th place, Joint 2nd for Michele and Gill, but Emma continues to lead the way – Andy had been doing so well in the first months, but ‘that trip to India’ seems to have blown him off course! Can he recover later in the year – to quote a phrase “Its a marathon, not a sprint”, but we’ll have to see. All to play for though! (Enough of this! Ed)
You can see the full results by clicking here.
Horsham 10K Results
On a hot and sunny Sunday most Joggers clearly had other things to do, as to the best of my knowledge only Ralph and Amanda braved the heat and sun to compete – but please let me know if you ran and aren’t listed.
Ralph Bernascone – 46:41
Amanda Player – 54:26
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