Summer Handicap Series

Marggaret Scrutton and her merry band of volunteers have been running our ever popular Summer Handicap Series for many years. We asked Margaret to give us an brief history and insite into how this ever popular series has eveolved over the years.


Our club handicaps have been a part of the club since day one of its existence. They were first started by Dave Parke with the help of John Watson (former Club President), then Denise (Dave's partner) helped Dave.


There was a gap for a time when there were no handicaps then they were started again with the help of Tony Tomashavic, John Boyes and Chris Clayton, but before long they were back in the hands of Dave and at this point I started to help him.


We decided to organise them as a team with the help of Neil, Bob and then Steve and Olive. They have evolved now that I do all the admin, calculate the handicaps etc sort out toilet facilities, cafes etc, Dave and I decide on the dates and locations and each course has to be “walked,” accurately measured (otherwise the handicaps don't work) and a basic risk assessment done. On the night Dave organises marshals and does the starting of the runners etc while me and “my ladies” do the admin and then organise the runners into order (an almost impossible task at times!) Dave then works out the time''s which I check before they are published. Just a point the results after each event are only going on Facebook, they should also be E mailed as many do not do Facebook, hopefully the new Website will stop the need for this


The aim is to provide a club activity that all members, whatever their ability, can take part in, to create a good club night, and integrate the various running groups within the club into one big group, and on the locations where it is possible to arrange a “cafe stop” for a bit of social integration after the race.


We used to also run a winter series on Sunday mornings but we did not get the numbers to make them worth the effort of organising, this was due to all the road, fell and cross country races taking place on a Sunday.


The summer series consists of a minimum of 6 races, all are usually between 3 and 4 miles long. We try to get a mix of road track trail and beach locations (though the latter does depend on the tides on a Thursday evening!) If we can add in a seventh race we will but this depends on circumstances


Points are award for each race with the winner getting 100 and decreasing by one point for each following runners.

Each Race has a first, second and third prize

At the end of the season we have a series winner, second and third, sometimes more depending how many runners take part in the series these are calculated on the aggregate scores of each runners best five scores.



We have awards for the fastest male and female (1st, 2nd, 3rd)

We have prizes for anyone who does all the races in the series

If anyone does anything particularly funny or daft we usually have a daft prize for them too


Results

The first full results


1 5 Nikki Edmonds 41 36 01 00 40 36 100

2 1 Raffi Aghanian 42 50 01 30 41 20 99 3

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Fay Debenham 43 30 18 00 25 30 98 F 2 4 8 Julie Macey-Hewitt 43 51 12 00 31 51 97 5 34 Catherine Moran 43 56 13 00 30 56 96 6 54 Giorgio Crippa 43 57 21 30 22 27 95 4 7 25 Nicola Kidd 43 58 21 00 22 58 94 F 7 8 44 Beth Amos 44 20 14 00 30 20 93 9 57 Linda Hinchliffe 44 25 14 00 30 25 92 10 60 Jennie Trown 44 27 18 30 25 57 91 F 1 11 32 Michaela Hutchinson 44 38 13 00 31 38 90 12 29 Chris Bourne 44 44 20 00 24 44 89 13 20 Gwilym Elliott-Hobson 45 11 22 00 23 11 88 2 14 33 Joe Kelly 45 12 21 30 23 42 87 15 14 Carey Bilton 45 17 15 00 30 17 86 16 15 Jamie Ward 45 19 25 30 19 49 85 7 17 27 Will Baines 45 20 22 30 22 50 84 3 18 61 Michelle Fletcher 45 24 17 00 28 24 83 19 13 Dales Hepples 45 30 24 30 21 00 82 6 20 12 Claire O'neil 45 34 20 30 25 04 81 21 53 Andrew Marsden 45 37 20 30 25 07 80 22 47 Linda Hindhaugh 45 38 13 30 32 08 79 23 38 Dave Lester 45 40 21 30 24 10 78 24 48 Val Parkin 45 41 14 00 31 41 77 25 24 Lisa Baker 45 49 15 30 30 19 76 26 4 Tania Mace 45 53 06 30 39 23 75 27 55 Mel Padgham 45 54 16 00 29 54 74 28 59 Dawn Trown 45 55 16 30 29 25 73 29 18 Roger Hyde 45 56 11 30 34 26 72 30 37 Lesley Lester 45 57 12 00 33 57 71 31 31 Lisa Bourne 45 59 21 00 24 59 70 F 3 32 10 Nichola Doody 46 00 19 30 26 30 69 33 42 Sophie Vaughan 46 03 11 00 35 03 68 34 3 Alfie Carr 46 05 27 00 19 05 67 9 35 22 Dave Baldwin 46 09 24 00 22 09 66 5 36 52 Anna Giddings 46 12 24 30 21 42 65 F 9 37 17 Shirley Field 46 18 15 30 30 48 64 38 23 Pete Northedge 46 24 18 00 28 24 63 39 45 Sam Forbes 46 25 21 30 24 55 62 40 36 Katy Donnerelle 46 30 22 30 24 00 61 F 5 41 40 Andrew Hopper 46 32 27 00 19 32 60 8 42 9 Mark Bowes 46 37 22 30 24 07 59 43 58 Matt Rutt 46 40 23 00 23 40 58 44 56 Bridget Macdonski 46 41 23 00 23 41 57 F 6 10th 45 46 Sue Haslem 46 50 24 00 22 50 56 F 8 46 16 Emma Simmons 47 05 22 30 24 35 55 F 4 47 35 John Lambe 47 06 19 30 27 36 54 48 28 Michael Whitley 47 08 18 00 29 08 53 49 2 Chris Wade 47 13 12 30 34 43 52 50 43 Laurence Wood 47 15 24 00 23 15 51 1 51 26 Will Anderson 47 17 30 30 16 47 50 10 52 30 Julie Wiles 47 20 13 30 33 50 49 53 39 Sally Kingscott 47 37 13 30 34 07 48 54 49 Robert Glover 47 41 23 30 24 11 47 55 11 Mel D'eath 47 52 15 30 32 22 46 56 51 Rhona Marshal 47 54 28 00 19 54 45 F 10 57 41 Chris Clayton 48 21 22 00 26 21 44 58 6 Mick Thompson 49 22 00 00 49 22 43 59 50 Arron Padgham 49 55 25 30 24 25 42 60 7 Alison Morgan-Lee 55 30 01 30 54 00 41