Phoenix Athletics and Triathlon club

This is a fast and flat seafront out and back run and an SGP race. It was a beautiful sunny morning with just a light headwind on the out run. Phoenix were represented by just three vet runners but punched way above our weight coming 7th out of 36 scoring men's teams.

Bruce Warren ran a superb 28:58 for seventh place (2nd MV45)
Terry Avey ran 32:33 for 40th place (2nd MV60)
Andrew Haig ran 33:39 for 50th place (1st MV65)

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In pretty grim conditions Brian Friend braved this most gruelling of marathons and finished an impressive 20th in 3:56:09

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The format for this is races on three consecutive days with a total distance adding up to 26.2 miles (ring any bells). The weather was miserable and each course was partially off-road so well done to the following, especially Sonal who bravely ran the two 10 milers.

SAT 5 MAY – EAST GRINSTEAD 10M
102nd Sonal Chaudhary 1:32:18

SUN 6 MAY – HAYWARDS HEATH 10M (Also an SGP event)
35th Lance Bellers 1:09:43 (2nd M45)
68th Andrew Haig 1:15:56 (1st M65)
169th Sonal Chaudhary 1:27:10
190th Vimutka Thurlow 1:29:41
329th Rik Taub 1:45:02

MON 7 MAY – BURGESS HILL 10K
66th Will Thomas 47:27

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Long Course 800m swim/35.1k cycle/8k run

Whilst thousands were pounding the streets of London, a group of Phoenix runners were enjoying the  Angmering Estate in West Sussex for the annual Angmering Bluebell 10k trial run, which this year also included a 10mile trial run.

As the race title suggests the race is very scenic, run mainly of road with a mixture of open countryside and woods paved in bluebells. The spectators however were probably more aware of the stunning scenery as the race conditions were hard, the hilly twisting course being made more challenging by a week of rain making large sections very muddy and slippery. In fact it was probably muddier than any of this year’s cross country courses!

In the 10k race James Atkinson finished third male, with Darren Elliot running only a week after the Brighton Marathon finishing a very credible 12^th. In the 10 mile race Bruce Warren was third male and Catherine Bounds third female, with Bruce also taking first place in the Supervet category.

10k

James Atkinson 3rd male 39:08

Darren Elliot 12th male 42:12

10mile

Bruce Warren 3rd male 1:04:33

Catherine Bounds 3rd female 1:14:26

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Terrific conditions this year and a good turnout (at least by the men) to take advantage. Unusually three Phoenix runners – Terry, Brian and Mike – did the double, by also running the Brighton Marathon the previous week.

Congratulations all.

31st Jon Pepper (second claim) 2:21:48
41st Ian Leitch 2:26:45
1037th Michael Whyte 2:58:20
1118th Leigh Beard 2:59:09
1305th Tom Farsides3:01:08
3576th Iain Martin 3:23:37
3582nd Brian Friend 3:27:23
10,767th Stuart Batchelor 3:59:07
17,394th Terry Avey 4:25:24

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Sprint distance M 55-59 AG

7

of 22 Tim

Woodman

GBR

01:18:40

00:14:44

00:03:10

00:37:35

00:01:22

00:21:47

Standard Distance F50-54 AG

6

of 11 Deborah

Evers

GBR

02:54:21

00:30:14

00:04:17

01:25:33

00:01:51

00:52:26

We count 62 young athletes from Phoenix in the results and just look at those amazing times. To make our day, there were four Phoenix winners from the twelve races. Well done everybody.

U18 Boys
1 Will Durkin 4:24
3 Billy White 4:36

U15
1 Sam Kitchen 4:46
13 Harry Swindells 5:53
17 Will Russell 6:06

U18 Girls
8 Maia Tunley 6:56

U15 Girls
8 Jody Mann 6:17
11 Natacha Rodrigues 6:30
13 Maria Andrews 6:38
14 Madelaine Houghton 6:39
47 Josie Whitelegg 8:52

U13 Boys Race 1
2 Sam Betts 5:46
9 Jack Etherton 6:17
17 Joe Aston 6:39

U13 Boys Race 2
3 Max Winter 6:00
9 Charlie Warren 6:13
26 Harrison Saunders 6:45
34 Darwin Ruston 7:00
61 Jago Shakoori 7:47

U13 Girls Race 1
3 Naomi Fonteyn 6:08
9 Claudia Betts 6:50
12 Eve Hull 6.55
14 Ruby Graves 7.13
15 Kate Granlund 7.13
20 Ella Blake 7:22
30 Amelia Arlett 7:35

U13 Girls Race 2
1 Almi Nerurkar 5:54
2 Chloe Watson 6:14
4 Elorah Mann 6:24
5 Charlotte Matthews 6:30
6 Louisa Saunders 6:32
10 Mia Whitaker-Jones 6.45
14 Tara May 6:58
18 Ateya MArshall 7:04
21 Izzy Whitelegg 7:09
22 Esme Whitworth 7.13
28 Alex Vidler 7:21
30 Briony Lawrie 7:26
36 Isobel Willett 7:42
66 Constance Pope 8:29

U11 Boys Race 2
10 Miles Jamie 6.37
11 Jake Mathieson 6.45
16 Lucas Nerurkar 6.47
26 Archie Knights 7.04
 
U11 Boys Race 3
4 Finn O’ Connor 6.27
13 Oscar Saunders 6.50
14 William Saunders 6.51
36 Ben Tennant 7.14
 
U11 Girls Race 1
7 Marie Belcher 7.03
 
U11 Girls Race 2
8 Pia Lewis 7.16
9 Lily Jewell 7.19
30 Lauren Hull 7.55
41 Bethany Hull 8.13
43 Madeleine Marinko Maechler 8.13
 
U11 Girls Race 3
1  Isabella Rowney 6.46
2  Abi Roach Penn 6.51
12 Alice Wolfenden 7.27
18 Lydia Whitworth 7.43
20 Emma Stern 7.48
31 Mary Watts 8.07
65 Caitlin Turnidge 8.49
128 Imogen Pike 9.52

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It was another perfect day for distance running; maybe a little on the chilly side and perhaps that breeze was stiffer than ideal at times but the organisers have been blessed by fine weather for the third year running. Phoenix are pretty keen on this event and 25 of us joined in the fun. As you can see by the results, just over one and a half hours covered our finishing times indicating an impressive general standard. It was also great to see so many Phoenix members out on the course giving vocal support.

30 Pat Davoren 2:52:36
54 Andy Bone 2:57:02
94 Jon Pike 3:04:41
145 Bob Novis 3:09:57
178 Donald Maclellan 3:11:40
264 Tom Sanderson 3:16:11
313 Tom Holborn 3:17:48
326 Dave Powell 3:19:57
429 Andrew Neighbour 3:23:44
532 Paul Lawrence 3:23:57
757 Ian Moss 3:27:41
719 Andrew Field 3:28:54
672 Miles Davidson 3:29:35
674 Michael Whyte 3:29:37 (Pacemaker for 3:30)
921 Tess Sandilands 3:32:48
1004 John Donno 3:34:10
960 Malcolm Kemp 3:36:02
1019 Stuart Batchelor 3:37:41
1141 Paule Kremer 3:39:29
1316 Daren Elliott 3:43:45 (Pacemaker for 3:45)
2406 Richard Moult 3:57:22
2526 Brian Friend 3:57:41 (Pacemaker for 4:00)
3548 Stephen Taylor 4:09:10
3510 Terry Avey 4:14:40
5018 Cathryn Walsh 4:31:40

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A hugely successful day for Phoenix athletes with representation at all levels.

U13 boys took gold with a fine individual course record by Archie Davis. U15 boys took bronze with Billy White storming to an individual course record. The story was repeated with the senior men taking gold and bronze medals. The A team set a fantastic course record with Ben Tickner lowering the individual record by a huge margin. The medals continued for the men with O50s taking bronze and O60s taking silver.

No medals for the female athletes but some fine performances non-the less with all age groups represented (even if the vet women raced in the wrong category!).

There is a full report in the news section and full results here.

Normally this event attracts a number of Phoenix runners. This year it was just Tom Farsides who ran a fine pb and second claimer Jon Pepper.

266th Tom Farsides 1:23:13

16th Jon Pepper (Second claim) 1:08:26

Jon was in one of the leading groups and they were sent 500 metres in the wrong direction.
He was on for a 64 minutes. But looking good for his London Marathon debut

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29th Tom Farsides 2:12:53
68th Iain Martin 2:21:21
109th Paul Lawrence 2:28:52

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Incorporating the BTF National Duathlon Championships 2012 and the ITU World Duathlon Championships qualification.

406 Erica Martin 660 02:34:35 Ages 30 - 34 21 Female 58 19 00:40:20 248 00:01:30 443 01:30:45 488 00:01:37 519 00:20:21 261

full results http://dload.pse.s3.amazonaws.com/results/dambusterduathlon2012results.pdf

Not the best of days to be out on the hills so a great showing by these stalwarts:

Half Marathon
24th Bob Novis 1:46:32
50th Andrew Field 1:56:58

Marathon
12th Brian Friend 3:47:13
34th Ian Moss 4:13:33

Daryl Hards (1:19:49, 12th)
Andy Bone (1:24:46, 29th)
Jon Pike (1:26:37, 35th)
Tom Farsides (1:26:41, 37th)
Lance Bellars (1:32:59, 106th)
Cat Bounds (1:38:51, 223rd)
Terry Avey (1:38:58, 224th)

Frostbite – 400m swim/5km run

4. Wes Mechen,  00:06:55/00:18:53-  00:25:48

9. Tim Woodman,  00:07:22/00:21:27-  00:28:49

14. Andrew Chapman,  00:10:58/00:22:22-     00:33:20

Full results - http://www.tri247.com/results_12171.html

Frosty – 800m swim/10km run

2. Alex Bonzi,  00:13:29/00:36:32-  00:50:01

9. John Tindell  00:13:06/00:38:48-  00:51:54

10. Malcolm Hughes, 00:13:30/00:40:44-  00:54:14

13. Nigel Herron, 00:15:27/00:40:22 - 00:55:49

17. Roland Harrington, 00:14:20/00:43:14-   00:57:34

20. Andrew Neighbour, 00:16:41/00:41:24-  00:58:05

23. Paule Kremer, 00:16:12/00:44:58-  01:01:10 1^st FS

27. Emma Hughes, 00:13:55/00:48:53-  01:02:48 2^nd FS

32. Deborah Evers, 00:15:55/00:49:46-  01:05:41 1^st FSV

Full results - http://www.tri247.com/results_12170.html

Phoenix Phlyers (Alex, John, Malcolm, Paule) 1^st team

A great showing from Phoenix. Well done to all and congratulations to the prize winners.

Phoenix is going through a golden spell at the moment and the showing at Brighton Half Marathon was no exception. It is officially confirmed that the course was 13.42 miles rather than 13.1 owing to a misplaced turn-around cone near Roedean. The organisers have now added adjusted chip times to the results. Since Ian Leitch was actually leading the race at 13.1 miles, he has a particular reason to be annoyed. Even so, second (Ian), third (Josh Guilmant) and fourth (Finn McNally) for Phoenix is quite an achievement. Terry Avey was first M60.

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Archie Davis and the under 13 boys round off a triumphant league season with another win and individual gold for Archie and gold for the team.

In the U15 boys race, Billy White had another terrific win and takes gold for the season.

The U17 boys were bronze medalists.

Max Pickard had his second win of the season in the U20/senior men's race but sadly there was an incomplete team and they finish the season well away from the medals. The vets ditto.

The women have managed complete teams throughout the season and almost managed promotion from division 2. It's looking good for next year. Erica Martin ran well for fifth. Paule Kremer ranked fourth senior woman in the individual competition.

Phoenix girls have been a bit thin on the ground but the U13 girls managed a creditable fith team ranking for the season.

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Race won in 29:37

PHOENIX
7th Jon Pepper (second claim) 30:09
14th Josh Guilmant 31:23
117th Tom Farsides 38:44
183rd Lance Bellers 40:40
215th Stuart Pal 41:29
216th Terry Avey 41:38 (1st M60)
243rd Malcolm Kemp 42:24
270th Anita Jones 43:01
437th Andrew Haig 46:13
1386th Ananda Mello Costa 1:08:52

Results

Senior men 15K
1st Ben Tickner (second claim) 49:11
3rd Jon Pepper (second claim) 49:21
133rd Jose Luceron 57:22
324th James Miles 64:21
347th Daren Elliot 65:06
430th Iain Martin 67:42

Senior women 8K
99th Cat Bounds 36:13
101st Liz Durman 36:17
157th Paule Kremer 38:49
217th Sonal Chaudhary
25th team

U20 men 8K
13th Finn McNally 27:31

U17 men 6K
13th Will Durkin 21:08
69th Robbie Fitzgibbon 22:39

U15 boys 4.5K
200th Will Russell

U13 boys 3K
13th Archie Davis 10:48
104th Harry Swindells 11:55
107th Sam Betts 11:57
136th Ollie Johnson 12:19
11th team

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Phoenix athletes were out representing their schools at the Sussex schools Champs at Lancing.

Headliners were Billy white who ran away from the field to win the intermediate boys race by over half a minute and Will Durkin who finished second by just eleven seconds in the senior boys race.

Others spotted in the results Sam Kitchen 6th and Robbie Fitzgibbon 11th in the Intermediate race, Archie Davis 4th in the junior boys with Harry Swindells, Jack Etherton, and Joe Lillie in support.

In the junior girls, Elorah Mann and Sasha Clarke were in action, with Jody Mann and Mia Tunley competing in the intermediate race. 

Will Ramsay finished in 25th in the senior boys.

Hope we didn't miss anyone. Let us know if we have.

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The Phoenix Masters 40+ team went one better than last year and won the team silver medal, with the 40+ B team coming 8^th and the 50+ team coming 5^th.

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With the Sussex Championships the previous week and the Sussex Masters and Schools Championships on 21^st January and the Southern x-country races on 28^th, making the trip to Bexhill for the third county cross country league race on 14^th January was a low priority for some athletes. Despite this, Phoenix managed to field athletes in all races with teams consolidating their league positions.

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