Statto Special - Top 30 All-time Age% Scorers

Rank		Name		Date of Race	Distance	Name of Race	Time	WAVA
1		SibbettPeter	m	Sun 05/11/95	10kmRoad	Barnsley	00:30:59	87.34%
2		OldershawLawrence	M	Sun 29/10/95	10Mile	Wisbeach 10	00:51:34	86.65%
3		HALLNEILSON	m	Sun 05/10/08	10kmRoad	Standalone 10k (ROTM)	00:31:05	86.38%
4		HancockJon	M	Sat 29/03/03	10Mile	Stevenage 10	00:58:26	86.35%
5		McKeownAstrid	f	Wed 12/12/07	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series III	00:17:22	86.11%
6		HalseyGary	M	Wed 18/11/92	10Mile	Henlow 10	00:52:09	85.65%
7		PearcePaul	M	Sun 02/10/05	Marathon	Kosice Peace Marathon	02:34:34	84.68%
8		CroneBill	M	Sun 09/04/89	10kmRoad	Royston 10km	00:36:01	83.22%
9		McKeownSteve	m	Wed 14/11/07	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I	00:16:17	83.21%
10		GentleDave	M	Thu 12/11/98	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5km	00:15:57	81.64%
11		FramptonDavid	M	Sun 05/10/97	10kmRoad	Standalone 10km	00:34:23	81.63%
12		TyrellAngela	F	Wed 14/12/05	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5K Race 3	00:17:39	81.56%
13		MyallDerek	M	Fri 11/07/03	5kmRoad	Cranfield 5k	00:18:55	81.46%
14		AdamsPaula	F	Wed 29/11/06	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5km series race 2	00:18:32	81.35%
15		SMITHERStewart	m	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:20:02	80.77%
16		HarbonRichard	m	Wed 12/12/07	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series III	00:17:38	80.40%
17		JamesSteve	M	Mon 03/05/93	Half.Mar	Ward Freeman H/M	01:13:52	80.17%
18		BryantStewart	M	Wed 29/11/06	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5km series race 2	00:18:24	80.15%
19		HumphreysLuke	m	Sun 01/02/09	5MileRoad	Alsager 5	00:26:45	80.14%
20		WestropePaul	M	Sun 03/09/95	10Mile	Welwyn 10	00:55:45	80.12%
21		PowellDonald	M	Sun 20/05/07	10kmRoad	St Albans 10k	00:46:32	80.01%
22		ScrowtherPeter	m	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:29:21	79.88%
23		DaveyMel	M	Sun 19/06/94	10kmRoad	North Herts 10km	00:39:44	79.80%
24		WintersMelissa	F	Wed 12/12/07	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series III	00:18:41	79.42%
25		RussellJohn	M	Wed 29/11/06	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5km series race 2	00:17:45	79.26%
26		MillerSteve	M	Thu 16/12/04	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5km (race 3)	00:16:49	79.04%
27		AnsfieldMatt	M	Sun 08/04/01	10kmRoad	Royston 10km	00:34:11	78.91%
28		FarmanJohn	M	Mon 03/05/93	Half.Mar	Ward Freeman H/M	01:30:38	78.57%
29		MullinsTim	M	Sun 08/10/89	10kmRoad	Buntingford 10km	00:35:22	78.57%
30		PriestleyChris	M	Wed 14/12/05	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5K Race 3	00:18:58	78.49%

12-month rankings > 28/02/09 (Age %)

Rank		Name		Date of Race	Distance	Name of Race	Time	WAVA
1		HALLNEILSON	m	Sun 05/10/08	10kmRoad	Standalone 10k (ROTM)	00:31:05	86.38%
2		MCKEOWNAstrid	f	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:17:38	84.81%
3		MckeownSteve	m	Mon 26/05/08	10kmRoad	Hatfield Broadoak 10k	00:34:23	82.02%
4		SMITHERStewart	m	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:20:02	80.77%
5		FramptonDavid	m	Sun 14/09/08	10kmRoad	Bedford Invitation 10k	00:38:49	80.38%
6		HumphreysLuke	m	Sun 01/02/09	5MileRoad	Alsager 5	00:26:45	80.14%
7		ScrowtherPeter	m	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:29:21	79.88%
8		BRYANTStewart	m	Sun 14/09/08	10kmRoad	Bedford Invitation 10k	00:39:20	79.32%
9		PowellDonald	m	Mon 26/05/08	10kmRoad	Hatfield Broadoak 10k	00:47:35	79.10%
10		MYALLDerek	m	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:20:49	78.42%
11		SibbettPeter	m	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:29:57	78.28%
12		AdamsPaula	f	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:39:41	78.25%
13		YOUNGMark	m	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:18:27	77.45%
14		FootSue	F	Sun 02/03/08	Half.Mar	Milton Keynes Nike HM	01:44:17	77.44%
15		WINTERSMelissa	F	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:19:17	77.10%

12-month Rankings > 28/02/09 (Ladies)

Rank		Name	Date of Race	Distance	Name of Race	Time	WAVA
1		MCKEOWNAstrid	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:17:38	84.81%
2		WINTERSMelissa	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:19:17	77.10%
3		TROTTSuzy	Wed 10/12/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series Race III	00:22:07	67.40%
4		harbonJo	Fri 28/03/08	5kmRoad	Serpentine LFOTM 5k	00:23:14	68.09%
5		PRIESTLEYAnna	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:23:40	73.32%
6		DODSWORTHKaren	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:23:46	69.46%
7		ANNETTSRachel	Wed 10/12/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series Race III	00:24:58	66.12%
8		COOKLindsay	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:25:11	59.04%
9		SHARPChristine	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:28:01	61.16%
		Only 9 qualifying runners in period
1		MckeownAstrid	Fri 08/08/08	5MileRoad	Cranfield 5	00:29:32	82.79%
2		PriestleyAnna	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:38:09	75.34%
3		AnnettsRachel	Fri 08/08/08	5MileRoad	Cranfield 5	00:40:40	66.38%
4		DodsworthKaren	Sun 07/09/08	5MileRoad	Swineshead 5 (ROTM)	00:40:55	65.97%
5		AirdLinda	Sun 11/05/08	5MileRoad	Marlow 5	00:41:56	65.17%
		Only 5 qualifying runners in period
1		MCKEOWNASTRID	Sun 05/10/08	10kmRoad	Standalone 10k (ROTM)	00:36:52	83.13%
2		AdamsPaula	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:39:41	78.25%
3		WintersMelissa	Mon 26/05/08	10kmRoad	Hatfield Broadoak 10k	00:40:02	75.97%
4		PitmanNatasha	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:40:09	75.90%
5		CHAPPELLJane	Sun 05/10/08	10kmRoad	Standalone 10k (ROTM)	00:41:59	74.39%
6		SummersJo	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:46:10	69.05%
7		HarbonJo	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:46:41	69.46%
8		TrottSuzy	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:46:41	65.28%
9		PriestleyAnna	Sun 15/06/08	10kmRoad	Barts London 10k (Victoria Park)	00:47:57	74.17%
10		GregsonSharon	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:48:23	64.55%
1		MckeownAstrid	Sun 21/09/08	10Mile	Leighton 10	01:01:03	82.23%
2		WintersMelissa	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:06:17	75.30%
3		ADAMSPaula	Sun 30/03/08	10Mile	Sandy 10	01:07:49	75.00%
4		PRIESTLEYAnna	Sun 30/03/08	10Mile	Sandy 10	01:20:33	72.32%
5		GregsonSharon	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:21:28	63.18%
6		TROTTSuzy	Sun 30/03/08	10Mile	Sandy 10	01:21:55	60.93%
7		DODSWORTHKaren	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:22:18	67.34%
8		PITMANNatasha	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:22:18	60.81%
9		ANNETTSRachel	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:25:57	64.48%
10		AirdLinda	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:27:35	64.85%
1		MckeownAstrid	Sun 20/04/08	Half.Mar	Bonn HM	01:19:09	84.15%
2		WINTERSMelissa	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:29:10	74.23%
3		ADAMSPaula	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:30:23	75.39%
4		MESSENGERClaire	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:35:47	69.89%
5		SummersJo	Sun 01/02/09	Half.Mar	Watford HM	01:39:49	70.64%
6		FootSue	Sun 02/03/08	Half.Mar	Milton Keynes Nike HM	01:44:17	77.44%
7		GREGSONSharon	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:44:33	65.66%
8		PriestleyAnna	Sun 20/07/08	Half.Mar	NSPCC MK HM	01:47:30	73.17%
9		DODSWORTHKaren	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:47:40	69.44%
10		HARBONJo	Sun 14/12/08	Half.Mar	Bedford HM	01:54:02	62.49%
1		PitmanNatasha	Sun 26/10/08	Marathon	Basel Marathon	03:04:56	73.69%
2		WINTERSMELISSA	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:10:16	71.42%
3		CHAPPELLJANE	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:15:09	71.67%
4		MESSENGERCLAIRE	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:28:16	65.95%
5		SummersJo	Sun 16/03/08	Marathon	Rome Marathon	03:33:57	67.79%

12-month Rankings > 28/02/09 (Men)

Rank		Name	Date of Race	Event	Name of Race	Time	WAVA
1		McKeownSteve	Fri 25/07/08	5kmRoad	Serpentine LFOTM 5k	00:16:35	81.70%
2		COOKGary	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:17:27	74.51%
3		SAVILLEOliver	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:17:34	73.44%
4		ATKINSJames	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:17:35	73.36%
5		SCROWTHERPeter	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:17:53	79.28%
6		YOUNGMark	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:18:27	77.45%
7		SIBBETTPeter	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:18:33	76.43%
8		SHERWOODAdrian	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:18:36	75.06%
9		BryantStewart	Fri 29/08/08	5kmRoad	Serpentine LFOTM 5k	00:18:57	79.10%
10		NORTHOVERPete	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:18:58	69.12%
1		HumphreysLuke	Sun 01/02/09	5MileRoad	Alsager 5	00:26:45	80.14%
2		MckeownSteve	Fri 08/08/08	5MileRoad	Cranfield 5	00:27:44	80.79%
3		AtkinsJames	Sun 07/09/08	5MileRoad	Swineshead 5 (ROTM)	00:29:17	72.85%
4		SavilleOliver	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:29:20	72.73%
5		ScrowtherPeter	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:29:21	79.88%
6		SibbettPeter	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:29:57	78.28%
7		BryantStewart	Fri 08/08/08	5MileRoad	Cranfield 5	00:32:00	77.47%
8		kelleypaul	Fri 08/08/08	5MileRoad	Cranfield 5	00:32:27	77.02%
9		FranklinJohn	Fri 08/08/08	5MileRoad	Cranfield 5	00:32:45	70.50%
10		AnnettsMartyn	Fri 08/08/08	5MileRoad	Cranfield 5	00:33:04	69.82%
1		HALLNEILSON	Sun 05/10/08	10kmRoad	Standalone 10k (ROTM)	00:31:05	86.38%
2		MckeownSteve	Mon 26/05/08	10kmRoad	Hatfield Broadoak 10k	00:34:23	82.02%
3		CookGary	Sun 20/04/08	10kmRoad	Flitwick 10k	00:36:10	74.60%
4		AtkinsJames	Sun 20/04/08	10kmRoad	Great Langdale 10k	00:36:56	72.70%
5		ScrowtherPeter	Sun 16/11/08	10kmRoad	Chelmsford 10k	00:37:15	79.22%
6		SavilleOliver	Thu 01/01/09	10kmRoad	Serpentine New Year's Day 10k	00:37:35	71.45%
7		NORTHOVERPete	Sun 14/09/08	10kmRoad	Bedford Invitation 10k	00:38:13	71.07%
8		FramptonDavid	Sun 14/09/08	10kmRoad	Bedford Invitation 10k	00:38:49	80.38%
9		HarbonRichard	Mon 26/05/08	10kmRoad	Hatfield Broadoak 10k	00:38:55	76.42%
10		BRYANTStewart	Sun 14/09/08	10kmRoad	Bedford Invitation 10k	00:39:20	79.32%
1		ScrowtherPeter	Sun 07/12/08	10Mile	Nene Valley Harriers 10	01:01:01	79.29%
2		COOKGary	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:01:01	72.89%
3		ATKINSJames	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:01:36	72.05%
4		SibbettPeter	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:04:09	76.03%
5		McGILLKeiron	Sun 30/03/08	10Mile	Sandy 10	01:04:19	69.01%
6		FramptonDavid	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:04:23	79.61%
7		SHERWOODAdrian	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:04:52	73.41%
8		SAVILLEOliver	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:05:13	68.06%
9		YoungMark	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:05:16	74.73%
10		BryantStewart	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:06:38	76.92%
1		McKeownSteve	Sun 20/04/08	Half.Mar	Bonn HM	01:18:18	78.17%
2		ATKINSJames	Sun 22/02/09	Half.Mar	Great North West HM Blackpool	01:19:13	74.75%
3		ScrowtherPeter	Sun 02/11/08	Half.Mar	Stevenage HM	01:22:52	77.49%
4		SIBBETTPeter	Sun 14/12/08	Half.Mar	Bedford HM	01:24:14	76.23%
5		SHERWOODAdrian	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:24:39	74.63%
6		FRAMPTONDavid	Sun 14/12/08	Half.Mar	Bedford HM	01:25:52	79.33%
7		SavilleOliver	Sun 02/11/08	Half.Mar	Barns Green HM	01:26:28	68.48%
8		McGillKeiron	Sun 09/03/08	Half.Mar	Silverstone HM	01:27:21	67.79%
9		THACKERAYRichard	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:27:47	72.56%
10		BRYANTStewart	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:28:55	76.61%
1		CookGary	Sun 02/11/08	Marathon	NYC Marathon	02:54:52	71.44%
2		THACKERAYRICHARD	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:08:00	69.80%
3		YOUNGMARK	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:14:10	68.75%
4		BRYANTSTEWART	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:14:38	72.96%
5		SherwoodAdrian	Sun 19/10/08	Marathon	Leicester Marathon	03:15:19	67.19%

Running and Me - Part 4

The increase in average weekly mileage I’d started in late March 2008 and the increased base fitness and weight loss that came with it, was really starting to have an impact on my running. May and June saw the setting of new 10k and 5 Mile PBs (the latter being a V45 Club Record).

From a Club perspective, we were promoted back to Div 1 of the Midweek League, finishing on equal match points with FVS, but slightly behind on place-points. Having joined NHRR on the eve of a Midweek season, May 2008 marked my first year at the Club and also a useful marker of my progress. In 2007, I had scored for the team in just 1 of the races and my 10k times had ranged between 41:18 and 42:09. In 2008 I scored in all 4, with my 10k times ranging between 38:59 and 39:16.


St Albans HM - if you can't stand the heat - don't enter this race!

July saw a new half-marathon PB at Milton Keynes of 01:26:26. The heat conspired to produce two slow times in June and July too, with the St Albans half-marathon and the Harlow10. The weather always seems to be baking for the hilly St Albans race and 2008 was no exception. As a result my time (01:30:13) was 2m slower than my Nov07 PB and nearly 4m slower than I would achieve a month later at MK. The other scorcher at Harlow saw me post a time of 01:06:52, when I had been confident of 01:05:00. That confidence was shown to be justified later in the year, but these two races had shown how much warm weather can slow you down. In fact, many runners retired early in the Harlow race and one poor chap collapsed 200m of the finish.

August was not quite so warm, and I managed to improve my 5 mile V45 Club Record again to 30:24 at Cranfield. Just two days later, I also set a new 10k PB in the Bearbrook 10k (near Aylesbury) of 38:34.

My confidence was further boosted when, in September, I learned of my selection for the NHRR team in its very own Standalone 10k race. This was very special for two reasons; 1. it’s a genuine honour to make the team and 2. it would be the second anniversary of my first ever race (at that very same event). Preparation was to be far from smooth however.

I’d had a nasty pull in my left hamstring when the faster rep sessions started in the Spring. This seemed to respond to RICE very well and it all blew over. In early September, I felt a sharp pain in my right hamstring whilst motoring downhill in a Fartlek session. It’s a long, hard walk from Hitchin to Letchworth when you’re limping in pain! Fortunately, Pete Northover met me half way up Harkness hill with transport back to HQ. I did very little running for the next nine days and felt much better. Perhaps foolishly, I still ran the Leighton 10, and despite feeling tight in the warm-up and nearly pulling the hamstring again during the race, somehow set a new PB of 01:03:37. The following week (surprise surprise) the hamstring popped badly again - Standalone was less than two weeks away.

A week later I managed to complete a 10k training session, but at a cautious pace. I just jogged a few times to take me up to the day of the race. I had no idea if the hamstring would hold up to a full 10k effort and I was also concerned by the lack of speedwork and mileage I’d managed in the lead-up. Nonetheless, I found myself on the starting line in the rain. The good news was that the hamstring gave me no problems and that I set a new PB of 38:20. Never one to be truly satisfied, I still felt I had an even better 10k in me, given the patchy build-up.

November/December 2007 had seen my peak for that year, and 2008 would be the same. I’m not sure if this is the fruit of 6 months of hard work or the onset of cold weather or a bit of both. Whatever the reason, the pattern continued. My half-marathon PB came down by nearly 4 minutes at Stevenage (01:22:52). I took over 30 secs off my 5k PB in the first of the Stevenage 5k Series (17:53) and the following Sunday beat my 10k PB by over a minute at Chelmsford (37:15). That was my 3rd good PB in 3 years at the Essex race. I’ll aim to be back in 2009! I then knocked over a minute off my PB and V45 5-Mile Club Record at Wolverton (29:21). This was agonisingly close to my first ever 80% age-score (79.88%). Perhaps if I’d pipped Oliver Saville to the line I’d have made up the required 3 secs! Then in December, perhaps the best achievement of the lot; a new 10 Mile PB (and V45 Club Record) in Peterborough of 01:01:01.

It had been a great close to the year. I’d even scored for the team in the Dunstable and NHRR XC League races!!

Early 2009 saw a dip in form, not unlike 2008, but less severe. Based on 2008, I had expected a lull and deliberately backed off from racing to reduce the chance of real burnout – which is what I think happened between Jan-Mar 2008. In Jan and Feb 2009, I only did two races and for me, that’s really easing off! The Fred Hughes 10 time of 01:01:37 was pretty good coming soon after Xmas (and clouting a metal stile 1M from the finish) and the the Chessington 10k in Feb (37:40) pretty respectable given bad weather and illness had seriously curtailed speeedwork for several weeks.





Statto's race history measured by
Age% Scores (WAVA). Click image to enlarge


So now you are right up to date and can now enjoy regular blogetins as events unfold. Hopefully 2009 will be another year of improvement and I will stay injury-free.

XC League (going into East Haddon race)

Please note that I have corrected our position in the mens and Ladies tables as the official figs had done the race-score tie-breaking by highest first, when shoud be lowest.

3-counties XCL
Overall League				Mens League				Ladies League
Club	Points	Score		Club	Points	Score		Club	Points	Score
Ampthill & Flitwick	35	455		Ampthill & Flitwick	36	246		Bedford Harriers	33	83
Wooton RR	33	546		Wooton RR	32	456		Wooton RR	32	90
North Herts R R	29	712		North Herts R R	27	621		North Herts R R	31	91
Bedford Harriers	27	839		Dunstable R R	27	729		Biggleswade A C	31	98
Dunstable R R	25	925		Bedford Harriers	27	756		Dunstable R R	20	196
Stopsley Striders	20	1145		Stopsley Striders	22	933		Ampthill & Flitwick	19	209
Biggleswade A C	19	1301		Wellingborough A C	16	1194		Stopsley Striders	18	212
Wellingborough A C	14	1601		Biggleswade A C	15	1203		Olney Runners	17	1128
Olney Runners	11	4472		Leighton	10	1700		Leighton	12	360
Leighton	10	2060		Northampton RR	9	1959		Wellingborough A C	11	407
Northampton RR	7	2583		Olney Runners	9	3344		Northampton RR	7	624
Team East Haddon	4	4482		Team East Haddon	4	3036		Team East Haddon	4	1446

Running and Me - Part 3

2007 had drawn to a close with the birth of my daughter in October and continued race-time improvements. It also marked my first 8 months at the Club.

People have asked me how I manage to do so much running with two young children. The truth is not particularly edifying - it requires ‘focus’ (a nice euphemism) from one partner and accommodation from the other. I'd like to take this opportunity to publicly acknowledge my debt to the accommodating half of this arrangement!


My dip in form was under way by Jan 08 and the Amptill XC, but at least I managed a 'Hollywood' sprint finish!


Looking back at my running diary at the end of Jan 2008, I noticed something alarming - I had just completed 17 races in 15 weeks! Even by my standards that was quite something. It was perhaps inevitable that my form dipped in the early months of 2008 and I kept getting colds. I probably needed a planned ease-down after Xmas (Chris P - you were right), but the XC races were coming thick and fast, in addition to the road races I had entered. Something needed to give here, but I failed to cull my race diary!

By the end of March, thanks to a series of colds and general fatigue, I had finally had an accidental, but necessary, easier 6 weeks. During this time, both my mileage and speedwork intensity dropped. This did not immediately do my race form any good (*), but it did serve to give me the respite I needed to start a new cycle of improvement.

(*)
Reading HM (01:31:05) - 3 minutes slower than my Nov07 PB.
Sandy 10 (01:08:20) - nearly 2 minutes slower than my Dec07 PB.

During this re-grouping period, I made my first visit to the Human Energetics and Performance Centre at Anglia Ruskin University for some physiological profiling (recommended by Steve and Astrid McKeown). I will make a separate post about this, as it's fascinating stuff and I wouldn't want to stint on the detail! Suffice to say that I've found this to be educational, motivational and of great practical value.

Encouragingly, by mid-April I had my 10k time down to 40:04. This was not far off my Nov07 PB of 39:35 and signified a marked improvement in form since my March races. I now began to feel much more positive. Just before the Midweek League started, I had a holiday in Cornwall which afforded some very undulating training runs! This week of secret hill work seemed to do me good as my first 2 Midweek League 10ks were done in 39:11 and 39:16. The NHRR race, albeit not on the official measured route, saw me dip under 39m (38:59 - every second counts) for the first time. The only blot on the evening was having Mr Frampton storm past me at the 8k mark - RESPECT!

At the Welwyn MWL race I thought I had set a new V45 5-mile Club Record with 30:47, but alas it was not a certified course, and Mr Statto, more than anyone, has to take such considerations seriously. My frustration led to me find another 5-mile race two days later in Essex - the Springfield Striders 5, where I did officially set a new V45 Club Record of 30:38. It was a long drive home, but I was floating so high, I didn't care. Wow - my name would appear in lights on the Club Records list. When I joined NHRR I would gaze at this list in awe, so you can imagine how special it felt to see my name it.

Much better was still to come, as I embarked on a dramatic period of further improved fitness and performance that extended right up to mid December 2008. More of that anon in the final thrilling episode of "Running and Me" which will bring you bang up to date.

I hope all this does not appear too self indulgent. What I really want to convey as much as anything is the almost child-like sense of wonder and enthusiasm my mid-life discovery of running has generated. I've become a 40-something running evangelist/bore (delete as appropriate) and, as many people could tell you, if I'm not actually running, I can't stop thinking or talking about it!

I'd like to love cross-country - it makes me strong!

Do you ever see Nicole Cooke or Bradley Wiggins competing in off-road mountain-bike events? Do Moto GP bikers double up in Motocross? Does Lewis Hamilton head off to the Kielder Forest to race rally cars when not too busy racing or testing F1 cars? Not as far as I know.

For runners it seems the rules are different. With the onset of colder weather and sodden earth, it’s time to don the spikes or studs and get down and dirty with nature – it’s the XC season! In other spheres, it seems that off-road variants are considered separate sports altogether, yet with running, struggling up-hill and down dale with poor conditions underfoot is considered just a enjoyable seasonal variation.

NHRR compete in a XC league and, with a sense of responsibility to my Club (and quite liking the team-league format), I try to do all the races in this series. I decided this season however to studiously avoid all the other XC opportunities (Southerns, Nationals, County, County Vets etc).


The conditions were tricky, but quack times were still possible


I love racing and training. Somehow however, I have yet to really catch the XC bug. I think there are a number for reasons for this.

>Memories of XC at school
>It’s not easy trying to run fast in mud up to and over your ankles!
>It’s difficult to establish or maintain a running rhythm
>I have a short stride with little uplift and I don’t think this helps
>I am prejudiced by a persistent groin niggle I picked up in a fall at last year's County XC



Statto performing live at the NHRR XC without a safety net


Conversely, I know many Club members eagerly await the XC season, and perhaps even prefer off-road racing, so please don't let my personal negativity on the subject put you off. In fact, I have to say that this season I have found XC less of an ordeal. I was almost looking forward to the Ampthill race (before it was cancelled). Perhaps it's because I am a lot lighter, better at hill-running, or just a more experienced runner?

At this rate, come the 09/10 season, I may have had a XC epiphany! I’ll let you know.

Hill Ranking Table - Motion Based vs SportTraks

It seems that both Motion Based and SportTraks have a means of cross-referencing GPS track-points with elevation survey data. Finlay kindly provided me with the SportTraks data for a sample of races on my ranking table for comparison. Initially I was sceptical about the ST data, because it was counting quite significant undulations as 'flat', but Finlay has managed to fix this problem now.

As a result, I now think that the ST output might be worth considering as a longer term alternative way of generating my Hill-ranking table. Some more analysis is still required, but given that future of the MB Gravity Web service is in doubt, ST may be a useful back-up plan. Unfortunately it would require myself and Finlay to re-process another 80-odd races!

The cleaned ascent/descent data from ST and MB produce quite different hill-rank scores, but the relationship between the scores of different races remains similar as does the ranking order. It is the relationship between the scores of different races that is important to make meaningful comparisons in any case.

Running and Me - Part 2

So, in May 2007 I had finally joined a running club. This meant that I could turn up to races in a club vest and bright yellow jacket! Initially, I would refer to this as my ‘go-faster’ vest as my race-times started to improve immediately. I used to be really intimidated by by club-runners - now I was one!

Something that really impressed me was how fast the NHRR Vet runners were, not least the ones (a ‘little’ ho-ho) older than me. Sir Darth Frampton and Stewart Bryant may not realise it, but they were a real inspiration to me and continue to chalk up age pc scores around the 80% mark .

My first few races after joining NHRR were a baptism of fire in the Midweek Road Race League. I was not accustomed to entering races where everybody was a club-runner, so the faster general pace was a bit of a shock initially. On the plus side, the quality of the field did tend to drag your own pace up with it. I also managed to fit in a 10k at Staines where I improved my PB to 41:15. Incidentally, this is the flattest race on my Hill-ranking table.

The 10k League race at Bishops Stortford stays in the memory thanks to an almighty thunderstorm that broke during the race and left the roads/tracks looking more like small rivers! My time was a more modest 42:09, but was significant for making me the 12th and final scorer for the men’s team. This was something I had not expected to achieve and naturally I was very chuffed indeed.

After Staines 10k, I imagined that a sub-41m 10k was imminent – I was wrong! Over the Summer, I entered several more 10ks, but the times were significantly slower than I'd achieved in early May. This was to prove a useful learning curve in the setting and achieving of race goals; improvement does not always follow a straight path...

I had set myself a target of a sub-40m 10k by the end of the year, but I couldn’t even get back to near 41m. I concluded that my mind and/or body had had enough of 10k racing. My 5k and half-marathon times were still improving, so I decided to concentrate on these (and keep training hard) and to diary my next 10k for November.

I achieved a major landmark in October with my first ever sub-1:30 half-marathon at Leicester (1:29:25), despite suffering from achilles discomfort in the build up to the race. Later the same month I set a new 5k PB of 19:01 on the tough Serpentine course.

Things really came together in November 2007. The month started with a new Half-marathon PB at Stevenage (1:28:12), followed by a 5k PB (18:24) in race 1 of the Stevenage series. The 5k time gave me the confidence that the Holy Grail of the sub-40m 10k could be achieved the following Sunday at Chelmsford. Unfortunately, the weather was not kind and the last 4-5k was into a gusty headwind. Nonetheless, I clocked 39:35. I was absolutely elated! No matter what else I achieve race-wise, this first sub-40 10k will always be really special. I’m sure many runners would echo those sentiments. This was the second time that Chelmsford had provided a good 10k PB and 2008 would follow suit.

I had only been at NHRR for 7 months, but had already achieved race-times I hadn’t honestly thought possible - certainly not so soon at ant rate. It just goes to show the value of hard work, good coaching, support from other runners, avoiding injury and (not least) sheer bloody-mindedness! Regarding the latter, before I joined NHRR, someone told me (quite bluntly) there was no way I was ever going to run a 10k in under 40 minutes. I never forgot that conversation!

Elevation Profiles

I will use this post to publish elevation profiles for selected races.





Is this James's guilty secret?!











East Haddon XC (4.5 miles approx) - Sun 1st Mar 2009 (Run of the Month 1.)
I shall be petitioning to make this a 4.75k race...











Sandy 10 - Sun 29th March 2009 - (Run of the Month 2.)
You know, I think this might be East Haddon inverted!

Statto and Garmin Forerunner - Perfect Partners!

I purchased my first Forerunner in October 2006 – the 205 model (no HR monitor). I found this a great way to manage my pace(*) in both training and racing. As a novice racer, I found it particularly useful to have a way of not running too fast in the early stages and still find it useful in this respect, despite having much more race experience!

In August 2007, I upgraded to the 305 model (identical to 205, but + HR monitor). This now allowed me to train within HR zones which I have found to be very useful in running at the right intensities for easy, recovery and long runs. I don’t tend to look at the HR reading during speedwork, but I do look at the data afterwards. This can tell you if you were pushing too hard, or perhaps did a 5k workout instead of a 10k one!

It’s not generally recommended to use HR as a means of gauging race effort. I agree up to point, but I found, once I had a reasonable race history from the watch, I could retrospectively identify model HR profiles for different race-distances based upon best performances.

For example, in a 10k, I would now typically aim to be at about 170 bpm (93% of HR max) after about 2k. I would then maintain this effort for most of the rest of the race, with a push up towards HR max in the final km. On more undulating courses you need to be more flexible, but I have found it pays to minimise the variation.

Naturally, you should not be a slave to these methods. Sometimes you find your true level of current race fitness by taking risks! One final note on this subject - warm weather racing. These model HR profiles are very useful on hot days as a way of running appropriate paces for the conditions. You will find your HR wil be much higher for a given pace on hot days.

I upgraded again to the FR405 in the Summer of 2008. Apart from being much smaller (which could be viewed as +ve or –ve from a display-size p.o.v.) essentially offers the same specification and functionality as the 205/305. However, the 405 does seems to have the following advantages

> GPS signal is attained more quickly than on older models.
> Doesn’t seem to suffer from ‘lock-up’ problems

I have also found two extended uses for my Garmin Forerunners. The first is, in association with the Motion Based web site, the ability to generate an objective measure of the how undulating a route is (see my hill-ranking table). The second is a means of calculating base running fitness by comparing the average HR over an entire run with the average speed attained and plotting the data over time. This is a measure of how efficiently you are running. I have also found this method can help identify on-coming illness, tiredness, stress or over-training, as the scores generated tend to decline in these contexts.

(*)
NB: to any FR users, you need to set to measure AVERAGE PACE not PACE, as the latter is from moment-to-moment and the device is not capable of producing meaningful results for this.

Chessington World of (10k) Adventures

So, what to do when Ampthill XC is cancelled at short notice? Have a lie in? Do a long run? Well, my daughter work up at 5:50 am anyway, so the lie in was a no-go regardless.

The obvious answer was to leave the house at 6:45 am in order to travel 70 miles down to Surrey to arrive in good time to get an on-the-day entry to the 26.2 Road Runers Club Valentines 10k. I'm amazed no other NHRRs had the same idea!

Broadly, the first 2k is fairly flat, then 1.5k mostly up, 3.5k down and the last 3k mostly up to the finish. I did this race 2 years ago and remember the last 3k being tough - nothing's changed.

Feel the pain of the last 3k...

Given I've done no speedwork for 3 weeks ( incl a whole week off with a stomach bug) I was curious to know how much 10k edge I'd lost and also wanted to get in some faster running.

Worryingly, I felt quite poor after only 2k and worse by 3k. I was quite close to opting for my first ever DNF, but dug in. The long downhill section perked me up and by 7k I was at target pace (6m/mile). However, the last 3k was a killer and I faded somewhat.

Time by my watch (gun>tape) was 37:40. Some 25 secs off my PB set last Nov, but given the less than ideal preparation, I'm not too displeased. It's still my second best ever 10k time, so not a bad base to build from for the Spring and the Midweek League.

For an even wider perspective, my time 2 years ago (just before I joined NHRR) at the same race was nearly 6 mins slower @ 43:28. Things have changed a bit since then, as evidenced by this photo from the 2007 race!









Who ate all the pies? The somewhat bulkier and "Unattached" Statto in Feb 2007

Running and Me - Part 1

My mid-life crisis started at 43. I had become a parent for the first time at 41 which was co-incident with an alarming increase in my consumption of full-bodied red wines and unhealthy food (and unhealthy portions). At 14st 2lbs I had a nasty premonition of how I'd look and feel at 50 and it wasn't pretty.

I'd been quite active in sports at school and into my early 20's, but apart from a brief spell in the early 1990s when I played regular 5-a-side footy, I had been largely sports-dormant for over 20 years. I had never really enjoyed running, even at school and I hated cross country (some things never change). I did represent the school in track and field in 1980, but that was only because nobody else could be persuaded to do the steeplechase or the hammer. Despite my lack of excellence in either (and there is no false modesty here I assure you) it seemed that all other schools in the locality had similar recruiting problems for these events. As a result, I ended up winning both thanks to being the least worst!

That marked the start of a 26 year lull in my running exploits. I started again tentatively with an ill-advised 6.5 mile run in July 2006. The pace was over 9 min/mile and it took me about a week to recover! I continued the 'intelligent' approach with regular 'lets-do-it-faster-than-ever-before' 5-7 mile time-trials. I was getting faster, but I was also extremely tired. In hindsight it is clear that I was a keen student of the 'if it ain't hurting it ain't working' school of training - some habits die hard!

All this then was perfect preparation for my first ever race - Standalone 10k Oct 2006. I'll never forget wandering around the farm car-park seeing all these fit-looking runners and wondering if I'd done the right thing. Then - calamity - I had no safety pins for my race-number! Fortunately, a very kind lady at the help-desk (Astrid as I was to discover some months later) had a large supply to cater for novices like me.

My longest ever run had been about 7 miles, so how hard could 6.21 miles be?! As it turned out, pretty damn hard, especially if you set of too fast (hey, this was pre-Garmin era - how was I to know)! Having said that, my official time was (just) under 46 mins, which with hindsight was a fairly good effort given I'd only been running for 3 months.

A few weeks later I managed 45:31 in the Croydon 10k. This was a much hillier course but I paced myself much better. I had really enjoyed these two races and since I had managed a 10 mile run in training I made a late entry to the Stevenage Half-marathon. Thanks to only ever doing one run over 7 miles as preparation, and the Stevenage route being fairly undulating, I was spent by the 10-mile mark and only will-power kept me going to the line. Nevertheless, I was pretty chuffed with the time of 01:38:57.

I was starting to get the bug now and continued to enter various 10k and HM races between Nov 2006 and April 2007. By that time I had got my 10k down to 42:35 (Woburn - where Ollie Saville was also running "unattached") and my HM down to 01:34:37. I had also become a Garmin-addict. I'd been toying with going along to NHRR for some months, but had never plucked up the courage. Naturally these fears were misplaced and I felt at home right away and loved both the training sessions and the way I was made to feel very welcome. I didn't hesitate and became a paid-up NHRR member in May 2007, just in time for the Midweek League 10k opener in Welwyn! Clearly, even the few sessions of structured training I'd had by that point had done something, as I bettered my PB by over 1 min with 41:18.

Now I was REALLY hooked and running was set to dominate my life as I never imagined. It would not be an exagerration to say that running has become an obsession - but a very healthy one I believe!

More anon...

Statto's Hill-ranking Table

You may find this table useful when comparing times between races. In general, I have found it to be an accurate reflection of reality, but there may be one or two races where the data is less reliable.

It is assumed that you lose more time going up than you gain coming down, so the key is how much height you gain. My own part of the calculations do factor in the relative heights of the start/finish too.

The overall calculation is based upon overall height gained/lost, but the elevation data is cross-referenced from the positional trackpoints on a GPS watch to separate physical survey data for elevation. This filtering is provided by the Motion Based "Gravity Web" service. The the raw elevation data from devices such as the Garmin Forerunner series is quite poor. The graph on the left above illustrates the point. The blue line is the raw data and none of those extra undulations are real.

See also related post - Motion Based vs SportTraks

Rank		Race	Av gain m/mile
1		Ampthill XCL 2008	41.4
2		National XC 2009 Parliament Hills	41.0
3		SEAA XC 2008 Parliament Hills	40.5
4		County XC Haileybury 2007	38.4
5		Dunstable XC (2008)	25.9
6		East Haddon XC Feb08	25.9
7		Rome marathon	25.8
8		Goring & Woodcote 10k	25.7
9		NYC marathon	25.4
10		Hampstead Midsummer 10k	25.3
11		Biggleswade XC (Shuttleworth)	24.7
12		Dunstable XC (2007)	23.7
13		Windsor HM	23.7
14		Serpentine 5k	23.5
15		Regents Park 10k	22.7
16		Colworth HM (multi-terrain)	22.3
17		St Albans HM (2007)	21.5
18		Paris marathon	20.7
19		Flitwick 10k	20.6
20		St Albans HM (2008)	20.5
21		Croydon 10k	20.1
22		Prague marathon	19.8
23		Watford HM	19.8
24		Burnham Beeches HM	19.7
25		NHRR XC	19.3
26		Bedford Park 5k	19.3
27		Berlin marathon	19.3
28		Roding Valley HM	19.2
29		MWL St Albans 7M	19.0
30		MK Heartbeat 5k	19.0
31		High Ongar 10k	18.7
32		Stamford 30k	18.5
33		Bury 20	18.5
34		Palma Mallorca marathon	18.2
35		NHRR MWL 10k	17.9
36		Newmarket 10k	17.9
37		Oakley 20M	17.7
38		Buntingford 10M	17.6
39		Sandy10	17.4
40		MWL Bish 10k	17.4
41		Frankfurt marathon	17.3
42		Stevenage HM 2007	16.9
43		Barns Green HM 2006	16.9
44		Whipsnade 10k	16.9
45		FV 3k Relays	16.6
46		London marathon	16.3
47		Stevenage HM 2008	16.2
48		Bracknell HM	16.2
49		Woburn 10k	15.8
50		Stevenage 5k Series 2008	15.8
51		New Forest marathon 2008	15.1
52		Bedford HM	14.7
53		FVS MWL 10k	14.6
54		Billericay 10k 2007	14.3
55		Leicester HM	14.3
56		Springfield Striders Friday 5	14.2
57		Reading HM	14.0
58		Harlow 10M	13.9
59		Chelmsford 10k	13.8
60		Stevenage 5k Series 2007	13.5
61		Chessington 10k 2007	13.4
62		Basel marathon	13.2
63		MWL WGC '10k'	13.2
64		Swineshead 10M	13.1
65		St Neot's HM 2005	13.0
66		Chessington 10k 2009	12.9
67		Standalone 10k	12.9
68		Nene Valley 5k 2007	12.9
69		WGC MWL 5-mile	12.8
70		Horndon 10k	12.7
71		MK NSPCC HM 2008	12.6
72		Leighton 10	12.4
73		Garden City 10M	12.3
74		MK NSPCC HM 2007	12.2
75		Wolverton 5 2007+2008	12.2
76		Cranfield 5M	12.0
77		Silverstone HM 2008	11.5
78		Wokingham HM 2007	11.4
79		Hatfield Broadoak 10k	11.4
80		Bearbrook 10k	11.4
81		Nene Valley Harr 10	11.1
82		Nike+ MK HM 2008	10.9
83		Fred Hughes 10M	10.9
84		Felsted 10k	10.9
85		Amsterdam marathon	9.6
86		Lea Valley 10k	9.3
87		Nene Valley 5k 2008	9.3
88		Grunty Fen HM	9.2
89		Mablethorpe marathon	9.0
90		Abingdon marathon	8.9
91		Andy Reading 10k 2006	8.7
92		Staines 10k	8.2

No more snow please...

Thanks to a combination of the weather, illness and a natural training break in the NHRR calendar in AGM week, I notice that it's 3 weeks since I did a speedy Club-session. Whilst this may not be all bad (I probably needed to calm down a bit training-wise!) I wonder how much impact this will have on the upcoming XCL races and the Nike HM at MK on 8/3? I have managed to maintain reasonable mileage apart from 1 week where I had a bad stomach bug.

To be continued...

12-month Rankings > 31/01/09 (WAVA)

Rank		Name	Date of Race	Distance	Name of Race	Time	WAVA
1		HALLNEILSON	Sun 05/10/08	10kmRoad	Standalone 10k (ROTM)	00:31:05	86.38%
2		MCKEOWNAstrid	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:17:38	84.81%
3		MckeownSteve	Mon 26/05/08	10kmRoad	Hatfield Broadoak 10k	00:34:23	82.02%
4		SMITHERStewart	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:20:02	80.77%
5		FramptonDavid	Sun 14/09/08	10kmRoad	Bedford Invitation 10k	00:38:49	80.38%
6		ScrowtherPeter	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:29:21	79.88%
7		BRYANTStewart	Sun 14/09/08	10kmRoad	Bedford Invitation 10k	00:39:20	79.32%
8		PowellDonald	Mon 26/05/08	10kmRoad	Hatfield Broadoak 10k	00:47:35	79.10%
9		MYALLDerek	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:20:49	78.42%
10		SibbettPeter	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:29:57	78.28%
11		AdamsPaula	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:39:41	78.25%
12		YOUNGMark	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:18:27	77.45%
13		FootSue	Sun 02/03/08	Half.Mar	Milton Keynes Nike HM	01:44:17	77.44%
14		WINTERSMelissa	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:19:17	77.10%
15		kelleypaul	Fri 08/08/08	5MileRoad	Cranfield 5	00:32:27	77.02%

12-month Rankings > 31/01/09 (Ladies)

Rank		Name	Date of Race	Distance	Name of Race	Time	WAVA
1		MCKEOWNAstrid	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:17:38	84.81%
2		WINTERSMelissa	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:19:17	77.10%
3		TROTTSuzy	Wed 10/12/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series Race III	00:22:07	67.40%
4		harbonJo	Fri 28/03/08	5kmRoad	Serpentine LFOTM 5k	00:23:14	68.09%
5		PRIESTLEYAnna	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:23:40	73.32%
6		DODSWORTHKaren	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:23:46	69.46%
7		ANNETTSRachel	Wed 10/12/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series Race III	00:24:58	66.12%
8		COOKLindsay	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:25:11	59.04%
9		SHARPChristine	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:28:01	61.16%
		Only 9 qualifying runners in period
1		MckeownAstrid	Fri 08/08/08	5MileRoad	Cranfield 5	00:29:32	82.79%
2		PriestleyAnna	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:38:09	75.34%
3		AnnettsRachel	Fri 08/08/08	5MileRoad	Cranfield 5	00:40:40	66.38%
4		DodsworthKaren	Sun 07/09/08	5MileRoad	Swineshead 5 (ROTM)	00:40:55	65.97%
5		AirdLinda	Sun 11/05/08	5MileRoad	Marlow 5	00:41:56	65.17%
		Only 5 qualifying runners in period
1		MCKEOWNASTRID	Sun 05/10/08	10kmRoad	Standalone 10k (ROTM)	00:36:52	83.13%
2		AdamsPaula	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:39:41	78.25%
3		WintersMelissa	Mon 26/05/08	10kmRoad	Hatfield Broadoak 10k	00:40:02	75.97%
4		PitmanNatasha	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:40:09	75.90%
5		CHAPPELLJane	Sun 05/10/08	10kmRoad	Standalone 10k (ROTM)	00:41:59	74.39%
6		SummersJo	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:46:10	69.05%
7		HarbonJo	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:46:41	69.46%
8		TrottSuzy	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:46:41	65.28%
9		PriestleyAnna	Sun 15/06/08	10kmRoad	Barts London 10k (Victoria Park)	00:47:57	74.17%
10		GreysonShannon	Thu 29/05/08	10kmRoad	FVS MWL 10k	00:48:23	64.55%
1		MckeownAstrid	Sun 21/09/08	10Mile	Leighton 10	01:01:03	82.23%
2		WintersMelissa	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:06:17	75.30%
3		ADAMSPaula	Sun 30/03/08	10Mile	Sandy 10	01:07:49	75.00%
4		PRIESTLEYAnna	Sun 30/03/08	10Mile	Sandy 10	01:20:33	72.32%
5		GregsonSharon	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:21:28	63.18%
6		TROTTSuzy	Sun 30/03/08	10Mile	Sandy 10	01:21:55	60.93%
7		DODSWORTHKaren	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:22:18	67.34%
8		PITMANNatasha	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:22:18	60.81%
9		ANNETTSRachel	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:25:57	64.48%
10		AirdLinda	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:27:35	64.85%
1		MckeownAstrid	Sun 20/04/08	Half.Mar	Bonn HM	01:19:09	84.15%
2		WINTERSMelissa	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:29:10	74.23%
3		ADAMSPaula	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:30:23	75.39%
4		MESSENGERClaire	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:35:47	69.89%
5		SUMMERSJo	Sun 03/02/08	Half.Mar	Watford Half Marathon	01:39:55	69.89%
6		FootSue	Sun 02/03/08	Half.Mar	Milton Keynes Nike HM	01:44:17	77.44%
7		GREGSONSharon	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:44:33	65.66%
8		PriestleyAnna	Sun 20/07/08	Half.Mar	NSPCC MK HM	01:47:30	73.17%
9		DODSWORTHKaren	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:47:40	69.44%
10		CALLISAnne	Sun 03/02/08	Half.Mar	Watford Half Marathon	01:50:00	59.93%
1		PitmanNatasha	Sun 26/10/08	Marathon	Basel Marathon	03:04:56	73.69%
2		WINTERSMELISSA	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:10:16	71.42%
3		CHAPPELLJANE	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:15:09	71.67%
4		MESSENGERCLAIRE	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:28:16	65.95%
5		SummersJo	Sun 16/03/08	Marathon	Rome Marathon	03:33:57	67.79%

12-month Rankings > 31/01/09 (Men)

Rank		Name	Date	Distance	Name of Race	Time	WAVA	Notes
1		McKeownSteve	Fri 25/07/08	5kmRoad	Serpentine LFOTM 5k	00:16:35	81.70%
2		COOKGary	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:17:27	74.51%
3		SAVILLEOliver	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:17:34	73.44%
4		ATKINSJames	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:17:35	73.36%
5		SCROWTHERPeter	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:17:53	79.28%
6		YOUNGMark	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:18:27	77.45%
7		SIBBETTPeter	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:18:33	76.43%
8		SHERWOODAdrian	Wed 12/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series I (ROTM)	00:18:36	75.06%
9		BryantStewart	Fri 29/08/08	5kmRoad	Serpentine LFOTM 5k	00:18:57	79.10%
10		NORTHOVERPeter	Wed 26/11/08	5kmRoad	Stevenage 5k Series II	00:18:58	69.12%
1		MckeownSteve	Fri 08/08/08	5MileRoad	Cranfield 5	00:27:44	80.79%
2		AtkinsJames	Sun 07/09/08	5MileRoad	Swineshead 5 (ROTM)	00:29:17	72.85%
3		SavilleOliver	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:29:20	72.73%
4		ScrowtherPeter	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:29:21	79.88%
5		SibbettPeter	Sat 29/11/08	5MileRoad	Wolverton 5	00:29:57	78.28%
1		HALLNEILSON	Sun 05/10/08	10kmRoad	Standalone 10k (ROTM)	00:31:05	86.38%
2		MckeownSteve	Mon 26/05/08	10kmRoad	Hatfield Broadoak 10k	00:34:23	82.02%
3		CookGary	Sun 20/04/08	10kmRoad	Flitwick 10k	00:36:10	74.60%
4		AtkinsJames	Sun 20/04/08	10kmRoad	Great Langdale 10k	00:36:56	72.70%
5		ScrowtherPeter	Sun 16/11/08	10kmRoad	Chelmsford 10k	00:37:15	79.22%
6		SavilleOliver	Thu 01/01/09	10kmRoad	Serpentine New Year's Day 10k	00:37:35	71.45%
7		FramptonDavid	Sun 14/09/08	10kmRoad	Bedford Invitation 10k	00:38:49	80.38%
8		HarbonRichard	Mon 26/05/08	10kmRoad	Hatfield Broadoak 10k	00:38:55	76.42%
9		NorthoverPete	Thu 01/01/09	10kmRoad	Serpentine New Year's Day 10k	00:39:01	69.94%
10		BRYANTStewart	Sun 14/09/08	10kmRoad	Bedford Invitation 10k	00:39:20	79.32%
1		ScrowtherPeter	Sun 07/12/08	10Mile	Nene Valley Harriers 10	01:01:01	79.29%	WAVA-score is tie-breaker
2		COOKGary	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:01:01	72.89%
3		ATKINSJames	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:01:36	72.05%
4		SibbettPeter	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:04:09	76.03%
5		McGILLKeiron	Sun 30/03/08	10Mile	Sandy 10	01:04:19	69.01%
6		FramptonDavid	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:04:23	79.61%
7		SHERWOODAdrian	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:04:52	73.41%
8		SAVILLEOliver	Sun 18/01/09	10Mile	Fred Hughes 10 (ROTM)	01:05:13	68.06%
9		YoungMark	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:05:16	74.73%
10		BryantStewart	Sun 28/12/08	10Mile	Buntingford 10	01:06:38	76.92%
1		McKeownSteve	Sun 20/04/08	Half.Mar	Bonn HM	01:18:18	78.17%
2		ScrowtherPeter	Sun 02/11/08	Half.Mar	Stevenage HM	01:22:52	77.49%
3		SIBBETTPeter	Sun 14/12/08	Half.Mar	Bedford HM	01:24:14	76.23%
4		SHERWOODAdrian	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:24:39	74.63%
5		FRAMPTONDavid	Sun 14/12/08	Half.Mar	Bedford HM	01:25:52	79.33%
6		SavilleOliver	Sun 02/11/08	Half.Mar	Barns Green HM	01:26:28	68.48%
7		McGillKeiron	Sun 09/03/08	Half.Mar	Silverstone HM	01:27:21	67.79%
8		THACKERAYRichard	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:27:47	72.56%
9		BRYANTStewart	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:28:55	76.61%
10		SPINKSJohnny	Sun 16/11/08	Half.Mar	St Neot's HM	01:29:00	70.42%
1		CookGary	Sun 02/11/08	Marathon	NYC Marathon	02:54:52	71.44%
2		THACKERAYRICHARD	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:08:00	69.80%
3		YOUNGMARK	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:14:10	68.75%
4		BRYANTSTEWART	Sun 13/04/08	Marathon	London Marathon	03:14:38	72.96%
5		SherwoodAdrian	Sun 19/10/08	Marathon	Leicester Marathon	03:15:19	67.19%

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