A Virtual Clean Sweep

New member Ben Kruze on his way to a magnificent victory in the latest WRRL virtual race. Not bad for a debut. Ben won this year's NTRIX and was 4th in the Warwick Half in a time of 1:13.07, which would have been a club record by some 34 seconds if he'd been a member then. I suspect he'll get another chance. Welcome aboard Ben The past week has certainly seen no shortage of club activity in these continuing difficult times. In the newsletter there is a report from team manager John Raby on the club's stunning success in the latest virtual Warwickshire Road Race League fixture. Club members won both male and female individual races comfortably, with Georgie Campbell 56 seconds clear of the 2nd placed runner and new member Ben Kruze winning his race by 23 seconds. Ably marshalled by John, the club won the overall men's team competition, we also had 4 of the top 10 teams. In the men's masters team category, all 5 of our teams finished in the top 11. Our A team were overall winners, comfortably beating 2nd placed Kenilworth A by 73 points. Our B and C teams finished in 3rd and 5th place respectively. Our ladies team won the overall ladies title and our ladies masters team finished in 2nd place, just 11 points behind Kenilworth. In the mens race we had age 7 of the 11 age category winners: U15 - Caleb Spriggs U17 - Fin Hutchinson M35 - Ben Kruze M40 - Rich Shepherd M50 - Wayne Vickers M55 - Richard Dobedoe M75 - Phil Brennan In the ladies race we had 3 age category winners : U17 - Georgie Campbell W55 - Kate Wright W65 - Ruth Calderbank. I think it's fair to say it was a remarkable achievement. These things don't happen without a considerable amount of organisation. So a big thank you is due to team manager John Raby, and I will echo his comments at the end of his detailed report below. "Thanks for their support in this must go to Richard Liggatt and Matt Burdus-Cook for helping out with the course and arranging parking for everyone along with taking some pictures as well. Also Sarah Bland and Paul Hawkins for the support and keeping a rein on things and Rob Minton supporting along the way whenever needed. There was a really great atmosphere from club members who showed tremendous spirit in coming together in these difficult times" Elsewhere there are plenty of signs that the club is edging its way back to something like normal while strictly following both government and EA guidelines. Last Sunday 60 of our young endurance runners enjoyed socially distanced coaching sessions on the Welcombe Hills. There were 12 groups of 5, each group being accompanied by a coach. A similar number are expected this Sunday. On Monday, a group of our older junior T&F members resumed training at the Leamington track, following Paul Bearman having secured the use of…