--------------------------------------------------- Champion Miler Series (8th Week TT04) --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Champion Miler Series Race 1 - The Magdalen Mile (14/06/04) --------------------------------------------------- Pos Name College Time 1 Sam Aldridge Exeter 4.26 2 Ben Moreau Wadham 4.49 3 Martin Bishop New 4.53 4 Phil Killingley Balliol 4.53 5 Ed Catmur Jesus 4.54 6 Steve Marshall Magdalen 4.57 7 Rob Lawton Queens 5.09 8 Jamie Darling St. John's 5.09 9 Nick Aggelopoulos Magdalen 5.11 10 Quentin Croft St. Peter's 5.13 11 Franco Woolfe St. Peter's 5.14 12 Aly Rowell University 5.17 13 Zoe Barber Teddy Hall 5.34 14 Katherine Sam Wadham 6.48 15 Vicky Gardner Magdalen 7.05 16 Melanie Blewett Magdalen 7.06 Aly Rowell takes women's prize. Rob Lawton wins sprinter's green jersey for first to 400m.
The first round of this year's OUCCC Champion Miler Series was held round Addison's Walk in Magdalen College. Despite the name and the extra bits added on to make the race a bit longer, it was actually about 1300m, rather than a full mile, hence the large numbers of OUAC "athletes" who turned out! The race was convincingly won by Sam Aldridge, with Aly Rowell taking the women's prize. Ben, Phil and Wish managed to make a timely diversion from their training run to finish 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
First to 400m (or more technically, the tree with the branch which hangs over the path, held up by a big metal support) was OUAC's Rob Lawton, who afterwards confessed that the race had nearly doubled his weekly mileage! At the moment Wadham, Magdalen and St Peter's are battling out for the college lead. The hill mile on Wednesday promises to continue the OUAC / OUCCC battle with more tracksters due to turn up to battle it out for the Kings of the Mountains title.
________________________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------- Champion Miler Series Race 2 - Mountain Mile (16/06/04) ----------------------------------------------- Pos Name College Time 1 Sam Aldridge Exeter 4.26 2 Ben Moreau Wadham 4.39 3 Phil Killingley Balliol 4.47 4 Martin Bishop New 4.47 5 Nick Radford Queens 4.53 6 Steve Marshall Magdalen 4.59 7 Rob Lawton Queens 5.00 8 Ed Catmur Jesus 5.03 9 Chris Burin Pembroke 5.03 10 Sean Buckeridge LMH 5.03 11 Stephen Granger-Bevan Oriel 5.04 12 Alastair Burgess Linacre 5.14 13 Dan Johnson Magdalen 5.31 14 Franco Woolfe St. Peter's 5.32 15 Aly Rowell University 5.32 16 Lucy Flanner St. Hilda's 5.36 17 Zoe Barber Teddy Hall 5.53 18 Katy Sam Wadham 6.08 Aly Rowell takes women's prize again. King of the Mountain Pos Name College 1 Rob Lawton Queens 2 Sam Aldridge Exeter 3 Alastair Burgess Linacre Queen of the Mountain Pos Name College 1 Zoe Barber St. Edmund's Hall 2 Lucy Flanner St. Hilda's 3 Aly Rowell University
Well done to all our champion milers who raced took the "Hill Mile" in their stride. The distance boys turned up, having done a good 10 miles earlier, determined to battle it out with the Big Fat boys of OUAC... They do however insist that the fattest big boy of them all (I think this was a compliment!) Mr. Steve MaCaulhy might make an appearance on Friday in order to claim the 1st to 15 metres prize... I think Toleme should be worried.
Sam and Aly easily won their races again, with Rob claiming King of the Mountain, and Zoe was Queen. This now means they Sam/Aly are entitled to wear Tour de France style yellow jerseys on Friday's race, whilst I expect Zoe and Rob in red polka-dot jerseys, with Rob also entitled to wear green (for winning Monday's sprint prize). I'm sure they will be most fetching.
There were also good performances from fast-improving Steve Marshall, and Lucy Flanner, but the prize for hidden slow-twitch talent goes to Sean Buckeridge (100/200m runner) who wasnt far behind Rob and Ed Catmur. Leave the fairies behind Bucko, and join OUCCC! Alistair Burgess and Rob also impressed, but the as course was probably only 1200m, will they be able to sustain their speed over another lap on Friday?..
Nick "I used to run x-country" Radford ran catching Will and Phishup (or is that Phish and Willup?), but was unable to narrow the gap due to the weight of his abs, despite their crazy, rather camp dance/act as these two inseparable love birds approached the finish line, hand-in-hand. At the moment OUCCC remain in the lead, but is the lure of the nice flat track enough to bring down the OUAC masseeef in force???! Will Queens manage to beat Wadham, Magdalen and Exeter? You'll have to turn up at 6pm on Friday to see!
________________________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------- Champion Miler Series Race 3 - Handicap Track Mile (18/06/04) ----------------------------------------------------- Pos Name College First Lap Time 1 Sam Aldridge Exeter 1.07 4.34 2= Nick Radford Queens 56 5.07 2= Steve Marshall Magdalen 1.16 5.07 4 Tom Douglas Balliol 1.14 5.08 5 Nick Aggelopoulos Magdalen 1.18 5.14 6 Ed Catmur Jesus 1.15 5.15 7 Andrew Lorent Queens 1.18 5.17 8 Rob Lawton Queens 54 5.44 9 Dan Johnson Magdalen 1.18 6.00 10 Zoe Barber Teddy Hall 1.26 6.08 11 Ivanhoe Leung St. Peter's 1.28 6.15 12 Richard Baderin LMH 1.14 6.20 13 Katy Sam Wadham 1.26 6.24 Zoe Barber wins women's race. Rob Lawton wins first to 400m.
I have travelled many miles, and seen many strange and wondrous things, but the look on Bad Boy's face as he crossed the line after 1609 metres of slow-twitchness, wearing nothing but women's training tights and a pair of skater-boy shoes that must have weighed a couple of kilos, was beyond anything I have ever seen!
Well done to everyone who turned up for the last of the Champion Miler Series at Iffley Road on Friday. Sam and Zoe won their miles, with Nick Radford (who beat my PB, damn you!) and Steve Marshall tied in 2nd place, and Tom Douglas in massively baggy shorts close behind.
Rob won his final sprint title in 54 secs, with Nick only 2 seconds behind him. I think the additional 9 metres upset them greatly though.
Wicked race, beer and chocolate prizes for the winners - sorry Ben, Wish/Phil and Aly that you weren't there to claim yours. Sam probably ate them all.
________________________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------- Overall Results ----------------------------------------------------- Overall Individual Results Pos Name College Points 1 Sam Aldridge Exeter 48 2 Rob Lawton Queens 33 3 Ed Catmur Jesus 23.5 4= Ben Moreau Wadham 22 4= Steve Marshall Magdalen 22 6 Nick Radford Queens 21.5 7= Martin Bishop News 20 7= Phil Killingley Balliol 20 9 Zoe Barber Teddy Hall 13 10 Aly Rowell University 12.5 11 Nick Aggelopoulos Magdalen 10 12 Alastair Burgess Linacre 8.5 13 Tom Douglas Balliol 8 14 Katy Sam Wadham 7 15 Chris Burin Pembroke 6 16= Sean Buckeridge LMH 5 16= Dan Johnson Magdalen 5 16= Andy Lorent Queens 5 19 Lucy Flanner St. Hilda's 4.5 20= Jamie Darling St. John's 4 20= Stephen Granger-Bevan Oriel 4 22= Franco Woolfe St. Peter's 2 22= Vicky Gardner Magdalen 2 22= Quentin Croft St. Peter's 2 25= Melanie Blewett Magdalen 1 25= Richard Baderin LMH 1 Overall College Results Pos College Points 1 Queens 59.5 2 Exeter 48 3 Magdalen 40 4 Wadham 29 5 Balliol 28 6 Jesus 23.5 7 New 20 8 Teddy Hall 13 9 University 12.5 10 Linacre 8.5 11= Pembroke 6 11= LMH 6 13 St. Hilda's 4.5 14= Oriel 4 14= St. John's 4 14= St. Peter's 4
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