What do you get when 35 Beckenham runners descend on a small city like Reims to take part in the annual running festival. A maroon tide of quality running and quality pre and post race fun..(some of it was sober) and enough stories to bore those that weren’t there senseless.
Runners descended by car, ferry and eurostar throughout Friday and Saturday in readiness for Sundays 10k, half marathon and marathon races…. and of course the Champagne quaffing!
Sunday started off at the expo with the 10k. Stand out performance was from Helen who finished 9th Vet lady 10k results (as the results don’t allow you to filter by club the’re abit difficult to list everyone out sorry)
A shortwhile later the Half Marathon started, this turned out to be a hotly contested race between Craig and Stuart with Craig only beating Scotty by a minuscule second to 1:24:06 and 1:24:07!
Craig and Scotty tough it out
There were a number of great performances, but you’ll have to let me know if you got a pb so I can add it to this report, Half marathon results again haven’t got time to go through and list everyone!
And finally the Marathon, top performance of the race has to go to Mel who finished in 7th place and ran 3:15:42 smashing her pb. Finishing video, including a guy stacking it over the finishing mat, cruel but funny!
Allez allez allez!
Only 3 weeks ago Edgar got his 1st sub 3 time at Berlin, proving that was no fluke he ran Reims (for fun!) and finished in a very impressive 3:04:15.
Hello Edgar
And then there was myself….. who ended up running 27.8 miles thanks to ‘communication’ problems between myself and the marshals! I’d like to say I ran a 2:50 marathon…….which I did, but alas it was on the wrong part of the course, just to prove that I’m not making it up here’s the stats galore recorded by my Garmin. C‘est la vie
So far we have photo’s from Steve F & Simon keep them coming folks…
Does anyone want to write up a race report / bar review then please do and email it to me…or put it up yourself if you can work out how to post.
And finally as was said in the restaurant a huge thanks to Martin Wiltshire for making the weekend happen. Where’s the next trip to then Martin!?
La Fin
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