ARC Championships

Championships 2008 and Awards.

Championships:

* Long Distance Multi-Terrain Relay - Round Norfolk Relay - 20/21st
September 08 (www.roundnorfolkrelay.com)

* Half Marathon - Bedford Harriers ½ marathon- 14^th December 08
(www.bedfordharriers.co.uk)

* 10 miles - Oldbury Power Station 10 miles (Thornbury RC) - 31st August 08 –
(www.thornburyrunningclub.co.uk)

* 10 k - Long Ashton 10K (Nailsea RC) - 8th June 08 –
(www.nailsearunningclub.org.uk)

*    Summer Cross Country -
     THIS RACE HAS BEEN CANCELLED
     5 miles approx (Portsmouth Joggers) -
     Queen Elizabeth Country Park - Wednesday 25th June 2008

Awards:.

Individual Men Women

Senior                        1st, 2nd & 3rd       1st, 2nd & 3rd
Master 35-44                         -                       Ditto
Master 40-49                     Ditto                       -
Master 45-54                         -                       Ditto
Master 50-59                      Ditto                        -
Master 55-64                         -                       Ditto
Master 60-69                      Ditto                        -
Master 65+                           -                         Ditto
Master 70+                         Ditto                         -

Teams - Men (4 to count), Women (3 to count)

Men 1st, 2nd & 3rd
Women Ditto

Notes:

1. Awards will be made on the following minimum number of individual and team entries: 1^st (1-3), 1^st& 2^nd (4-8), 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd (over 9).

2. Team awards will be calculated by adding individual positions in the ARC championship NOT the open race.

3. To qualify for ARC championships, entries must be received by the closing date stipulated on the race entry form. There will be no entries on the day for ARC championships.

ARC 10k Road Championship – 8^th June 2008.

Run in ideal conditions, the first 10k championship attracted a small entry of 19 runners, drawn from 3 clubs: Bitton Road Runners, Weston Athletic Club and Nailsea Running Club, the hosts. The total race entry was 139. Despite the relatively small entry in the ARC race, those who did take part were pleased with the event.

Prizes were presented by Gordon Robbins, ARC Committee member. See below for prize winners.

Thanks go to Keith Brown, race director, and all members of Nailsea RC for hosting this ARC championship.

Full ARC results

Ely Runners win first ARC Long Distance Relay title - 15th/16th Sept 07 . The first ARC Long Distance Relay Championship was incorporated into the Round Norfolk Relay held over 15/16^th September 2007. Divided into 17 different road and multi-terrain stages, 50 teams (850 runners) in various categories started in waves from Lynnsport and ran through the night. The ARC closed championship for ARC member clubs (10 teams) was one of a number of team competitions within the race.
In an extremely close affair, Ely Runners just got home ahead of Norwich Road Runners by a mere 90 seconds over the 193 miles! Some way back in third place were North Norfolk Beach Runners. A special mention must be made of Norwich Road Runners Ladies who won their category from City of Norwich AC Ladies in a new course record time for the RNR and came a very creditable 4^th in the Arc trophy. Individually, there were some outstanding achievements lead by Garden City’s Terry Fowler who won the Paul Evans Trophy for the Best master performance with an age-graded score of 84.48%. Individual stage wins were achieved by Tracey Curl, Norwich Road Runners; Ian Day, Ely Runners; Nicola Corn; Wayne Utting; Penny Edwards and Emma Combes all of Norwich Road Runners.
Ian Day - Winner of stage 2 in a record breaking time	Adam Etches finishes the final stage at King's Lynn for Ely Runners	Alan Rutterford (Ely Runners) receiving an award from Dick Meredith, the ARC Chairman
The ARC Shield and individual medals were presented to Ely Runners by Dick Meredith, Chairman ARC. It is to be hoped that more ARC clubs will take up the challenge of this unique event in 2008 over the weekend 20/21^st September. For more information see: www.roundnorfolkrelay.com Ian Vaughan-Arbuckle Race Director RNR.
Team Results Time Pace per mile 1. Ely Runners 21:34:13 6:42.2 2. Norwich Road Runners (C) 21:35:43 6:42.7 3. North Norfolk Beach Runners (A) 22:26:09 6:58.4 4. Biggleswade AC 24:34:29 7:38.2 5. Norwich Road Runners (Ladies) 24:52:24 7:43.0 6. Garden City Runners 25:51:39 8:02.2 7. Wymondham AC 25:59:58 8:04.0 8. Ramsey Road Runners 26:07:29 8:07.0 9. Norwich Road Runners (B) 26:24:22 8:12.4 10. North Norfolk Beach Runners (B) 27:04:38 8:24.9

ARC Half Marathon Championships - Sunday 9th September 2007

The first ever ARC Championships were hosted by the 17th Grunty Fen Half Marathon near Ely, Cambs on Sunday 9^th September 2007.

In these early days of our organisation we considered it important to show our members that we had a commitment to providing the kind of activities they expect from an affiliating body.

Given our start-up situation and hence comparatively low level of publicity, we always expected that the entry would be largely confined to East Anglian clubs yet were delighted that 103 runners entered these first ARC Championships. Those ARC club members who ran seemed pleased to be involved with something new. The winners and category placed runners were rewarded with the elegant new ARC shields and gold, silver and bronze style Championship medals.

Mayor of Ely, Cllr Ron Bradley, started the 633 entry race. The runners follower a relatively level course of two different loops around the levels of Grunty Fen and twice through the village of Witchford where there was enthusiastic support. Conditions were hotter than expected, slightly humid but with little wind.

The 1st ARC (senior) man was Mark Dickinson of Garden City Runners in 1:16:15 and the 1st ARC (senior) woman was Martha Hal of Garden City Runners in 1:27:33. Werrington Joggers won the men's team race (4 score) by 1 point from Ely Runners and also the women's team race (3 score) by 2 points from Garden City Runners. For the full results go to www.gruntyfen.co.uk and click here for details of ARC awards.

The ARC 1st man and 1st woman shields and individual medals were announced by ARC Chairman Richard Meredith and presented by the Mayor of Ely, Cllr Ron Bradley.

Our thanks go to Race Director John Turner and his team for incorporating the ARC Half Marathon Championships into this popular and well organised event.

For 2008, we plan to have 4 or 5 championship events, in different parts of the country, covering the popular road running distances and probably one cross-country. We hope that these will become well supported features of the road running calendar.


Just before the start	Ready at the Start	They're off!	Mark Dickinson (GCR) 1st ARC Senior Man soon after the start

David Child (Kent AC) 1st ARC MV40	Paul Needham (Ely Runners) 1st ARC MV50	Bob Wells (Bedford H) 1st ARC MV60	Martha Hal (GCR) No 462 (right) 1st ARC Senior Woman

Katherine Rennie (Ramsey RR) No 159 (right) 1st ARC FV35	Tracey Curl (Norwich RR) 1st ARC FV45	Gertrud Porter (Metros) 1st ARC FV55	1st ARC Senior Man Mark Dickinson (GCR) at the finish

1st ARC Senior Woman Martha Hal (GCR) at the finish	Mark Dickinson receives the 1st ARC Man shield from the Mayor of Ely, Cllr Rod Bradley and announced by ARC Chairman Richard Meredith	Martha Hal receives the 1st ARC Woman shield from the Mayor of Ely, Cllr Rod Bradley with Race Director John Turner and announcer ARC Chairman Richard Meredith	First ever ARC Champions Martha Hall & Mark Dickinson (both Garden City Runners) with the Mayor of Ely, Cllr Rod Bradley

1st ARC Men's Team (4 Werrington Joggers) receive their medals from the Mayor of Ely, Cllr Ron Bradley	1st ARC Women's Team (2 of 3 Werrington Joggers) receive their medals from the Mayor of Ely, Cllr Ron Bradley	Race Referee Adrian Graham with ARC Chairman Richard Meredith