TVH at the Osterley Park 10k

Paul Woodgate and Richard Hooley report:

On a perfect Saturday morning for running three TVH members took part in the Osterley Park 10k, the latest stage of the Club’s Summer road race series.  The race takes place almost entirely on a National Trust property. As such both the starting area and the run are in beautiful surroundings.

After a whole field warm up in front of the House to Eye of the Tiger, the newly elected Ruth Cadbury MP (taking part in her first ever 10k) started the race.

Held in the beautiful West London parkland with a scenic two lap flat course over multi terrain, this was not a particularly fast course but enjoyable and well organised attracting quite a number of supporters.  Conditions were not too hot which is just as well with shade limited.

The first TVH person home was the ever impressive v50 Richard Hooley in 39:58. This placed him in fourteenth overall and gave him 20 points and continued his string of recent sub-40 min performances over 10k. Paul Woodgate came in 21st clocking 41:00 (the first of his five PBs in two and a half days), collecting nineteen points and managing a PB by some margin. William Paynter completed the Valley contingent finishing in 144th in 49:55 and picking up eighteen points for the series.

A short cautionary note to anyone considering entering the Ealing Half. This 10k is a sister race. In an otherwise well organised and executed event the chip timing failed. If chip timing is important to you, you might not wish to risk having it fail again at Ealing. Anyway, I’ll leave you with this picture of the venue.

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1

» Anton Van zyl

Shaftesbury barnet harriers

Male

596

(35:19)

35:19

2

» Johnny Suttle

Queens Park Harriers

Male

566

(36:35)

36:35

3

» Jeffrey Ross

Male

511

(37:14)

37:14

4

» Mark Beastall

Male

34

(37:34)

37:34

5

» Richard Gibbe

Male

192

(37:39)

37:40

6

» James Turner

Male

589

(38:09)

38:10

7

» Geoffrey Donohoe

Male

147

(38:15)

38:15

8

» david triscornia

Ealing Eagles

Male

587

(38:56)

38:56

9

» Graham Collett

Male

107

(39:07)

39:07

10

» Michael Hellyer

Ealing Eagles

Male

230

(39:15)

39:15

11

» Jonny Williams

Male

619

(39:44)

39:44

12

» Colin Overton

Ealing Eagles

Male

438

(39:53)

39:53

13

» Chris Lambert

Ealing Eagles

Male

310

(39:53)

39:53

14

» RICHARD HOOLEY

TVH

Male

244

(39:58)

39:58

15

» Ben Jones

Male

267

(40:06)

40:06

16

» George Bailey

Male

24

(40:12)

40:12

17

» matthew galvin

Male

188

(40:24)

40:24

18

» Alan Lawrenson

South Shields Harriers

Male

317

(40:47)

40:47

19

» Dorota Rakowicz

Team Hounslow

Female

483

(40:44)

40:48

20

» SOPHIE TOMASZCZYK

Female

582

(40:58)

40:58

21

» Paul Woodgate

Thames Valley Harriers

Male

631

(41:00)

41:00

22

» Patrice REUTENAUER

Male

497

(41:21)

41:21

23

» michael fleming

Male

173

(41:26)

41:27

24

» Ian Leslie

Male

575

(41:32)

41:32

25

» kerr millar

Highgate Harriers

Male

380

(41:30)

41:39

26

» Simon Gow

Ealing Eagles

Male

199

(41:44)

41:44

27

» Mike Lawrence

Ealing Eagles

Male

316

(41:47)

41:47

28

» Paul Flitter

Male

175

(41:48)

41:49

29

» David Pack