2019 Alchester 5K

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2019 Alchester 5K

As races are not taking place at the moment, I'm creating some web pages entitled "where I was taking photos this time last year". Today, I'm looking at the Alchester 5K which takes place from Marsh Gibbon, a village in Buckinghamshire that is close to the A41 and about 4M East of Bicester.

The organiser's website says "The Alchester 5K is a fast and flat road route around the village of Marsh Gibbon. The 2019 race was a sell out with no entries on the day." It took place on Wed Aug 14th 2019. It was one of the races of the 2019 Oxon AA Road Race Grand Prix. This year's race was to have taken place today (Wed Aug 12th 2020). Unfortunately, because of Covid-19 it has had to be cancelled.

By the way, you can click on any of the photos on this web page to see the photo in hi-res.

The route of the race

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My thanks to Oranj who has posted the route of the first Alchester 5K to www.fetcheveryone.com. However, these days the fetcheveryone map is not right as the start is in a different place. I've taken the fetcheveryone map and adjusted it so it has the new position of the start. The adjusted map is shown above.

The race starts about halfway along the straight that goes from West to East towards the middle right of the map. The race goes eastwards along this straight and then turns left to go North. It then bends around to the left to go westwards along Castle Street. When Castle Street becomes Church Street, the route goes South along Clements Lane. At the crossroads (which is in the middle of the map), it turns right along Spier's Lane, Whales Lane and West Edge. It then turns SouthEast to go along Scotts Lane. The route continues along Scotts Lane as it switches to go East. And, at its end (at the T-junction), the route goes North back to the crossroads. Here it goes East along the straight that was used for the start. The race finishes in the grounds of the Race HQ.

Photos of the male runners who did well at the 2019 Alchester 5K

Here are some photos of the male runners who finished in the top 3 and/or were first in their age category. These photos are ordered by the position of the runner.

James Bolton (125, Woodstock_Harriers) was 1st and the 1st MV40 finishing in a time of 00:16:03.

Andrew Headley (162, Bedford_and_County_AC) was 2nd and the 1st SM finishing in a time of 00:16:15.

Owen Stepney (226, Abingdon_AC) was 3rd and the 2nd SM finishing in a time of 00:16:22.

Julian Richardson (211, Oxford_City_AC) was the 1st MV50 finishing in a time of 00:16:55.

Stewart Thorp (229, Oxford_City_AC) was the 1st MV60 finishing in a time of 00:20:02.

Bill Silto (216, Swindon_Harriers) was the 1st MV70 finishing in a time of 00:23:58.

Photos of male runners from other running clubs

Here are some photos of the first male runner from running clubs other than those mentioned above. I've only included those clubs that had more than one runner competing. These photos are ordered by the name of the running club.

Christopher Lumley (190, Alchester_RC) was the 11th SM finishing in a time of 00:17:06.

Elliot Newman (200, Bicester_Tri) was the 23rd SM finishing in a time of 00:18:06.

Christopher Noble (201, Brackley_and_District_RC) was the 8th MV50 finishing in a time of 00:19:34.

Tom Baker (120, Eynsham_Roadrunners) was the 22nd SM finishing in a time of 00:17:56.

Duncan Lawrence (180, Headington_RoadRunners) was 4th and the 3rd SM finishing in a time of 00:16:32.

Graham Hope (167, Kidlington_RC) was 8th and the 5th SM finishing in a time of 00:16:46.

Stephen Young (249, Marshall_Milton_Keynes_AC) was 10th and the 7th SM finishing in a time of 00:16:55.

Charlie May (192, Vale_of_Aylesbury_AC) was the 9th SM finishing in a time of 00:17:00.

Matthew Jobson (176, White_Horse_Harriers) was the 8th SM finishing in a time of 00:16:59.

Matthew Lock (186, Witney_Road_Runners) was 6th and the 4th SM finishing in a time of 00:16:33.

Photos of the female runners who did well at the 2019 Alchester 5K

Here are some photos of the female runners who finished in the top 3 and/or were first in their age category. These photos are ordered by the position of the runner.

Claudia Kelsall (50, MK_Distance_Project) was the 1st female and the 1st SL finishing in a time of 00:17:58.

Frankie Snare (90, Witney_Road_Runners) was the 2nd female and the 2nd SL finishing in a time of 00:18:30.

Johanna Sharples (85, Leighton_Buzzard_AC) was the 3rd female and the 3rd SL finishing in a time of 00:18:49.

Kate Allred (1, Eynsham_Roadrunners) was the 5th female and the 1st FV45 finishing in a time of 00:19:23.

Edwina Colclough (14, Alchester_RC) was the 8th female and the 1st FV35 finishing in a time of 00:20:02.

Although Caroline Kerr (51, Alchester_RC) is in the results as the 2nd FV55, I think she was the 1st FV55. Her time was 00:23:03.

Kate Williamson (106, Eynsham_Roadrunners) was the 1st FV70 finishing in a time of 00:24:24.

Photos of female runners from other running clubs

Here are some photos of the first female runner from running clubs other than those mentioned above. I've only included those clubs that had more than one runner competing. These photos are ordered by the name of the running club.

Georgina Halfhead (38, Abingdon_AC) was the 10th female and the 7th SL finishing in a time of 00:20:34.

Heidi Lewis (60, Brackley_and_District_RC) was the 9th FV35 finishing in a time of 00:23:14.

Joanne Hayden (41, Headington_RoadRunners) was the 6th female and the 5th SL finishing in a time of 00:19:38.

Andrea Finnigan (29, Kidlington_RC) was the 4th FV35 finishing in a time of 00:22:03.

Fern Yull (114, Marshall_Milton_Keynes_AC) was the 14th SL finishing in a time of 00:22:24.

Alice Wright (111, Vale_of_Aylesbury_AC) was the 4th female and the 4th SL finishing in a time of 00:19:17.

Lucy Rycroft (83, White_Horse_Harriers) was the 8th SL finishing in a time of 00:20:45.

Lucy Dunn (21, Woodstock_Harriers) was the 19th SL finishing in a time of 00:23:38.

Postscript

If you did the Alchester 5K in 2019 and want a reminder, then here's a link to all the photos that I took. There's a calculator on that web page that makes it easy to find the photos of a runner given their time and you can find the time from the results web page.

If you want to see the reviews I've done on other races, then here's a link to a web page that includes an index of the reviews of races.

I'm planning for my next review to be of Race 5 of the 2019 Mota-vation Series. This took place at Kidlington. I hope to post that on Thu Aug 27th 2020·

I maintain a web page for runners that provides a list of races near Oxfordshire and the latest results. As well as a lot of postponed/cancelled races(!), it is now beginning to includes some races that plan to abide by the Covid-19 regulations. So go and visit www.oxonraces.com to see what races may take place. And if you use twitter, you may want to follow @oxonraces to become aware of important changes to this web page.

This web page is at www.oxonraces.com/blog/2020-08-12-marsh-gibbon. It was created on August 2nd 2020 and last updated on August 26th 2020.