2019-20 Tempo Winter Race 4

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2019-20 Tempo Winter Series Race 4

As no races are 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 Race 4 of the Tempo Winter Series which takes place from Ilmington (in Warwickshire), a village that is 4M NW of Shipston-on-Stour. It's about 34M from Oxford.

The organiser's website says "The Tempo Winter Series is a series of five road races run over a course of 10.13K. The course is the same for each race but is run counter clockwise then clockwise on each alternate date. It is perfect winter training territory as there are a few, well, one quite big hill involved." That's Lark Stoke Hill (which is on the W side of the course). Normally the series of 5 monthly races take place in October, November, December, January and February.

Their plans for the 2020-21 Winter Series include a lot of changes because of Covid-19. In previous years, car parking has been in the village of Ilmington. In 2020-21, car parking is to be at the Race HQ so as to minimise the contact with locals. As the car park at the Race HQ is small, the organizers are asking runners to turn up just before their start time and to leave just after they finish. They propose to start a group of 6 runners every 5 minutes.

They successfully employed this plan in October 2020 - it took 3 hours for people to start!!

Although the race in October 2020 took place, the races in November, December and January have had to be postponed. A race was to have taken place today (Sun Jan 17th 2021). As it's been postponed, today I'll review last year's Race 4 which took place on Sun Jan 19th 2020.

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

Races 1, 3 and 5 do the main circle of the above route in anti-clockwise whereas races 2 and 4 do it clockwise. The organiser's website says "Races 1, 3 and 5 all head along Mickleton Road to the bottom of Larkstoke which is your major ascent in the run. Once you’re at the top you turn left and start decending down Nebsworth Lane and Campden Hill into Ilmington. Turning right at the bottom follow the road around to the Red Lion Pub. Turn right again and follow a loop that brings you back around to the village. This time head past the Howard Arms and then the Red Lion from the opposite direction. Heading back past Campden Hill the marshals will direct you down back lane, past the primary school. The final few hundred meters are back onto the Mickleton Road with the finish on the grass field by the Sports Club. Races 2 and 4 all do the opposite of the above, heading to the village first and doing the loop from and back to the pubs before ascending Campden Hill. The route decends down Larkstoke before a 1K run along Mickleton Road. The finish heads past the Sports Club before entering the field."

Photos of the male runners who did well at Race 4 of the 2019-20 Tempo Winter Series

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.

Richard Shephard (505, Stratford_AC) was 1st and the 1st MV35 finishing in a time of 00:37:57.

Matt Burdus-Cook (272, Stratford_AC) was 2nd and the 2nd MV35 finishing in a time of 00:38:03.

Daniel Clarke (26, Daventry_Road_Runners) was 3rd and the 1st SM finishing in a time of 00:38:25.

Dylan Gould (381, unattached) was the 1st MV45 finishing in a time of 00:42:07.

Danny Batchelor (489, Cherwell_Runners_and_Joggers) was the 1st MV55 finishing in a time of 00:48:01.

Cyril Morris (15, Run_Alcester) was the 1st MV65 finishing in a time of 00:54:58.

Phil Brennan (206, Stratford_AC) was the 1st MV75 finishing in a time of 00:55:33.

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.

John Bristow (219, City_of_Birmingham_Striders) was the 39th MV35 finishing in a time of 01:01:07.

Adam Simmonds (314, Coventry_Triathletes) was the 9th SM finishing in a time of 00:47:38.

James Banner (290, Evesham_Vale_RC) was the 18th MV45 finishing in a time of 00:48:47.

Paul Taylor (74, Hook_Norton_Harriers) was the 13th MV45 finishing in a time of 00:47:40.

Oliver Flippance (131, Kenilworth_Runners) was 5th and the 3rd SM finishing in a time of 00:39:53.

Phil Leivers (277, Kingfisher_Harriers) was the 53rd MV45 finishing in a time of 00:57:20.

Andrew Higgins (246, Leamington_C_and_AC) was the 3rd MV55 finishing in a time of 00:49:37.

Andrew Hedley (122, Lonely_Goat_RC) was the 11th SM finishing in a time of 00:48:42.

Dean Clarke (135, Massey_Ferguson_RC) was 4th and the 2nd SM finishing in a time of 00:39:34.
I couldn't resist including a photo of Race 4 in 2017-18 when it snowed. So the above photo shows Dean in Race 4 of the 2017-18 Series when he won the race. Here's a photo of him at Race 4 of the 2019-20 Series.

Paul Robbins (508, Northbrook_AC) was the 11th MV35 finishing in a time of 00:47:22.

Peter Barzetovic (159, Nuneaton_Harriers) was the 5th MV55 finishing in a time of 00:50:13.

Paul Barlow (441, Pershore_Plum_Plodders) was the 26th MV45 finishing in a time of 00:50:29.

Kevin Baskerville (184, Spa_Striders) was the 34th MV45 finishing in a time of 00:53:54.

Barry Allen (477, Sphinx_AC) was the 9th MV45 finishing in a time of 00:46:54.

Photos of the female runners who did well at Race 4 of the 2019-20 Tempo Winter Series

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.

Natasha White (32, Northbrook_AC) was the 1st female and the 1st FV35 finishing in a time of 00:42:06.

Emma Ford (503, Kenilworth_Runners) was the 2nd female and the 1st SL finishing in a time of 00:43:32.

Rachel Miller (129, Kenilworth_Runners) was the 3rd female and the 2nd FV35 finishing in a time of 00:45:31.

Angie Ridgwell (233, unattached) was the 1st FV55 finishing in a time of 00:49:52.

Fern Hordern (509, Stratford_AC) was the 1st FV45 finishing in a time of 00:50:32.

Brenda Avery (504, Chepstow_Harriers) was the 1st FV65 finishing in a time of 01:00:26.

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.

Sharon Darke (484, Cherwell_Runners_and_Joggers) was the 6th FV45 finishing in a time of 00:52:53.

Kasia Niedzwiedzka (78, City_of_Birmingham_Striders) was the 19th FV35 finishing in a time of 01:02:47.

Sonya Chapman (530, Coventry_Triathletes) was the 6th SL finishing in a time of 00:53:37.

Deborah Tremayne (44, Daventry_Road_Runners) was the 6th FV55 finishing in a time of 01:03:41.

Annabelle McCourt (479, Evesham_Vale_RC) was the 5th female and the 2nd SL finishing in a time of 00:46:31.

Helen Sharman (216, Hook_Norton_Harriers) was the 6th female and the 4th FV35 finishing in a time of 00:47:20.

Tejay De-Kretser (334, Leamington_C_and_AC) was the 24th FV45 finishing in a time of 01:06:04.

Miranda Maloney (485, Lonely_Goat_RC) was the 26th FV45 finishing in a time of 01:07:44.

Marie Edmunds (486, Massey_Ferguson_RC) was the 9th female and the 3rd SL finishing in a time of 00:49:18.

Melanie Hill (458, Nuneaton_Harriers) was the 8th FV35 finishing in a time of 00:53:46.

Bex Chatterton (257, Pershore_Plum_Plodders) was the 7th FV35 finishing in a time of 00:53:04.

Sharon Fox (522, Redditch_Stars) was the 5th FV45 finishing in a time of 00:52:48.

Paula Morris (16, Run_Alcester) was the 14th FV45 finishing in a time of 00:59:37.

Claire Murphy (102, Spa_Striders) was the 4th female and the 3rd FV35 finishing in a time of 00:45:42.

Ann Mosby (487, Sphinx_AC) was the 8th female and the 6th FV35 finishing in a time of 00:48:38.

Postscript

If you did Race 4 of the 2019-20 Tempo Winter Series 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 the 2018 Slaughterford 9 took place at Rudloe (near Chippenham) on Sun Jan 28th 2018. I hope to post that on Sun Jan 24th 2021.

I maintain a web page for runners that provides a list of races near Oxfordshire and the latest results. 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/2021-01-17-ilmington-warks. It was created on Fri Jan 15th 2021 and last updated on Sun Jan 17th 2021.