HRRL Grand Prix – Gosport Half Marathon

Please click on the link:  HRRL Grand Prix pages for the individual race performances and then use the links in the left-hand margin to navigate to the Ladies’ summary, Men’s summary or Previous Seasons’.

HRRL Grand Prix – Hayling 10 Mile

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HRRL Grand Prix – Solent Half Marathon

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This Year’s Grand Prix starts with several changes

Results for the HRRL Grand Prix – Race 1: Overton 5

First of all, congratulations to Tom Stephenson for winning last season’s “Most Improved” award.

Changes for this season:

There is a new HRRL website

The number of races has increased from 12 to 13 but there are no changes to the number of races that count to the HRRL’s own competition: 9 for teams, 7 for individuals.

The new HRRL website does not list chip times (or at least it doesn't for the first race) so the GP age-adjusted competition will be based upon gun time.

There is a new column Perf % in the tables and this has also been added to last season’s results see Previous seasons.

For the 2023-24 season please see the HRRL Grand Prix pages for the individual race performances and Ladies or Men for the summary tables.

HRRL Overton 5

Very warm conditions at the Overton 5 for the start of the 23/24 HRRL season but no problem for our team of 11 women and 18 men as race wins for Andy Greenleaf and Lucy Elliot anchored team wins for both men and women and saw the defence of our league titles off to a good start.

I would like to say a massive thank you to all of you who ran the Overton 5 which was a fantastic start to the new HRRL 2023/24 season! Overall WADAC had 29 athletes who came out to run on this very hot Sunday afternoon. Lots of great results…. the men did brilliantly with Andy Greenleaf coming 1st (25.31), Freddy Slemeck 2nd (25.55), George Belfield 8th (27.26) and Nick Wood 21st (29.17) winning the men’s A team.

The WADAC women started as they left off last season with some great fantastic running all round. WADAC “A” Team came 1st overall, with the team comprising of Lucy Elliot coming in 1st Female overall (30.11), Sarah Gurney 5th (32.29), Kathy Bailey 9th (34:18) and Vanessa Monteleone (36.01).

There were also lots of fantastic individual 1st age category results, well done all

Thank you all once again and I look forward to seeing more of you at our next race - the Solent Half where you can enter here Solent Half Marathon (hardleyrunners.co.uk) . Entries close 24th September.

HRRL Race fixtures for 2023/24 season

• Solent Half 1 October

• New Forest 10 mile 29 October

• Hayling 10 mile 5 November

• Gosport Half 19 November

• Victory 5 3 December

• Stubbington 10K 7 January

• Ryde 10 mile 4 February

• Salisbury 10 mile 17 March

• Alton 10 mile *

• Netley 5k *

• Alresford 10K *

• Lordshill 10 7 July

*Dates to be confirmed For more information about the league and number swaps (if needed) please check the HRRL facebook group for entry information and the HRRL swaps page to seek or make available race entries or check out our website for more information Hampshire Road Race League | Competitions | Winchester & District Athletics Club (wadac.org.uk) or Hampshire Road Race League – a running club competition (hrrl.co.uk)

Sarah Gurney

HRRL Team Manager

HRRL Grand Prix – End of Season

Wow! All 6 Winchester teams finished first. Both the ladies’ and men’s A, B and C teams finished first in their respective Hampshire Road Running Leagues. Check out the Lordshill 10 km results and the award winners for the 2022-23 Grand Prix season.

The award winners for the 2022/23 season were:

Main competition: Ladies: 1st = Tamsin Anderson, 2nd = Karla Borland, 3rd = Sarah Shedden. Men: 1st = Dave Gaskell, 2nd = Tom Stephenson, 3rd = James Moore.

Age-graded competition: Ladies: 1st = Sarah Gurney, 2nd = Joy Radford, 3rd = Lucy Elliott. Men: 1st = Paul Horler, 2nd = Steve Oliver, 3rd = Justin Corrie.

12 races out of 12: Tom Stephenson and Paul Horler

Most improved runner: To be announced at the awards ceremony

A total of 35 ladies and 77 men ran in HRRL races this season

Please see the HRRL Grand Prix pages for the individual race performances and Ladies or Men for the summary tables

HRRL Lordshill 10K

Flash results from the Lordshill 10k.....Tamsin Anderson wins again as do our ladies A team Age Cat wins for Tamsin, Sarah Gurney, Joy Radford & Martyn West Tom Stephenson and Paul Horler complete all 12 events and bag "12 out of 12" awards.

There was something of an end of term feeling to the Lordshill 10k, of course it is the end of the 2023/24 race season but there was a large WADAC contingent there and it all felt a bit more emotional than that.

It's not the prettiest of courses but apart from the long drag up to the finish it is reasonably flat and the weather was perfect....a good day for fast times. It's another out and back course so we all had chance to see the sharp end and to wave to our teammates down the field.

The ladies race was a real thrill with our Tamsin Anderson and Emma Jolley of Portsmouth locked in a real mano a mano battle every step of the way....Tamsin prevailed by perhaps 50m (10s) at the end. Tamsin was supported as ever by Karla Borland, Sarah Gurney and Sarah Shedden so with that strong squad our "A-team" was never really under any threat.

With the league title already sewn up a few of our top names were missing this one but we still had David Mills making his annual HRRL appearance and finishing 5th in 33'32. Despite good supporting performances from Lloyd Dickson, Nicolas Rooms and Tom Stephenson our men's "A" team probably won't have won this one.

It takes a while for the full season results to be calculated by the league admins but it looks like our men might have completed a clean sweep winning A, B and C leagues and our ladies might have won their A league and come very close in their B and C leagues too. Fantastic performances from our endurance athletes.

Last but not least Paul Horler and Tom Stephenson have both competed in all 12 of the HRRL league events....fantastic commitment and admirable diary and fitness management.

It all starts again for 2023/24 with the Overton 5miles event on 3rd September 2023, entries are already open!

Finally a special thank-you to our HRRL Team manager, Sarah Gurney, picking up the baton that Saul Duck has carried with distinction for many years. A fantastic motivator and always leading from the front.

HRRL Grand Prix – Alresford 10 km

Results from the 11th race of the season, the Alresford 10k Team wins for both the men and the ladies. Tom Stephenson and Paul Horler have competed in all the races, still on target to receive the “12 out of 12” award.

Please see the HRRL Grand Prix pages for the individual race performances and Ladies or Men for the summary tables.

We've now had over 100 athletes representing WADAC in this seasons HRRL events.

Tom Stephenson and Paul Horler have competed in all the races and so remain on target to receive the “12 out of 12” award.

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