Neither London nor Boston but internet solecisms.
Jessica Smith (photo: Sean Smith).
Rarely seen members Sean and Rachel Smith announced the birth of their first child, Jessica, on November 5. She weighed a healthy 8lbs 5 oz.
Proud father Sean says, She already has the legs going like mad ... so maybe a runner for the future!!! As Jessica is half Australian, courtesy of her father, she may be able to play cricket too.
I originally had her date of birth wrong when I wrote this in the morning of the 12th of November. Sean had sent in a correction by twenty to six in the evening. That makes it the fastest correction since I accidentally wrote 'Dave Price' when I meant 'Dave Coles' in the Sodbury Slog results — which was on the 11th.
We like to celebrate the successes of our members outside athletics too. John Crofts (the quiet one at the bar) showed his determination when he won the Arab Horse Society's marathon on Salisbury Plain in 1 hour 34 minutes, 2 seconds, despite his mount falling over three miles from the finish. This may be John's job, so just routine to him, but it's impressive to us.
The Croups vets running in the Home Countries International Vets Race at Ballymena on Saturday 16 November are Yvonne Bullen, Kim Ripley, Annie Conroy, Clare Johnson, Sue Neal, Paul Smith, Dave Powell, and Mick McGeoch.
We now have a working bulletin board (not any more), as requested by Club Captain Simon Nurse. It was one of those things which was so obvious, it required a really smart person to think of it. As one of the best things in the sports pages in the Independent is the fans' discussions on football club's bulletin boards, it would only have been a matter of time before we finally caught up.
Everything I needed to know about computers, I learned from Star Trek. When I originally set the board up, something went wrong with the database, and it stopped working (to use a technical term). So, after much manual-consulting and brain-racking, I did what they did when there was a virus in the Enterprise computer, I turned it off and on again. Or, in this case, uninstalled and reinstalled it. It seems to work now.
Andrew Palmer running the Brecon 10, 2002.
There's not many people you know who have a chance of setting a world record in the marathon. I've lost count of the articles I've read on genetic determinism, and how running records will never again be held by Europeans. Well, to buck that trend along comes Penarth & Dinas's Andrew Palmer.
Andrew ran 3:29 in Abingdon 2002. The world record for lower-leg amputees is 3:16. Given Andrew's recent improvements, this is an entirely realistic target for 2003, and we hope that London will accept him as a championship athlete.
There is a secret to Andrew's strength: he makes his own legs. (You did read that right.) He works as a prothesis maker along with Martin Clissold, so he is also a world authority of what not to do in a race, having heard it all from a master.
Urgent appeal. I'm looking for a picture of Angela Neal which doesn't "make her look deformed" to replace the one on the members page, which she says does.
If anyone else is unhappy with their pictures, please send me better ones. If you're unhappy with the write-ups, write your own. Matt recently described his KIMM partner, Bill Fear, Ceri Donovan sang Annie Conroy's praises, Tina Rossiter wrote about her son Danny, and even John Huggins found a few choice words on Liz Mellett.
Last updated 19 August 2007
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