David Furness - RIP

David Furness (13/8/75 – 3/10/09)

It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of one of our members, David Furness. David was tragically killed in a motorbike accident on Saturday.

Hearing that anybody you know has been taken in such a way gives you a stirring feeling, but what hit me more with this news was that I had seen David that morning and actually processed his finishing result at Cardiff parkrun.

David joined the club in May having started to come along to the Club, David’s introduction to the Club had come via parkrun which he started attending back in January. David quickly found a group to run with on Club nights – fellow new starter Chris Morgan, Tony Dorsett, Richard Crawford, Geoff Wright, et al. Since joining David has represented the Club at 7 races and was looking forward to running the Cardiff Half Marathon on 18^th October. During his time at parkrun David had improved his time by 4:51, bringing his time down from 27:01 to 22:10.

On behalf of the Club I would like to pass on all of our deepest sympathies to his family.

As soon as I have any further details I will pass them on.

Phil

Recent Updates

I have just added a recent updates link in the Help section.

This is a quick way of checking additions to the most popular sections of the site.

Matt

Ranking Lists now up to date

The ranking lists for 2009 are now available in the Statistics Section.

There are lists for 5k, 4 miles, 5 miles, 10k, 10 miles, half-marathon and marathon.

There is also a separate parkrun list shown in the short course championship section.

Jeff

Winter hill sessions

As the nights have started closing in, it's time for a change in the type and location of the Monday night training sessions.

As in previous years we now move to Wild Gardens Road @ 6:30 for a warm-up then some hill reps.

Full details can be found here.

PS Don't forget that now the nights are here it is sensible to get the reflective wear out of the cupboard.

Berlin Marathon Results

Some cracking results from Berlin where quite a few of the Club have been competing.

The winner was Haile Gebrselassie in 02:06:08, and second Briton home was Cardiff’s Richie Gardiner who was 30^th in 02:24:44

However more importantly here are the Club results with chip times.....

Crees, Stuart (GBR)	02:35:20
Dukes, Nicholas (GBR)	02:46:07
Cook, Phil (GBR)	02:51:43
Mcgeoch, Mick (GBR)	02:53:47
Headon, David (GBR)	02:57:56
George, Phillip (GBR)	03:04:25
Beecher, Catherine (GBR)	03:06:54
Richardson, Brian (GBR)	03:13:28
O'Duffy, Libby (GBR)	03:14:02
Forshew, Jeremy (GBR)	03:24:36
Hudgell, Cheryl (GBR)	03:31:26
Mal, Firouz (GBR)	03:46:08
McCarthy, Sarah (GBR)	03:54:59