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Angela has been a member of Les Croups for about fifteen years. She is sister to Sue Neal our ladies team captain and general dogsbody to every team member as she orders, supplies, pays for and designs our team kit. A thankless job sometimes as the kit is never the right stlye, colour or size for some people!
Angela also drives mini buses for some of the team outings and helps out marshalling or supporting club races.
She has run the London Marathon 10 times, her best time being 3hrs 35mins (a long time ago!)
Not so fast now due to encroaching years, but a good stayer, especially in wet or muddy conditions, such as the Gwent League cross country races, which are her favourite types of racing. Her claim to fame is completing the 2004 Tough Guy race in which she nearly froze to death and appears in this years’ video being interviewed at the end of the race looking like a complete idiot.
Submited by Angela Neal.
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One of the ‘Neal’ sisters. Sue is ladies team captain for Les Croupiers. She has worked tirelessly for the club, for about 20+ years. She has organised many trips and weekends to races for members. Sue is always present on a Thursday night, encouraging new members and bullying old ones into entering races and representing the club. She takes advantage of her sisters Angela and Carolyn however, getting them to fill in for the team when desperate and making them drive buses, sell kit, run errands etc. Sue has had an illustrious running career, running the London marathon about 15 times with some sub 3 hr times. She has represented Wales at all levels. She has an unbroken record for the Gwent League and is someone you can always rely on. A true club person!
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A new edition to the ‘N’ section, Jemma joined Les Croups in 2001 after training for the race for life 5km in Bute Park. This gentle introduction has subsequently taken her to the muddy heights of the Gwent league, the tarmac lengths of the Shakespeare Marathon and the cloudy climes of the Saunders and Karrimor Mountain Marathons. Jemma displays a predisposition for being cold, wet and muddy, which seems to have been passed through the genes from her Dad Phil Ward (her mountain marathon partner and a fine mountain leader).
Jemma recently got amongst the club gongs when she swopped her rucksack for a bike and clingy swimwear, becoming the first female Les Croupiers club triathlon champ.
Jemma is a very special person, tough, resilient, highly competitive and always beaming with her gorgeous smile. But then I am a bit biased. I just married her.
Submited by Simon Nurse.
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Simon has two outstanding qualities, a distressing vulnerability to lower leg injuries and a determination not to let it stop him. He’s developing a unhealthy (he would say healthy) interest in punishing races. He’s competed in every KIMM since 2000 with Geran Hughes, Andy Cleves, and most recently, Julian Carter. He’s completed a Half Ironman in Pembroke, the Helvellyn Triathlon (one mile swim in Ullswater; 38 mile cycle; run up Helvellyn 8 miles and 3118 feet), and the Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross.
Make that three outstanding qualities: he’s also senior men’s club captain and a leading light of the Triathlon section. His captaincy is best known for the running battles with Dick Brewer over veteran (or as I suppose I now have to call them, “masters”) runners in the Castles Relays. He always seems open and willing to listen; he’s just never been known to make any concessions.
Make that four outstanding qualities. Somehow he combines captaincy with race organisation with a full-time with part-time study and finds time to go drinking.
Simon’s profile.
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Clive is one of the strange few who come every Thursday to run and he doesn’t hang around for a drink afterwards. He also avoids the London Marathon, being an annual regular on the hills of the Taunton alternative instead.
Despite these odd personal kinks, Clive is a cast-iron copper-bottomed Gwent League B Team cert.
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