Fantasy Giro d'Italia 2011 (Powered by Velogames)

This years fantasy Giro was a good contest with the lead changing on a number of occassions...

The final standings are:
1. Marcus - 6,372 points
2. Darren - 5,405 points
3. Martin - 5,318 points
4. Rob - 4,409 points

Next up the fantasy TdF in July also to be powered by Velogames.

Fantasy Football - Final Standings 2010/11

With the Premier League season 2010/11 finally over the final standings can be confirmed:

Winning at his first attempt despite being only 11years old is Luca with a total of 1,440 points. At the rear was Le Fasset with 1,082 points.

Final standings:

Luca - 1,440
Darren - 1,410
Nigel - 1,405
Marcus - 1,387
Marcus (2) - 1,285
Martin - 1,082

Based on the initial team selection, that is without any substitutions, the league would look like this:

Marcus (2) - 1,288
Darren - 1,231
Luca - 1,223
Martin - 1,102
Marcus - 1,093
Nigel - 1,063

Based on Goals Scored

Marcus - 82
Nigel - 71
Darren - 70
Luca - 62
Marcus (2) - 60
Martin - 55

Runners World Forest of Dean Trailblazer 10k - 22nd May 2011

Runners World Forest of Dean Trailblazer 10k - 22nd May 2011

I blogged earlier in the week that I wasn't looking forward to the Runners World Forest of Dean Trailblazer 10k. The main problem I had with it being that rather than considering it a decent race I was viewing it as an opportunity for a long run missed. It was after all a Sunday morning and, as I latterly found out, the same day as the Tewkesbury Half Marathon. If it wasn't for the fact that I had paid £29 to enter, which seems pretty steep, I wouldn't have bothered.

So I drove the 20 or so miles down to the race village at Speech House. When I got there I was pleasantly surprised. There was a race village with a running shop, bar,cafe and various massage tents etc. Very professional. I checked in, got my number (54) and then milled about a bit. For me this was a novelty - I had plenty of time - normally I am scrambling to get to the venue and then in a panic to get ready. So far so good.

When I picked up my number I did see there was a baggage drop and a valuables drop point. With about 1minutes to go to the warm up start I went to drop my bag only to find that the baggage claim was unattended. Cue a mad dash to the car to leave my bag there and then check my valuables which were my car keys!

At the start of each wave there was a warm-up period - this was led by a lady on a podium with a microphone who took everyone (reluctantly) through some stretches and limber up exercises. Some easy stuff to get the muscles working and get the heart rate up a little. It was pretty funny watching the other people in the wave do this as no-one looked comfortable doing it. We are so reserved.

To read the rest of the report click here:

Forest of Dean 'Trails' Half Marathon - Sunday 27th March

Mark was the sole club representative at the Forest of Dean 'Trails' Half Marathon completing the course in 1:50:54 which was good enough for 694th place out of 1833 finishers.

 

He offers no excuses for his performance other than the fact that his hads were cold!

The winning time was 1:13.20 and the slowest a gutsy and determined 3:52.12.

Mayhill Massacre 6th Feb 2011

Nigel made it a hat-trick of Mayhill Massacre's and smashed the club course record in the process with a time of 01:12:21. That was good enough for 112 out of 480 entrants! 

The big question is will he blog?

Gloucester Marathon 23rd January 2011

Best Laid Plans.....

Back in September 2010 I decided to attempt another long distance tri event. Although I started 2010 well by completing some running events, my plans to complete a further 3 triathlons during the summer fizzled out as I seemed to loose my mojo for training and racing. I guess this was partly due to lazyness, but also due to a change in job, complete refurbishment of the house, and the ever demanding but rewarding role of father and husband.

Mindful of the demands that an Ironman would have on my personal life I opted to enter the UK 70.3 – 1.2 Ironman event. I also decided to enter the Gloucester Marathon in January, focus solely on my running from October to January, and then start the Tri training post Marathon. I am much more successful at focusing on short terms goals, and the Glos Marathon came with a further challenge… Marcus had completed it the previous year in a very good time which I wanted to get as close to as possible. This was to be first Marathon in isolation, the previous two being a shuffle walk at the end of an Ironman. So, armed with a 16 week training plan, new trainers, a Garmin 305 and a renewed mojo I set myself the following targets.

• To beat my previous best Marathon time of 4:39 – set at the UK Ironman in 2008 – Shouldn’t be too difficult
• To complete the Glos Marathon without stopping to walk – Achievable
• To finish under 4 hours – Getting harder
• To finish in under 3:15 – Going to be mighty tough

Read the full blog entry here: http://stoddy.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-laid-plans.html

Gloucester 10 Mile - 9th January 2011

So the first event of the year for a member of the team was the Gloucester 10 mile road race which Martin took part in under his pseudonym of Mark Pierce.

The race was won by Robert Farley in a time of 00:58:07 with Le Fassett finishing in a respectable 64th (out of 207) in a time of 01:15:29.