Ribble Valley 10K

[Witton Park]

The race is coming around again and details are here
http://www.ukresults.net/12dec.html#ribble


Entries are at
http://www.ukresults.net/2012/ribble.html
and nice to see a few forumites in the line up including Fleeter after a sub 35 clocking.

The field is looking a high quality affair again and we are now up to over 900 entries and still taking entries every day.

Notable Runners so far with best 10K track or road time shown

LADIES
Ellie Curran 35.02
Alyson Dixon 32.53
Louise Gardner 34.33
Rebecca Robinson 33.09
Kate Avery 33.38
Mary Wilkinson 34.32
Cali Thackery is another high class entrant with a great 5K time of 16.46 this year and we are hopeful that Katrina Wootton may defend her title and one or two others will still enter - a whisper that Jess Coulson may run.

MEN
Jonny Mellor 28.50
Andy Vernon 27.53
Dan Garbut 30.35
Chris Parr 30.09
Andi Jones 29.28
Ben Fish 29.38
Karl Billington 30.34
Derek Hawkins 29.41
Ian Kimpton 29.26
Matt Barnes 29.33
Phil Wylie 29.59
Ben Russell 30.35
Matt Bowser 29.57
Russell Bentley 30.14
Tom Doe 30.00
Joe Bailey 29.45
Peter Newton 30.09
Adrian Holliday 30.16
David Mountford 30.03
Ian Rawlinson 30.31
Andrew Douglas 29.46
Rob Samuel 30.23
Joshua Bull 30.33
Alex O'Gorman 30.23
Patrick Martin 29.41
Andy Ward 29.59
Danny Cliffe 30.45
Stuart Robinson 30.47

also Niall Brooks and Callum Hawkins

[Witton Park]

We are now up to 1238 athletes pre-entered which is a fantastic.
I'm pretty sure John will close of the pre-entries in the next 24 hours as he starts to prepare for race day, so if you are planning to come, I would suggest that you get in online now rather than wait for race day.
We have a 1500 limit which we never felt we would get to, not yet anyway.
We normally take 200+ on the day so you can see it's getting close to the point where we may have to close the registration early.
http://www.ukresults.net/12dec.html#ribble

[OB1]

Ribble Valley 10k, Hot Toddy, Festive Disorientation, etc
Hmmmm aren't we all spoilt for closing the year this Sunday.
I did the Hot Toddy last year so I've got my eye on one of the other two, given that a Gloss chariot is going to RV, and that FD is a gentle jog over the hill.
Choices, choices...

[Witton Park]

If you come to the RV, then come and say hello - I'll be at ALS as well.

[OB1]

Will do (if selected).
What's happened to the 2011 RV race video on the race page of the BBH website?; my browser says it doesn't exist.

[Fleeter]

Give me a shout WP, I'll be in my Calder Valley vest.

[Witton Park]

I'll keep an eye out for you.

Just a tip, steady that first mile - it's surprisingly quick and you can run the legs off yourself.

[Witton Park]

Weather was against times today but it was a great race with a record field. I hope everyone enjoyed themselves. Saw a few forumites there and gave them a little encouragement.

Fleeter, Multi-Coloured, Swoop, KevSpider, martin, Roadrunner, .... I'm sure there must have been more.

Well done and thanks for supporting the race.
Results here
http://www.ukresults.net/2012/ribble.html

[Will-Moorlands]

Great race with such a strong field. Shame conditions weren't overly productive for really fast times but no excuses as it's the same for everyone.

Finished up with 33:34, was looking for sub 33 but was 30sec down on target pace after even 2mi but then managed to pick it up a bit, maybe conditions or maybe I just didn't go out hard enough.

[Witton Park]

Great race with such a strong field. Shame conditions weren't overly productive for really fast times but no excuses as it's the same for everyone.

Finished up with 33:34, was looking for sub 33 but was 30sec down on target pace after even 2mi but then managed to pick it up a bit, maybe conditions or maybe I just didn't go out hard enough.

I think that's the wind. Fleeter picked up at the back end.

The wind was across for the first 3km, then against for most of the next 4km, but off the right a tad, but was behind for the last 3km, so I bet quite a few ran slower in the first 5km.
The only real headwind was on the return part of the loop at halfway.