Provisional Dates for the 2012/2013 TVXC Season
The provisional TVXC fixture list has been put together and is as follows:
11/11/12 Datchet
25/11/12 Sandhurst
09/12/12 Handy Cross
16/12/12 Metros
23/12/12 Reading
06/01/13 Tadley
20/01/13 Bracknell
03/02/13 Finchcoasters
2012-13 Season
It may seem early to start thinking of dates for next season's league events, but we have to start sometime. Most of us at Sandhurst found that the new earlier calendar, with the first event at the end of October, worked well. With that in mind, we have provisionally booked our venue for the SJ event for Sunday 25th November. We hope that's a date that fits with everyone.
Is it worth everyone pointing out now any Sundays that their club would prefer to keep clear of TVXC events?... For us at Sandhurst there are three such:-
21st Oct (Abingdon marathon)
18th Nov (our own club running weekend, which we hope will fall between DD's XC (11th Nov?) and our own (already booked for 25th Nov); and
10th Feb (Wokingham half-marathon).
Over to you folks... do you have event dates (or dates to avoid) in mind? Email to tvxc@googlegroups.com
Rob Hewison
Thanks from Sandhurst
On behalf of us all at SJ, our warmest thanks to everybody who has made the league such a success, and such good FUN, in recent years. I hesitate to name names–for where does one stop–but Mike Raistrick deserves applause for doing such a brilliant job on this website. It has made all the difference, both for members of participating clubs (of whom, as I write at 10:20 on a wet Tuesday morning, there are 13 on-line) and club reps. The members love the easy access to so much information; the reps LOVE the way the system produces the team-sheets and calculates the results. Thanks Mike....
Our thanks, too, to all the members of the participating clubs who have made the series the exciting, informal and inclusive thing that it has become. Even though it is highly competitive at the front of the field, every runner is made to feel welcome and a part of the event. Through the season we get many members coming along to run in their first 'Event', and they soon get hooked.
Datchet, Reading & Bracknell, you've given us a good run for our money this year, and we really hope you'll come back even stronger next year. Wargrave, welcome–it's good to see new faces. And we look forward to Windle's participation next year too, even though we'll lose a few of our 'second call' runners to them.
Thanks all....
Congratulatons to Sandhurst
Provisional results for the Bracknell Forest Runners league match held today confirm that Sandhurst Joggers are the winners of the 2011/2012 TVXC league. Congratulations to them.
Any queries on results should be funnelled back through club captains.
Final race of this year's league
The unfortunate cancellation of the Finchcoasters race means that the race on 22 January hosted by Bracknell Forest Runners will be the final race of this seasons' league.
We will once again be holding the race at Lightwater Country Park, GU18 5RG. We will be sharing the available parking with other users of the Park so please car share as much as possible to reduce congestion.
We look forward to welcoming you all to our race.
Datchet Dashers XC Photographs
Photographs from the Datchet Dashers XC on The Brocas in Eton can be found here.
If you want full size originals please e-mail me - chairman@datchetdashers.com
David Priddy
Datchet Dashers win Sandhurst race
The results of the Sandhurst XC on 22nd November are now deemed 'official'; click on "Results" above for full details.
The result was a convincing win for Datchet Dashers, who had four runners in the first ten! Our warmest congratulations go to their very powerful team; it is exciting to see another club in contention for the top spot.
Our thanks to the 290 runners, and of course to our own 50+ volunteers, who made it such a successful event.
If anyone, club or individual, has any comments, suggestions or criticisms, PLEASE tell us so that we can attempt to do it even better next year.
Rob Hewison, Sandhurst Joggers
sjxc@mac.com
Photos Update
The photo's page has been updated to include some pictures from Rob Hewison from the 2011 Datchet race>
Datchet XC 2011
You can download a map for the upcoming Datchet XC here. (It still show's last years date..)
Start time 11.02am – Remembrance Sunday ( 2 minutes silent prior to the start of the race).
The car parks are pay and display only – so please try and car share where possible, and there could be limited parking.
Metros Results
Provisional results from the first fixture of the season are now available here - thanks to Metros.
It's already looking like Sandhurst are the team to beat this year!
