Trophy Day 2020 Results

This year produced fast times on a slightly shorter course (approximately 4.85km) due to road works.

What a stunning day for a hard run along the riverbank…Yet another great turnout for the Trophy Day club event – a handicap 5km race from the Museum at the top of Grantham st, across the bridge, down to Cobham Bridge, then return to the club on the western river path. You submit an estimate of your 5km time, and then when the countdown clock hits your time – you are off…

The plan if everyone is honest and realistic is for all runners to hit the finish line at the same time (tough job for the timekeepers!) – but as always there are those that run better/worse than expected and so it is spread out when we hit the finish line…

Trophy day (a view from the other side)

Report by Lucie Kibblewhite

I’ve never run trophy day, last year I was in the UK and this year I am out injured. So I volunteered to do the timing with Glenn, thinking how hard can it be. Well apart from a tricky little spreadsheet, turns out not that bad.

What was hard was getting everyone to agree to their handicap.
Firstly – the mini competitions. “What time has that person put?” “I’ll go the same as so and so” There were claims of underselling and burgling.
Secondly – the changes of mind when everyone got talking out on the lawn before the race started. Vaughan Kestle gets the award for how many times he changed his estimated time.

Then up at the start line came the tactics…
Everyone started eyeing up who was going at the same or a similar time to them. Then came the thoughts that while someone might pull away they would slow slightly in the second half and the prospect of reeling them in or that some people are consistent and they can’t be able to get too far ahead or you won’t beat them.

And finally the smack talk, the trying to encroach on the start line to get a 5cm head start and the argy-bargy that came with that.

I can successfully say though that everyone got away at their allotted times and after that it was just the small task of recording everyone coming across the line. The bulk of the field finished within about a 2 mins of each other so for the most part, after all the too’ing and fro‘ing and the tactics, everyone’s estimates turned out to be pretty accurate.

A special shout out must go to Pat Gallagher for guessing his time spot on and to Peter Horan for being wrong by more than 5 minutes!

Link to event photos on FaceBook >>here>>

*Rotate phone to landscape to see full results table*

Results based on first to finish

Bib	Name	Place	Est time	Race time	Position
10	Peter Horan	1	0:30:00	0:24:54
32	Tan Miller	2	0:24:00	0:20:44
5	Boh Ritchie	3	0:21:00	0:18:37
44	Grahame Clarkin	4	0:27:00	0:24:40
36	Malesa McNearney	5	0:21:10	0:19:00
9	Lily James	6	0:26:00	0:23:53
22	Dawn Tuffery	7	0:22:30	0:20:30
20	Emily Fyfe	8	0:35:00	0:33:05
31	David Spedding	9	0:27:00	0:25:11
21	Ray Chrystall	10	0:27:00	0:25:11
27	Layton Mace	11	0:23:00	0:21:23
46	Kirsten Milne	12	0:20:50	0:19:22	1st female
13	Zarah Rattray	13	0:24:00	0:22:33
7	Sue Hunter	14	0:24:30	0:23:03
15	Dave Clark	15	0:24:00	0:22:35	1st male
11	Kerry Rattray	16	0:27:00	0:25:37
23	Jemima Antoniazzi	17	0:20:30	0:19:11
1	Kevin Knowles	18	0:20:30	0:19:14
45	Chris Keith	19	0:20:30	0:19:14
40	Helen Hall King	20	0:23:30	0:22:17
6	Andrew Wark	21	0:20:00	0:18:50
4	Dave Gunn	22	0:19:50	0:18:47
30	Joe Mace	23	0:19:00	0:18:00
26	Garry Wilson	24	0:20:45	0:19:46
34	Les Miller	25	0:19:00	0:18:05
24	Sunil Fernandez Ritchie	26	0:18:30	0:17:36
37	Anna OConnell	27	0:25:00	0:24:08
14	Wendy Harris	28	0:25:45	0:24:55
41	Colin King	29	0:24:30	0:23:40
3	Harry Coles	30	0:18:30	0:17:41	1st new male
38	Denise Graham	31	0:25:00	0:24:12
18	Will Taylor	32	0:16:40	0:15:53
16	Mike Harris	33	0:18:30	0:17:43
28	Thea Mace	34	0:25:00	0:24:13
19	Rob Townsend	35	0:18:05	0:17:20
25	Ryan Jones	36	0:18:05	0:17:25
2	Vaughan Kestle	37	0:25:00	0:24:35
35	Rhys Mildon	38	0:18:05	0:17:48
17	Arianna Lord	39	0:19:30	0:19:15
39	Vaughan Swale	40	0:24:00	0:23:55
43	Pat Gallagher	41	0:19:00	0:19:00
8	Monique Spedding	42	0:20:30	0:20:40	1st new female
12	Madison Rattray	43	0:24:30	0:26:28
47	Gilbert McDonald	44	0:25:50	0:27:49

Results based on Race Time

Bib	Name	Place	Est time	Race time	Position
18	Will Taylor	1	0:16:40	0:15:53
19	Rob Townsend	2	0:18:05	0:17:20
25	Ryan Jones	3	0:18:05	0:17:25
24	Sunil Fernandez Ritchie	4	0:18:30	0:17:36
3	Harry Coles	5	0:18:30	0:17:41	1st new male
16	Mike Harris	6	0:18:30	0:17:43
35	Rhys Mildon	7	0:18:05	0:17:48
30	Joe Mace	8	0:19:00	0:18:00
34	Les Miller	9	0:19:00	0:18:05
5	Boh Ritchie	10	0:21:00	0:18:37
4	Dave Gunn	11	0:19:50	0:18:47
6	Andrew Wark	12	0:20:00	0:18:50
36	Malesa McNearney	13	0:21:10	0:19:00
43	Pat Gallagher	14	0:19:00	0:19:00
23	Jemima Antoniazzi	15	0:20:30	0:19:11
1	Kevin Knowles	16	0:20:30	0:19:14
45	Chris Keith	17	0:20:30	0:19:14
17	Arianna Lord	18	0:19:30	0:19:15
46	Kirsten Milne	19	0:20:50	0:19:22	1st female
26	Garry Wilson	20	0:20:45	0:19:46
22	Dawn Tuffery	21	0:22:30	0:20:30
8	Monique Spedding	22	0:20:30	0:20:40	1st new female
32	Tan Miller	23	0:24:00	0:20:44
27	Layton Mace	24	0:23:00	0:21:23
40	Helen Hall King	25	0:23:30	0:22:17
13	Zarah Rattray	26	0:24:00	0:22:33
15	Dave Clark	27	0:24:00	0:22:35	1st male
7	Sue Hunter	28	0:24:30	0:23:03
41	Colin King	29	0:24:30	0:23:40
9	Lily James	30	0:26:00	0:23:53
39	Vaughan Swale	31	0:24:00	0:23:55
37	Anna OConnell	32	0:25:00	0:24:08
38	Denise Graham	33	0:25:00	0:24:12
28	Thea Mace	34	0:25:00	0:24:13
2	Vaughan Kestle	35	0:25:00	0:24:35
44	Grahame Clarkin	36	0:27:00	0:24:40
10	Peter Horan	37	0:30:00	0:24:54
14	Wendy Harris	38	0:25:45	0:24:55
31	David Spedding	39	0:27:00	0:25:11
21	Ray Chrystall	40	0:27:00	0:25:11
11	Kerry Rattray	41	0:27:00	0:25:37
12	Madison Rattray	42	0:24:30	0:26:28
47	Gilbert McDonald	43	0:25:50	0:27:49
20	Emily Fyfe	44	0:35:00	0:33:05