With Jackie Bye and Colin Robilliard both taking first place in their race category and second place in their county championship category, and the mens team of Steve Bates, Mark Haynes, Hugh Catleugh and Jon Reader taking second in the county championship team category this was yet another very successful days racing for the club. Despite the deluge that greeted the runners, 24 club members took to the start line and 5  recorded pb’s most notably Mel Porter and Jeremy Lawrence who recorded their second in the space of 4 days.

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It is a noticeable feature of many of this years local races how many orange vests are in evidence, a clear sign that the club is going from strength to strength and this race was no execption. The Summer sun shone on the Summer Sunday run making this hot going for the 19 Jaguars who took part. Despite the heat and the difficult course all the runners posted decent times, especially Mel Porter, Jeremy Lawrence and Jo West who all recorded PBs.

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Norwich Parkrun is a free weekly 5k run taking place at Eaton Park, Norwich at 9 am every Saturday morning. To take part you must first register in the official website after which you can enter whichever of the races you like. The results are published on the website by the Saturday evening. The races are advertised as a training event and as they are not run by either UKA or ARC they do not count towards PBs or certificates, they are however an excellent way to guage your current fitness level. So far there have been 3 races, a number of Jaguars have taken part with some solid results.

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Richard Collyer travelled to North Wales for the Snowdonia 7 fell race. This is advertised as a fell running event though very little running is involved, however there is a lot of climbing, scrambling, swearing and falling over. Snowdonia Seven takes competitors to seven of the peaks in the Snowdonia National Park.  This journey is approximately 22 miles in length, involves nearly 8000 feet of ascent and must be done in less than 10 hours to compete the challenge successfully. Of the 60 teams that started the event over a third dropped out during the race or did not finish with all 4 members.  Richard and the rest of his team finished the event in 8 hours 20 minutes taking 43 minutes from their time of last year.

5 Jaguars completed the Great Yarmouth Half Marathon, 4 running the distance for the first time in club colours. Another excellent set of results saw Colin Robilliard take 10th overall and first place in the Vet 55 category with a Platinum standard 1.22.23, he was followed by Jon Howe 1.30.09 (Gold), Mike King 1.34.19 (Diamond), Scott Chadwick 1.43.49 and Rachel Harmes 1.53.31 (Silver).  Full Results   Prizes

By Alan Groves
Saturday last (31st July)there was a fete here in Coltishall and the Jaguars helped with the parking of cars and had a `wellie` throwing pitch/stall which surprisingly was most successful . Though we were located in the corner of the cricket field we managed to attract  plenty of customers and consequently at the end of the day to we were able to donate £50 for the Coltishall church clock fund.
Well done to Mel who did the organising and was assisted by Laurel, Becky, Shirley, Jonathan , Christine, Colin, Ben, Michael, Janet, Steve Cole, Martin, Melanie and daughter and me .

On a perfect evening for running 4 Jaguars took part in the last of this years Broome Summer series. Steve Ely finished in 7th place with a PB gold standard time of 38.07. Ken Bowman also produced a PB finishing in a Diamond standard time of 42.11. Clive Steward in his first race coming back from injury still finished the course in under 40 minutes, whilst Mike King produced his usual strong run with a Diamond standard 43.50.
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Worstead village square was awash with orange as 33 members set off on this popular 5 mile race.  As usual the Jags turned in some great performances with 12 p.b’s and prizes in 5 of the categories.  Young Issy List  ran an impressive race to finish 1st Junior Lady in a new ladies club record of 32.15.  Colin Robilliard,once again, won the men’s 55-59 age category and Ken Bowman was second in the 60-64 age group and only 1 second off a platinum standard (you’ll have to sprint harder next time).  Jackie Bye was also second in the ladies 50-54 age group and Emily Hannant was 3rd Senior Lady.   The beer and burgers went down a treat after the race and were certainly well deserved.   Results    Photos

Two teams travelled to the grounds of St. Josephs College, Ipswich and both put in some extremely good times with Team B taking 2nd place in the Super Vets category and 24th overall, whilst Team A were not far behind in 33rd.

(An Ekiden  is a Japanese term which originally referred to a post-horse or stagecoach which transmitted communication by stages, and now usually refers to a long-distance relay race typically a road race)
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Colin Robilliard, Steve Bates, Jon Howe and Mike King took to the road on a hot and breezy day for yet another successful days racing. Colin, Jon and Steve won the team prize for finishing 6th, 7th and 11th overall whilst Mike King came away with first prize in the 60 – 69 category. Colin and Jon were first and second respectively in the 50 – 59 category.  Full Results   Photos