No Friday Training from Rugby Club tonight

Posted on 13/06/202513/06/2025 by Keith Reed

We hope you enjoyed Tuesday’s training sessions. Just to let everyone know that there is no training tonight due a lack of the usual people.
If you were thinking about coming along then probably best to go out on you own
The latest Handicap Results are now published here >>>
Entries for both our relays on Friday June 27th and the 3 Tops race on 6th August have gone live.
Ken and Emma are sorting out teams so speak to them if you want to run
For those not running Tom who is the Race Director for the Relays and Chris who is RD for the 3 Tops are keen to hear from you as helpers.

Dartmoor Discovery and Devon Open

Posted on 10/06/202510/06/2025 by Keith Reed

Last weekend was the Dartmoor Discovery on the Saturday and Devon Open Track and Field meeting in Plymouth on the Sunday.
The Dartmoor Discovery is a tough 32 mile ultra held over the roads of Dartmoor and is a tough challenge made ever worse this year
by heavy rain showers. We had four runners taking part with Simon Fitze finishing in 10th place overall
Together with Chris Prall and Tim Steer they were 3rd men’s team.
Our only lady competitor was Jenny Hayes who did well to finish in 5 and a half hours in her debut ultra.
Well done to all of them. Results are shown here (marathon time in brackets)

10 Simon Fitze 4.13.46 (3.15.27)
30 Chris Prall 4.53.36 (3.53.01)
61 Tim Steere 5.25.41 (4.13.51)
76 Jenny Hayes 5.34.16 (4.27.28)

At the Devon Open on the Sunday we had some great results form our juniors and also from Peter Allen who did the 800m and 3000m
There was a fantastic club record from Araliya Martin in the 300m of 43.42 beating Joanne Harvey’s record set in 2004.
There were some great performances in the Quadrathlon for U11 where Will Rogers finished third overall and also in the Pentathlons
where many were doing that type of event for the first time. In total we had 19 athletes there.
Well done to all. On the previous Wednesday Tom and Araliya were our only competitors at Tavistock for the Rising Starts event
Tom set a new club record of 3.33.0 in the 1000m. Club results are shown here >>>

Also last Tuesday we had just Ken Summers in the Run Exe 5K. His time was 25.08
this Wednesday is the Armada 5K and next weekend is the Devon Schools Championships and the Fast 5K at Torbay and the race the Tide
event which are all on Saturday

EVH Relays and 3 Tops Fell race entries open

Posted on 03/06/202503/06/2025 by Keith Reed

We hope everyone enjoyed the Ivybridge 10K for 2025
We are now pleased to let everyone know that entries are open for our ever popular EVH relays on Friday 27th June
The race is for teams of 4 and can be from affiliated clubs or non running clubs.
Junior teams are also encouraged.
More details here >>>

Also we have opened entries for our Fell race known as the Ivybridge 3 Tops on Wed August 6th
This is a tough but scenic race over Dartmoor over an approx 10km distance . There are also Junior races over a shorter distance.
Entries are free for the juniors this year.

Details here >>>

Armada 3K & Westward League Cross Country

Posted on 16/12/201928/01/2020 by Keith Reed

Pictured above are our athletes who did seven events in the Armada Grand Prix receiving their T-shirts after the Armada 3K last Wednesday.

The club results from the December race were as follows

12th   Andy Newcombe   12.23
16th   Russ Mogridge       12.58
33rd   Phil Adderley         14.38
36th   Richard Lane          15.00
37th David Church           15.01
40th   Katy Mogridge        15.46
42nd   Lindsay Lane          15,55

On Saturday three members of club ran in the Race the Tide (Dark) race at Holbeton
The race is billed as a 8.5 run through the Flete estate.

40th   Patrick Wakely   1.18.15
97th    Becky Prall         1.28.52
103rd   Phil Adderley    1.29.34

On Sunday Phil Adderley completed his busy weekend (he did the Plym Valley Parkrun as well) by completing the Haldon 10K in 60.11

We had just a few runners who went to the Westward League at a very windy and wet Westward Ho!
We had just two seniors and a few juniors taking part. Our U11’s did well again.
Club results are shown here