Windsor Half Marathon: 3 October 1999

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All runners

#  Pos arrow Name arrow Time arrow Cat arrow Club arrow Graded arrow Pace arrow
1 1 Moddy Moss 1:35:25 V45 Serpentine 66.5% 7:17
2 2 Ron Hagell 1:38:20 V50 Serpentine 69.3% 7:30
3 3 Sally Mackay 1:40:13 SL Serpentine 65.7% 7:39
4 4 Jane Thompson 1:53:18 FV50 Serpentine 65.5% 8:38
5 5 Beate Vogt 1:55:44 FV40 Serpentine 58.9% 8:50
6 6 Keith Evans 1:59:37 V60 Serpentine 60.6% 9:07
7 7 David Bailey 2:02:49 V60 Serpentine 60.2% 9:22
8 8 Katie Williams 2:07:56 SL Serpentine 51.4% 9:45
9 9 David Street 2:45:35 V35 Serpentine 36.0% 12:38
10 10 Cassandra McKeown 2:53:53 FV35 Serpentine 38.0% 13:16
11 11 Gabrielle Street 2:55:31 SL Serpentine 37.5% 13:23

Report

The ladies made 2nd ladies team with Sally Mackay, Jane Thompson, myself and a (now badly) injured Katy Williams.
David and Gabrielle Street, their friend Cassandra and Steve Hilton (a new member, who actually took a black cab from Waterloo after the trains were cancelled and ran around 1:18 on his watch) arrived late due to horrendous traffic problems. I admire their commitment to running starting the run more than an hour late.
It is a real shame that Sepanta did not run with her own number. She ran an amazing 1:27:27 and could have been 5th lady and pushed us up to 1st ladies team.
Kathleen Healy ran a great 1:57:24 as a preparation for her Dublin Marathon in a couple of week’s time. I certainly hope that she will run Dublin as a Serpie.
What happened to John Hudspith? He ran a terrific 1:26:29 and placed 112th overall, but was not registered as a Serpentine runner.
Baiju (1:40:05) and Phil (1:28:59) McCubbins ran for their respective companies and did extremely well.
Maggie Moran, Kathleen Broekhof, Sue-Ellen Horrocks and Sami Mohammed also did not make it to the start in time, but were great supporters to all of us. Owen and Grethe arrived in time, but could not register on the day. They had great runs but did not cross the finish line. Tant pis!
This race is run on a wonderful, albeit hilly, course. A real shame about the bad organisation of traffic to and from the race. More stories about that in Ron’s report.
Beate Vogt

Well, it was such a good plan, made as it was over a nice breakfast after someone returned from seeing off the London to Brighton crowd and someone else turned over in that nice warm bed. The noise from above summoned me to it, or was it the smell of the coffee, anyway my house was full of people having breakfast so I naturally joined in.
Oh, the plan… Well everyone thought it would be great to bike to Clapham Junction and take the train to Windsor because of the traffic problems, particularly after the event getting out of the large lot with one small exit. So off we went Grethe, Owen, Beate and I in convoy. Four return tickets and just in time to the platform where we found a lot of folks waiting and were told that the Windsor train was cancelled owing to staff not showing up to work. Later we were told it was cancelled because someone jumping in front of a train and at that point I kind of hoped it was the late staffers. The alternative rail route through Stains was also without service since that train was still on its return journey and not expected any time soon. So, a new plan was about to be under taken when David and Franziska arrived after buying tickets also (that Southwest ticket agent should either be shot or promoted to marketing). We decided to take cars. David & Franziska took Owen and Grethe while Beate and I returned home to take ours. We decided to put the bikes on the car in case of a traffic jam like last year and the year before. Since I work out there we decided to take the route through Egham and arrived only a few minutes later than planned – no sweat. The roads and the lots were virtually empty so we thought they had solved both the parking and road problems. But after parking the car, everyone else called the mobile to say they were in some horrible traffic jam somewhere near Slough. Some folks like Keith Evans arrived from a Paddington train with no problem but many others were very late.
We met up with my engineer John Walsh who was to run in his first race ever. His friends were all there and he had raised over

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