Jill Plater  

Aug 282020
 
Jill Plater

Name:  JILL PLATER Born:    26.05.1939 Date Joined   April 1952 Personal Bests:  100m               13.5 200m               26.1 400m               59.5 800m               2m.23.1 1500m             5.11.0 10K                  42.02 5miles             31.20 10mile             67.27 ½ marathon     89.00 Marathon        3h.15m.33s 1500 to marathon times mostly when over 45   First Club Race: May 1952 – Inter club meeting at Tooting Bec – 2nd junior 150yds, 1st junior 4 x 110 relay   Favourite Race:  Any 400m Notable Performances: Represented Essex Schools in the sprints at the All-England Schools’ Champs 1953 and 1954 Medal winner at National track junior champs in both 60y and 100y in 1953 and 1954 Represented Essex in the Inter-County Champs for the 400 in 1960’s Numerous medal wins in the Southern and National  Vets …Read More

  Nicola Hopkinson  

Aug 232020
 
Nicola Hopkinson

Name:  Nicola Hopkinson Born:  September 1962 Date Joined : June 2002, Bree introduced me to the club.   Personal Bests:  Marathon       3:26:31  V40 20 miles         2:36:00  V40 Half                1:37:42   V40 10 M              72:15 V40 10K                43:01 V40 5M                 35:04 V40 5K                 21:15 V40 Favourite Race:  The races with a sense of occasion so my journey to collect the six major marathons with all the holidays that went with them, and on the Marathon du Medoc I got to drink wine all the way round 😉  A few select pictures, see if you can recognise the marathons – don’t look at the bibs. I also have a habit of falling over a couple of times a year, one of which was at the Paris Marathon …Read More

  Henry Ricketts  

Aug 162020
 
Henry Ricketts

Name:          Henry Ricketts Born:            29.01.1967     Date Joined  Probably 01.04.2004 Personal Bests:   100m 12.3 200m 25.5 (24.5 age 14) 400m 56.8 (55.9 age 15) 800m 2.24.8 1500m 6.07.51 (5.25.2 age 13) 5 mile (did the Vicky Park 5 but can’t find the time) 10K road 44.27ish Half marathon 1hr 43.47ish First Club Race:  Gloucester Park, Basildon Cross Country Favourite Race:   Stubbers Cross Country Upminster Notable Performances:  Ranked 12th in the UK for Long Jump in my age group in 2012. 3rd placed team in The Southern Counties Vets Final last summer Biggest Disappointment: Not being fit enough due to injury to get consistent winter training in to take into the summer …Read More

  Press Report August 11th 2020  

Aug 112020
 
Press Report August 11th 2020

The Chelmsford ‘Mile of Miles’ which is normally held on the track was held this year in a completely different format due to the ongoing covid restrictions. The event was held at Writtle college on a multi terrain course which allowed for social distancing. The races were spread out over the course of five hours with each race consisting of 6 athletes going off at 6 minute intervals.  It was an Impressive day for the Grange Wrights as they picked up three wins.  The first race for the three was Joseph Grange’s(13) who ran in the U15s race. He won in 5:26 leveling his PB.  Next was Jak Wright who attacked his over 20 race strategically, going of slow to …Read More

  John Mackenzie  

Aug 092020
 
John Mackenzie

Name:  John Duncan Mackenzie Born:  06/09/1954 Date Joined : March 1978 Personal Bests: (all in the 1980’s) Track 800m         2min 00.1sec 1500m        4min 05sec 3000m        8min 35sec   3000m s/c    9min 42sec  5000m        15min 10sec 10000m        32min 50sec Road 5 miles        25min 12sec 10 miles        52min 06sec Half Mar        69min 50sec 20 miles    1hr 47min 48sec Marathon    2hr 29min 47sec   First Club Race: Cambridge 10 1978 (I ran in Frank Heaney’s name and he did a pb of 57min 35secs !!! as a veteran) Favourite Race: Great North Run ( This was …Read More