Oxford T&G 10k, Deal Half Marathon now live

Latest Gallery Updates:

Oxford Town and Gown 10k
Photo Gallery is now live here: http://bit.ly/Oxford-Town-and-Gown-2012-Official-photos

Deal Half Marathon
Photo Gallery is live here: http://bit.ly/Deal-Half-Marathon-2012-Official-photos


The last gallery to get online will make it up the broadband will be the East Grinstead Triathlon in the morning - its on the FTP overnight because Seb and Simon took waaay to many photos (which is technically not really a problem). I'll tweet it just as soon as we get them online - twitter @uksportphoto is the fastest way to know, then we update our facebook page, and then this blog.

If you missed them earlier:

The Staines 10k gallery is now live and online here:
http://bit.ly/Staines-10k-2012-Official-photos


The Marlow 5 race gallery is now live and online here:
http://bit.ly/Marlow-5-2012-Official-photos



The Deal Tri - Half Marathon

The latest news on The Deal Tri website about the Half Marathon is here: http://www.dealtri.co.uk/news/news-03-05-2012-14-12

Basically - it was a lot warmer and better than the weather last February when compacted ice and snow on one corner was just about manageable - but then it started snowing even more and you just couldn't tell where it was. As good a reason as any to cancel. Plus it was very cold and wouldn't have been that much fun !

This time with better weather (how lucky were we with the weekend and no rain!) the sun did shine on the course and Gareth Robb from Paddock Wood decided that a hilly 1:16:46.35 was a good idea to win. His Team mate Tina Oldershaw won the womens race in 1:24:04 which again was also good enough to be 10th overall.

Well done to Jo and Jill on reorganising the whole race and getting it all sorted again - and unlucky to everyone who entered that couldn't make the re-run - it looks like you missed a cracker of a run around the Kent countryside ! 

The Men leading at 2miles

Tina from Paddock Wood out front

Good solid running around the hills of Kent

The Oxford Town and Gown 10k - organised by Muscular Dystrophy

With Christine Hamilton setting off both races and presenting the prizes, the Muscular Dystrophy Town and Gown 10k run went of with a massive 2361 entries completing the course. On a perfect day for a 10k the town went orange with the official Tshirts and lots of balloons and banners about the place.

Adeo Weliy won the race in 29:27 - in his first race in the UK since arriving from Ethiopia earlier in the week on a graded performance rating of 91.23 - which is international standard. Sophie Carter winning the ladies race in 37:11 - a respectable 30th place overall and an age grading of 81.94

Profits from sales go to the Muscular Distrophy campaign - so help us to donate more by buying your copy today - live here: http://bit.ly/Oxford-Town-and-Gown-2012-Official-photos

Christine Hamilton strikes her Charlies' Angels pose ready for the start

Fast running at 2 miles

Paul took the young'un for a spin

Happy horse

Nobody asked if he crossed the road

Adeo flew back into the park

Bugs Bunny had a good run

The Mary Poppins team  made a clean sweep of the course (sorry)

Adeo out in front early on

Good orange Teamwork

The formal race look

Brave man - he's wearing a cambridge rugby club top, in Oxford...

Hello !

This is what Success looks like

looking good into the finish

Smooth finishing

Sweet sweet victory

flying in at the end, coming in to land

that's a big YES

Double thumbs up

Christine got stuck in with finisher water

Three Cats on the course

Starting something was never so much fun for Christine

He carried this wine all the way round then drank it at the finish

Ready for action, Christine had her finger on the horn

Ghostbusting - could be a busy one round the town

All done in a good cause

All smiles as Adeo collects his prize from Christine and the Race director

Well done to everyone involved on the day - perfect weather for a race and a worthy winner with a fantastic time. Here's hoping you have all raised tons of money for Muscular Dystrophy !



Right it's 2:30am now and I'd better get some sleep ready to make East Grinstead Tri live first thing in the morning, well a bit later on once it's uploaded.

Until next time

Anthony