A Charnwood Hills virgin, thank you to the organisers and the excellent marshalls. A fantastic race, I cannot wait until next year!!!!!!

Thank you! Great run, well organised, and please pass on my thanks to the ever patient and cheery marshalls, who earned my gratitude for their encouragement and enduring the cold.

What a great race.
I'm sure you must have put a hose to the boggy bit at the start!
I have great respect and admiration for the marshalls who were very encouraging even though they must have been freezing.
The tea and cakes were great.
A big thank you to Graham from Leicester Owls. Its was great to run with you, cheers for coming back to help me along.
I'll be back to do it all again next year.

Great Race, many thanks to marshals, catering and Bowline.

Edited by author 02-02-2009 02:33 AM
PROVISIONAL RACE RESULTS

OK Guys what you've been waiting for the race results are now on the webiste.

But as stated we did have some problems so here is what we know;

The following race numbers were duplicated in the recorded results: 442, 23, 130 and 297. We know the first occurence of 442 (The Winner!!) is correct.

The following race numbers were not recorded as having finished:
40(O'NEIL. S), 62(O'DONOVAN.T), 132(DAVISWORTH. J), 159(NAUGHTON. K), 211(COLLINGE. P), 230(ARKINSTALL. I), 250(LANCASTLE. M), 285(GLOVER. P), 296(CLARKE. C), 308(AIRD. N), 344(LONGMAN. H), 422(HOLLOWELL. G) and 445(GRATION. J).

From that list of 13 four should go in where the duplicate numbers are and the rest either we didn't record or retired and we don't know about it. We think 308 retired. So if you or know that one of the 13 numbers above retired could you let us know. If you see your race number in the list of 13 above can you let us know if possible your rough finishing time and if you know this who you finished before/after. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Many apologies for this we will have to do better next year.

Andy Railton

Runner no. 132. I finished the race. My time 2.00.

hows the guy that hurt his leg in the last two miles-ish near the gate at bradgate park?

A big thanks to all the marshalls once again for their time & committment.It was my 4th time doing the race(just love it)but I have never posted a comment, so if you could pass this on I would be v.grateful.At least we were running - they must have been frozen!Thanks again to all - it's a great run.

What a great race it was my first time and i really enjoyed it. towards the end i struggled abit but i got so much support from other runners which pulled me through. the worst bit was the mud bath at the start and the end cant believe we had to run through that but i had to laugh about it it was also fun, especially when a man slipped and fell in it and just sat and laughed it off towards the end it was funny. thank you to the man that helped me walk through it so i didnt slip, and thank you to the lady that encouraged me to keep going at the last part of the race i talked to you at the start and it was your first time too then saw you at the end and you let me have some of your water as i had ran out, thank you so much. Cant wait to do it again xxx

could not find the prov resuls on the main site any idea wher they are??

You seem to have missed me off the results. Like Jackie below ....

It was nothing earth shattering but I was pleased with doing it under 2 hours in 1:59:?? . My Race Number was 230 and I definitely went through the finish line and funnel with my number clearly being displayed ???

Runner # 159 K. Naughton was the first Sphinx runner to finish the race (ahead of P. Fahy in 123rd place). His finish position Last year was 89th in a time of 1:49:15, so could possibly be the duplicate in 85th place.

Further to Message Below. My number was 230 and my GPS time was 1:59:40.

I think I can solve Ivans problem I'm shown twice once at 1:56:05 which is crack on with my stopwatch and again at 1:59:59 my number was 130 Ivans 230 so its quite possible they were mixed up at the end.

Anyway really enjoyed the event I'm sorry that things were mixed up at the end but the weather wasn't good and we all make mistakes, see you next year.

First time running this race - great fun! One of our members is missing from the results - Graham Hollowell - Wootton Road Runners. Finished approx 1.45 to 1.48 if you have had a gap.

LOCATION OF WEBSITE RESULTS & CORRECTIONS & PHOTOS

The results are located at http://www.bowline.f9.co.uk/CharnwoodRace/...odRaceEntry2009.htm

Thanks to everbody for passing on the information about the missing/duplicated data I'll get it corrected as soon as I can and I'll put a post here when it has been done.

Also if anybody has any photos that friends have taken would it be possible to pass them on to me at andy@railton88.freeserve.co.uk and I will build a small gallery.

If you are interested the Leicester Mercury will run a report on the race in the Tuesday Edition of the paper.

Andy Railton