Page 31 - Summer2018Gazette

Athletics Report 31

It is always the aim of the hand- One of the big highlights of the should be the focal point of the
icapper to achieve the objective 2018 series were the barbeques club’s week.
of all of the runners returning that Deniz Mehmed and Gareth
within a small time-band. This Griffin arranged for every These events could not take
year the narrowest interval be- Wednesday night of The Parris place without volunteers so
tween the arrival of the first and Handicap. These proved to many thanks to our Time Keep-
last finishers was 2 minutes and be enormously successful and ers Mike and Terri, Recorders
36 seconds in the April event. attracted not only the runners Steve Hollingdale, Denise King
In the other events the broadest but also non-runners and guests and Peter Lovell and of course
time-band was 8 minutes and 43 alike. Deniz and Garry have my wonderful wife Sheila who
seconds in the June race. already indicated that they will takes the entries and helps
run these events again for the calculate the winners at the end
The event generated about 2019 event. Not only is the of the evening.
£400 profit although more was catering first class but our bar
originally raised before the profits increase considerably on The first race of the 2019 series
organisers bought new trophies these nights! When concern is will be on Wednesday 10th April
for the first, second and third being expressed about the de- at 7.15pm.
overall finishers. clining attendance on Wednes-
day evenings, the barbecues Richard Griffin
provide a welcome boost of
popularity and numbers in what

Runners waiting nervously before the start of a race in Teipegs Lane.