Page 6 - BBHAC Winter 2016-17 Gazette

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The new Vice Presidents

2017

Karen Desborough became “I Became Chairman of the Norman
As is customary at the end of involved with Blackheath and Park Track Management Company
his year in office at the AGM Bromley when her son Thomas after a spell as team manager of the
the outgoing president Bill Foster joined The Bees Academy in u15 boys and have been working
created some new vice presidents, 2005 as he enjoyed running, closely with Tim Souter and David
four of them, in recognition of and he went on to compete as a Appleton to move the Clubhouse
their various contributions over Young Athlete in cross country of Blackheath and Bromley to
the years. Their various contri- events and also track. Her Norman Park.
butions are profiled below. daughter Andi joined the Bees Apart from the work on the move,
in 2009 as she enjoyed sprinting I have been active in securing
and has also competed as a sponsorship with a £10,000 grant
young athlete in track events. from a contact to pay for the trip to
“ I realised I was destined to spend Spain where our girls represented the
my evenings at Norman Park and country so well last year.”
weekends at athletics so I decided
to become a Team Manager firstly His earliest involvement with
for the Under 15 boys in 2009 and the Club was in 1984, when he
then managed the Under 13 Girls worked with Bob Taylor. Bob’s
in 2011 and took on the Under 15 wife Ginge is his daughter
Girls in 2013 & now manage both Isabella’s godmother.
for my sins”.
In 2012 she started running Mark Steinle ran 2:09.17 to
herself something she never finish in 6th place in the 2002
thought she would do, and London Marathon, which
joined Mick Jones’ Run England makes him the 9th fastest
Group. She is just about to British athlete of All Time, and
complete her 200th parkrun. he represented GB in the 2000
Olympics in Sydney. He was
a pioneer of using an oxygen
Chris Hilditch was born and tent in preparation to simulate
raised in Basildon. He worked running in rarefied altitudes
in the City until retiring from when this was new technology.
Goldman Sachs at the age of 47.
Since then he has been an active Mark ran brilliantly through
investor in start up companies all the age groups and made a
and currently hold stakes in 10 very successful transition to the
businesses. Since retiring he has senior ranks. He is also the Club
been Chairman of Governors record holder at 10000m, with a
at a local school, is currently time of 28:04.His breakthrough
on the finance committee and was finishing 2nd in the
bursary fund at Trinity School Hamburg Half Marathon in
in Shirley as well as on the 1996 and continued to impress
advisory board of the Whitgift finishing 3rd in the Great
Foundation. North Run in 1999. He was
winner of the Ciudad de Murcia
Half Marathon (2002) with a
time of 1:03’32”, and winner
of the Leeds Half Marathon
in 2007. Other half marathon