Take a read of the Captains Chat and see what Christine has to say about recent events and results.

3rd December 2008 : GO 2009 Club Championships. Standings after 1 event.

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27th November 2008 : GO 2008/2009 Club Championships ...

These are the events that will count towards the club championships for the coming year. The best 4 will count.

30th November 2008 : SO Regional, Broadstone Warren
28th December 2008 : SN Regional, Long Valley North
10th January 2009 : SN Junior League, Witley
18th January 2009 : MV District, Pippingford Park
25th January 2009 : BKO Regional, Yateley/Minley
28th February 2009 : SN Junior League, Bagshot
22nd March 2009 : SLOW District, Holmwood Common
5th April 2009 : MV District
19th April 2009 : SO Regional, The Winkins, Goodwood


With the new Regional Event setup for 2009 I would suggest that you run in your age group as per normal, but this will be confirmed.
In the District Events, you need to run the following, or run a higher course:-

Brown : M21+
Blue : W21+ and M45+ / M20-
Green : W45+ / W20-/ M60+
Light Green : M/W18-
Orange : W/M14-

The points are based on mins/km, and the best four will count, so you can run in as few as four events, or all of them, or anything in between. Good luck.

Einstein Crawford will perform the calculations on his abacus after each event so that the results can be put on our website as soon as possible ... we hope.

21st November 2008 : Chairmans Chat

Take a read of the Chairmans Chat and see what Linda has planned for the club over the coming months.

9th September 2008 : Call up papers for James

After a rock solid year and some outstanding results both on the local and World stage, James Crawford has quite rightly been selected to represent England in the Veteran Home Internationals in Northern Ireland at the beginning of October. Well done James and good luck. If you hit the Atlantic you have gone too fast and too far!!

1st August 2008 : Ex Gopher is a serious Man of Iron !!

Many Gophers who have been around a few years may well know Tim Seddon. Tim started O'ing with GO way back when he was a teenager with Nik Pugh, who was one of the finest runners ever to adorn a GO top. Tim had a brief spell in the UK a year or two back before heading to Canada where he has recently tried his hand at an Ironman, which is most definately not an event for the faint hearted!! Tim did brilliantly, and you can read about his exploits by clicking here and see some pictures of his day here.

So who fancies trying one of these one day ????

1st August 2008 : Jolly hot along the South Ups !!

A brief update ... The hard core team of Jeremy, Peter, Paul, Obs and Will made it to Eastbourne at 1:30 am after a very long day (20 1/2 hours) on the Downs in at times sweltering conditions. Well done to all concerned and a big thank you to the oh so vital support team who provided lots of water, food and much needed TLC !!

It is not too late to dip into those very deep pockets and donate a few pounds to a well deserving charity. If you feel generous visit the web site and make the efforts worthwhile. Thanks.

24th July 2008 : Jolly along the South Ups !!

What are you doing on Saturday at 5.00 am ? Well as you are tucked up in bed a couple of oldish Gophers will be joining our club sponsor Peter Clement, his long distance running partner in crime Paul Viney, and two young pretenders who ran so admirably for GO at the recent North Downs Relay visctory ... Obs and Will Southon, as they attempt to run the South Downs Way from Queen Elizabeth Forest, Petersfield to Eastbourne. Both Peter and Paul are seasoned veterans of the old Southdowns 80 having run it many times in the last century, but it has been a few years now, and apart from Obs and Will, we are all on the wrong side of 50, and it will be a tough day on the hills.

The main team of Peter, Paul, Obs and Will are trying to raise a shed load of money for charity, so if you think their efforts are worthy of a few pounds please visit the web site they have set up and make the efforts worthwhile.

The route is a shade under 80 miles long (but was always claimed to be 80 when we did it in the past), with about 5500 ft of ascent and descent. If you want an idea of the fun and games the boys will have click here to see the profile. As Isaac Wilde (famous relative of our very own Deserves an Oscar) said "What goes down must come up!!", but that may have been in reference to excessive volumes of Tea after the North Downs Relay!!

7th July 2008 : Gold for James at World Masters

James Crawfold showed a high class field a clean pair of heels at the recent World Masters in Portugal to take Gold in the M50 sprint by a comparitively large margin of 36 seconds. James has had a great year and was so focussed on the World Masters that he fully justifies such an outstanding result. Well done James. Keith Tonkin was a very respectable 8th in the same race which for somebody who always claims he is injured and unfit is also a fine result! There must be speed in those old legs still!

My only concern now is that James may not want to train with mere mortals any more having hit these dizzy heights ... but I am sure he will as long as we can keep up !!


Gold medalist James on the podium at the World Masters

23rd June 2008 : North Downs Relay

Team GO and Friends managed a solid team effort to retain the trophy by a touch over 20 minutes from SLOW, with Canterbury Harriers finishing in 3rd. Good effort by everyone from all clubs who took part. A big thank you to Andy Robbo and the timekeeping team for doing the sums.

Full results are on the event website here.


Nick (won leg 9), John (4), Gareth (won 10), Alastair (won 15), Keith (won 8), Christine (won 7) and Jeremy (16)

26th May 2008 : Surrey Hill Swimathon.

Poor SLOW seem to be very unfortunate with the weather for this annual pilgrimage around some of best bits of the Surrey hills. For the 4th year in a row it lashed down, but unlike last year at least it was warm rain and not the 4 deg C we had to contend with last May!! Despite the awful weather, there was a good turnout and some fine performances by Gophers. Several bottles of Hobgoblin were won (or biscuits or Jam for the juniors or those pretending not to have a drink problem !!!), and as always, a big thank you to the cheerful team from SLOW for staging the event and also to MV who planned and staged the Colour Coded courses on The Nower. Lets keep fingers crossed for a kinder day next year.

28th April 2008 : GO 2008 Club Championships. Final Standings after 9 events.

Check out the final positions for 2008.

25th March 2008 : JK 2008

It was cold ... very cold !!

This year must go down as one of the chilliest JK's in recent years which I guess was always on the cards being so early in the year. Despite the Arctic gales and driving snow, most folk seemed to almost enjoy the weekend, and full marks to the hardy soles who organised the events in such adverse weather. A big thank you from us all ... job well done.

Team GO had some rock solid results with pride of place going to Dan Couldery for a win on M10B, brother Chris for 3rd on M12B, David Abrams 3rd on M18E and James Crawford for his outstanding 2nd on M50L against some tough competition. Well done to them all.

Roll on the Spring and some warm weather ..... brrrrrrrrrrrrr

19th March 2008 : GO 2008 Club Championships. Standings after 8 events.

Check out the positions

17th March 2008 : GO 2008 Club Championships. Standings after 8 events.

Latest standings after 8 events should appear soon ... we hope. Only one more event now at Winterfold. Could this be a decider for honours this year ... watch this space.

11th March 2008 : National Event win for David

David Abrams continued his fine form on Sunday winning the M18 class at the years first National Event held at Big Wood. It was a very strong field as the event was also a Future Champions Cup event, attracting runners from all parts of the UK. Well run David and lets hope the good form continues throughout the year.

26th February 2008 : GO 2008 Club Championships. Standings after 7 events.

Latest standings will be posted when James gets back from yet another holiday !! Mexico this time. What a life !!

26th February 2008 : Keith wins British Night Champs title

Congratulations are in order to Keith Tonkin for winning the M50L title at the British Night Championships in the Forest of Dean on Saturday night. Well run Keith. You can put the spotlights back onto the Suburu now !!

24th February 2008 : LOK Regional, Holmbury Hill

What a fabulous area. If you didn't venture out onto Holmbury Hill you missed one of the best events for ages. The forest was runnable virtually everywhere, and well planned courses kept you running hard (if you could) and often direct through one of the best forests in the South East. Well done and thanks LOK (and also to our very own Tim Pugh (Controller)) for keeping the rain at bay this year and a splendid days sport.

19th February 2008 : Total eclipse by a "Rising Star".

Seems like the BBC have been taking note of our predictions that David Abrams is one of the stars of the future. David was spotted on the BBC on Saturday morning taking part in one of the Wednesday afternoon Army events. David had the chance to say a few words and sold the sport very well. Concentration ... I knew I was failing somewhere!! Mind you, I think I would have taken a route around the fallen tree and not gone direct, but it wouldn't have made very good viewing. You can watch the coverage which is now on You Tube by clicking here. Keep it up David. Next stop Holly Wood !!!

10th February 2008 : GO 2008 Club Championships. Standings after 6 events.

Check out the positions

3rd February 2008 : Woolbeding Regional event ... 3rd February

It didn't rain ... but the wind was cold!! We hope you all enjoyed your sortie onto Woolbeding Common and had good runs. It is such a good area, and being drier than the last visit for BOC it was certainly less slippery and muddy on the rides. Pete Couldery masterminded some excellent courses ... well done Pete, and being an idle bystander near the finish at times I heard nothing but positive comments which is always nice. As well as a big thank you to Pete, a big thank you as well to Neil Crickmore for his cool controlling, and Jeremy "Uhuru" Wilde, who fresh back from his cold holiday on top of Kilimanjaro, rushed back to make sure that the event ran like clockwork ... which it seemed to do.

Thank you all for coming and we hope to see you again at the next GO event ...

18th January 2008 : Woolbeding Regional event ... 3rd February

Don't forget to come along to Woolbeding on the 3rd February and also the GO gathering on the 2nd. Full details are in the latest news sheet which you will have been sent. You can also check it out from here.

18th January 2008 : CompassSport Trophy ... Team GO Finish 3rd

Team GO managed a very respectable 3rd place in the CompassSport Trophy held at the weekend behind last years winners SARUM and runners up WIM. We won both the Brown and Blue courses and need an influx of ladies and juniors now to compete on some of the other courses. Any ideas ? David Abrams had another outstanding run to finish 2nd on Brown. David has really come of age over the last few months and if he continues performing like this has a very bright future indeed. Well run David and keep it up. The club is very proud of you and your achievments this season. Full results can be found here.

13th January 2008 : Jeremy off to conquer Kilimanjaro

The GO web pages may be a bit quiet over the next couple of weeks, as Web Master Jeremy Wilde heads down to Tanzania soon to have a bash at making snow balls on the top of Kili !! Not content with doing the Comrades fun run twice, at the tender age of 50 something, Jeremy has decided that a quick jaunt up Kili just had to be done. Due back at the end of January, Jeremy will be just in time to make sure that the next GO Regional event at Woolbeding (which he is organiser for!!!) is still firmly on track. Enjoy the trip Jeremy and don't miss your start time on the 3rd February !!

13th January 2008 : CompassSport Trophy

Final results not known yet ... but a good event over some very fast and rarely visited terrain. One of the better SC areas. Check out the BAOC Web page for the final results.

10th January 2008 : SE Galoppen Results for 2007

Check out the final standings in the SE Galoppen

10th January 2008 : GO 2008 Club Championships. Standings after 6 events.

Results will be updated as soon as the James returns with the abacus ...

2nd January 2008 : GO 2008 Club Championships. Standings after 5 events.

Check out the positions

Last Update : 16 Jan 2009