100 Marathon Club

Name Actual Pos Off Name Actual Pos Off
Selina Da Silva 5:06:41 171 5:06:41
Pat Seabrook 180 5:13:44 Brent Iddles 5:37:31 186 5:37:32
Sep.4 Great Langdale Marathon (Lake District) +++ 60 finishers +++
Gary Wade 29 4:25:16 Dave Major 4:32:57 32 4:32:57
Colin Longworth 40 4:48:47 Linda Major 5:30:32 55 5:30:32
Sep.4 Kent Coastal Marathon (Margate) +++ 157 finishers +++
Andy Holmes 10 3:15:19 Richard Gurd 3:17:03 13 3:17:03
Janet Cobby 32 3:34:30 Andy Wilmot 50 3:43:45
Roy Barnes 56 3:48:10 John Williams 61 3:50:19
Dave King 88 4:10:59 Joe Avery
Dave Lewis 4:30:xx 116 4:32:24 Michael Alsworth 122 4:36:23
Martin Bush 125 4:38:51 Brian Smith 126 4:39:18
David Lewis 134 4:46:39 Roger Biggs 4:49:28 137 4:49:36
Julie Wing 138 4:51:05 John Poidevin 4:57:xx 142 4:56:56
David Moles 155 5:28:51
Sep.3 Drammen Marathon (Norway) +++ 134 finishers +++
Race Reports
Peter Burns 120 4:49:14 Tad Lancucki 122 4:50:59
Gunars Akerbergs 123 4:54:47
Oldbury Power 30 Miles – 23 rd January 2005 - by David Sill
The race was the first road ultra race in the UK for 2005.
This was a new event being held for the first time. It is one of several short ultra road races now on the running calendar
which are only slightly longer than a marathon. The Sutton Park and Boddington 50K races are other examples. I must
say I regard all these races as marathons.
The route started and finished at Oldbury Power Station and was on quiet, almost traffic-free country roads. The course
was very flat and consisted of an initial section followed by five laps of 5 miles and the exit to the finish. It was a
convenient location to get to being situated close to motorways in South Gloucestershire.
Half of the 59 finishers recorded times of less than 4 hours for the 30 miles and less than 3 hours 30 minutes at the
marathon split. This shows just how flat and fast the course was. Whilst the race attracted quite a few faster runners, the
time limit was 6 hours so everyone was welcome.
The start of the race was delayed by 45 minutes because of ice on the roads. It was a cold day. There were mile markers
for the first few miles but once we started the five mile loops they were only every five miles.
The results can be found on the web at: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dave_macn/Oldbury_30M_2005_results.htm
Marathon split times are recorded there too.
The race results were on the International Association of Ultrarunners web site the day after the race. The IAU web site is
developing into and very good site for ultra race fixture lists for the UK and around the world, as well as giving reports and
results from some races too.
Finishers included the following who are, or were, members of the 100 Marathon Club:
Pos Name marathon 30 miles
11 Steve Edwards 3:11:46 3:40:58
24 Ramona Thevenet-Smith 3:24:11 3:55:24
28 David Sill 3:25:02 3:57:56
35 Sid Morrison 3:43:20 4:16:58
37 Roy Barnes 3:43:31 4:17:35
50 Syd Wheeler 4:10:49 4:49:10
52 Gil John 4:19:50 4:58:30
57 Selina Da Silva 4:57:06 5:44:15
Poznan Marathon – Poland, 16 th October 2005 – by Peter Burns
Poznan, Poland’s fifth city with a population over 600,000, hosts the country’s largest marathon held for the sixth time on
16 th October 2005. It is not clear whether its claim to be the biggest marathon relies on the in-line skaters to boost the
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