Category: News
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2016 British Spartathlon Team – May Newsletter
Payment Deadline Approaches! The next big cut off for those in the team is coming up – payment! If you’ve not already sent your race fee to the organisers, now is the time to do it. The cut-off date is May 31 – but please take into account that international transfers can take a few…
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2016 British Spartathlon Team – April Newsletter
By Rob Pinningon Welcome to the first monthly newsletter of the 2016 British Spartathlon Team. First of all congratulations to all of you who were lucky in the draw. To those that weren’t, hang in there. There is usually 15-20% drop out rate. 2016 Runners The current 2016 British Spartathletes are listed below: Martin…
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2015 Spartathlon Race Reports
Race Reports We have started adding a number of race reports to the website or linking to people’s blogs as and when these reports are written. You can find links to all of the reports at the link here The official 2015 British Spartathlon Team report can be found here James & Jamie’s Charity You…
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British Spartathlon Team News
Congratulations to all our British Spartathlon finishers and all the runners, crews and supporters who made it a brilliant weekend for the team. Due to the difficulty of this race there were some success and some failures but the British Team recorded an overall finishing rate of 65% which was the 3rd highest country (excluding…
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2015 British Spartathlon Team
Good luck to the British Spartathlon Team, who may well be the toughest team you’ve never heard of. On Friday the 25th September at 7am local time (5am GMT), a team of 21 British runners will start the gruelling Spartathlon event held every September in Greece. The race sees some 390 runners from 42 different…
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The Michael Callaghan Trophy
(Thanks to Ian Thomas for the update) As the team will recall Patrick Macke has kindly donated the impressive trophy he won for winning Spartathlon in 1985 in a time of 23:18:00 h. Patrick still holds the record for the best British Performance 23:08 (1990) and during his career has set world records over various…
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British Spartathlon Team News – September 2015
(Thanks to Mimi Anderson and Paul Ali for this months update). We are all now counting down the days until the start of the 2015 Spartathlon. I was looking back at the blog I wrote after my 2011 race and this is how I felt – a moment in my running life that I will…
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British Spartathlon Team News – July 2015
Thank you to Rob Pinnington for putting together this months update. Sponsors The British Spartathlon Runners & Crew T-Shirts have arrived. Many thanks to Dave Ireland and our other sponsors Lorna Newson and Danny Corr. Matt Mahoney is arranging postage of all the kit (T-Shirts, Buffs and Hats) to each of you of your order.…
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British Spartathlon Team News – June 2015
Welcome to the June update on behalf of the British Spartathlon Team. Team News GPS Tracking We have some fantastic news to announce regarding the race. Courtesy of www.racedrone.net, the British Spartathlon Team have been offered the use of their GPS trackers during the event so family, friends and supporters will be able to…
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British Spartathlon Team News – May 2015
(Thanks to Mimi Anderson for putting together the latest team update) The British Spartathlon Team has been out in force over the past few weeks as the Spartathlon is now only 16 weeks away (GULP) A few results: THAMES PATH 100 Ian Thomas – 19:38:04 Mimi Anderson – 20:06:41 (2nd Lady) Tremayne Cowdry 20:20:00 Paul…
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