MWR first leg stats

Having updated the database of times for the first leg, I thought that Kevin Loundes' fourth fastest time ever on the course was worthy of further analysis.

Chris Quine writes on his blog that, given the detoriation of the tracks over the years, Kevin's time is possibly on a par with Keith Callister's record. Having run most years since 1979 and posting the third best time on the course, Chris is well qualified to comment and I wouldn't necessary disagree.

But because the exercise is so subjective (what about the fastest times on the years runners had to content with snow and headwinds?), I thought I would throw together some more facts to fuel the debate.

The average times on the first leg each year since 1999 (the leg was not run in 2001 and 2004) were as follows:

1999 01:08:14
2000 01:11:28
2002 01:08:29
2003 01:15:47
2005 01:10:01
2006 01:16:07
2007 01:11:51
2008 01:10:21

With relatively small fields each year, the average times can easily be weighted by a few slower runners or even by someone getting lost.

So I looked at another consideration, the average of the fastest six each year. Again, this doesn't prove anything by itself as there were undoubtedly some years when the conditions were conducive to fast times (or perhaps the quality of the entrant was higher).

Anyway, here are the averages of the fastest six:

1999 00:57:57
2000 00:56:16
2002 01:02:26
2003 01:08:00
2005 00:58:36
2006 00:59:00
2007 01:00:26
2008 00:59:59

There are so many interpretations we can put on these stats but here are the most telling ones (as far as 1999 to 2008 are concerned).

I've compared the fastest time to the average of the top 6 and Kevin is just so far ahead of the average compared to the others despite a good time by Tom Cringle.

He is only 87% of the average for top 6:

1999 00:53:59 93.16%
2000 00:54:33 96.95%
2002 00:58:23 93.51%
2003 01:04:41 95.12%
2005 00:54:14 92.55%
2006 00:54:14 91.92%
2007 00:58:44 97.19%
2008 00:52:06 86.86%

But finally, if you look at the fastest time each year as a percentage of the average time, Kevin also has the best statistic (this is a correction from the original poost) . His time was only 74% of the average with the next best being Andy Fox with 75% in 2006.

1999 00:53:59 79.12%
2000 00:54:33 76.33%
2002 00:58:23 85.25%
2003 01:04:41 85.35%
2005 00:54:14 77.46%
2006 00:57:32 75.59%
2007 00:58:44 81.74%
2008 00:52:06 74.06%


There is enough to keep you warm in your anoraks over New Year - and that is without carrying out the same analysis over every single year.

Sports Personality Awards

I took some film of the Isle of Man Bank Sports Awards in March of this year. The video was only taken using my compact camera (as an afterthought). I usually like to get these things done straightaway when they are topical but there was something that my video editing software din't like about the file type generated from this camera. I've finally found a workaround using Windows MovieMaker to do the editing. The sound is very poor but the content, hopefully, is still of interest. I've just read that there is a special programme about Mark Cavendish on Eurosport at 8 pm tonight.

End to End Walk emails

I still have a number of email which I did not reply to in connection with the above. As virtually everyone reading this will recall, there was a controversy about the judging and I was bombarded with emails from people who did not think that the subject should be discussed in public to those that thought that only one side of the argument should be permitted.

I try very hard to resond to all the emails I receive but it is also difficult to give a one line response and I just don't have the time to enter into a dialogue on every topic.

I apologise, therefore, to the people who wrote to me on this subject that I have now decided that I am not going to try and reply.

Manx Wiki

One of the best new local sites is http://www.manxwiki.com/ although even here there are people who suggest that the information would be better integrated into Wikipedia.

Someone has already written a good piece on the Parish Walk at http://www.manxwiki.com/ There are a few small errors. I registered on the site with the intention of correcting them but have not done so yet.

I wonder if there are any manxathetics.com readers who would like to contribute to this site with some features on Manx events and Manx athletes.

The story about the launch of the site is contained here: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Manxwiki-to-offer-comprehensive-online.4716252.jp

Search Mann

Another Manx site I was asked to link to (some time ago but I've only just looked into it) was http://www.searchmann.com/

Its another good idea which seems to have died a death. The market is saturated.

Fixtures update

Bridget Kaneen circulated a revised 2009 fixture list on 16/12/08 which I have now updated on the site. The link is exactly the same as before:

http://www.manxathletics.com/Forms/09fixtures.pdf

The Manx Harriers club 5k walk has been adsed and there were corrections to the
dates for the March 10k walk champs and final winter league.

The only fixture that Bridget is aware of being missing now is the IOM track & field
champs. The track is likely to be closed from early July so the IOMAA are hoping to
find the most favourable date before that. Bridget says that any suggestions will be welcome!

50 mile walking

There was some discussion around the time of the Sara Killey memorial walk about various 50 mile events and Rob Elliott sent these old cuttings 0n 09/04/08 (double clip to see full size image). He had just received Australian Centurions Newsletter from Tim Erickson. He had enquired if an old GB time had been bettered for 50 miles walk. It had way back in 1974 by Ray Middleton, with Derek Harrison in it as well.

Richard Wild completed Dublin Marathon

After I had published a feature on the Dublin Marathon I learnt that Richard Wild (pictured above in the winter walking league) had also completed the course (I was in the middle of the Syd Quirk Half Marathon coverage by then).

Richard ran 4:14:21 despite recovering from a with a stomach virus which he picked up in India a fortnight earlier.

Lose weight after Christmas

This one goes back 14/01/08 - from my wife! Unfortunately I can't get the nice graphics to work which as why I never used it at the time:

Importance of Walking

Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $5000 per month.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. Now she's 97 years old and we don't know where the hell she is.

The only reason I would take up exercising is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.

I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

The advantage of exercising every day is that you die healthier.

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

And last but not least, You could run this over to your friends but why not just e-mail it to them!

Lugano Cup Walks photos from 1985

I think I have linked these before but I still had Rob Elliott's email in my "to do" folder so maybe I didn't. He sent me the link on 16/11/07 to his photos when the World Team Championships were held in the Isle of Man in 1985.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=isle%20of%20man&w=54713031%40N00

I'm sure that there are a few people who can comment on the content better than me.

Spot Alan Callow, Ian Hodgkinson, Phil Bannan, John Watterson in 1960

This link came from Graham Young on 25/11/08:

http://www.manxscouts.com/1960.html

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Manx Olympians

Dr Mark Robson at mrobson@earthlink.net wrote on 17/08/08 to ask the following question:


I am curious to find out about Isle of Man athletes who have been part of the GB team. I know that Mark Cavendish is on this year's cycling team in Beijing, but do you know of any Isle of Man athletes who were part of the GB Olympic team in 2004 or earlier?




Although I am interested in such questions they are best asked on the forum as I am afraid that I don't have the time to answer all such questions - or I put them aside hoping that I will!

Caption needed

This photo came from Dave Kneen on 12/09/08. I didn't publish it at the time - I was keeping it for a "rainy day" to ask for caption suggestions but I never found the time.

Now is your chance!

Dave's photos from the Great South Run are at:



http://www.davekneenphotos.com/Great-South-Run-Photographs-12th-September-2008/index.html

Alan Franklin wrote the following on 18/09/08 (I think that I have published all three but I'm not sure so I will include them all.

Have just had donated to the library two issues of IOM Sportsmag dated November and December 1967, do you know off hand if these were the only two issues, we don’t seem to have any copies in the museum collection.

With the E2E coming up I liked the race walking features so have attached copies, very young Robbie Lambie!

TIP: just double click on the photo/file to see in a larger format.

Trophy engraving

Malcolm Newton wrote on 06/07/08 to tell me the following:


Just a bit of publicity for the Manx Workshop for the Disabled . I have just had my Parish Walk trophy engraved there and they have made a very good job - I got my name and year added for £8 - photo attached. They can add on an extra line including position and time for a total price of £12.

Contact the Manager, Graham, on 620149 during working hours. Its just around the corner from Dave Newton's shop off Ballakermeen Drive in the old hospital.

Running Fitness Magazine

Here is the final missing link from the selection of news that Sue has sent me over the past few months but whhich I have failed to use (09/05/08).

It features the Easter Athletics Festival.

Running slows your aging

Here is another story from Sue from the BBC site (12/08/08):


Running 'can slow ageing process' Runners avoided premature deathRunning on a regular basis can slow the effects of ageing, a study by US researchers shows. Elderly joggers were half as likely to die prematurely from conditions like cancer than non-runners. They also enjoyed a healthier life with fewer disabilities, the Stanford University Medical Center team found. Experts said the findings in Archives of Internal Medicine reinforced the importance that older people exercise regularly. Survival of the fittest The work tracked 500 older runners for more than 20 years, comparing them to a similar group of non-runners. All were in their 50s at the start of the study. Nineteen years into the study, 34% of the non-runners had died compared to only 15% of the runners. Both groups became more disabled with age, but for the runners the onset of disability started later - an average of 16 years later. The health gap between the runners and non-runners continued to widen even as the subjects entered their ninth decade of life. If you had to pick one thing to make people healthier as they age, it would be aerobic exercise
Lead author Professor James FriesRunning not only appeared to slow the rate of heart and artery related deaths, but was also associated with fewer early deaths from cancer, neurological disease, infections and other causes. And there was no evidence that runners were more likely to suffer osteoarthritis or need total knee replacements than non-runners - something scientists have feared. At the beginning of the study, the runners ran for about four hours a week on average. After 21 years, their weekly running time had reduced to around 76 minutes, but they were still seeing health benefits from taking regular exercise. Lead author Professor James Fries, from the University of California at Stanford, said: "The study has a very pro-exercise message. If you had to pick one thing to make people healthier as they age, it would be aerobic exercise. "The health benefits of exercise are greater than we thought." Age Concern says many older people do not exercise enough. Figures show more than 90% of people in the UK over 75 fail to meet international guidelines of half-an-hour moderate intensity exercise at least five times a week. Gordon Lishman, director general, said: "This research re-confirms the clear benefits of regular exercise for older people. "Exercise can help older people to stay mobile and independent, ensure a healthy heart, keep weight and stress levels under control, and promote better sleep. "While younger people are barraged with encouragement to lead healthier lifestyles, the health needs of older people are often overlooked."

Stilletto Heels

Here is a story that Sue Ackroyd passed onto me on 2/9/08 which I'm afraid has been sitting in my mailbox:

The world record for the number of high-heeled sprinters in a race has been smashed by a group of women in Australia.

Two hundred and sixty-five women took part in the 80m dash in Sydney wearing three-inch heels.

Professional hurdler Brittney McGlone easily outran her competitors, taking home $5,000 Australian dollars (£2,500) and a pair of gold stilettos.

Baildon Boundary Way

I sometimes receive emails from race organisers. So in an attempt to clear some of my backlog of emails, here is an extract of one I received on 18/11/08.

Baildon Runners wish to announce that the 15th Baildon Boundary Way - a multi-terrain half marathon - will take place on 5 April 2009. Runners from your club have taken part in the event in the past and we would be very grateful if you would kindly publicise our event within your club. We are attaching an entry form in ‘WORD’ format. An entry form in ‘PDF’ format and more information about the event, in particular details of the route and the results from the previous 14 events, can be obtained from our website www.baildonrunners.tk.

Some videos may be removed

I don't know if many of you have read this story but one of the big music publishing companies have withdrawn their permission for their music to be used on YouTube.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKTRE4BJ1EY20081221?feedType=nl&feedName=uktechnology

The good news for some people who criticise my taste in music is that I might not get away with using Eagles music anymore as they are among the Warner artists.

Just as well that Marie and I booked to see the Eagles again in Manchester on 10 July. It will be the fifth time that I have seen them - the fourth with Marie during each of their last "world tours" in 2001, 2006, 2008 and 2009. Its funny as they get older how they can work harder to fund their retirement funds. I first saw them in Stafford in 1977 when my hair was as long as theirs.

Lots of things going on in the background to make the website better in 2009. I'm astounded by the growth in use of the site this year. The bad part is that it encourages my addiction. Some stats tomorrow.

Parish Walk blogs

I've just been catching up on the three Parish Walk blogs - and what a good collection of bloggers there are this year too.

If you have not been reading them, go to this page on the PW website for the links. They are well worth it.

There has been some good interaction this year with plenty of feedback.

It would be even better if a few more people added to the feedback. You can comment as a guest but these best way is to create an account at www.blogger.com You don't have to create a blog but you can make a shortcut to what they can the dashboard. If you click on the various blogs to follow them, then you will be advised of new postings each time you check the dashboard so that you don't have to check them all individually. If you really get hooked you can use the dashboard as the homepage!

I've got a few more ideas (and people pencilled in) for blogs for 2009.

Sports Awards

Thanks to Bridget Kaneen for letting me have the Sports Awards nomination form for publication.

I've added to the front page or you can access it from here.

There are certainly plenty of categories to think consider.

No secret santas

Some people seem to have been celebrating Christmas since the Summer but I had not even tasted Turkey until yesterday. I was supposed to be on my best behaviour last night when I went with Marie to the Speaker of the House of Keys' Christmas dinner.

We are having our Christmas party at lunchtime but as there are only two of us in our office playing secret santa creates a few problems! We will, however, be joined by one of our illustrious non-executive directors for lunch and with two of the three wives (Marie is unavailable) and so we can get our numbers up to five at the Garrison.

I'm always looking for ways to keep the entries rolling in for the Parish Walk and this weekend will be half way through the year for Parish Walk fans. That is today's little feature on the website.

Thanks to Andy Fox for the list of start times for the MWR. Normally Paul Jackson covers the relay but he has been on holiday this week so I have stepped in until PJ has a chance to get the Manx Harriers website updated.

Great coverage of athletics in the Manx Independent this week. I particularly liked the way John Watterson featured the star performance of Keith Gerrard and linked it to the schools cross country and "Who will be the next Keith Gerrard?"

Mann & Partners Millennium Way Relay Handicaps today

Teams should have already received the handicaps and start times but they are to be published in the Manx Independent today before being released online. If PJ is back from his holidays at the time the embargo is lifted they will be published at www.manxharriers.com otherwise I will put them on this site.

I have linked to all my MWR videos on the front page. We bought our first video camera in 1995 and I got involved in the MWR again the following year, helping Chris Quine to organise it for a few years. So the video was put to good use on Boxing Day. In previous years, the prize presentation had been downgraded and we wanted to make it a bit more worthwhile so we re-introduced food and thought that the video would help to pass the time whilst waiting for the results. I digitised the film last Christmas and put them onto YouTube.

Currently available is 1996, 1997 and 2000. The 1999 film is not currently available because I had a copyright issue with the music. I can't find any film from 1998. I started again in 2007 and hope to have some film of the middle stages this year.

I've also added a link to Adrian Cowin's YouTube channel.

We have a birthday today - Marie catches me up again after being 1 year behind for the past couple of months.

Going up next year

I've just added some photos to feature the first three fell races of 2009. I wonder if anyone can work out which year I took each photo?

Dave Ronan's remaining pictures of Keith Gerrard are also available now.

(I've just realised that I posted this to the wrong blog this morning at 6.55).

I'll write in the new year

How many times have you written that in a Christmas card and then not got around to doing so? Well, last night I started writing to some of the people I said that to last year! I got four off the list and although I was tracking my email and added one comment to the forum I kept away from web editing.

Thanks to Dave Ronan for the photos of Keith from Brussels. I have just added two of the four photos that he sent to me and I'll publish the other two tomorrow. I've just been doing the least rewarding part of the web editing job this morning when I clear things off the front page, create additional pages and then add the links from the front.

Don't forget to follow the link to Chris Quine's blog. You can do so here. http://manxcrosscountry.blogspot.com/

I'll be reviewing the Parish Walk entries and updating the blog there after breakfast.

Its more fun with alcohol

If I had known how many hours I would have spent on the website this weekend I doubt if I would have started!

I only just made it in time for the hill race as I had been busy in the morning cleaning one of our holiday properties. Marie normally cleans the apartment adjoining our house when we have a change of tenant but she has not been well so I took it on.

I intended to film from the same position as last year but I saw Steve Partington there so I moved to plan B. I tried to get enough video "in the can" of the runners going up the path before the sharp turn off (which I achieved) and then trying to get into position to catch them with Tynwald Hill in the background for some stills. I failed hopelessly with this task (I probably had the wrong lens) and I only used two of thirty seven and even one of these was totally out of focus.

The competition was good with Simon Skillicorn running well and, also as usual, being put under pressure from Tom Cringle. But sport has to be a mixture of serious endeavour and fun and so it added to the event to catch Simon (and several others) struggling on the way down. I mentioned beforehand that sometimes I wondered if the effort of producing videos justified the time but this one seemed to be well received - thanks for the feedback.

I vowed not to bother with video at the walks this morning though but after clicking 200 odd times I got out the video for the finish. It was a beautiful morning but there was too much sunshine so I had to take all the film from the same direction which didn't make it too exciting.

David Griffiths reminded me just in time that Keith Gerrard's race was on BBC interactive at 12.20 and I just managed to get home for this at the same time as putting the vegetables on to boil (that's another story).

Great excitement for Keith's race. His achievements are documented elsewhere but, suffice to say, they make an athlete of the year poll a bit meaningless.

But I couldn't resist another challenge for the website and so, when I realised how well he was going to do, I wanted to find a way of adding some of the film to the website. For those of you with Sky+, you will know that you can't record onto the hard disk on the Sky+ player from BBC interactive but it was Marie who came to the rescue. We "pump" the Sky channel around the house and have a very old Video combo in the kitchen and she said "why don't you just put the video on". Job done. Low tech solution!

So after publishing the photos and editing the winter league video this afternoon, I set about playing the video back through an adaptor and onto the hard disk of my PC (I thought I had got away from that when I bought a video with a hard disk). The video editing is not as professional as the BBC but I hope that it allows a few more people to get a little more enjoyment for their licence fees.

I spent five months from April to September without any alcohol and after a poor run in the second round of the cross country I decided it was time to forgo one of life's pleasures again. Last night, however, we were given some free wine from our regular Chinese takeaway. Despite my enjoyment of the run yesterday I was totally frustrated with not being able to train through injury, and so I decided "what the heck" I may as well enjoy a couple (I'm not so good with statistics after all!).

Tonight I prepared about half our Christmas cards and was ready for another glass or two. I've just watched my video from yesterday and it is quite funny watching some of you (apparently) descending to the rhythm of the music. I'm sure that it wasn't that funny before I had the wine. What a great weekend for local athletics.

I have some breathing space before providing some fringe coverage of the MWR although I have quite a few more things planned for the front page before then.

Keith Gerrard 7th in Europe

You can read what others have said about this great performance on the forum.

Here is some of the video footage from the BBC:

NB - this is only intended as news coverage (fair usage) and will be removed within 48 hours of publication.

Back at last

I've not really got back into the routine of communicating with the website readership since before I worked on the parishwalk.com site.

I have tried to make that a fairly static website with any new input coming from the blog at parishwalkcom2009.blogspot.com/

Its already two weeks ago since I went to the presentation by Andy Fox and his team on the planned coaching scheme, which is but a small part of the Development Plan which is soon to be underway. Despite me not having had the time to do so, I really want to play a part in the publicity of this scheme. I have had a few ideas including a separate website for all the information that coaches and potential coaches would need.

The questionnaire and Power Point publication have now been published elsewhere and I particularly like the way that Tom Cringle has them on the www.manxfellrunners.org site.

I enjoyed covering the Peel to Douglas Walk last Sunday and the video had the most interest of any video for a while. I blow hot and cold with my video coverage as it is the most demanding part of the website coverage but I am proud that some people enjoy them and within the next month I am expecting the total downloads of my videos to exceed the 100,000 mark. the www.youtube.com/murraylambden site was launched just over 21 months ago.

Its a busy weekend for local athletics but I am hoping to cover both events at St Johns. In fact, I will definitely cover them but it remains to be seen of I will be there in person.

I'm looking forward to watching the European Cross Country Champs on Sunday - I haven't really watched much cross country on TV in recent years but Chris Quine's build up the event helps create the interest.

I might have a run at the weekend after missing this week after an aborted session on Monday morning. I'm really keen to run in Blackburn but with only four weeks remaining and no consistent training for more than three months, the prospects are not great,

Biggest gap in the blog

The idea of this blog was to keep you informed about what or what wouldn't be covered on the http://www.manxathletics.com/ site to which the blog is attached.

Although I ran a number of stories on the site last week, virtually all of my spare time was spent on preparing and launching the http://www.parishwalk.com/ site. I only just made it for my self imposed deadline and work has continued on the statistical side to produce more material. I'm running a blog on that site too.

Back to my day job now but I hope to fill the gaps in what has been happening and will be happening soon.