Sunday 26th September 2003
The Ampthill Trophy – How it Began Again
Following the success of the re-launched Flitwick 10K the committee felt it would be a good idea to put on another event to keep interest up and to raise the profile of the club even further.
The idea of a cross country event using Ampthill park seemed a good one as we already had useable courses and the contacts to make it relatively easy. The decision was taken to set the date just before the cross country season started to try to promote it as a warm up.
The name came about as a ‘tribute’ to the old Beefeater Trophy events which, we hoped, would attract runners with fond memories of those races.
Keith and I once again stepped up to the mark as organisers with Keith as director and myself as race entries and secretary. Phil Bierton took on the mantle of setting up the courses based loosely on the Beefeater ones and provided much needed IT support. Unfortunately we had to avoid, the much loved, Breakheart Hill as it was becoming excessively eroded
We decided to keep the event very low key as we had little time to organise it. I designed an entry form, which Keith ran off at work, placed an advert in Runners World and put entry forms on the windscreen of every car at every event we went to. We then sat back to see if anyone would bite. We had no sponsorship and no fund to call on and expected to be lucky to break even.
Entries were very slow to come in and with a week to go we called off the junior race as there were only 3 entrants all from one family (the Drinkwater boys).
On the day we took enough entrants to double the postal entry and had a total of just under 50 runners.
We made a very small profit due to the sale of teas and bacon butties but it launched what is now a successful season opener.
Wendy Kent
Ladies
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1 |
Sarah Thomson |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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2 |
Caroline Gilby |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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3 |
Cherie Hart |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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4 |
Allison Ratcliffe |
Milton Keynes AC |
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5 |
Zoe Dawson |
Biggleswade AC |
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6 |
Victoria Adams |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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7 |
Jackie Edwards |
Unattached |
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8 |
Christine Sharp |
North Herts Road Runners |
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9 |
Lynne Murray |
Unattached |
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10 |
Chris Ryder |
Unattached |
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11 |
Justina McLennan |
Vegetarian Cycling & Athletic Club |
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12 |
Justine Goode |
Unattached |
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13 |
Susan Wright |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
Men
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1 |
Tom May |
Leighton Buzzard AC |
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2 |
Dave Brown |
Unattached |
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3 |
Tim Harris |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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4 |
Stephen Hartley |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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5 |
Steve James |
Beds & County |
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6 |
Adrian Wadsworth |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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7 |
Mark Smith |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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8 |
Andy Bierton |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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9 |
Steven Millington |
Halesowen AC |
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10 |
Ian Owens |
North Herts Road Runners |
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11 |
Neil Gregory |
Biggieswade AC |
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12 |
Tony Cole |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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13 |
Kevin Millington |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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14 |
Graham Busch |
Stopsley Striders |
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15 |
Andy Page |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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16 |
Zac Hollis |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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17 |
Damien Pitts |
Biggleswade AC |
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18 |
Morris Dempster |
Unattached |
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19 |
Chris Priestley |
North Herts Road Runners |
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20 |
Graham Short |
Bedford Harriers |
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21 |
Paul Mason |
Milton Keynes AC |
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22 |
Steve Smith |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
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23 |
Paul Taylor |
Vegetarian Cycling & Athletic Club |
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24 |
Gary Fuller |
Bedford Harriers |
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25 |
Paul Campbell |
Unattached |
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26 |
Michael Chance |
Milton Keynes AC |
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27 |
Cohn Bennetts |
Bedford Harriers |
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28 |
John Adam |
Leighton Buzzard AC |
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29 |
lan Mcintosh |
Unattached |
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30 |
Robert Boss |
North Herts Road Runners |
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31 |
lan Cousins |
Stopsley Striders |
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32 |
lan Sharp |
North Herts Road Runners |
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33 |
Paul Bowal |
North Herts Road Runners |
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34 |
Rob Cook |
Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers |
Last Updated: Sunday, 28 October 2007 08:30