Flora London Marathon 2004 (last updated 10 February 2009)

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©Daventry Express 2004

Rachel, Lynne, Tracey, Lindsay, Catharine, Kim

Tim, Bill, Peter, Steve, Mark, Rob

TEH London Marathon Runners 2004

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Bill Messinger - public ballot - photos (1) (2) (3) Thankyou

Kim Messinger - c/f from 2003 - photo (1) (2) (3)

Lindsay Scholey - charity place - photo (1) (2)

Lynne Watkinson - good for age - photo (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Peter Taylor - good for age - photo (1) (2) (3) (4)

Rachel Punch - secondary ballot - photo (1) (2)

Rob Watkinson - charity place - photo (1)

Steve Best - charity place - photo (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Tim Dunkley - public ballot - photo (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)


Commiserations to our three runners forced to withdraw due to illness or injury - good luck next year!!

Catharine Leatherland - charity place (photo)

Mark Watson - club place (photo)

Tracey Beynon - carried forward from 2003 (photo)


Race Facts Figures & Statistics

Report

Times, Places & Splits

Splits Chart

Pace Chart

Cumulative Chart


More Stats - Starters & Finishers !!

Total number registered: 32581

Total number started: 32099

Total number finished: 31796

Total Men finished: 23355

Total Women finished: 8441

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Is This a Record? Do Marathons “run” in the Family?

East Haddon, Northamptonshire - a small rural village .. population of 18-80 year olds approx 400

Team East Haddon Running Club .. membership total 37

Number of East Haddon runners in London Marathon 2004 ..12 which equates to one runner to every 33rd person in the village and one in three club members

Can any city, town or village beat this?

Approaching 10% of the working aged population of East Haddon are members of our local running club Team East Haddon and this year no less than twelve members have obtained places to participate in the Flora London Marathon.

Most experienced of these is club president Peter Taylor who has been running for 30 years and is now a veteran of 12 marathons achieving a personal best time of 2hrs 42mins in 1990. Peter last ran London in 2002 when he finished in 3hrs 5mins making him a good for age qualifier.

Our other good for age qualifier this year is club secretary Lynne Watkinson who has been running for a little over three years in which time she has run London twice with a near elite personal best of 3hrs 16mins which she set at her last attempt in 2002.

Of the other participants those to have run London once before are Kim and Bill Messinger (who represent one of our two husband and wife teams taking part this year). Kim made her first start in 2002 whilst Bill made his previous start along with Mark Watson and Tim Dunkley in 2003.

New to London, though not to marathon running, are Rachel Punch and Lindsay Scholey - both of whom completed the Dublin Marathon in 2001.

Our marathon debutantes this year are Catharine Leatherland, Tracey Beynon, Steve Best and Rob Watkinson (the other half of our other husband and wife team).

Now if only Lindsay’s husband Jamie and Steve’s wife Gael were to repeat their London marathon efforts of 2002 and 2003 respectively ... !!!

Thinking of running London in 2005?

The clock is already running!!

Daventry Express - Photo Shoot

On 13 March 2004 Ian Spencer from Daventry Express visited East Haddon to take pictures of our 2004 London Marathon team.

The article published in the paper and copies of the photograph(s) can be viewed/purchased online by clicking (here)

Heroes and Villains

Half a million cheers to the spectators, helpers and officials who spent most of Sunday getting wet and cold just for our benefit - thank you very much.

Lemon of the Day Award must go to Orange (the mobile phone company) who offered to send free text messages showing real time 10k split times to three recipients nominated by each runner. Unfortunately it all went pear shaped and all anyone received was an apology for failing to deliver!!