29/12/13 Godiva 5 – Tempo Run

Godiva 5 A last minute decision saw the project travel to Coventry in a bid to get a tempo run under the belt ahead of the County XC Champ’s next week. Seeing the usual faces at the startline and feeling the usual Christmas bulge in the vest, it was a wise decision. A target of…

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MCKEP Awards Night

Friday saw the first end of season awards bash for the McCarkiss Elite Project. The bash was held at five different pubs in the Kenilworth area, beginning at 3pm and ending at 8pm when the project moved onto the Kenilworth Runners Xmas party. With McCarthy planning to leave the evening early, the club passed a…

Simkiss crosses the line as the official timing clock reads 32:19

Stewards Enquiry For Simkiss?

McCarkiss Elite Project backroom staff are deliberating whether to launch a stewards enquiry regarding athlete Rich Simkiss’s official finish time at Telford 10k this weekend. A published time of 32:20 contradicts video evidence clearly showing Simkiss crossing the finish line in a time of 32:19. STOP PRESS; News just in… Deliberations have concluded at…

Project Milford: Telford 10k – McCarthy 32:42

Telford 10k – McCarthy 32:42 I knew all along this was going to be a PB. The night before the race as I ‘quaffed’ on a bottle of red wine and devoured my oversize pizza, legs fresh from not bothering to run but instead tackle the shops of Birmingham, I knew Milford would go better…

Project Milford: Telford 10k – Simkiss 32:20

Long waffle-y race report warning… After what felt like a mediocre performance at Leeds 10k and the sense of ‘nothingness’ that it brought about, plans of an end of season break were soon quashed by myself and Chris in favour of pursuing a better 10k time – one which we would feel better reflected the…

Project Milford: Update

Early news in from Telford indicates Simkiss has obliterated the MCKEP and Kenilworth club records with a blistering 32:20, with McCarthy also removing 14 seconds off his Leeds time to PB in 32:42. More to follow Project Milford is over.

Simkiss attacks the opening descent at Telford back in Jan 2011 on his way to a then PB of 32:41

Race Preview – Project Milford – Telford 10k

Less than an hour remains before D-Day of ‘Project Milford’ – which has MCKEPs biggest failure of a training programme to date. Early days of the project where blighted with zero motivation from the ‘near retirement’ McCarthy while Simkiss nailed early sessions in a manner which suggested he didn’t fulfil is potential at Leeds. As…

Simkiss’ Continued Affiliation to MCKEP in Question

The future of Simkiss as a member of the Cawston Grange’s finest training group, the McCarkiss Elite Project, has been thrown into question after a turbulent weekend in the club camp. The former MCKEP ‘Top Boy’ has been found to have broken the first and foremost commandment of MCKEP “Run Hard, and Don’t be Shit”,…

Birmingham XC League 2013 – Race 2: Northampton

Race two saw the return of McCarthy to the country, now into his 7th month of an injured ankle. Simkiss was again turning out on the back of some good recent form and some impressive training pace. From the gun Andy Siggers led out the green of Kenilworth with a pack of Gould, McCarthy and…

McCarkiss Endurance Project

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