Royal Sutton Coldfield Athletics Club

Well done to everyone who performed at the B’ham games at the NIA this weekend. Day 1 results are now available here. I’m sure it won’t be long before todays are up too. There was a notable win for Charlotte Newman in the 200m – her 1st ever indoor competition. Stefan flew as he always does around the 200m and the 60m. As did Luke Flemming in the 200m. Adam Barnes ran against Richard Buck, which is quite a claim, and I ran alongside an Olympic Champion! Can you believe it, I raced Christine Ohuruogu in the 60m. She came third…..I came last. But I enjoyed it, which is the main thing. I also got 3 no jumps in my long jump (all over 5m though, which is quite a positive). So all in all a good day! I wasn’t there today, but I know there were more Sutton athletes there again. Hopefully there have been even more good performances.

Next week it’s the Midlands indoor. Good luck to anyone who is competing. I’m leaving that one to the pros!

Update

Day 2 results are now available here with Nicholas Pryce and Kathryn Smith both in action.  

A link to a video of Nicholas Pryce’s win in the 200m heats is available here courtesy of Athleticos.  A link to the other Athleticos video coverage is available here.

Results are available here for the Midlands XC Championships at Nottingham.  The U17 women continued their fantastic season by winning the team event for their age category, with Katie Ingle 4th, Megan McBrien 7th, Gabrielle Kinney 10th, Rebecca Robinson 12th and Rachel Smith 40th.

The results for other Royal Sutton runners were:

• U13 girls – Laura Richardson (20th), Grace Stirland (52nd)
• U15 boys – Alfie McBrien (14th), Shaun Evans (46th), Jerome Austin (60th)
• U20 women – Amy Johnson (11th)

Well done to everyone who took part.

Photos are available here.  Videos are available here.

The results are now available from the race at Nuneaton last Sunday (click here).  Well done to everyone who braved the windy conditions.  We scored 5,320 points which leaves us in 4th place, 77 points behind Halesowen (who scored 186 points more than us on the day).  There were some great performances – in particular, there were top 5 finishes for Ellen Humpherson (U11 girls), Laura Richardson (U13 girls), Elemena Saunders (U15 girls) and Alfie McBrien (U15 boys).

The final league race is on 19 February at Perry Park.  Let’s have a big effort and see if we can end the season in 3rd place.

Good luck to all those competing at the Midland Championships tomorrow!

Well done to Clive Sayers, Roy Humpherson and Bunny Kyd who were M65 team runners up at the Midland Masters XC championships at Droitwich.  In the individual race Clive was 8th (M65), Roy was 11th (M65) and Bunny was the 6th (M70).

Results are available here

Photo courtesy of Brian Smith

Well done and a big thank you to everyone who represented the club in the Sportshall competition last Friday. We had a great turn out with some great performances.  Well done athletes and team managers. A special mention must go to Will B, who had the run of his life in the U15 2 lap…what a victory!  An extra congratulations to Chrissie P, Hannah L, Kane H and Matthew P as they have been selected to represent Birmingham on 26th Feb in the regional final….best of luck.

If you’d like to see the results from Friday, here is the link: http://bhamshall.sports.officelive.com/default.aspx  Please note that you’ll need to enter your hotmail address and password to access the results.

Have a nice weekend,
Meg x

Well done to Pete Parker who was the M55-59 age group winner in the Not the Roman Nine race.  He ran the 12km course in a time of 45.01.  Other Royal Sutton runners were Ali Evetts, Stephen Sutton, Sarah Smewin and Bunny Kyd.  Results are available here