Archive for January, 2012

The Mall shopping centre in Sutton Coldfield are launching a fantastic opportunity this week whereby your sports club, organisation can win £5000 ! The closing date for nominations is February 6th 2012.  Please nominate your club here. After nominations, shoppers at the mall will be able to vote for the 3 nominees and the winning club receive [...]

Midland XC Championships – 28 January

Posted: January 29, 2012 by Nick C in Race reports

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 [...]

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, [...]

Athletics on TV

Posted: January 26, 2012 by Nick C in General Info

There is coverage on BBC1 of the Aviva International Match in Glasgow this Saturday (from 1.30pm), with Mo Farah, Andy Turner and Hannah England in action.  A preview is available here.  The iplayer coverage is available here.

Midland Masters XC Championships – 22 January

Posted: January 23, 2012 by Nick C in Race reports

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

Midland Masters Handicap – 5 February

Posted: January 23, 2012 by royoldboyrunner in Race Notices

If you are a member of Midland Masters it is still not to late to enter the 5 mile handicap being held at Chelmsley Wood on the 5th February. Click here for an entry form.

Sportshall – 13 January

Posted: January 19, 2012 by megsamaniac in Race reports

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 [...]

Club records

Posted: January 19, 2012 by megsamaniac in General Info

Check out the Performance section of the site (click here), where we now have copies of all our club records.  Are there any you can aim to smash this season?!!! If you are a club member and believe that you have a record, but it isn’t listed on the club record page, please contact rscac@hotmail.co.uk with [...]

Not The Roman Nine – 15 January

Posted: January 18, 2012 by Nick C in Race reports

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

Club members make 2011 British Masters rankings

Posted: January 17, 2012 by Nick C in General Info

Congratulations to four of our athletes who were listed in the 2011 British Masters rankings published in Athletics Weekly: Kevin Brown – 1st Place in the M35, M40 and M45 categories for the Discus with a throw of 52.35m.  Kevin set this whilst representing the club during the league match at Newport. Donald Brown – 3rd [...]