Our Young Athletes are competing at Northampton this Sunday in the latest West Midlands XC league fixture. We are responsible for looking after the funnel and desperately need helpers. If any parents/supporters are able to spare half an hour to “man” the funnel we’d love to hear from you. Please speak to Katie Jennings at training tomorrow or let your coach know.
100 club – December draw
The 100 Club Christmas Draw took place on Thursday 15th. Congratulations to Monica Morrin winning £100 with number 44.
Merry Christmas to all 100 Club Members and thank you once again for your continued support.
There are still numbers available for next year – “you have to be in it to win it”
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all at RSCAC.
John
Senior XC races – 3 December
On Saturday our senior men and women were in action at Sandwell and Stratford on Avon in the second round of their respective cross country league fixtures.
It was another fine performance from the RSCAC Ladies team competing at a new venue on a very undulating and old style cross country course. All the runners had to be sure of their footing on this arduous course and it was of no surprise that there were several falls with 28 teams and over 232 runners competing on the day in this division. Although the team was depleted due to injuries and other commitments those that did run gave the club an excellent result, packing closely together. The 1st runner home for the club was Rachel Thebridge 97th place and 36th Senior, 2nd Georgia Delaney 101st place and 6th Junior, Helen Elsoueidi 115th place 69th Master being third home followed by Emily Campion 137th and 7th Junior. Overall an excellent result from this mixed team of Juniors, Seniors and Masters.
The men, racing at Sandwell Park, put out a team of 15 runners as they looked to consolidate their mid table position in their first season back in the top flight. Right from the off, Shaun Evans, Alex Jones and Ollie Harradence made strong starts with Evans running in a small group that broke away early with Jones and Harradence settling into the second group. While Jones dropped of the early pace, he held on to stay in the first 6 runners home for the club and joined by Tom Chew, Joe Spruce (making his debut for the club) and Dave Long, who all displayed some positive running to work their way through the field, to earn team RSCAC 10th place out of the 16 competing clubs on the day. This result sees RSCAC maintain the same 10th position in division one some 267 points & 4 places above the relegation zone. Special mention should go to Evans who finished in 10th place overall and 2nd in the junior men’s race for under 20’s
The B team was brought home by Mark Rickards followed by Fred Tremblay, Simon Corker, Russell Simpson, Steve Pitt and John Fletcher with Trevor Lewis, Paul Jenkins and Matt Stenson making up the club numbers.
The next race league fixtures for both men & women takes place on the 14th January 2017.
Latest 100 club winners
100 club winners in November draw
- £50 no.91 Roy Humpherson
- £30 no.13 Ian Riley
- £25 no.41 Sarah Smewin
- £15 no.38 Fiona Smith
- £15 no.6 Anne & Steve Mason
- £15 no.18 Joyce Hinchley
Congratulations to all our winners and thank you for your support. Numbers are still available to enter in draws from January 2017. December’s £100 draw will take place on Thursday December 15th not the 22nd.
Senior XC leagues – 12 November
The new cross country season started on Saturday for the seniors of Royal Sutton Coldfield Athletics Club with the men venturing down to Cheltenham in their return to Division one of the Birmingham and District cross country league. Competition was expected to be fierce with all the region’s top athletics clubs and universities competing in the four fixture season and a tough road ahead for RSCAC to retain their place in the top flight.
On a fast and firm course there was some excellent individual and team running resulting in a promising start to the season with Shaun Evans running through strongly after a slow start to coming home in 20th place followed by Ollie Harradence in 48th position. These were well supported by Alex Jones, making his senior debut, and Tom Chew in 101st and 107th positions with the scoring team being completed by Mark Rickards (162) and Dave Long (164) who ran tactically gain valuable points between them. At the end of the day, team RSCAC were placed 10th overall, four places and 83 points above the relegation places.
The B team was made up of Simon Corker, Russell Simpson, Dean England, Matt Powell, Iain Mackie (in his debut run for the club) and Trevor Lewis with supporting running from Paul Jenkins.
The second league fixture is on 3rd December on the challenging Sandwell Valley course where the club hope to build on this encouraging start.
For the clubs senior women, their Midland Women’s Cross Country League division 2 campaign started at Newbold Common in Leamington Spa. After torrential rain in the morning the weather improved to give a damp but warm start to the race on this hilly course for the five club athletes who ventured out, 2 of whom had only just reached the age to compete in this league.
It was an excellent result for the club, the team finished 8th out of the 26 teams competing in the division with over 220 runners competing.
The first finisher for the club finishing in 3rd place overall and 1st Junior was Georgia Currie followed by Andrea Deathridge (19th) Held Elsoueidi (86th) Rachel Thebridge (87th) and Georgia Delaney (100th). An excellent performance we now look forward to the next meeting on the 3rd December at Stratford.
Distance running catch up
A belated catch up on some of the recent distance races, with RSC athletes in great form on the roads and in the early season XC races.Last weekend Ollie Harradence had a great run in the Birmingham Half finishing 19th in 1 hour 13 minutes and 47 seconds, whilst managing to get plenty of coverage on Channel 5. Well done Ollie!!! Well done also to the other RSC runners who raced both at Birmingham and at other marathons and half marathons in recent weeks.
We had a number of teams in action at the National Road relays. The men finished 68th whilst the women finished 38th. The fastest times were run by Shaun Evans for the men and Mel Woodward for the women, whilst most (if not all) runners had significant improvements in their times from the Midlands Road Relays. For the juniors the top performance came from the U13 girls who were 21st. RESULTS
In the first West Midlands Young Athletes XC RSC finished 8th.The top performance came from Charlotte Prince who won the U11 girls race. RESULTS MARC KIRSTEN PHOTOS
Well done and good luck in all the forthcoming XC races.
Updated club records now available
We’ve updated the club records to show all new records set since the end of June. Blimey – we’ve had some great performances with 20 new club records and one new British record (congrats Janice Pryce) in the last couple of months of the season. Well done to all our record breakers!!!
Cross Country is back!!!
It’s that time of year again. Get those muddy spikes out of the garage because cross country is back. The youngsters kick off the season this weekend with the first race at Hatton Country World. A list of the key races is set out below. Get the dates in the diary.
- Sun 2 Oct – West Midlands Young Athletes XC Race 1 – Hatton Country World
- Sat 5 Nov – National XC Relays – Mansfield
- Sat 12 Nov- Senior XC leagues
- Sun 20 Nov – West Midlands Young Athletes XC Race 2 – Warley Woods
- Sat 3 Dec – Senior XC leagues
- Sun 11 Dec – West Midlands Young Athletes XC Race 3 – Perry Park, Birchfield
- Sat 7 Jan – Warks and Staffs County XC Champs
- Sat 14 Jan – Senior XC leagues
- Sun 15 Jan – West Midlands Young Athletes XC Race 4 – Abingdon Park – Northampton
- Sat 28 Jan – Midland XC Champs – Prestwold Hall, Loughborough
- Sat 11 Feb – Senior XC leagues
- Sun 12 Feb – West Midlands Young Athletes XC Race 5 – Aldersley Stadium, Wolverhampton
- Sat 25 Feb – National XC Champs. Wollaton Park, Nottingham.
- Sat 11 Mar – UK Inter-Counties XC and World Trials
Further information is available on the league websites:
Midland Road Relays
Some great performances from Sutton athletes at the Midland Road Relays last Saturday. Laura Whittle showed she has maintained her Olympic form running the fastest leg of the day. She led the women’s team home to a 6th place finish. The men also ran well, with the young team finishing in 24th place to secure qualification for the Nationals.
Tickets for the annual presentation evening are all sold out
Tickets for the annual presentation evening are now all sold out. Unfortunately admittance is by ticket only.
Royal Sutton Coldfield AC 
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