Author: RSCAC Admin

Wow – What a result!!! A fantastic team performance saw the senior athletics team win the final fixture of the season.

The star performance of the day came from Nicholas Pryce who broke his own club record in the 100m with a time of 10.6, won his 200m and 400m races, recorded a 30m javelin throw and finished the day off with superb legs in the relays. What a day!!!

Kane Howitt scored stacks of points in the sprints and jumps, Lana Partridge and Megan McBrien dominated the middle distance races, whilst our throwers (Kevin Brown, Connor Notley, Graham Felton, Chrissie Prince, Lorna Foster and Fiona Smith) were all superb. In particular, Chrissie recorded fantastic wins in the shot putt and discus. Special mention also to Vici Richardson who ran a great 3k to win us 5 points only a few days after completing a 24 hour endurance race.

There were club records for Andrea Deathridge (W40 400m hurdles – 84.6), Fiona Smith (W50 Women Hammer (4Kg) – 25.72m), Graham Felton (M65 Hammer (7.26 Kg) – 18.81m) and Nick Corker (M35 3k steeplechase 10.01.8).

In summary, everyone contributed hugely with many people competing in multiple events and others competing in new events (both on Saturday and throughout the season). A fantastic team effort – Well done everyone!!!

Thanks as always to our officials and supporters who braved the at times apocalyptic conditions. As always your efforts are greatly appreciated!!!

And finally thanks to John T and Fiona S for all their support and efforts through the season as Team Managers.

Look out for a report in this weeks Observer.

 

Better late than never, a few results to catch up on. The YDL results for the lower and upper age group meetings are now available on the PoT.

YDL – Lower age group

YDL – Upper age group

There were some particularly strong performances for the throwers. At the U13/U15 meeting Regan Keating set a new club record of 8.57 metres in the under 13 shot, which takes her to number 4 in the West Midlands rankings. She came 2nd in the ‘A’ competition – Not bad after 6 weeks training and in her first competition!

• U17 Hammer 41.84 metres (now ranked 2nd in W Mids)
• U17 Discus 38.65 metres (now ranked 4th in W Mids)

4 brave runners battled through the monsoon on Saturday morning in the latest RSC Grand Prix event at Kingsbury Parkrun. Paul Davey was first home in 17.41 to take the top points. The other runners were Russell Simpson (17.55), Dean England (18.56) and Matt Powell (20.16). Updated results tables to follow shortly….

Laura Whittle showed she’s in great form ahead of the Commonwealth Games with a fantastic run at the prestigious Spitzen Leichathletik meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland. She set a new Club record of 15.20.92 in taking second place in the 5000m. This improved her previous best time by over six seconds set back in 2008 and puts Laura in 4th place on the 2014 British rankings. Well done Laura and all the best for the Games! 

There were a number of distance runners out at the Northbrook 10k in our latest Grand Prix race. Russell Simpson won the battle to be first home for the club fiishing in 18th overall in a time of 36.21. There were great runs also by:

• Steve Marklew – 36.58
• Jon Hopkins – 37.19 in his 1st race for the club
• Simon Corker – 37.25
• Matt Stenson – 41.28
• Matt Powell – 42.49 (PB)

Full results. Well done to everyone who took part!

We had four runners out at the Stratford Summer 6 bagging lots of Grand Prix points. Steve Marklew maintained his almost perfect record in the competition as the 1st man home for the club (2nd M50 overall) Dean England, Vici Richardson and Dean England all had great runs and moved up the Grand Prix ladder  Grand Prix Scores – 1 July 2014.

The next race in the series is the Northbrook 10k.

http://www.northbrookac.org.uk/10k/

Well done to Laura Whittle who had a great run at the British Championships on Sunday to finish in 3rd position in the 5k in a time of 15.50.21.

Nicholas Pryce also ran well, recording a time of 21.67 to finish 5th in the 200m heats on Friday evening.