RSCAC Admin Race Notices

The final Sportshall match takes place this Friday

The final Sportshall indoor athletics match of the winter takes place this Friday at Stockland Green Leisure Centre, Slade Road, Erdington from 7-9.45pm. There are competitions (races and relays, standing jumps, speed bounce, chest pushes, etc, etc) for the U11, U13 and U15 age groups (school years 5 to 10)

If you are competing wear shorts, a club vest or Royal blue T-shirt and trainers and bring some safety pins and a drink.

If you’d like to compete or want more details please speak to Tony Ashford, Megan Evans or Fiona Smith. A link to the Birmingham Sportshall website is here.

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National XC Championships – 22 February

For once the weather gods were kind on us. After weeks of rain and a winter of trudging through deep mud those who travelled to Nottingham were treated to Spring like conditions and a hard, fast and entertaining course (thanks from the steeplechasers amongst us for the nice log jump!).

Katie Ingle and Megan McBrien provided the top performances on the day with Katie finishing 17th and Megan finishing 37th in the Junior Women’s race. Georgia Curry also had a great run to finish 69th in the U15 girls race.

Well done to everyone else who competed – there were lots of runners who were competing at the National for the 1st time and they all ran superbly. The RSC results are below:

  • U13 boys – Stephen Shirley 243rd; Tom Hancox – 252nd; Ben Horton 344th
  • U13 girls – Ellen Humpherston 159th; Melissa Adkins 161st; Georgia Platt 231st; Lucy Ollerenshaw 250th.
  • U15 girls – Georgia Curry – 69th; Lois West – 243rd; Libby Dunne – 248th; Becky Evans – 305th; Ella Bissell – 322nd
  • U17 men – Jerome Austin – 181st
  • Junior women – Katie Ingle – 17th; Megan McBrien – 37th
  • Senior Men – Nick Corker – 173rd; Chris Taylor – 469th; Dave Long 559th; Tom Chew – 719th; Richard Lewis – 1214th.

Full results are available on the ECCA website. There are photos available on the Mudrunner Photography Flickr pages and videos on the Athleticos website.

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Birmingham Games – 16 February

There were some great results at the Birmingham Games. In particular, Donald Brown lowered his own club age group record in the 60m hurdles with a time of 9.04 seconds. RSC results available below:

  • Nicholas Mbewe –  60m – 7.52 (3rd); 200m – 24.00 (3rd)
  • Kane Howitt –  60m – 7.39 (4th)
  • Amiyah Forrest – 60m – 8.27 (4th)
  • Joella Spencer – 60m – 8.30 (2nd)
  • Nicholas Pryce – 200m – 22.22 (3rd)
  • Donald Brown – 60m – 7.60 (3rd); 60m hurdles – 9.04 (1st)

The full results are available here: Birmingham Games

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Indoor Athletics roundup

Our athletes showed some great early season form at the indoor meetings last weekend. Nicholas Pryce ran a time of 22.08 in the 200m at the British Indoor Championships.

Donald Brown and Fiona Ellis both set new club age group records at the Midland Indoor Championships. Donald set a new M50 record in the 60m hurdles with a time of 9.12. Fiona broke her own M35 record with a time of 8.29 in the final of the 60m.

Continuing success at the Midlands Champs, it was a win for Gabrielle Kinney in the U20 800m, 2.17.79.

Luke O’Brien finished an impressive 4th in the U13 Quadrathon.

Rachel Iliffe jumped a new PB of 1.40 to finish 6th in the U17 HJ.

Mollie Darrock was disappointed with 4.70m, putting her 7th in the U17 LJ. She also ran 44.82 for 300m.

Charlotte Newman finished 5th in her U20 400m after running 200m in lane 3! If she had been told to break at the right place, she would have finished in the top 2.

It was a 2nd place finish for Luke Fleming in the U20 400m, 53.05s.

Kane Howitt clocked 7.35s in the U20 60m. Amiyah Forrest was 6th in the women’s event, 8.21s. Amiyah also finished 3rd in her 200m heat, 27.52.

The full results are available below:

Day 1

Day 2