The winners for last Thursday’s 100 club draw were :-
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks for your support! Don’t forget the £100 Draw on Thursday 19th December – please speak to John Mills or ask at the coffee bar if you’d like to take part.
The U11 training squad and “Brian’s stars” will be heading to Cannock Chase on Sunday 22 December for a festive and fun training run across the Chase. Meeting at 8.50am at the clubhouse (for a 9am departure) the group will be heading over to Milford for a run (with lots of singing – Jingle bells, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, etc), followed by lunch at the Barley Mow Restaurant and a return for approx. 2.45pm. The cost is £8 and parents/helpers would be more than welcome.
Please speak to Martin Phipps or Brian Higson if you want to go or if you require further details.
There’s a busy weekend ahead with all our cross country teams in action. On Saturday the senior men compete at Burbage Common, whilst the senior women travel to Wolverhampton. Both teams are hoping to build on their strong start to the season (with both teams in 4th place in their respective leagues).
On Sunday the junior teams are in action in the 3rd West Midlands Young Athletes match at Halesowen.
The race details are available below:
Good luck to everyone racing!
Friday training sessions will be taking place indoors at the Alexander Stadium High Performance Centre up to and including Friday 20 December (5.30pm – 7pm). Long and triple jump, high jump, hurdles and sprints will be on offer. Pay at the Alexander Stadium main entrance – then walk over to the indoor centre. The cost is £2.40 for U16’s, £4.80 for older. For further details please speak to Megan Evans.
Have you moved house recently or changed telephone phone number? If so, have you let notified the club? Please let us know any changes to your contact details – Either email rscac@hotmail.co.uk or tell the team at the coffee bar.
The next 100 club draw will take place on Thursday 28th November in the Clubhouse. The £100 Christmas draw on is on Thursday 19th December. There are still numbers available – Ask at the coffee bar or speak to John Mills if you would like to take part.
There was some fantastic running by our young athletes in the second West Midlands Young Athletes XC fixture at Wolverhampton yesterday. In testing conditions the star performance came from Alex Stapleton who won the U11 boys race in style. He took the lead on the long hill and held off a spirited late surge from his rival to claim victory. He was followed home by Joseph Martin in 3rd place, with Daniel Olatundun also having a great run in 14th. Overall the U13 boys finished 2nd.
The U11 girls also packed well to secure a 2nd place team finish with Holly Tyson (4th), Lucia Cantone (9th), Lucy Corker (11th) and Tamsyn Booth (12th) all finishing in the top 20.
In the U13 boys race Lewis Duval was the 1st Royal Sutton runner home in 8th place, whilst in the U13 girls race the top performances came from Ellen Humpherston and Melissa Adkins who finished 10th and 12th respectively.
In the U15 girls race Georgia Curry ran superbly to finish 4th. Elsewhere, there we’re top 20 finishes for Shaun Evans, who was 13th in the U17 Men’s race and Sophia Karski, who was 14th in the U17 women’s race.
Overall, the strong showing by all our athletes resulted in Royal Sutton finishing 4th on the day out of the 19 clubs competing. After two races the club is now 3rd in the league, with the next race at Halesowen in early December. Let’s have another great performance then!
The full results are available here and photos taken by Marc Kirsten are available on our FLICKR page here.
The second Sportshall (indoor athletics) match 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) – it’s lots of fun!
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 want more details please speak to Tony Ashford, Megan Evans or Fiona Smith. A link to the Birmingham Sportshall website is here.
Good luck everyone!
The senior men had a solid start to their league season with the A team finishing 4th and the B team winning the B race. There were great performances by everyone and it was particularly pleasing to have 19 Royal Sutton athletes out braving the mud.
Standout performances came from Paul Davey, who scored for the A team for the 1st time, and Vikram Balachandar, who was narrowly pipped to the last A team place. There were also great league debuts for Tom Chew and Liam Sparrock. The individual placings were as follows:
A team: Nick Corker (5th), Ollie Harradence (6th), Fred Tremblay (30th), Paul Terleski (46th), Paul Davey (48th) and Simon Corker (55th).
B team: Vikram Balachandar (56th), Chris Taylor (62nd), Colin McAuley (77th), Tom Chew (83rd), Liam Sparrock (84th) and Russell Simpson (101st).
C team: John Fletcher (112th), Dave Liddall (146th), Simon Ralph (153rd), Subodh Dave (158th), Richard Lewis (192nd), Paul Jenkins (213th) and Matt Stenson (217th).
The full results are available here. Photos are available on the Mudrunner Photography website here.
The senior women had a fantastic start to the league season, with a 4th place finish (out of 37 teams) at a muddy Newbold Comyn, Leamington. In a top quality field there were great runs by Katie Ingle (10th), Megan McBrien (24th), Larna Partridge (43rd), Amy Johnson (59th) and Vici Richardson.
The results are available here. The photo is from the Mudrunner Photography collection here.
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