Author: RSCAC Admin

Well done to everyone who took part in the Little Aston 5 mile road race and 2 mile fun run. Congratulations in particular to Chris Perrin who won the male open in a time of 26.29 and Fay Pollock who won the female open in a time of 34.33.

The results are available here: LA5 Results 2013

Many thanks also to the race sponsors: Hydro Mechanical Services Ltd, Midland Supply (Trophies), William Wheat and Son Ltd and Gomm Insurance

We’ll post some photos on the website later this week and look out for an article in the Sutton Observer this weekend.

Fred Tremblay had a great run on Sunday to win the 800m at the Stoke AC Open. In a mixed race which featured Emma Jackson (the 2012 UK runner up), Fred ran a time of 2.01.6 – a decent time given the windy conditions.

Fred was also in action at the BMC meeting at Coventry on the previous day where he ran a time of 1.59.4 to finish 3rd (with a characteristic strong finish). Theo Larcombe ran in the 1500m where he recorded a time of 4.27.18.

Well done Fred and Theo!

At the Ellesmere 10K, Russell Simpson ran a season’s best in 37’39 despite windy conditions. Well done Russell.

Well done to Andrea Deathridge who had a great run at the Coventry Godiva 5 mile road race (which doubled as the county champs). She ran a PB of 31.13 to win a Warwickshire County Championships silver medal and was also the first in her age group.

Paul Davey and Vici Richardson also had great runs. The results are available here.

A number of sprinters were in action at the weekend. At the Midland Under 17 Championships on Saturday Kane Howitt finished in 6th place having finished in second place in his heat.

At the Kettering Open meeting on Sunday Joella Spencer was the first woman in her 100m race in 13.4, while Charmaine Riley-Nelson was the third woman in her 100m race in 13.5. In the 200m Charmaine was the second woman in 27.0, just pipping Joella who was third in 27.3

Well done to Kane, Joella and Charmaine.

John Topliss

Laura Whittle has put in a couple of great runs on the track during the last week. Last Tuesday she ran 8.57 in a 3000m race at the Trafford Grand Prix. This puts her into 6th place in the Power of Ten rankings for the 3000m. At the weekend she raced in the Scottish Athletics Championships and finished 4th in the 1500m in a time of 4.19.

Elsewhere Simon Corker recorded a 3rd place finish in the Moreton Morrell 10k.

WOW, Keep your fingers crossed but following everyones great performances yesterday the provisional results show we finished the meeting in second place which puts us in second place in the League and will give us promotion as long as we do not get any crazy dqs. Super Duper. The results are attached below and show that in yesterdays meeting the Men finished in second place and the Women in sixth place which put us into second place on the combined scores. The final League position after the 4 meetings becomes.
1st Leicester 23
2nd RSCAC 18
3rd Abingdon 16 1/2
4th Solihull 16
5th Leamington 16
6th Dudley 12 1/2
7th Kidderminster 10

For those of you who I persuaded to take on extra events at the last minute you can see it was all worth it . Thats you Lucy, Andrea, Nick M, Megan Mc, Janice and Elmena. Thanks for supporting your team.

What a day for Nick Pryce setting new club records in the 400m (his first 400m of the year) with 48.7 (half second improvement on his own record) and the 100m with a 10.7. Both of these are also League Divisional records. He then went on to anchor both the 4x100m and the 4x400m relay teams to victory. In the 4x100m he teamed up with Kane, Luke F and Nick M and they got the closest I have seen to the club record for many years which was set back in 1987 when I was in the team.as a pretty 43 year old. In the 4x400m it was Stuart, Fred and Kieran who ran with him and once again got very close to the club record set back in 1989. Well done guys.

Andrea also set a new W35 record in the 3000m with 10.51.1.to break Yvonne Parkers record set back in 2000 and Fiona Smith broke her own W50 Hammer record with 23.71m. Well done Andrea and Fiona.

There were very many excellent performances, far too many to mention, but just a few interesting statistics about three performances. Kevins Discus throw of 48.79m is the second best M45 throw in the UK and he already has the best. Robs 1500m time of 4.18.3 puts him into second place in the M50 British rankings and he had a very sore Achilles. The 100m time of 13.2 in the 100m puts Fiona Ellis into 5th place in the W35 British rankings.

Finally a very, very special thanks to all our wonderful officials and helpers . Your support is invaluable.

All the best. John ( Winner of the prettiest Team Manager award for the tenth consecutive year)

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Katie Ingle ran a personal best of 10.20 to qualify for the final of the 3000m steeplechase at the European Junior Championships today. The final takes place on Saturday. Good luck Katie!

The U13s and U15s travelled to Banbury for a YDL fixture on Saturday. There were wins for Ben Horton, Georgia Platt, Maisie Cain, Jasmin Skipp and Jessica Tarr and great performances by everyone else. The results are available here.

Our distance runners were out in force at the Worcester Pitchcroft 10k. In scorching hot conditions Ollie Harradence had a great run to finish 2nd. We had another 6 runners in the top 20 – Dave Long (6th), Paul Terleski (9th), Paul Davey (11th), Russell Simpson (12th), Colin McAuley (14th) and Mark Rickards (17th and a PB). Vici Richardson finished 79th.