Our sprinters had a great start to the indoor season at the High Performance Centre on Saturday. Nicholas Pryce set another club record in the 60m sprint with a time of 7.03 seconds. This breaks a record of 7.1 seconds set in 1988 by James Simmons. Nicholas now is the holder of all the senior men club sprint records upto 400m. Adam Barnes also ran a couple of fast times.
The results are available here. Videos are available on the Athleticos site here. Nick’s record breaking run is here.
A 14th place finish for the senior men at a muddy Sandwell Valley yesterday. The star performance came from Ollie Harradence who finished in 23rd place, his best ever position in Division 1. Dave Long had a great run to get into the top 100, whilst Chris Taylor ran well to be our 6th counter. The full results are available here.
The Midland Women’s league race was run at the same venue. Andrea Deathridge was our only runner, finishing in 30th place.
Special thanks to Phil Pollock and Bob Owen who gave up their Saturday afternoon to help us with the marshalling and team management duties.
A fantastic day for our cross country runners at the Warwickshire county championships on Saturday. We had four individual winners, four team victories and medals won in every age group. Well done in particular to our new county champions Elemena Saunders (U15 Girls), Katie Ingle (U20 Women), Laura Whittle (Senior Women) and Nick Corker (Masters Men) and to our victorious U13 Girls, U15 Girls, U17 Womens and U20 Womens teams.
There were also individual silver medals for Kieran Mullis (U13 Boys) and individual bronze medals for Shaun Evans (U15 Boys), Georgia Curry (U15 Girls) and Megan McBrien (Junior Women). The U15 Boys and Masters Mens teams picked up silver medals and the U13 Boys won bronze medals.
Many other runners finished in top ten positions putting them in contention for selection for the inter county championships later in the year.
The full results are available here.
We also had some runners competing at the Staffordshire County Championships. Results and photos are available here. Well done everyone!
For those wanting to train in comfort and warmth the NIA is opening its doors to the public for training between 1700hrs and 2100hrs on the following dates:
The cost is £3 for an adult and £2 for an U18 and OAP. For further details click here.
Our cross country teams kick off 2013 with the County Championships this Saturday. The Warwickshire Championships will be taking place at Leamington and race details are available here.
As an appetiser click here for a link to a youtube click from the recent Birmingham XC league race at Leamington showing the senior men tackle the stream crossing – given the recent rain I think you can expect to get wet feet at this race!
Good luck also to anyone competing at the Staffordshire County Championships in Wolverhampton.
For the armchair athletes there’s also cross country on TV this weekend, with the Great Edinburgh cross country being shown on BBC1 from 1pm.
We had a couple of runners competing in the Wheaton Aston Roman 10k. Ollie Haradence finished third in a time of 32.55. Paul Terleski was 17th in 36.40. Great running guys!
Race results and photos (like the one shown of Ollie splashing round the course) are available on Bryan Dale’s website here.
The 100 club and Christmas prize draws were made on Thursday night and the winners were……..
The Christmas prize draw raised £92 for the club – thanks to everyone who took part.
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our members and helpers. All the best for 2013.
The Management Committee
Well done to Laura Whittle who had a fantastic victory in the Telford 10k. She beat a quality field to win in a time of 34.14. Race results and photos are available on Brian Smith’s website here.
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Well done to everyone who ran in the third league race at Sandwell Valley. Highlights were a second successive victory for Elemena Saunders and a team victory for the U11 girls. The full results are available here.
Royal Sutton Coldfield AC 
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