London Marathon – 22 April

Well done to the twelve Royal Sutton athletes who completed the London Marathon today.  The 1st runner home for the club was Dave Long who finished in 2 hours 48 minutes, knocking a massive 4 minutes off his PB.  Russell Simpson, Mark Bridges and Colin McAuley (on his first marathon) all comfortably beat the 3 hour mark.  Kate McBrien was the first lady home in 3 hours 21 minutes.  The times for all our runners are shown below:

  • Mark Bridges – 2.50.10
  • Alison Evetts – 4.28.41
  • John Fletcher – 3.12.43
  • Clive Hackforth – 3.32.16
  • Dave Long – 2.48.29
  • Sarah McNulty – 5.10.16
  • Steve Marklew – 3.22.48
  • Colin McAuley – 2.54.56
  • Kate McBrien – 3.21.50
  • Russell Simpson – 2.49.14
  • Chris Taylor – 3.22.29
  • Paul Terleski – 3.18.20

Photo of Dave Long from ERRA National Road Relays courtesy of www.racephotos.org.uk

Weekend round up – 14/15 April

We had athletes competing at a variety of events last weekend.  Adam Barnes showed some good early season form at the Peterborough Open recording times of 11.8 in the 100 metres and 24.0 in the 200m.  Results here

On Sunday our Masters athletes competed at the Midland Masters AC Relays at Donisthorpe Woodland Park and returned with a number of trophies.  Andrea Deathridge provided the highlight, running the fastest leg of the day in the women’s race.  We also had a victory in the M65 age group with Roy Humpherson, Doug Hyde and Clive Sayers being the successful team.  Our other athletes competing were Pete Parker, Bunny Kyd and Mike Stanley.  Full results available here.

Dave Liddall ran in the Worcester Marathon and finished 18th in a time of 3.20.54.  Results here.

National 12 Stage Road Relays – 14 April

A 43rd place finish for the Royal Sutton senior men at the National 12 Stage Road Relays in Sutton Park today.  This was a great performance given that we were missing 3 of our first team runners.  Well done in particular to Colin McAuley who ran well on the dreaded 1st leg and Simon Lees who had a great run on his 1st outing after a series of injuries.  Thanks also to Roy for acting as stand in Team Manager – even Fred turned up on time! 

Full results available here.  The individual splits were as follows:

43 RoyalSuttonColdfieldAC 4:48:49

  1. ColinMcAuley (67) 31:47
  2. PaulTerleski (65) 16:58
  3. NickCorker (54) 29:09
  4. SimonLees (53) 16:07
  5. MarkBridges (49) 30:23 3
  6. KieranSmith (48) 17:26
  7. RussellSimpson (49) 31:12
  8. JohnFletcher (48) 18:41
  9. SimonCorker (48) 31:59
  10. TonyHinchley (48) 17:14
  11. DavidLong (46) 30:40
  12. FredericTremblay (44) 17:13

Photos also available on Bryan Dale’s site here

Warwickshire Athletics Championships – 12/13 May

The closing date for entries to the athletics county championships is fast approaching.  For the Warwickshire Championships the closing date is 18 April for paper entries and 25 April for on line entries.  The event will be held at Saffron Lane Athletics Stadium, Leicester (together with the Leicestershire & Rutland Championship) on 12th/13th May.  Full details are available at www.warwickshirecountyaa.co.uk

100 club – March draw

The March 100 Club draw was made in the clubhouse last Thursday and here are the results:

  • 1st Megan Evans (£50.00)
  • 2nd Steve Larcombe (£30.00)
  • 3rd Micky Browne (£25.00)
  • 4th Ian Riley (£15.00)
  • 5th John Fletcher (£15.00)
  • 6th John Mills (£15.00)

The next draw will take place in July.  If you want further information on how to enter speak to Phil Pollock or click here

 

Midland Counties Road Relays – 31 March

Great results at the Midland Counties Road Relays today.  The Men’s team finished in 10th place in a time of 4.16.27 – our best finish both in terms of time and position for many years.   The individual splits are below and the full results are available here:

  1. Ollie Harradence (17) 29:03
  2. Steve Marklew (20) 16:51
  3. Russell Simpson (16) 17:12
  4. Nick Corker (10) 28:52
  5. Chris Taylor (12) 17:28
  6. Simon Corker (13) 17:01
  7. Mark Bridges (12) 30:24
  8. Kieran Smith (12) 17:29
  9. Paul Terleski (12) 16:58
  10. Dave Long (10) 30:41
  11. Tony Hinchley (10) 17:29
  12. Fred Tremblay (10) 16:59 (how much did he pay the timekeeper to get his time rounded down?) 

In the Master’s race we finished in 8th place.  The splits are below and results here:

  1. John Fletcher (9) 34:02
  2. David Bowen (9) 19:33
  3. Paul Jenkins (9) 20:05
  4. David Liddall (9) 34:10
  5. Colin McAuley (9) 17:21
  6. Matthew Lumley (8) 21:05

We had four runners competing in the Women’s race.  Lana Partridge ran the fastest leg in 19.59, with Sarah Smewin (27.50), Kate McBrien (23.53) and Kirsty Tarr (24.19) all having great runs.  The results available here.

The Men’s team qualified for the Nationals which will take place on 14 April in Sutton Park.  Further photos are available on Bryan Dale’s site here.

Midland 3rd Indoor Meeting – 24 March

Nicholas Pryce and Kanisha Hector were in action at the indoor open meeting at the High Performance Centre.  They both put in excellent performances.  Kanisha was 1st in the U20 Women 60m in a personal best time of 8.11.  Nicholas won both his races.  In the Senior Men 100m he ran a personal best of 11.12.  In the 60m he ran 7.16. 

The full results are available here