Author: Rascasse

RSCAC is not only present in the Walking, Track and Field, or Cross Country scenes. We also do fell running.

Nick Corker had a great outing at the 2016 Anniversary Waltz fell race in the Lake District last Saturday, which also marked the 20th anniversary for this fell race.

In a field 332 runners strong, with an 11 miles race and more than 1,100m of ascent – or 3,609 foot if you prefer – some of which were so steep that they had to be done on all-fours, Nick finished in an excellent 17th place, and covered the distance in 1:49:22.

If you think that cardiac or sandy hills in Sutton Park are too difficult, and need a tip or two on how to climb or come down a mountain like a proper fell runner, have a word with Nick.

Race results here.

Donald Brown won an incredible 2 Bronze medals at the European Masters Championships in Ancona, Italy in the M50 category.

In his preferred event, the 60 meters hurdles, Donald won a Bronze medal in a time of 8’92 after winning his heat in 9’17.

In the 60 meters flat, in a field of 57 competitors strong, Donald won his heat in 7’72, finished 2nd of his semi-finals in 7’64 to qualify for the Final where he was credited with 8th place in the same time of 7’64.

Today, Donald anchored the first leg and won another Bronze medal with Great Britain’s 4x200m relay team, with Ian Allen, David Kemp and Neil Tunstall, in a time of 1’40.77, a dead heat with Germany who finished fourth.

Well done Donald for an outstanding European Masters Championship !

Result links for all three races

60m hurdles results

60m results

4x200m results

Our Senior men’s and women’s teams were out competing at Crypt School in Gloucester last Saturday.

Roy Humperson reporting on the women race:

Katie Ingle in 31st place, her 1st race for close to a year, great return Katie..
Helen Elsoueidi in 137th as reliable  as ever in her 1st season with the club.
Rachel Thebridge 172nd her 1st ever XC race in her life !
Emily Campion 175th her 2nd great run for the XC team.

There were 281 finishers
So thanks to those that ran a great effort, the next league race is February 13th  at Wolverhampton, so lets make sure we have a team out for this local race.

Results of the ladies race will be posted here soon.

RSCAC Men made a hard push for promotion, in the penultimate race of the season, by achieving 2nd place on the day, at Gloucester on Saturday.

With the recent onslaught of rain and with temperatures getting close to freezing levels, the course was always going to be very challenging for all participants, although it was shorter and flatter than in previous races.

The team managed to place 3 runners in the top 20 for the first time this season.

Shaun Evans gained victory for the first time in the Senior Men’s league, following on from his win at the U20M Cross Country County Championships last week.

Ollie Harradence finished strongly in 9th, and Tom Chew a great 17th. Both also sit in the Top 20 scorers overall in the league after 3 races.

Closing the march for “Team A” was the always improving Jerome Austin (36), Dave Long (59) and Steve Marklew (82).

All other runners managed to get vital points over our closest rivals, with Simon Corker (110), Chris Taylor returning to good form (119), Jon Higgins (129), Paul Terleski (135), Russell Simpson in a sliding performance (141), Fred Tremblay (144), Steve Semple (155), John Fletcher (177), Simon Hall (190), Matthew Powel  (200), Paul Jenkins (203), Matthew Stenson (205), John Alcock (219).

All results from the race are here.

The team now stands in 4th place after 3 races, 39 points away from 3rd spot synonymous with promotion.

For the men’s team, the last race is at the same location on the 13th Feb, and promises to be a great fight.

The senior men and women’s teams were off to a good start at the first cross country race of the season last Saturday at Leamington Spa.

Women’s results for the 379 runners, can be found here.

Andrea Deathridge finished at a fantastic 35th place and 6th overall in the Master’s category.
Helen Elsouedi celebrated her first Xross country for the club in a commendable 181st position which promises a lot.

The men’s team battled through a field of 236 runners.
They showed great strength in depth by aligning 17 runners – almost 3 complete teams, including  2 juniors joining our ranks and boosting results all-round.

The A team scored a low 204 points to finish in 5th place on the day out of 17 teams, whilst the B team finished 5th as well in the B rankings.

Men’s results can be found here and videos of the stream jump-walk-crawl or swim can be seen here.

Oliver Harradence (4th), Shaun Evans (15th, and 3rd Junior), Tom Chew (26th), Rob Andrew (35th), Dave Long (56th), Jerome Austin (65th, 10th Junior)
Fred Tremblay (72nd), Simon Corker (81st), Russell Simpson (110th), Jon Higgins (118th), Paul Terleski (127th), Tony Hinchley (138th)
Matthew Stenson (182nd), Paul Jenkins (194th), Jim Greenwood (199th), Trevor Lewis (202nd), Mike Deasey  (212th)

And remember, if you have not heard it before:
“This year the race numbers for the men’s will be RE-USABLE & PRINTED WITH YOUR NAMES”.

Even if you can no longer see your name behind that layer of muck…

Results of the Vets  C Cup Final held at Worcester on Sunday:
Midland Vets Cup Final 2015 MatchCv2

It was a great meeting, electronic timing, top announcing, great atmosphere with 20 teams competing .

All C Final races were combined with the B Final so all lanes occupied.

Great performances by our very small team .

It was thirty years ago that the Cup Finals were started and we have won the A Final 11 times ( more than any other club ) .
Lets hope next year we can put out stronger teams in the League and make it back to the A Final.

• Sharon Ralph W35 200m Hurdles 33.20  breaking Sandra McDonalds record of 33.40 set in 1996.
  Well done Sharon a great run only beaten by World Masters bronze medallist!
• David Price .M75 Javelin (700g) 26.70m . A new record .
  David competed in the M50 event. A round trip of about 300 miles for David to get to this meeting.
• John T M70 100m 15.78 beating Bill Morrows 16.51 set in 1999. John now intends to run a 200m in Florida next month.

The British Masters Championships were held at Alexander Stadium and our athletes had some great results with several becoming British Champions ! M50 100m Donald Brown British Champion 11.95 M50 100m Hurdles Donald Brown British Champion 14.64

M50 800m Rob Andrew British Champion 2.09.4

Royal Sutton again had a winner at the Great Midlands Fun Run, with Nick Corker winning this years race.

We also had a winner in the buggy category, with Mark Rickards completing the course dressed as Forest Gump whilst pushing his daughter in a buggy.

Well done to all the other RSC runners who took part in a 7,000 strong field.
The results will be available from Friday in the Observer and online.

A number of members of the long distance squad had great races at Wrexham on Sunday.

Mark Rickards ran a PB time of 1’22:59 to finish in 12th place at the Wrexham Half Marathon.
Paul Terleski ran strongly to finish in 15h position in a time of 1’23:39.

In the marathon race, in a 200-strong field, Russell Simpson capped off a strong winter by finishing 4th overall, and 3rd in his age group, in a time of 2’48:10.
Steve Marklew showed he is getting back into decent shape by finishing 17th overall, and 3rd in his age group, in a sub-3 hour time of 2’57:18.

Well done to all.
Results of both races can be found here.

RSCAC athletes cemented the clubs position as one of the top Master’s clubs in the country, with awesome results at the British Outdoor T&F Championships at Alexander stadium last weekend.

They won no less than 9 medals, 4 Golds, and broke 3 club records in the process.

This bodes well for some of our Masters athletes who will be competing at the European outdoors, Izmir (Turkey) at the end of the month, and at the Vets Cup Final at Stoke on the 31st August.

Here is how they did :

Lorna Foster W50  Shot Put 3rd and 2nd British competitor (a Dutch competitor was just ahead of Lorna) so should receive silver medal.