Laura Whittle had a storming last 400m to finish 6th at the Commonwealth Games 5K race in Glasgow, and be 2nd home for the home nations.
Running a fast but sensibly paced race for most of the race, Laura overtook all the runners immediately ahead of her in the last 800m, and ran her second ever fastest 5k in less than ideal conditions.
No doubt that the crowd in Hampden Park cheered Laura on for what was an amazing finish !
Well done Laura we are all proud of you !
Results here.
RSCAC had another successful outing at this year’s Shugborough Relays, with 8 teams entered, and 32 runners taking part!
All this thanks to the organisational brilliance of Roy Humpherson.
On a fast 2 miles course, two of the fastest legs came from Ollie Harradence (10.38), and Rob Andrew (10.57).
After the first leg, Ollie’s team “Not So Old“, was actually in the overall race lead of the Men Vet 160 Years category.
This was until Russell Simpson (11.26) ran a great second leg for the other RSC team “Nearly Vets“, gaining 4 places to bring the team into the overall club lead, a position which they retained and secured through Fred Tremblay (11.01) and Tony Hinchley (12.09), who anchored the team home in 4th place out of 36 team. “Not So Old” finishing 6th overall.
The “Old Speedsters” team whose 4 members aggregated a respectable 201 years, finished in a superb 3rd place in the Men’s Ultra Vets 200 Years category. The team was formed of Rob Andrew (10.57) who ran the second fastest leg on the day, John Fletcher (13.32), Colin McAuley (11.41) and Steve Marklew (11.41).
There were also great performances from Paul Davey (11.06) and Vici Richardson, both hitting a 2 miles PB, as part of the “Rose Between Thorns” mixed team.
In the “Men’s Open” category, the “Young Pretenders” team formed of Dave Long (11.48), Paul Terleski, Chris Taylor (11.35), and Mark Rickards (12.01), finished 13th out of 42, with Paul Terleski running a very fast second leg in 11.18, gaining 7 places in the process.
In the Ladies Vets 160 Years Category, Bunny will be pleased to know that strong runs from Katherine Lewis (15.33), Sarah Smewin (19.38), Carol Woodfield (16.40) and Lyn Ellis Taylor (17’55), saw the team “Bunny’s Angels” finish 14th out of 31 teams.
Apologies for all those who ran and didn’t get a mention (there was a lot of us, and this is only the produce of my afternoon’s tea break at work). You can always go and indulge yourself on RacePhotos website here.
Full club results can be found here, and the overall results there.
The relays form part of the RSCAC Grand Prix Competition whose latest standings will be published soon.
See you all next year.
Paul Davey had a successful day at the 2014 Police UK Track & Field and Tug of War Championships, which took place at Uxbridge, on wednesday. Paul came back with two medals !
In the High Jump, a recently discovered talent, Paul won Bronze after clearing two Personal Bests of 1m55 and 1m60.
He then followed with Bronze in the 800m, before heading up North back to Shugborough to anchor a leg at the popular relays, as part of the “Rose Amongst Thorns” RSCAC team.
Well done Paul for a very successful police championships.
The ‘creme de la creme’ of RSCAC middle and long distance running will be competing against each other (for once) in the Kingsbury parkrun on Saturday at 9am.
This parkrun event is part of the Royal Sutton Grand Prix races, where final results are age-graded. Further details of the Grand Prix can be found here.
Kingsbury Parkrun, held in the Kinsgbury Water Park, is a fast and somewhat twisty course, which can be muddy in some parts.
Good luck to everyone for this early-rise 5k blast.
Looking back at 2013, below a link to some statistics for rscac.co.uk for 2013.
48,000 views….enough to fill the Sydney Opera House 18 times.
Well done to John Topliss who is our number 1 pundit judging by the number of comments posted in 2013.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 48,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 18 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
The club entered two teams in the BMAF Cross Country relays championships in Derby on Saturday.
The 2-lap race took place around Moorways Stadium on a 3k undulating and twisty course, in chilly conditions.
After being in a strong 11th position after Leg 1 and moving up to 9th after Leg 2, the M35 team finished in a credible 15th position out of 20 teams.
The M45 team finished 10th in their category, with very strong performances from John Fletcher and Simon Corker.
Well done to all, especially Gethin Rees for one of his first outings for the club and a good time too.
The full results can be found here:
M35 team:
Paul Terleski 11’22
Fred Tremblay 11’00
Simon Ralph 12’14
Gethin Rees 12’45
Subodh Dave 12’35
M45 team
Paul Jenkins 13’50
Simon Corker 11’24
Matt Stenson 13’28
John Fletcher 12’14
Richard Lewis 14’00
RSCAC entered two senior teams at the English Cross Country Relays at Berry Hill, in Mansfield.
On a muddy course full of trickery, the Senior Men ‘A’ team finished in 62nd place (out of 157 teams), in a time of 1:12:55.30, which is the highest finish, and fastest time for the club in 9 years. Well done to Ollie and Nick for their super-fast times, we hope you keep that pace going into the first league cross country next week.
Ollie Harradence – 0:17:01.50
Nick Corker – 0:17:10.15
Fred Tremblay – 0:18:52.05
Paul Terleski – 0:19:51.60
The ‘B’ team finished in a very good 126th place, with Tom Chew showing that he is in good form clocking 18’52.05, and John Fletcher demonstrating that he is getting back to his best.
Tom Chew – 0:18:52.05
Simon Ralph – 0:22:08.30
John Fletcher – 0:20:45.20
Subhodh Dave – 0:21:34.60
The full results can be found here.
Well done to all!
On the final day of the championships, Donald Brown won Gold with the GB 4x100m relay team, in a super-fast time of 45.67.
The GB team certainly had the samba beat in their feat, as they finished ahead of Trinidad and Tobago, and Germany.
Donald reports to be ‘very excited, and pleased, on cloud flippin 9’.
This concludes a very successful Masters championships for club athletes, and Donald in particular. Well done Donald !!
Full results of the stadium events of the 2013 World Championships can be found here.
Flickr Pictures here.
Forthcoming Masters Championships will be :
For more info about Masters athletics:
World Masters Athletics.
European Masters Athletics.
British Masters Athletics.
Masters Athletics (rankings).
MastersTrack.com (blog).
And one better….
Kevin Brown added a great Bronze medal to his World Masters Championships medal haul amassed over the years.
In the Final of the Discuss Throw, in torrential rain conditions, he threw 40.88m.
This is another great result for the club, in this competition which is welcoming more than 4,000 athletes.
More to follow in the 200m now, where the hopes of more medals rest on the shoulders of Donald Brown.
Well done Kevin for bringing the club its first medal of these championships !
Royal Sutton Coldfield AC 
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