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Midlands Vets League T&F – Setting new Records – 31 July

On Wednesday, RSCAC were the hosts on home soil, for the fourth Midlands Vets League meeting of the year. And we really showed what that means to us with everyone achieving great performances.
The women finished in second place on the day, and finished the league in third place!

Andrea Deathridge
Andrea Deathridge


They had nine first places from the eleven events contested. Beryl Chapman set a W80 club record in the 2000m Walk with a time of 18.06.7. Well done Beryl.
It was great to see us fielding a womens 4x100m relay team and see Sharon Ralph back to help the team take first place.
Andrea Deathridge had a couple of fine runs in the 800m and 3000m and is getting close to the W35 club records.
Lorna Foster continued her unbeaten run in the throws with first places in the shot, discuss and javelin.
Fleur O’Brien had fine victories in the W60 shot and Long jump, and both Sandra and Fiona Ellis looked majestic in winning their 200m races.

 
The men finished in third place and finished the league in fourth place.
Graham Felton set a new club record in the M60 Hammer with 27.46 m beating Graham Youngs’ record of 27.16m set ten years ago. Great stuff Graham ! (he also won the M60 200m and remains unbeaten in the league in the sprints).

Gordon Chapman 2k walk.
Gordon Chapman 2k walk.


In his first meeting for the club, Ed Saunders won the M40 Pole Vault and took fourth place in the Long Jump. A big welcome to Ed.

A special thanks to all our officials and helpers, for without you we would not be able to put on meetings at home.
 
Do not forget the League cup Finals are on September the 1st at Nuneaton where we will be fielding a team.
Earlier I did send the provisional timetable and later I will send the definite one once received.
 
Finally may I remind you all that we have the final meeting of the Midland Senior Men/Womens League at Wyndley on Saturday August 10th so if you are not competing perhaps you could come along and help out and cheer your team mates along. The field starts at 11.30am and the track at 1.00pm.
Report from John “Tornado” Topliss
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Ultra Running – 27/28 July

Over the weekend of the 27/28th July, Vici Richardson took part in the Adidas Thunder Run at Catton Park,Derbyshire.

Vici Richardson
Vici Richardson

The event is staged over 24hrs and involves running as many laps of the 10k trail course as possible.
Vici took part with a friend as a team of two and together they endured the blazing heat in the afternoon followed by relentless torrential rain throughout the night,
which made running in the dark all the more challenging.
By the end of the race at midday on Sunday they’d managed a staggering 9 laps each totalling 180k (111.8 miles!).

If you want to take part next year (but you have been warned), the website can be found here.

Well done Vici.

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Open Meetings – Sub 2 minutes men – 23/24 July

A number of athletes were in action this week at various open meetings.

Nick Pryce’s rich vein of form continued, winning the 200m Open at Loughborough in a time of 21’50, beating in the process two runners who achieved low 21′ races this season. Well done Nick.

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Stuart McCaw at an earlier League Meeting (2013)

At Cheltenham Open, Charmaine Riley finished 2nd in a closely contended 200m in a time of 27’7, with Joella Spencer finishing 3rd in 28’5.
The final race of the day saw three clubs runners contest a 17-strong 800m field, with Stuart McCaw, Paul Davey and Fred Tremblay all taking part.
It was great news for Stuart McCaw, who at only 20 years of age, ran for the first time under 2 minutes, finishing 4th in a time of 1’59.2. Well done Stuart.
Fred Tremblay improved on his season’s best, finishing 3rd in 1’58.7.
Paul Davey finished in a sub 2’10 time in a race that was part of a heavy-load weekly training regime.
Full results are available here.

More open races can be found here.

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Weekend roundup – 20/21st July

RSCAC was on the athletics map again this week-end with great performances all-round.

Katie Ingle competed in her first ever European competition over the week-end making it to the final of the U23 European Championships 3000m steeple in Rieti, Italy.
Results of the final can be found here.

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Nick Pryce

Nick Price dominated an international class 200m field at the Birmingham Games on saturday (Alexander Stadium),
winning in a new PB of 21.38, smashing his own Senior Mens club record of 21.81.
In the process he also beat Joshua Ross (Australia’s No 1), and Richard Strachan who regularly features on the british 4x400m relay teams at international level.
Results of the 200m races are here.

Olympic Park Run 2013
Mark Rickards, Vici Richardson and Colin McAuley

In London, 7 club athletes had the chance to compete against Paula Radcliffe at the Olympic Park run.
They had to enter a ballot to take part in the five-mile (8,047m), 12,500 runners strong, National Lottery Anniversary Run around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton was also taking part while fellow cyclist Sir Chris Hoy was the official starter of the race.
There were about 30,000 spectators.
Vikram Balachandar was first home is a fast time of 29:15 followed by Colin McAuley in 30:57. Mark Rickards came home in a fantastic PB time of 31:21. All three beat world champion marathoner Paula Radcliffe to the line – not something you get to do every weekend! Vici Richardson, Lucy Jennings, Emma Neachell and Katie Jennings also competed in the event.
Full results are:

Vikram Balachandar 29:15 (68th)
Colin McAuley 30:57 (148th)
Mark Rickards 31:21 (183th)
Vici Richardson 38:57 (1961th)
Lucy Jennings 47:10 (5591th)
Emma Neachell 50:33 (7281th)
Katie Jennings 51:24 (7668th)

Finally, Simon Ralph showed he is on his way to returning to top form with a sub 40min 10k result in a relay leg of the City of Birmingham 2013 Triatlon, Sunday at Sutton Park.
Well done Simon.

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Midland & EA Disability TF Champs – 23/24 June

We had a number of athletes competing at the Midland T&F Championships at Alexander Stadium over the week-end.Alexander Stadium
Despite tough weather conditions, there was a high calibre of performances from all athletes.

Nicholas Pryce was 4th in the 200m Final, equalling his club record of 21’8 which he also did in his heat !
He also finished 6th in the 100m Final after running 10’91 in the heats.
His mum Janice took 4th place in the triple jump.
Charmaine Riley-Nelson was 6th in the 200m Final .
Fred Tremblay managed to break 2mins in his 800 heat, before taking 7th place in the Final.

Well done to all who competed.

Day 1 results here.
Day 2 results here.

Report by John Tornado Topliss

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Weekend round up – 27/28 October

A welcome return to action for Laura Whittle at the McCain UK Cross Challenge at Bristol on Sunday. 
In her first competitive run for over 12 months Laura finished in 11th place. 

Closer to home we had a number of runners in action at the Cinderpath Run in Sutton Park. 
Nick Corker won the race in a time of  34’32 with Chris Taylor finishing in a closely fought 8th place. 
Other runners competing included Mike Stanley and Bunny Kyd.
Full results are available here.

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British Masters Track and Field Championships – 21/22 July

A British record and gold, silver and bronze medals for Royal Sutton athletes at the Britsh Masters Track and Field Championships at Derby last weekend.
Janice Pryce set a new British record of 9.92m in winning the W50 Triple Jump.  Janice has jumped further outdoors this year but with no wind gauge.
The good news is that there was a wind gauge at this event and the wind reading was minus 0.7m so the record stands.  She already holds the indoor record.
Other medals were won by Nick Corker, who won a silver medal in the M35 1500m with a personal best time of 4″13
and David Price, who won a bronze medal in the M70 javelin with a throw of 29m94.
The results are available here.  Well done to everyone who took part!
1st place 2nd place 3rd place
Janice Pryce
(W50 Triple Jump) BR !		 Nick Corker
(M35 1500m)		 David Price
(M70 Javelin)
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Athletics on TV: Born to Run, The Secrets of Kenyan Athletics

BBC Four is running a great athletics programme ‘Born to run’ which is available on BBC iPlayer until 20th July here.

“Former Irish athlete and 5,000m world champion Eamonn Coghlan travels to Kenya’s highlands to meet Brother Colm O’Connell, a modest priest who played a major role in fostering Kenyan distance running and who is now considered one of the world’s top athletics coaches. Watching him train the 800m world-record holder David Rudisha, Eamonn observes at first-hand his unlikely but lasting legacy. Part travelogue, part tribute, the documentary also features an interview with Eamonn’s childhood hero, the great Olympic athlete Kip Keino “

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Youtube Channel Now Opened

We now have a Youtube video channel called RSCACAthletics to complement the photos and videos already posted on our Flickr account.

On the top left handside of the website, you will have free and easy access to our Public Playlist for videos of Senior athletes.

To be compliant with image rights of athletes under 18s, their race videos are on our Private Playlist.

The link to this Playlist will be emailed to you after you subscribe to RSCACAthletics Youtube Channel (click the image below to subscribe).

If you have videos you would like to post to our Youtube, contact rscac1973@gmail.com

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Olympic Stadium – BUCs Championships 2012 – 5th May

Athletes from the club had the chance to compete in the Olympic Stadium at the weekend.
Justine Kinney and Adam Barnes competed respectively in the 400m hurdles and the 4x400m.

Justine won the final of the 400m hurdles in a time of 58.81 and was the first ever runner to winner a race
in the Olympic Stadium !
Justine Kinney 400m hurdles post race interview BUCS 2012.

Adam Barnes competed in the 4x400m for Birmingham University in front of 46,000 people.

Adam:

“I ran 1st leg and we came third in our heat in a time of 3:24 and narrowly missed out on the final by 1 team.
The fastest 8 got through to the final and we were 9th fastest which is really gutting.
The olympic stadium is really really nice though. It was so such an experience and a privilege to be able to run in it”