Category: Race reports

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…

Well done to all the RSC runners who completed the Birmingham Half Marathon today, with some cracking times recorded. The first runners home for the club were Ollie Haradence who completed the course in 1 hour 14 and Andrea Deathridge who finished in 1 hour 28. Both also managed to get their Royal Blue vests on TV – remember to smile for the camera next time guys!!! Great Birmingham Run Results 2015

Last weekend the juniors kicked off the XC season with a match at Northampton. There were some fantastic performances across the age groups. In particular there were a number of top ten finishes:

• Hope Stirland – 2nd; Arantxa Middleton – 7th; Sian Duval – 10th (U11 girls)
• Georgia Curry – 5th (U17 women)
• Alex Jones – 7th (U17 men)

The club finished 4th on the day out of 20 clubs – a great start to the season. The full results are available on the WMYACCL website.

Next up is Wolverhampton in early November. See you all there!!!

Well done to everyone who ran in the road relays in Sutton Park this weekend. On Saturday the senior teams took to the roads, with the senior women finishing 55th and the senior men finishing 61st. The leg times are below:

55 Royal Sutton Coldfield AC 1:14:59 1 Helen Elsoueidi (75) 19:40 2 Andrea Deathridge (65) 16:41 3 Amy Johnson (59) 17:59 4 Rachel Thebridge (56) 20:39

61 Royal Sutton Coldfield AC:03:41 1 Oliver Harradence (61) 19:20 2 Shaun Evans (56) 18:50 3 Frederic Tremblay (61) 21:25 4 Max Sellers (66) 21:44 5 Thomas Chew (61) 20:48 6 Jerome Austin (62) 21:34

The highlight was a fantastic run by Shaun Evans who recorded the fastest leg time by an RSC athlete for many years.

On Sunday it was the turn of our Young Athletes. There were some strong performances across the age groups. The highlights were 31st place finishes for the U13 girls and U17 women’s teams, a 41st place finish for the U17 men and a 46th place finish for the U15 girls. The full results are available here: RACE RESULTS

Marc Kirsten took some fantastic photos on both days which are available on our FLICKR page.

There were some great performances by RSC athletes at the Midland Road Relays on Saturday. The team positions were as follows:

• U13 girls – A team 7th, B team 22nd
• U15 boys – 14th
• U15 girls – A team 17th, B team 29th
• U17 men – 12th
• U17 women – 17th
• Senior men – 30th
• Senior women – 16th
• Masters men – 14th

The outstanding individual performance came from Melissa Woodward who ran the
2nd fastest time in the women’s race. Well done everyone!!!

RESULTS

BRYAN DALE RACE PHOTOS

Well done to Mel Woodward, Andrea Deathridge and Amy Johnson who came away with all the silverware at the Lichfield 10k. Mel won the race, with Andrea finishing 3rd and Amy finishing 10th. As a consequence the club won the team prize.

Thanks to Ron Reynolds from Aldridge Running Club who has sent a link to some great photos from the Little Aston 5.

Little Aston 5 photos

What a pleasant warm and sunny Sunday morning for the 22nd Hydro sponsored LA5 and Fun Run.

As in previous years there were a lot of our regulars taking part and also some new faces that we hope to see again in the future. We are always glad to see the support from local clubs, running groups and unattached runners, but it is also very pleasing to see runners from clubs further afield such as Notts AC, Hinckley RC, Wrekin and Halesowen AC.

As always we will be making donations to three charities. Eloise and Lorreta from Birmingham Children’s Hospital, one of our nominated charities raised £49.79 on the day. Lorreta started the races and later on along with Eloise presented the prizes.

The LA5 always produces some good times and this year was no exception, the LA5 open prize winners were –

• 1st lady Bethan Padbury   Hinckley Running Club             34 mins 10 secs
• 2nd lady Nicola Ross           West Bromwich Harriers         37 mins 05 secs
• 1st man Oliver Harradence   RSCAC   27 mins 25 secs
• 2nd man Shaun Evans             RSCAC   27 mins 52 secs

Congratulations to all our prize winners.

Thank you to all competitors in both events and also a big thank you to all the volunteers that turned out to help on the day.

LA5 Results – 2 Miles

LA5 Results – 5 Miles

RSCAC FLICKR Photos