Category: Race reports

Well done to Daniel Mills who won four medals at the Special Olympics at Alexander Stadium on Sunday. Daniel, who is trained by Graham Felton, competed in the 100m, 200m and Long Jump where he achieved pb’s and 3 Bronze Medals. He then won a Gold Medal in the 4 x 100m Relay. What makes this all the more remarkable is that Daniel is an U11 and was competing in the open age group against adults and much bigger and older athletes. 

A number of athletes have been out on the roads over the past couple of weeks. We had four runners make the long journey to Newcastle to run the Great North Run. Rob Andrew and Mark Rickards both completed the course in 1:24, Matt Stenson ran a PB of 1:29:28 and Dan Musson ran 2:42.

Jon Higgins ran a 40 second PB in the Cardiff 10k completing the course in 36.41. Jon has made great improvements since joining in the Spring and will be a useful addition to our Road Race and XC teams.

The ever consistent Russell Simpson ran 1:19 at the Kenilworth Half Marathon to finish 9th.

At Lichfield 10k Andrea Deathridge returned to distance running after a summer of pole vaulting to finish as 2nd women.

Well done everyone!!!

Well done to everyone who ran in yesterday’s “Dream Mile” track race. The race was won by our newly crowned European Silver medallist, Rob Andrew, in a time of 4.55. The full results are below:

1. Rob Andrew                 4.55.33
2. Chris Taylor                 5.08.77
3. Ollie Harradence          5.14.42
4. Russell Simpson           5.14.72
5. John Higgins                 5.16.33
6. Dean England               5.27.66
7. Simon Corker                5.28.11
8. Mark Rickards               5.29.55
9. Andrea Deathridge       5.40.75
10. Matt Stenson                5.49.38
11. Simon Hall                    6.00.76
12. Paul Jenkins                 6.15.01
13. Gordon Price               6.36.76
14. Chris Jurczak               6.38.47
15. Danny Musson            6.40.66
16. Pete Harding               6.47.64
17. Kirsty Morley               6.53.26
18. Vici Richardson           7.01.96
19. Rachel Thebridge       7.05.47

Hi Everyone!

Please find the below results of the League Cup Finals at Stoke yesterday. Our small team of Andrea, Sandra, Fiona, Lorna, Richard, Graham, Paul, Ed, David, Kevin and yours truly put in some great performances with quite a few pbs and two new club records from Graham. We ended up in third place in the C Cup Final although a few of the performances would have won the A Final and several would have finished in the first three.

Ed competed in 5 events which he says is good preparation for the British Masters Decathlon which he competes in at Alexander Stadium on Sept 20/21st for which we all wish him a great competition. We will all be cheering for you!

It was great to see Sandra competing again after 2 years absence.

Paul had us all shouting out for him in the Combined Finals M40 1500m . Fifteen meters down from the first two at the bell he went storming past them at 200 meters and just kept going away from them. What a run! I am told it compares to my lead off leg of the 4x100m relay. Seriously it was great to be running again.

Kevins victory in the M35 Discus was an inspiration to us all as he has two slipped discs and today is in hospital for a procedure to ease the problem. Very shortly Kevin moves into the M50 age group when the Discus drops down to 1.5Kg. New club records beckon.

• High Jump 1.10m (replacing Jhalmans 1.04 set in 2004)
• Hammer (5kg) 23.27m ( replacing his record of 22.73 set earlier this year)

Well done to all athletes who competed in today’s Heart of England. WE WON THE MATCH! This put us third in the league so we just missed out on promotion but an excellent win today nonetheless.

There were too many successes to mention everyone by name so I just want to say a big well done to everyone.

A special mention to our under eleven medalists (pictured here)….Evan Pritchard (75m silver, 11.2s ), Freya Liddington (75m silver, 11.6s and howler gold 30.04m) & Joe Creed (75m bronze, 11.5s). Elsa Buchanan also claimed two medals but was unable to come today. Gold in the long jump, 3.94m & bronze in 600m, 2.04.3).

Well done to everyone who ran in the Little Aston 5 this morning. The men’s race was won by Nick Corker (Royal Sutton Coldfield AC) in a time of 27.21, with James Jefferson from West Bromwich Harriers in 2nd place in 27.36. The women’s race was won by Danielle Hodgkinson (Birchfield) in a new course record time of 28.26. 2nd place was taken by Natasha Blunt (Taunton Forever Running Club). The team event was won by Birchfield.

Thanks to everyone who took part. The full results will follow.

Laura Whittle recorded a fast time of  9.49.75 in the 2 miles competing against the best in the world at the Birmingham Grand Prix. Needless to say, it is another club record – well done Laura!!!

At the European Masters Athletics Championships in Izmir, Turkey there were great performances by Donald Brown and Rob Andrew. Donald took the silver medal in the M50 100m in 11.67 in a very close final having won his heat in 11.85. Rob won his heat in the M1500m in the fastest heat time and goes in the final today.

Elsewhere, Nicholas Pryce reached the semi finals at the Inter County Championships, running 21.80 in the 200m heats and 21.87 in the semi final.

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.

Wow – What a result!!! A fantastic team performance saw the senior athletics team win the final fixture of the season.

The star performance of the day came from Nicholas Pryce who broke his own club record in the 100m with a time of 10.6, won his 200m and 400m races, recorded a 30m javelin throw and finished the day off with superb legs in the relays. What a day!!!

Kane Howitt scored stacks of points in the sprints and jumps, Lana Partridge and Megan McBrien dominated the middle distance races, whilst our throwers (Kevin Brown, Connor Notley, Graham Felton, Chrissie Prince, Lorna Foster and Fiona Smith) were all superb. In particular, Chrissie recorded fantastic wins in the shot putt and discus. Special mention also to Vici Richardson who ran a great 3k to win us 5 points only a few days after completing a 24 hour endurance race.

There were club records for Andrea Deathridge (W40 400m hurdles – 84.6), Fiona Smith (W50 Women Hammer (4Kg) – 25.72m), Graham Felton (M65 Hammer (7.26 Kg) – 18.81m) and Nick Corker (M35 3k steeplechase 10.01.8).

In summary, everyone contributed hugely with many people competing in multiple events and others competing in new events (both on Saturday and throughout the season). A fantastic team effort – Well done everyone!!!

Thanks as always to our officials and supporters who braved the at times apocalyptic conditions. As always your efforts are greatly appreciated!!!

And finally thanks to John T and Fiona S for all their support and efforts through the season as Team Managers.

Look out for a report in this weeks Observer.