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National XC Championships – 22 February

For once the weather gods were kind on us. After weeks of rain and a winter of trudging through deep mud those who travelled to Nottingham were treated to Spring like conditions and a hard, fast and entertaining course (thanks from the steeplechasers amongst us for the nice log jump!).

Katie Ingle and Megan McBrien provided the top performances on the day with Katie finishing 17th and Megan finishing 37th in the Junior Women’s race. Georgia Curry also had a great run to finish 69th in the U15 girls race.

Well done to everyone else who competed – there were lots of runners who were competing at the National for the 1st time and they all ran superbly. The RSC results are below:

  • U13 boys – Stephen Shirley 243rd; Tom Hancox – 252nd; Ben Horton 344th
  • U13 girls – Ellen Humpherston 159th; Melissa Adkins 161st; Georgia Platt 231st; Lucy Ollerenshaw 250th.
  • U15 girls – Georgia Curry – 69th; Lois West – 243rd; Libby Dunne – 248th; Becky Evans – 305th; Ella Bissell – 322nd
  • U17 men – Jerome Austin – 181st
  • Junior women – Katie Ingle – 17th; Megan McBrien – 37th
  • Senior Men – Nick Corker – 173rd; Chris Taylor – 469th; Dave Long 559th; Tom Chew – 719th; Richard Lewis – 1214th.

Full results are available on the ECCA website. There are photos available on the Mudrunner Photography Flickr pages and videos on the Athleticos website.

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Birmingham Games – 16 February

There were some great results at the Birmingham Games. In particular, Donald Brown lowered his own club age group record in the 60m hurdles with a time of 9.04 seconds. RSC results available below:

  • Nicholas Mbewe –  60m – 7.52 (3rd); 200m – 24.00 (3rd)
  • Kane Howitt –  60m – 7.39 (4th)
  • Amiyah Forrest – 60m – 8.27 (4th)
  • Joella Spencer – 60m – 8.30 (2nd)
  • Nicholas Pryce – 200m – 22.22 (3rd)
  • Donald Brown – 60m – 7.60 (3rd); 60m hurdles – 9.04 (1st)

The full results are available here: Birmingham Games

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Indoor Athletics roundup

Our athletes showed some great early season form at the indoor meetings last weekend. Nicholas Pryce ran a time of 22.08 in the 200m at the British Indoor Championships.

Donald Brown and Fiona Ellis both set new club age group records at the Midland Indoor Championships. Donald set a new M50 record in the 60m hurdles with a time of 9.12. Fiona broke her own M35 record with a time of 8.29 in the final of the 60m.

Continuing success at the Midlands Champs, it was a win for Gabrielle Kinney in the U20 800m, 2.17.79.

Luke O’Brien finished an impressive 4th in the U13 Quadrathon.

Rachel Iliffe jumped a new PB of 1.40 to finish 6th in the U17 HJ.

Mollie Darrock was disappointed with 4.70m, putting her 7th in the U17 LJ. She also ran 44.82 for 300m.

Charlotte Newman finished 5th in her U20 400m after running 200m in lane 3! If she had been told to break at the right place, she would have finished in the top 2.

It was a 2nd place finish for Luke Fleming in the U20 400m, 53.05s.

Kane Howitt clocked 7.35s in the U20 60m. Amiyah Forrest was 6th in the women’s event, 8.21s. Amiyah also finished 3rd in her 200m heat, 27.52.

The full results are available below:

Day 1

Day 2

 

 

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More medals for Royal Sutton’s athletes

U11 boys - Perry ParkThere were yet more medals for our distance runners as our young athletes put in some fantastic performances in the final league match at Birchfield. There were individual medals for Alex Stapleton (1st – U11 boys), Joseph Martin (6th – U11 boys), Holly Tyson (6th – U11 girls) and Georgia Curry (3rd – U15 girls). There were also silver medals for both the U11 girls and U11 boys. There were lots of other great performances both today and across the season – well run everyone! Overall the club finished 4th out of the 19 clubs.

There are some great photos on our FLICKR Page taken by Marc Kirsten and links to the results are available below.

Race 5 results

Series results

U11 girls - Perry Park

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The senior men win promotion back to the Midlands top flight

RSC Senior XC 2014A great team effort by the senior men’s XC team at wet and windy Coundon Park saw them clinch promotion back to the 1st Division. There was also success for the B team, who won the B team league, and Ollie Harradence who won the trophy for 3rd best individual.

On the day the standout performances came from Steve Marklew, Chris Taylor and Tom Chew. Steve had his best run for at least 3 years and was our third counter home. Chris and Tom have both improved throughout the year and were our 5th and 6th counters.

A big thankyou to Phil Pollock and Megan Evans who braved the cold to help us with Team Management and officiating duties and to our little band of supporters. Your support is much appreciated.

The results are available on the Birmingham XC website. Great effort everyone!

 

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Sportshall success

Sportshall girlsWell done to Freya, Lucy, Mia and Patience who were part of the Birmingham team at yesterday’s Regional Sportshall Final. The team finished second thanks to great performances by all. The Birmingham boys did one better, winning by a fair margin. Well done to all.

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Midland XC Championships – 25 January

Midland XCWell done to everyone who braved the mud, Beacon Hill and the dreaded ditch at Newbold Comyn yesterday. There were some great performances with Megan McBrien providing the highlight by finishing 4th in the U20 women’s race. Other top performances came from Lewis Duval (25th – U13 boys), Shaun Evans (21st – U17 Men), Larna Partridge (26th – senior women) and Ollie Harradence (29th – senior men). The U13 boys and girls also did well in the team races finishing 8th and 7th respectively. Well done to everyone who ran!

The results are available on the Midland County AA website. Photos, including the one shown, are available on Dave Payne’s Mudrunner Photography Facebook page.