Category: Race reports

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

There was some fantastic running by our young athletes in the second West Midlands Young Athletes XC fixture at Wolverhampton yesterday. In testing conditions the star performance came from Alex Stapleton who won the U11 boys race in style. He took the lead on the long hill and held off a spirited late surge from his rival to claim victory. He was followed home by Joseph Martin in 3rd place, with Daniel Olatundun also having a great run in 14th. Overall the U13 boys finished 2nd.

The U11 girls also packed well to secure a 2nd place team finish with Holly Tyson (4th), Lucia Cantone (9th), Lucy Corker (11th) and Tamsyn Booth (12th) all finishing in the top 20.

In the U13 boys race Lewis Duval was the 1st Royal Sutton runner home in 8th place, whilst in the U13 girls race the top performances came from Ellen Humpherston and Melissa Adkins who finished 10th and 12th respectively.

In the U15 girls race Georgia Curry ran superbly to finish 4th. Elsewhere, there we’re top 20 finishes for Shaun Evans, who was 13th in the U17 Men’s race and Sophia Karski, who was 14th in the U17 women’s race.

Overall, the strong showing by all our athletes resulted in Royal Sutton finishing 4th on the day out of the 19 clubs competing. After two races the club is now 3rd in the league, with the next race at Halesowen in early December. Let’s have another great performance then!

The full results are available here and photos taken by Marc Kirsten are available on our FLICKR page here.

The senior men had a solid start to their league season with the A team finishing 4th and the B team winning the B race. There were great performances by everyone and it was particularly pleasing to have 19 Royal Sutton athletes out braving the mud.

Standout performances came from Paul Davey, who scored for the A team for the 1st time, and Vikram Balachandar, who was narrowly pipped to the last A team place. There were also great league debuts for Tom Chew and Liam Sparrock. The individual placings were as follows:

A team: Nick Corker (5th), Ollie Harradence (6th), Fred Tremblay (30th), Paul Terleski (46th), Paul Davey (48th) and Simon Corker (55th).

B team: Vikram Balachandar (56th), Chris Taylor (62nd), Colin McAuley (77th), Tom Chew (83rd), Liam Sparrock (84th) and Russell Simpson (101st).

C team: John Fletcher (112th), Dave Liddall (146th), Simon Ralph (153rd), Subodh Dave (158th), Richard Lewis (192nd), Paul Jenkins (213th) and Matt Stenson (217th).

The full results are available here. Photos are available on the Mudrunner Photography website here.

The senior women had a fantastic start to the league season, with a 4th place finish (out of 37 teams) at a muddy Newbold Comyn, Leamington. In a top quality field there were great runs by Katie Ingle (10th), Megan McBrien (24th), Larna Partridge (43rd), Amy Johnson (59th) and Vici Richardson.

The results are available here. The photo is from the Mudrunner Photography collection here.

Our junior athletes were in fine form at the English Cross Country Relays at Mansfield yesterday. In the U13 girls race the A team of Melissa Adkins, Ellen Humpherston and Rachel White finished in a fantastic 34th place, whilst the B team of Caitlin White, Lucy Ollerenshaw and Georgia Platt finished 52nd. In the U15 girls race the team of Rebecca Evans, Libby Dunne and Emma Greenaway finished 70th. Well done everyone!

There is video coverage of all the races on the Athleticos website here.

The photo is from the Mudrunner Sports Photography Facebook page here.

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!

There were 3 Royal Sutton runners in the top 8 at the Cinderpath Run today. Tom Chew, who joined the club in the summer, finished in an excellent 3rd place. Chris Taylor finished 5th, whilst junior runner Alex Blackham had a superb run to finish 8th.

The full results are available here. Well done 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 :

• World Indoors, in Budapest (HUN) from March 25-30 2014.
• European Outdoors, in Izmir (TUR) from August 22-31 2014.
• World Outdoors will return in 2015, to be held in Lyon (FRA).

For more info about Masters athletics:

World Masters Athletics.
European Masters Athletics.
British Masters Athletics.
Masters Athletics (rankings).
MastersTrack.com (blog).

More results from the World Masters this week where Donald Brown has been in action in the 200m and 100 hurdles. In the 200m Donald finished in 7th place in the final with a time of 24.74 (his semi-final time was a season’s best of 24.64). There was a massive field for this event – 10 heats, quarter finals, semi finals and the final (4 rounds in total)!

Donald also competed in the 100m hurdles where he secured the fastest time in the semi finals (the semis were the first time he had run a complete 100m hurdles this year due to injury). Unfortunately it wasn’t good news in the final where after a great start he hit the 4th hurdle hard and crashed out.

With a 5th place finish in the 100m, 7th in the 200m and a fast semi final time in the hurdles it shows Donald is returning to great form. And there may be still more to come in the relays. Well done Donald – we’re all proud of you!

Last Friday (18th Oct) was the 1st Sporthall event of the year.  RSCAC did very well.  After the 1st meeting, the Under 11 girls are in 1st place, the Under 11 boys in 3rd, the Under 13 boys in joint 2nd and the Under 13 girls in 5th.  The Under 15s do not have team positions. It is all done on individual performance in 3 events. There were some good performances from all.

Check out the results: http://www.birminghamsportshall.com/Calendar.asp

The next Sportshall is Friday Nov 15th, 7.15 pm at Stockland Green Leisure Centre.

WE ARE ESPECIALLY SHORT OF UNDER 15 BOYS (School Year  9 and 10). So if you are a boy in School Year 9 and 10, please email rscac@hotmail.co.uk if you can offer to compete for your club.  It is a really fun competition where you do: a running event of about 150m or 300m; shot putt or speed bounce; and standing triple jump or long jump.  There are also relays.