Category: Race reports

A big thank you to all those who ran on Saturday at Cheltenham. The A team finished 13^th out of 16 teams which puts us just above the relegation zone, not bad considering we were missing a number of regular A team counters. Well done to our x/c debutants Barry, Valentin and Ashley who all scored in the A team – something to live up to now lads (except for Valentin who will be leaving the UK this week to return to France – Thank you and all the best for the future, we hope you have some happy memories of RSCAC and English cross country to take home with you).

An even bigger thank you to Bob Owen who acted as our “Official” for the day, saving a penalty of 200 points had we not provided our “finish funnel” official.

RESULTS

The 2^nd fixture is on Saturday 2^nd December at Park Hall Country Park, Hulme Road, Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent (post code for SAT-NAV ST3 5AX). Please let Steve know if you are planning to compete.

Here’s Roy’s report from the 1st women’s XC match at Coventry on Saturday.

• Gemma Sidaway
• Georgia Delaney
• Rachel Thebridge
• Kirsty Stygall
• Lydia Sergiew
• Lucy Stubbs

Some fantastic runs by RSC athletes on the streets of Birmingham today. In the marathon Barry Lloyd had a superb race to finish 25th in 2.52. There were also great runs by Ashley Powell, Chris Taylor, Dean Lucas, Steve Pitt (guiding) and Mike Deasy.

In the Half Marathon Ollie Harradence finished 8th in 1.14. There were further strong performances by Matt Bennett (breaking 1.30), Lyn Hunter and Tamara Savage. Well done all!

A fantastic effort by all our Young Athletes who kicked off the XC season at Hatton Country World today. Conditions were very “un-cross country like” with a fast rock hard course and mild temperatures – I’m sure it won’t be like that in December and January!!! The club finished 4th overall with lots of great individual and team performances. Well done everyone!

RESULTS

Great results for Shaun Evans and Katie Ingle who both finished 10th at the Cardiff Cross Challenge yesterday. The race features many of the country’s top distance runners. Well done both!!!

A great effort by everyone who raced last weekend at the Midland Road Relays in Sutton Park. We had teams across the age groups and some fantastic performances:

• U13 girls – 8th (A team); 12th (B team)
• U13 boys – 12th
• U15 girls – 10th (A team); 32nd (B team)
• U15 boys – 32nd
• U17 women – 13th (A team); 23rd (B team)
• U17 men – 20th
• Senior Women – 12th (A team); 76th (B team)
• Senior Men – 42nd (A team); 77th (B team)

Congrats in particular to Katie Ingle who recorded the 10th fastest time of the day in the senior women’s race

MARK KIRSTEN PHOTOS

RACE RESULTS AND PHOTOS

Inter County Championships – Nuneaton (9 September)

Congratulations to all the runners who competed in the Little Aston 5 mile road race and 2 mile fun run today. We hope you had a great run and that you have now thawed out! The provisional results are available below:

Provisional LA5 results

Well done to overall race winners Ian Mansell and Fay Pollock.

Photos taken by Marc Kirsten are available on our FLICKR page.

Photos

Here’s the latest update from John T on some great performances by Katie, Donald and Shem:

Katie Ingle took the bronze medal in the 3K Steeplechase at Bedford today in the England Senior Champs in a time of 10.10.73 which is Katie’s second best ever time.
Donald Brown took the bronze medal in the M50 100m at Aarhus (Denmark) today at the European Masters in a time of 12.12 . He ran marginally faster times in his heat (12.05) and semi final (12.06).

Shem Nelson took third place in the 400m A race at the Cheltenham Open on Wednesday in a time of 51.7.

Here’s Graham’s report of Muninder’s fantastic trip to Denmark:

Royal Sutton Coldfield athlete Muninder Singh Hayer won 5 medals at the Racerunning World Championships in Denmark. In the 100 metres he made a poor start but came through to win Bronze Medal. At 400 metres he knocked 12 seconds off his PB and won Silver and in doing so beat the previous World Record, now one of only 2 athletes to go sub 2 minutes. At 800 metres a 17 second PB and won Silver, beating the old World Record. In both the 400 and 800m he was beaten by Henrick Errikson from Sweden, if you have to lose to someone then Henrick is the man, a true friend and a great athlete, well done Henrick. In the 200 metres Muninder set a World Record of 52.19 seconds in the heats and then won gold in the final in another World Record of 52 00 seconds. In the 60 metres Muninder won Gold in a new PB. So to summarise: 5 events, 5 medals, 2 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze. 4 PB’s and 4 World Records. Coach Graham Felton said I’ll settle for that but he is disappointed about the 100m which he knows should have been Gold, that’s the mark of a true champion. So proud of you.