Category: Race reports

Thank you to everyone who ran in the Little Aston 5 and 2 mile fun run yesterday – we hope you enjoyed the race. The overall winner was Ollie Sheppard who completed the course in a time of 29.28, with Mark Rickards (RSCAC) 2nd and Ian Mansell (DASH) in 3rd. In the women’s race the winner was Susan Street-Hall (Tipton Harriers) in a time of 33.43, closely followed by Gemma Sidaway (RSCAC) in 33.54. Nicola Ross (West Bromwich) was 3rd home in 36.59.

The 2 mile fun run was won by James Pentland in a time of 13.01 – great run James

We would like to thank our sponsors for their generosity that enables us to continue to organise this popular event. Thanks also to the main club members and supporters who helped on the day.

Photos taken by Rachel Joyce are available on our FLICKR page – thanks Rachel!

The results for the both races are available here: LITTLE ASTON 5 AND 2 MILE RESULTS – 2016

NOTE FROM THE ORGANISERS AND PRIZE WINNERS

Well done to Laura Whittle who became an Olympian during the week when she ran in the 5000m. She capped off a fantastic season with a really gutsy performance finishing 10th in her heat in a time of 15.31. Great stuff – we’re all proud of you (and more than a little envious too!!!)

Here’s a report from Brian covering a gold for one of our rising stars at the Midland Champs last weekend.

Under-15 Royal Sutton AC athlete Jasmine Walker won gold in the U15 girl’s javelin competition last Saturday in the Midland Track and Field Championships at Nuneaton. Jasmine secured victory with virtually the last throw of the competition after a tense 6-round battle with the Midland’s top throwers in the age group. The throw was measured at 35.26 metres, breaking the club record and extending her lead at the top of the West Midland’s rankings and moving her into the top 20 UK rankings. Thirteen year old Jasmine is still at the bottom end of the age group and will be aiming for more success next year. She has already thrown the qualifying distance for the English National Championships and will be competing at Bedford later this month.

Also competing for the club in the under-13 girls’ quadrathlon competition last Sunday were Elsa and Zara Buchanan who finished 8^th and 25^th respectively out of a very large field of young athletes. In this event they had to display all-round ability, competing in the long-jump, high jump, shot-putt and the 100 metres. Notable performances included a high jump of 1.35 metres (a personal best for Elsa) and a shot putt of 5.50 metres by Zara.

WOW, Super performances by everyone last weekend at Solihull. Check out the RESULTS and you can see how close it was, so well done to all of you because every point really counted. We finished in third place at Solihull  which in a very tight finish gave us second place overall after all 4 meetings.

1. Abingdon 24
2. RSCAC 18 (1518.5)
3. Solihull and Small Heath 18 (1384)
4. Kidderminster and Stourport 16
5. Corby 14.5
6. Charnwood 13.5
7. Kettering 4

• Chrissie Prince Under 20 Discus 31.52m .This breaks her own record of 30.98 set earlier this year.
• Janice Pryce W55 Triple Jump 9.62m .This breaks her own record of 9.36m set earlier this year as well as being superior to the British record of 9.29m  but due to the absence of a wind gauge cannot be ratified as a British record
  
• Graham Felton M65 Shot 7.26 Kg .8.50m. This beats his own record set in 2015 of 7.60m
• Mens 4x100m Relay 43.7 secs( team of Kane Howitt,Ethan Brough,Shem Nelson and Nick Pryce). This beats the old record of 43.8 set in 2015 and 2016.

Well done to Chrissie, Janice, Graham, Kane, Ethan, Shem and Nick. There were also 4 Personal Bests. They are

• Georgia Delaney 1500m
• Shaun Evans 3000m
• Elliott Walker High Jump
• Rachel Brown Triple Jump.

Here’s John’s report from the Vets meeting held at Wyndley at the end of July:

“Hi Everyone, I have had a chance to go through the results in a little detail and there were two club records set by Lorna and Graham and quite a few personal bests. The details are .

• Lorna Foster W50 Discus 24.28m .This beats her old record of 22.75 set in 2015.
• Graham Felton M65 Hammer (5Kg) 25.84m. This beats his old record of 24.39 set in 2015

• Helen Elsouedi W40 200m/800m/3000m
• Kate McBrien W45 800m/3000m
• Fiona Smith W50 2000m Walk
• Lorna Foster W50 Hammer
• Paul Baker M35 200m/800m
• Stephen Pitt M45 200m/3000m
• Paul Jenkins M50 200m/
• Daniel Musson M35 800m/3000m
• Jim Greenwood M40 3000m

Catch up on some great Team long distance racing which happened on the 23rd and 24th of July.

An  intrepid group of our Senior distance squad ventured out further & longer last weekend as they entered two mixed teams of 6 in the 24 hour relay event near Cirencester.

Running over a 5.6 mile multi terrain course the 1st team won the mixed team event setting a new record distance for mixed teams and finished an impressive 2nd overall completing 37 laps just one lap behind an all-male team of 8 and.

The 2nd team ran 33 laps to finish 7th overall and 5th mixed team. Each runner ran either 5,6 or 7 laps over the 24 hours covering 28 – 39 miles each !

Congratulations to Ollie Harradence, Simon Lees, Steve Marklew, Andrea Deathridge, Dean England, Russ Simpson (1st team); Dave Long, Paul Terleski, Chris Taylor, Gemma Sidaway, Matt Stenson and John Fletcher.

Special mention to Ollie who ran all his legs under 36 mins, ran the events fastest leg of the weekend & who also organised the event for the teams plus Andrea, who was the most consistent runner of the weekend.

Time to rest now…before looking to those autumn half or full marathons!

More info about the race can be found here.

Report by Steve Marklew (Senior Long Distance Squad Coach).

Muninder Singh Hayer and his coach Graham Felton have just returned from Copenhagen where Muninder was competing for England in The CPISRA Racerunning Open European Championships. This was Muninder’s first overseas competition and he rose to the challenge magnificently. He won all his heats and made the finals in 5 events with the following results

• 40 metres Gold Medal
• 60 metres Gold Medal
• 100 metres Gold Medal
• 200 metres Silver Medal
• 400 metres 4th

Chrissie P reports on some great performances by our young stars:

The Under 11’s have been out competing at the Heart of England league all season and have all done exceptionally well going out pushing and supporting each other all season doing the club and all the young athletes proud. Every single one of them have broke at least one personal best whilst competing this season and we have even had some club records broken:

• Charlotte Prince in the 600m who broke the old record by 5 seconds running an exceptional 1.57.5 at the second meeting in Coventry
• Superstar Harrison North broke the 75m club record in a time of 11.1 and the howler club record by 6 meters with a throw of 25.15 all in his first ever competition for the club!

Well done Alfie, Joshua, Harrison, Jayden, Martha, Alice, Charlotte, Olivia and Evie and all other under 11’s who have competed this season – you’ve all done us all very proud.

Another great run by Laura Whittle who finished 5th at the European Championships last night in a time of 15.24.18. Other GB runners in action were Steph Twell who finished 3rd and Elish McColgan who was 6th. Well done Laura – fantastic stuff!

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