Royal Sutton Coldfield Athletics Club

Last weekend M55 Donald Brown continued his excellent indoor season by taking first place in both the M50 60m and the M50 60m Hurdles whilst representing Midland Masters at the Inter Area Challenge at Lee Valley. Donald also took third place in the M50 Shot. The meeting was won by the Midlands.

Donald’s 60m Hurdles time of 8.94 is a new M55 CLUB RECORD beating his previous time of 9.02 set in 2019. He also set a new M55 CLUB RECORD in the 6Kg Shot with 10.71m beating Graham Felton’s record of 9.85 set in 2004.

Last Sunday was the regional sportshall final.

Very well done to the following RSC athletes who were selected to represent Birmingham:

– U11s: Mollie Beeton, Florence Thomas-Male, Sam McGriffin and Zak Tisdale.

– U13s: Fraser Cook, Alfie Hall, Jayden Humphreys and Harrison North
– U15s: Noah Edwards, Gabby Godsell, Charlotte Prince, Tilly Strachen and Olivia Straw.

There were some great results! The u11 boys team, u11 girls team and u13 boys team all won. The u13 boys have now qualified for the national final!

The u13 girls, u15 boys and under 15 girls all came second.

In the u15s, there were individual victories for Gabby Godsell and Charlotte Prince in the 4 lap and Gabby Godsell and Tilly Strachen in the paarlauf relay. Noah Edwards got bronze in the 4 lap.

There were medals in the u13 boys for Jayden Humphreys in speed bounce; Harrison North in 2 lap; and Alfie Hall in the obstacle relay and 4 x 2 lap relay.

There is a chance that some award winners have been missed from the above. Apologies if so – there was so much going on it was hard to keep up!

There is no Plantsbrook session tonight, so please go to the track.

The remaining Plantsbrook sessions are 03/03 and 10/03.

Donald Brown set a time of 7.58 secs in the Indoor 60m at the Newham and Essex Open.

This beats the previous Club record of 7.60 jointly held by Ron Taylor (1990) and Donald (2019) himself.

At the time when Ron recorded the 7.60 it was a World Masters M55 record.

Nicholas Pryce’s super performances at the British Indoor Champs in Glasgow yesterday finished with him getting second place and the silver medal in the Mens 200m in a time of 21.29 secs which is a new CLUB RECORD beating his old record of 21.71 set just last week.

He actually broke the record in his heat with 21.61, his semifinal with 21.50 and then the Final with the 21.29.

Outstanding work Nicholas – well done!

You should be able to see his race using the below link: https://t.co/tpD8WAQzO9 (https://twitter.com/BritAthletics/status/1231624100344483842?s=09)

#SPARBritishChamps

The council has notified us that the current road works will be extended from the 9th to 27th March to include the suspension of parking along Wyndley Lane, temporary traffic lights will be installed at the intersection of Wyndley Lane and Somerville Road. The club car park will still be accessible, though it may be much easier to park in Wyndley.