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Provisional results show Royal Sutton wins promotion

Nick P 400mWOW, Keep your fingers crossed but following everyones great performances yesterday the provisional results show we finished the meeting in second place which puts us in second place in the League and will give us promotion as long as we do not get any crazy dqs. Super Duper. The results are attached below and show that in yesterdays meeting the Men finished in second place and the Women in sixth place which put us into second place on the combined scores. The final League position after the 4 meetings becomes.
1st Leicester 23
2nd RSCAC 18
3rd Abingdon 16 1/2
4th Solihull 16
5th Leamington 16
6th Dudley 12 1/2
7th Kidderminster 10

Andrea 3kFor those of you who I persuaded to take on extra events at the last minute you can see it was all worth it . Thats you Lucy, Andrea, Nick M, Megan Mc, Janice and Elmena. Thanks for supporting your team.

What a day for Nick Pryce setting new club records in the 400m (his first 400m of the year) with 48.7 (half second improvement on his own record) and the 100m with a 10.7. Both of these are also League Divisional records. He then went on to anchor both the 4x100m and the 4x400m relay teams to victory. In the 4x100m he teamed up with Kane, Luke F and Nick M and they got the closest I have seen to the club record for many years which was set back in 1987 when I was in the team.as a pretty 43 year old. In the 4x400m it was Stuart, Fred and Kieran who ran with him and once again got very close to the club record set back in 1989. Well done guys.

Andrea also set a new W35 record in the 3000m with 10.51.1.to break Yvonne Parkers record set back in 2000 and Fiona Smith broke her own W50 Hammer record with 23.71m. Well done Andrea and Fiona.

Kieran High JumpThere were very many excellent performances, far too many to mention, but just a few interesting statistics about three performances. Kevins Discus throw of 48.79m is the second best M45 throw in the UK and he already has the best. Robs 1500m time of 4.18.3 puts him into second place in the M50 British rankings and he had a very sore Achilles. The 100m time of 13.2 in the 100m puts Fiona Ellis into 5th place in the W35 British rankings.

Finally a very, very special thanks to all our wonderful officials and helpers . Your support is invaluable.

All the best. John ( Winner of the prettiest Team Manager award for the tenth consecutive year)

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Come and support our athletics team at Wyndley this Saturday

You don’t have to travel to Moscow to see top quality athletics this weekend. The senior athletics team will be in action this Saturday at Wyndley. If you want to compete and haven’t been asked then please speak to John, Fiona, Meg, Graham or Nick.

If you’re able to help out on the day (e.g. putting out hurdles/helping behind the coffee bar, etc) please let us know. Ernie will be at the track from 9am. Any help would be much appreciated!

Otherwise, It would be great to have lots of support so come along and cheer on the team. Field events start at 11.30 and track events start at 1pm. The last events are the relays at 5pm. A timetable of the events is available here.

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Midlands Vets League T&F – Setting new Records – 31 July

On Wednesday, RSCAC were the hosts on home soil, for the fourth Midlands Vets League meeting of the year. And we really showed what that means to us with everyone achieving great performances.
The women finished in second place on the day, and finished the league in third place!

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Andrea Deathridge


They had nine first places from the eleven events contested. Beryl Chapman set a W80 club record in the 2000m Walk with a time of 18.06.7. Well done Beryl.
It was great to see us fielding a womens 4x100m relay team and see Sharon Ralph back to help the team take first place.
Andrea Deathridge had a couple of fine runs in the 800m and 3000m and is getting close to the W35 club records.
Lorna Foster continued her unbeaten run in the throws with first places in the shot, discuss and javelin.
Fleur O’Brien had fine victories in the W60 shot and Long jump, and both Sandra and Fiona Ellis looked majestic in winning their 200m races.

 
The men finished in third place and finished the league in fourth place.
Graham Felton set a new club record in the M60 Hammer with 27.46 m beating Graham Youngs’ record of 27.16m set ten years ago. Great stuff Graham ! (he also won the M60 200m and remains unbeaten in the league in the sprints).

Gordon Chapman 2k walk.
Gordon Chapman 2k walk.


In his first meeting for the club, Ed Saunders won the M40 Pole Vault and took fourth place in the Long Jump. A big welcome to Ed.

A special thanks to all our officials and helpers, for without you we would not be able to put on meetings at home.
 
Do not forget the League cup Finals are on September the 1st at Nuneaton where we will be fielding a team.
Earlier I did send the provisional timetable and later I will send the definite one once received.
 
Finally may I remind you all that we have the final meeting of the Midland Senior Men/Womens League at Wyndley on Saturday August 10th so if you are not competing perhaps you could come along and help out and cheer your team mates along. The field starts at 11.30am and the track at 1.00pm.
Report from John “Tornado” Topliss
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Ultra Running – 27/28 July

Over the weekend of the 27/28th July, Vici Richardson took part in the Adidas Thunder Run at Catton Park,Derbyshire.

Vici Richardson
Vici Richardson

The event is staged over 24hrs and involves running as many laps of the 10k trail course as possible.
Vici took part with a friend as a team of two and together they endured the blazing heat in the afternoon followed by relentless torrential rain throughout the night,
which made running in the dark all the more challenging.
By the end of the race at midday on Sunday they’d managed a staggering 9 laps each totalling 180k (111.8 miles!).

If you want to take part next year (but you have been warned), the website can be found here.

Well done Vici.

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Help needed for the YDL Upper Age Group meeting (Under 17 and Under 20) at Wyndley on Sunday

Calling all members…

If you can help at Wyndley on Sunday it would be very much appreciated.  

The event starts at 11.15 am, so we are setting up at 9.00 am.  We need to get hurdles out, set up long jump/triple jump boards, get the pole vault and high jump out, check the bar height of these, find all the relay change over flags and batons, find the scales to weigh throwers’ implements, put up the club tent, set up the sound system….Clearly there is a lot to do, so the more help, the better.

At 5.00pm we’ll need to put everything away, so any help at 5.00pm would also be greatly appreciated.

And if you can stay to help in between we’ll be able to use you: in the coffee bar, raking pits/collecting shot putts, putting out hurdles, taking refreshments to officials, running results from timekeepers to the announcer, pinning results up.  If you can stay, we’ll happily find you a job.

Hopefully see lots of you on Sunday. GO TEAM RSC!

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Open Meetings – Sub 2 minutes men – 23/24 July

A number of athletes were in action this week at various open meetings.

Nick Pryce’s rich vein of form continued, winning the 200m Open at Loughborough in a time of 21’50, beating in the process two runners who achieved low 21′ races this season. Well done Nick.

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Stuart McCaw at an earlier League Meeting (2013)

At Cheltenham Open, Charmaine Riley finished 2nd in a closely contended 200m in a time of 27’7, with Joella Spencer finishing 3rd in 28’5.
The final race of the day saw three clubs runners contest a 17-strong 800m field, with Stuart McCaw, Paul Davey and Fred Tremblay all taking part.
It was great news for Stuart McCaw, who at only 20 years of age, ran for the first time under 2 minutes, finishing 4th in a time of 1’59.2. Well done Stuart.
Fred Tremblay improved on his season’s best, finishing 3rd in 1’58.7.
Paul Davey finished in a sub 2’10 time in a race that was part of a heavy-load weekly training regime.
Full results are available here.

More open races can be found here.

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Weekend roundup – 20/21st July

RSCAC was on the athletics map again this week-end with great performances all-round.

Katie Ingle competed in her first ever European competition over the week-end making it to the final of the U23 European Championships 3000m steeple in Rieti, Italy.
Results of the final can be found here.

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Nick Pryce

Nick Price dominated an international class 200m field at the Birmingham Games on saturday (Alexander Stadium),
winning in a new PB of 21.38, smashing his own Senior Mens club record of 21.81.
In the process he also beat Joshua Ross (Australia’s No 1), and Richard Strachan who regularly features on the british 4x400m relay teams at international level.
Results of the 200m races are here.

Olympic Park Run 2013
Mark Rickards, Vici Richardson and Colin McAuley

In London, 7 club athletes had the chance to compete against Paula Radcliffe at the Olympic Park run.
They had to enter a ballot to take part in the five-mile (8,047m), 12,500 runners strong, National Lottery Anniversary Run around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton was also taking part while fellow cyclist Sir Chris Hoy was the official starter of the race.
There were about 30,000 spectators.
Vikram Balachandar was first home is a fast time of 29:15 followed by Colin McAuley in 30:57. Mark Rickards came home in a fantastic PB time of 31:21. All three beat world champion marathoner Paula Radcliffe to the line – not something you get to do every weekend! Vici Richardson, Lucy Jennings, Emma Neachell and Katie Jennings also competed in the event.
Full results are:

Vikram Balachandar 29:15 (68th)
Colin McAuley 30:57 (148th)
Mark Rickards 31:21 (183th)
Vici Richardson 38:57 (1961th)
Lucy Jennings 47:10 (5591th)
Emma Neachell 50:33 (7281th)
Katie Jennings 51:24 (7668th)

Finally, Simon Ralph showed he is on his way to returning to top form with a sub 40min 10k result in a relay leg of the City of Birmingham 2013 Triatlon, Sunday at Sutton Park.
Well done Simon.

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Weekend roundup – 13/14 July

The U13s and U15s travelled to Banbury for a YDL fixture on Saturday. There were wins for Ben Horton, Georgia Platt, Maisie Cain, Jasmin Skipp and Jessica Tarr and great performances by everyone else. The results are available here.

Our distance runners were out in force at the Worcester Pitchcroft 10k. In scorching hot conditions Ollie Harradence had a great run to finish 2nd. We had another 6 runners in the top 20 – Dave Long (6th), Paul Terleski (9th), Paul Davey (11th), Russell Simpson (12th), Colin McAuley (14th) and Mark Rickards (17th and a PB). Vici Richardson finished 79th.