Shakespeare Raceway Half

Four laps of Long Marston airfield near Stratford upon Avon was not an inviting prospect, but it was a Saturday which fits with Fred’s wife working so he took it upon himself to go in for a new race. He lined up at the start alongside Lee Riley who was attempting to lower his world record of 1.40.54 for the Half Marathon carrying a 40lb pack. Lee was trying for near 1.35 so Fred thought he would be a good pace guide to hang onto. Fred’s plan had been to run 7.10 miles and the conditions were perfect for it.
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County Champs

Sarah Plummer, battled hard in the U13s race and achieved an excellent 5th place in only her second race for the club. Owen Drabwell and Henry Mead ran well to achieve 14th and 23rd places respectively.

The U15 boys fielded a strong team lead by Jordan Clay in 5th, with a closely fought battle between the 3 other boys with Lloyd Milliken 10th, Joe 11th and Charlie 12th.

This result meant that they won the team silver medals. Billy Mead and Brian Foulger had a good race with Billy finishing in 9th, just ahead of Brian in 11th. Well done to all our runners for doing LBAC proud. read more

Other Running Events

This time of year also sees an increase in Road running and fun runs for juniors.We will advertise these on our notice board at training and include:

15th April Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers (see their website) have a free junior fun run following their 10K race starting around 12.00

7th May Watford: 3K for 10-14yrs, 10K for 15yrs+ See www.watford10k.org.uk

 

See our website, "Upcoming races" for details of all races in the coming months.

Presentation Night

We would like to thank all of you that attended the presentation and quiz evening on the 18th March it was a resounding success and all had a good time. There is a longer report in the main "News" section. Photos of the evening are in the "Gallery". Those of you that want copies of you receiving your awards with our very own European champion, please contact Mark Sammons.

A New British Record

Over the weekend our resident world number one, Gail went to the Masters National Championships at Lee Valley in North London. Having spent all winter traipsing through mud of various cross-country courses, it was a relief for her to be running fast around a track again.

On Saturday Gail ran in the 1500m which she considers a little too short but still won the W55 title by 14 seconds in 5.18 which equates to about a 5.50 mile. She claims she ran "like a headless chicken" but if that gets you national titles…..! On Sunday, 15 laps of 200m at 3.40mpk was the order of the day, but having burnt off all the opposition early on, Gail just missed out on her target time of 11.00 minutes for the 3000m. The 11.04 she actually clocked was still a British indoor record so not a bad day's work really! read more

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