The John O’Callaghan comes a-calling

by Johanna Sharples

This year saw LBAC using the John O’Callaghan Memorial 5 mile as the club championship race, having used the Blisworth 5 the last few years. Club races always attract those serious about the overall club championship standings (*ahem* Tom Inchley) and Sunday was no different, with there being a decent sea of purple and gold on the start line.

Starting just outside the grounds of the Luton Hoo at Venue 360, the course was 2 laps and headed straight out and back, looped a playing field and then repeated. This meant 2 things: firstly you did have a 2 way stream of runners for the majority of the course which I found helped with motivation, however, once you had done one lap you had to face it all again and for what should have been a fairly quick and inoffensive course, I found it challenging. I think this was partly because of the monotony of the 2 laps and partly because it was a lot more undulating that I had expected. read more

Greensand Ridge Relay

By Andy Inchley

Amy always takes the micky out of me by telling everyone that the GSRR is my favourite day of the year! This may be stretching the truth for her own amusement, but it isn’t too far wrong – I would certainly say that it’s probably my favourite running event of the year.

For those that don’t know, it is a 34 mile, six leg, self-navigated trail relay from one side of Bedfordshire to the other starting at Tiddenfoot Lake and finishing in the village of Northill. There are usually 40-45 teams and 10-15 individuals taking part, competing for a range of different trophies. read more

Inaugural Club 1 Mile races

Well I think it’s fair to say that today’s mile races were a good success in the main. It was great to have four races all run in some sunshine with some excellent performances produced all around.

Particular thanks to the Amy, Cheryl, Dave and Pete for helping out with the results recording. It was all very efficient.

The senior results will feed into the overall club woman and club man of the year results and the juniors will have a target for later in the season when they fancy running another mile on the track. They can be found in the results section. read more

Run Britain Rankings & Power of 10

I thought I’d do a short piece about something that a few of us are a little obsessive on and some are completely oblivious to, which are the above two websites.

These two websites are linked together and act as a database for athletics performances for just about any UK based athlete.

Power of 10 was set-up around ten years ago to collate and record performances across all disciplines and act as a permanent record thereof. You can look up anyone you want from Mo Farah to your next door neighbour. read more

LBAC… to the Capital!

Vitality London 10,000

On Bank Holiday Monday, Leighton Buzzard Athletic Club once again travelled down to the capital en masse to take part in the Vitality London 10000. With places at the Rio Olympics still to be decided there were a number of high profile elites leading us out as the route took in some of the major tourist sites of Central London.

The route headed out along the Mall and underneath Admiralty Arch, past Trafalgar Square, along the Strand, around the Bank of England, past St Paul’s, back along the Strand, down to Westminster and the Houses of Parliament before a final burst along Birdcage Walk to finish in front of Buckingham Palace. read more

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