Leighton Buzzard Athletic Club

On Saturday 6th July we are holding our LBAC Track & Field Fun Day. If you plan to attend can you please let Pete know so we have an idea of numbers before the day. (peter.mackrell@hotmail.co.uk)

The event takes place between noon and 4pm at Stantonbury Track in Milton Keynes (access via Soskin Drive, MK14 6TA). First up we will be holding our Senior Track Championship, which is a 5000m race for the men and 3000m for women (and we all start at the same time). Once that initial torture is out of the way, we'll form into several big teams with the juniors and have a go at javelin, shot put, long jump and 100m. We'll aim to end the day with the already infamous 16 x 100m relay! read more

Friday 24th May saw an eager posse of 4 runners venture out to Blisworth for the annual 5 mile race on an undulating figure of 8 route deep in the Northamptonshire countryside. Jordan Clay, Charlie Mead, Aaron Carr and Chris Williams piled into the car and on the drive up encountered torrential rain and hail with the temperature dropping to 4 degrees; perfect summer series running weather!

Thankfully the rain had stopped with 2 minutes to spare before the start, the clouds cleared and the temperature rose slightly to give near perfect running conditions. Only the wind remained as a slight bugbear. read more

On Sunday, 24 intrepid members of LBAC braved the wilds around the edge of Milton Keynes to take on the Round MK relay. This is a four leg relay starting and finishing in Stony Stratford with 32 miles of variable terrain in between. Our six LBAC teams were split into approximately even teams so that ther could be some sort of race without it really mattering too much.

 A warm start to the day meant that those on legs one and two had the most heat to contend with, but that did balance out as they also had the best under foot conditions, with most of legs 3 and 4 being off road. read more