Tring Invitation Run

On Wednesday 16th May, instead of our normal training run we will be heading over to Tring Running Club for their annual Invitation Evening, meeting at Tring Park Cricket Club (opposite Tesco and next to the new Tring Brewery) for a 7:30pm start. As in previous years, there will be a number of runs of varying distances and speeds, to suit all standards, including a shorter beginners run. This is always an excellent evening with the routes taking in the leafy Hertfordshire countryside and the occasional Chiltern hill! Food is provided in the bar afterwards for a nominal charge, and showers and changing facilities are available. read more

Pete leads the team home

For the first time in many years the Flitwick 10K was not the annual club championship race this year. However, it is a very well organised local race attracting upwards of 800 runners and so a merry band of twelve LBAC'ers headed over for the race in 2012.

The route is an undulating rural one lap course starting and finishing in the centre of Flitwick. Last year the weather was extremely warm for April and whilst this year there was no sun cream needed a windbreak would have been nice!

There was a fair bit of chat going on at the start as Stuart and Andy tried to persuade themselves that they could live with Pete on his current form while Chris Norman was just hoping to finish injury free and Laurie was reminding us of each individual hill on the route he does regularly as a Flitwick resident. read more

World Indoor Championships

By Gail Duckworth (which is why it's so modest) 

 

World Masters Indoor Championships

Jyvaskyla Finland April 3 – 8 2012

 

Having won the European title last year in the 3000m I was sure I could give a good account of myself in a World event. So, at a late date I decided to not only enter the 3000m but the 1500m as well and travel to Finland to take part.

 

I left home early Tuesday morning to fly from Heathrow to Helsinki. Jyvaskyla is a further 3 hours north so as you can imagine on the cold side! I didn’t have to worry about the snow – which there was a lot of – running indoors, but the first event at these Championships are the 8K cross country races and because of an unusual amount of snow they had for the time of year the course needed clearing! read more

“Christmas” Handicap

Just fifteen minutes before the start of the Boxing Day / Easter Monday handicap race it was looking like it might be a very damp and lonely race for the seven or eight hardy souls who had turned up at Leighton Town FC for the final event in the club championship season.

However, as the 11am kick-off time approached people gradually started to emerge from the woodwork clad in wet weather gear and ready to run and by the time we crossed the road towards The Falcon we were up to a merry(ish) 16.

All the participants were absolutely raring to go around the 5.6 mile historic loop that simply goes along Stanbridge Road, over the bypass to Billington and back in on Billington Road. you could tell when Dave asked people to step up to the start line and most took a pace backwards! The route is not particularly inspiring, but dates back to the 80's before the pypass existed and now it would really mess up Dave's records if we changed it! read more

The Final Stag 2011/12

After the perefct cool conditions of March's Stag race, there was a stark contrast with the damp and breezy conditions offered up by the April race last night. The fairly unpleasant evening did not stop 18 hardy souls from venturing out in the quest for a quick run and to pick up a few points.

Of those 18, 4 were doing their first Stag of the season and two further ones were doing their first ever. Before the race, Pete Mackrell had already sewn up the title but there was a battle going on for the minor places between a number of different people. Most of those individuals were reliant on getting a high points score to improve their current tally. read more

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