Leighton Buzzard Athletic Club

Just to let you know of a few social running opportunities over the festive period. Firstly, on Sunday there are a couple of options;

Christmas Kanter – Sunday 23rd
This is a social event where groups or individuals have to complete a cross-country course by map reading and solving a few clues. It will take place this year at the top of Church Road near Woburn Sands and costs £1. There are two options of a 10K or 15K route and starters go off in their own time between 8.45 and 9.15am.
Andy and Richard are both leading teams doing the 15K. Amy is doing the 10K. All three groups have already recruited a few members but the more the merrier, or you are welcome to do your own thing.
http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mkac/12kanter.htm read more

We finally managed to get the second stag race of the season off on the 12th of December on a crisp evening in Leighton. Whilst the temperatures were low, the lack of rain meant no ice at all on the course and the complete lack of a breeze made for very good running conditions in the end.

The cold temperatures and the date of the race clearly didn't help numbers as we were reduced to just 13 hardy souls on the night, but the conditions meant that seven of them beat their handicap and even the final finisher earned 13 points. read more

Round 3 of the Chiltern league saw LBAC worrying about numbers with a number of our fold, sunning themselves in Lanzarote, and running now and again whilst there! The plea to turn out and support this fixture fell on un-deaf ears and with 17 senior men’s names on the declaration sheet it was the best turnout so far this season for this category.

These numbers were boosted with help from two of our new members, James Bell and Mark Haynes in their inaugural run for the club. Mark running in his 2nd run for a number of years, his first being Wednesday night’s training run! Well done Mark. read more

By Helen Crossland (25th Nov)

What a fabulous day for a run across a muddy park.

he weather forecast the night before had towns and villages drowned in the downpour with more rain forecast. There was a chance that the whole event would be washed out as well. But the only weather left by the morning were strong gusts of wind and clear blue sunny skies. So, off to Woburn Abbey to run two laps around a course that was bound to be sodden from all this rain.

I collected my flashing red nose, antlers and T-shirt. Obviously I wore all three items as long as I could in high winds. So did loads of other runners. It was a glorious sight, especially during the warm up. Red clad dancing runners with antlers and flashing red noses. Pity I didn't take a picture. read more