Leighton 10 Results
Provisional results from the Leighton 10 are now available, please click on the "Leighton 10" option on the menu on the left hand side. Thank you to all those that entered, we hope to see you again next year.
Watchless 4
Watchless 4
The first ever watchless run for LBAC seemed to be a good success, with 28 people completing the course on Wednesday night. It was a very negative bunch beforehand though, as 26 of the 28 predicted times that were slower than they actually ran.
Gary Stratford came out as the winner though, just 18 seconds away from his predicted time and pipping Richard Inchley by 4 seconds and Fiona Towell by 15. There were also some pretty dodgy predictions with 11 people more than 2 minutes out!
If anyone has some other suggested events to break up the winter months then please feel free to put them forward.
Bedford 5K
As a scorching hot day in Bedford cooled to a sultry twenty-two degrees, thirteen members of LBAC joined about 350 other runners in Bedford Park for the Doug Anderson 5K. This was the club championship for the second year running and is the shortest of the road race distances.
As ever, each individual had their own personal target, but Simon Coombes was after a new club record as a V40, having recently joined the old boys category!
The course is two and a half laps of the park which feels completely flat at a jog or walk, but when you are coming round for the third time there is a very slight incline can take the wind from your sails if your not on top form.
Juniors July 2012
Family Athletics Day
We have a brand new exciting club event for this year involving athletes from the junior and adult sections. We have hired the athletics track at Stantonbury, Milton Keynes exclusively for LBAC from 12 – 3 pm on Sunday 15th July. This will be our version of the Olympics, the LBAC Games. We will be running a range of fun team and timed events with prizes available. Events are: Shot put(SP), Long Jump(LJ), 100m, and Javelin for all. (U13 and above). Under 11’s will compete at 600, LJ, SP and 100. U17/U15 can also join in with the 3000 or 5000 meters that the adults will be partaking in as well as these other events. There will be mixed team relays to finish the day.
MK 10K
Tuesday night saw six people from the club head over to the Open University in MK for the final race in the East Midlands Grand Prix Series and the Milton Keynes 10K. This is a flat fast course around the redways that heads up to Willen Lake and back.
Fred Watt and Pete Mackrell were doing there 7th race of the series and a good performance from Pete would earn him a top eight finish overall and a prize to go with it. Fred was standing in third place in the V60 category, but really good run could see him gain second. Overall results were taken on the best five positions of the series.