Leighton Buzzard Athletic Club

We are holding a 6-week “Introduction to Running” course beginning Wednesday 23rd May, meeting at the entrance of Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre at 7.15pm.

If you've never run before, or not for a long time, our beginner course is just for you. It is designed for those of you who would like to learn to run, for fun and fitness. No experience is necessary, just a sense of humour, and a willingness to have a go! We don’t put any pressure on anybody and never judge anyone by their level of fitness. If we can get a few more men and women jogging than walking then the course will have been a success! read more

This Wednesday saw the first of the East Midlands Grand Prix races take place at Silverstone with two laps of the track making up the 10K route. Six club members went up to the circuit on the Northants and Bucks border.

It was a muggy night, despite the strong breeze and steady drizzle and the order of the day was to tuck in and try to keep an even pace all the way. In her first ever 10K Bianca Inchley did exactly that as she aimed for running six minute kilometres all the way and tracked Helen Crossland who has already achieved consecutive personal bests over the distance this year. read more

Saturday saw the regular MK parkrun 5K take place at Willen Lake, but the usual route along the canal was altered due to a "puddle" a foot deep in water at the first underpass. This meant that the organisers hastily decided on a new route that was a touch longer than the normal one so that people didn't run a short race and get big PB's on the day.

There were two LBAC competitors, with Chris Norman running his fourth race at the weekly event and coming home in third. The other runner was Sam Nicholas, who at 13 was almost the youngest in the field but still managed to run just over 22 minutes for the 3.3 miles. He finished 32^nd out of a field of 295. This is a great free race that happens at Willen at 9am every Saturday so get yourself registered on the site and head over. read more

Something else wonderful was happening in LBAC world when the London Marathon was on but we kept it a secret until VLM fever had (almost) blown over…

Yes, while you were all soaking up the atmosphere (and all of our sun) on the banks of the Thames, the rest of us were in the car praying the rain clouds were pacing themselves much slower than us up the M1…

East Anglian Athletics League – Peterborough – Track and Field – Junior Results

Well at least the day didn’t start with the rain. In fact we had some glorious spring sunshine at 11.45am when our Under 13 girls led us off to a terrific start with an ‘A’ team 2^nd place by Matilda Maglio and a ‘B’ team first place by Jade Lindars in the Under 13’s Shot Putt. read more