Category: General

Stag Short Course!

Clearly the first Stag Trophy race of the 2013/14 season was run over a short course!

It is claimed that of the 25 runners (5 of which were debutants) there were 7 PB's, a number of which were done under very dubious circumstances.

Firstly, congratulations to winner, Katie Haylock. Katie has only recently taken up running and expertly blagged a good handicap from Dave together with putting in a fantastic run to finish a smidgen over 20 minutes and claim the first 25 points of the season. Katie was chased home by Mark Field, who is back from his warm weather training in Iraq, which just goes to show how far some people will go to hide their current form! read more

MK Tour – The Final Race

The final race of the Tour of MK saw the runners tackle the Willen Lake "6", a lollipop-shaped course starting on the River Ouzel at Woughton on the Green and taking in a lap of Willen Lake before returning the way it started. It is a flat course which would be fast were it not for the numerous gates and cattle grids, plus the fact it is actually closer to 6.5 miles! The long-ish nature of this final race means that there is still ample opportunity to move up the overall leader board, but only if you have something left in your legs after the first five days! read more

MK Tour – 1 to go

The fifth race of the tour saw Leighton members dominating the leading positions, with four in the first six. The Campbell Park "5" was that race this year and is always put in speech marks because it is actually around 4.4 miles! The great thing is that it has an extremely fast start down hill from the Belvedere to the canal where many of us ran quicker than we did in the track mile race! The problem is that you then have to regain all of that lost height in a long slow drag back up in the second mile, before repeating the lap again. read more

MK Tour – Update

Legend has it that there is a secret burning ceremony following the tour of MK where any spare T-shirts, not earned by competitors are cast into the flames to ensure that undeserving people cannot get their hands on these prized possessions! Whether or not this is true, a tour finishers T-shirt is certainly hard to come by as it costs much sweat, occasional blood and the odd tear! So, four days into this year's tour, the event is starting to take it's toll, but all ten LBAC members are hanging on in their battles with accidents, injury and the athletes of MK. read more

Watchless 4

The third running of the LBAC Watchless 4 took place on Wednesday instead of the usual training run. The turn-out was strong thanks to a healthy contingent of Leighton Fun Runners joining us for the evening. This time last year there were just a few people who got within a minute of their predicted time, but this time around 22 out of 29 manage the challenge.

It would seem though that pushing yourself to run quickly may be a better tactic that aiming to trot round at a comfortable pace as we once again had joint winners who did exactly that. Both Gary Stratford and Chris Dimmock were just one second outside their own predicted times and took the pot of cash to share between them. read more

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