Following last Tuesday's Milon Keynes 10K your editor made something of an accidental omission. For quite a while Simon Coombes has been telling us that he wanted to get under 33:30 for 10K and whilst I did know the reason I had forgotten and thought it was a PB, until I checked on Power of 10 and saw that it wasn't, so assumed it was just his best for five years.

However, I have since been reminded that actually the main reason for that taregt time was to get inside Pete Watkins' club record of 33:31. Therefore, many congratulations should go to Simon for his excellent 33:07 and I will try to remember a little better next time! read more

Nine of LBAC's finest took to the redways of Milton Keynes on Tuesday night for the 10K, which was also the final race in the East Midlands Grand Prix series. It was a warm, damp evening as just over 400 runners arrived at the Open University for this long standing event.

The series regulars of Pat Neilan, Richard Inchley and Chris Williams were joined by three more Inchley's, a Coombes, a Mackrell and a Watt for the most local of the eight races, that are all either 5 miles, 6 miles or 10K. The start is on the Woughton-on-the-Green playing fields and then the course uses predominatly redways as it goes up Willen Lake and back to finish on the O.U. cricket pitch. read more

Last weekend, Gail Duckworth ran at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium on the new track which apparently felt good. The new stand is excellent but puts the rest of the Stadium to shame unfortunately! The work is still not complete and there were workmen there trying to push it through for the Diamond League meeting in July. Gail ran 1500m on Saturday and 5000m Sunday – thankfully at 9.30am and even then it was very hot!

Gail once again won two Gold medals. She says they were not fast times but that's often the way in Championships. In preperation Gail did a bit of speed work for the event at the last Watford Open meeting. It was her first 800m for many years (probably at least 8)and was reasonably happy with 2:38:8. read more

On Friday evening four LBAC members went down to Luton for the first race in the Luton AC road race series, which was the John O'Callaghan 5. Jane Sauer intended to use the race as a gentle warm-up for the relay on the following day, but after going 1:30 minutes quicker than planned for the first mile just decided to race around. This was a pretty good idea in the end as she completed the course in 37:43 and earned herself a new PB.

Behind Jane, Dave Adams snuck out for his second race of the year and is clearly developing some serious pace off the back of all his day time training as he completed the course in 41:03, which is 8:12mpm. If we're not careful, he'll be out to win the Stag this year! read more