Category: General

No Snow Today!

With not a snowflake or patch of ice to be seen for many hundreds of miles (at least outside the odd freezer!) the "Boxing Day" handicap was able to be run in glorious weather on Monday. Nineteen fine athletes turned up at Leighton Town Football club for the final race of the club championship season to challenge for the prestigious Langmay Trophy.

There were seventeen club members plus Glyn Raymen of the Fun Runners and Pat Neilan's son-in-law Simon. It has been a very long time since we had seventeen from LBAC on Boxing Day so there was talk of moving the date permanently, although it does say in big letters on the trophy "LBAC Christmas Handicap"! read more

London Marathon

The six LBAC runners who had entries in to the London Marathon all successfully negotiated the london transport network to make it down to Excel to register for the race which took place last Sunday. All 35,000 runners are expected to go down to the exhibition to collect their numbers and chips (electronic not potato) during the four days prior. All six were in pretty good spirits, although Simon Lathwell had been suffering with a bad cold a few days prior.

The day of the race saw everyone wake up to a clear warm day in London with a forecast that indicated a nice temperature at the start gradually getting warmer through the day. Pete, Craig and Amy all met up at the blue start, while Joe, Ian and Simon were all on red in Greenwich Park. As the race started the sun also began creeping through the clouds, but a great start by all the club members saw them through 10K looking really positive and all on course for their target times. read more

Balmy Brighton & Rotterdam

Last Sunday saw a selection of LBAC members trekking off to compete in a couple of different marathons on a very warm weekend. There were due to be four running down in Brighton, while one intrepid member went to darkest Holland for a run around Rotterdam.

A few days before the weekend, one of the bugs that is going around at the moment put pay to Ian Hosley's chances of a run in Brighton as he was confined to his sofa with the shivers. Having completed all the training, it must be extremely frustrating to then have the chance to take part removed at the last minute, so many condolences to Ian. read more

Flitwick 10K

A perfect Spring morning met all the runners as they arrived in Flitwick for the club's traditional 10K club championship. The course is well known by most as few were doing the race for the first time and it features a number of inclines without anything too bad.

Over the years the race has grown and in 2011 there were over 800 competitors on the start line, with many using it as a sharpener before the London marathon next week. Leighton's fourteen participants consisted of six ladies and eight men, all looking for early points in the club championship standings of 2011/12. read more

A Remarkable Finish

Wednesday night saw a stunning finish to the Stag Trophy season as Steve Orlando and Dan Webb battled for the overall title. Going in to the race, Dan Webb knew that only a win on the night and Steve finishing outside the top five would secure the trophy, while long time leader Steve knew the odds were stacked against Dan.

As club members arrived on a perfect night for running it was immediately clear that the participation numbers were a touch down with only sixteen participants meeting at the park. The expectation was for the usual stack of PB's with the new summer lightness and a warm evening, which surely favoured the incumbent leader. However, as the race slowly unfolded it became clear that there was only likely to be a couple of people battling for the win on the night and one of those was Dan……. read more

1 … 42 43 44 45 46 … 55