Juniors – Aug/Sep Newsletter
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Summer Break – We will not be training over the summer school holiday period last training 25 July – Start back 27 August
New Members, inductions days: The next induction day to tell your athletic buddies at school is the 2nd and 4th July. Following induction day September 3rd and 5th
Bedfordshire Network Quadskids 9th Jun Ampthill
Two Girls and one boys team competed at the Under 11 athletics quadkids meeting at Ampthill. There was plenty of enthusiasm and energy displayed by all athletes and some excellent results, seeing PB come down in the running events and go up in the throw and jump event. Zara Butler deserves a special mention winning the girls event outright and need to maintain her form for the last event that we host at Biggleswade AC on 14th July.
Hosting the next event. We I will be sending an email to all under 11 parents with the various roles we need to fill for this event from girl and boy team management (chaperone) to time keepers and result recorders. Please sign up to help the smooth organisation of this event, as we try to balance this and the 3rd EAL at Cambridge on the same day. Under 11’s energy permitting are welcome to attend both events on the 14th July.
Summer Break – We will not be training over the summer school holiday period last training 25th July – Start back 27th August. On our return we will be preparing for East Anglian League (EAL) Track and Field to be held at Bury St. Edmunds on the 1st September.
New Members, inductions days. The next induction day is the September 3rd and 5th at Vandyke. Please invite your friends to come along to see if they would like to join in.
Water. Do remember that in this heat, drinking small amounts of water regularly is a good idea. Isotonic drinks are useful, particularly if you are sweating a lot during a workout. If you want to make your own here are a few ‘recipes’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/health_and_fitness/4289704.stm
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.
Leighton Buzzard AC had three representatives at the county schools athletics championships at Bedford this week with Billy Mead, Brian Foulger and Beccy davies all being selected to represent South Beds against, Luton, Mid Beds and North Beds. It is a pretty high standard of competition with both Luton AC and Bedford & County having strong track and field pedigree.
Brian was running in the junior boys 1500 where he ran a PB of 4.48 to take 3rd place and also did the 80m Hurdles in a time of 14.2, which also represented a PB. Billy meanwhile was competing a year young in the inter boys 400m, 800m and 4 x 100m relay. Suffice to say he was not delighted with any of his performances but at least can come back next year and try again.