Relay Team clinch vital points.

The U13 boys relay team of Owen Drabwell, Patrick Clay, Henry Mead and Jamie Stancombe rounded off LBACs most successful team performance of the season so far at Luton.

 

It was great to see so many junior athletes competing with the team bolstered by athletes from the seniors who were just as willing to get stuck in and have a go!

 

The U13 girls team consisting of Jade Lindars, Izzi Bidlake-Hull, Becca Mead, Ellie Prophet, Bea Munday and Skye Longworth took the honours of the day coming 3rd in their age group. Ellie battled hard in her 1500m experiencing the worst storm of the day and also having to compete against the U15 girls, all in her debut appearance. Bea and Skye had a fantastic day, again competing for the first time with victories for Bea in the Shot Putt and Javelin and a second for Skye in the Long jump. Becca performed well in the 100m and discuss with Jade continuing to improve achieving three personal bests in her events. read more

Sunday 17th

Last Sunday saw LBAC members spreading themselves across three different events. Dan Webb took Amelia's place in the Milton Keynes NSPCC half marathon and made the most of the opportunity despite the pouring rain. He completed the 13.1 miles in a new personal best time of 1:38. At the Luton 5K in Wardown Park Jane Sauer led home the contingent of three LBAC runners in a time of 24:11, with Dave Adams not far behind in 25:00, having completed his third race of 2011! Fiona's dodgy knee impeded her somewhat, but she still managed to get around the course in just under 28 minutes. read more

Accidental Omission

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

MK 10K Okay!

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

British Masters T&F Champs

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

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