Boxing Day Run

Sunday the 26th December will see the annual running of the Langmay Trophy and all club members, friends and family are invited to take part.

The event is a "blind handicap". This means that it is run as a straight race with everyone starting together, but Dave Adams will have a predicted time for all club members and the person who beats their predicted time by the greatest margin will be the winner. It is really just a bit of fun to get you out of the house and running off some of the Christmas dinner from the day before. read more

Bedford Half Marathon

It was another frosty morning in Bedford for the club and county half marathon championships in Wootton. There was barely a flicker of breeze despite the cold temperatures and so once into the race it was almost perfect conditions for running. The course at Wootton lends itself perfectly to running a negative split (second half faster than the first) as the three or four hills that there are, are all in the first half. Many of the runners achieved the unusual feat, including numerous members of LBAC. read more

Christmas Pudding 10K

Wondering what to do after battling for places at the Chiltern League Cross Country on a Saturday afternoon? Perhaps rest, or maybe take in a slow long Sunday run as recovery and extra training? A third option is to head off to Wiltshire to pick up a Christmas Pudding! Yes that is exactly what Joby and Jill did on Sunday morning. The only trouble was that to get the free Christmas Pudding there was the small matter of racing 10K first. Sunday morning greeted 324 runners with thick fog and frost and the race organisers with a frozen course. Two hours of gritting later and a delay to the start of only 15 minutes and the marshalls got the race going. The course takes in two laps of the Wiltshire village of Bromham, which is ideal for spectators and the flat course makes it popular with the local runners. Joby Hobbs finished in 14th place overall in a time of 37 minutes and 37 seconds setting a new P.B. while Jill Richardson came home in 101st place in a time of 45 minutes 40 seconds. Anyone wanting to set a new 10km P.B. at an excellently organised race and pick up a Christmas Pudding just in time for Christmas this race is highly recommended.

Chilled Sammon Sandwich

Last Saturday saw the third fixture of the Chiltern League Cross-country season take place at Stowe School near Buckingham in cold snowy conditions.

Some of the club's junior representatives were possibly put off by the freezing weather and so numbers were a little reduced after the excellent turn-out at Watford, but eight U16's still made a great effort to score valuable points for LBAC. First out on the course was Mathilde Sammons, who has run all three U11 races this year and clearly (judging the photo's) had a whole range of experiences during her run! read more

Wolverton 5

Three LBAC athletes took to the redways around Willen Lake on Saturday afternoon for the somewhat chilly running of the Wolverton 5. Whilst the race has not been run in Wolverton for many years, as a long standing fixture on the calendar, it attracts a great many runners of all abilities to what can be a very fast course.

On a day when conditions barely crept above a couple of degrees centrigrade, the top three runners all ducked under 25 minutes on the traffic free course around the Milton Keynes' lake. The standard was highlighted by our own Simon Coombes who ran an excellent 26:53 by only just made the top twenty. Having returned from International duty, Gail Duckworth finished 73rd in 31:26 while Theresa Keefe completed the course in 52:17. read more

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