Leighton Buzzard Athletic Club

Saturday 23^rd June saw the 25^th running of Greensand Ridge Relay. The race is run over six legs and 34 miles from Waterside Park in Leighton Buzzard to the village of Northill near Sandy. Most of the route is off-road and unmarshalled so you have to know where you are going, otherwise rely on signposts and navigation.

For the first time this year there were forty teams permitted to enter and it was still oversubscribed. We had four teams taking part with a ladies team, two senior men's teams and a bunch of old boys. read more

LFR are hosting an open evening on Tuesday 17th July, with 3 different routes of between 5 and 10 miles, meeting at the Three Locks pub in Stoke Hammond at 7.15pm. They have said afterwards there will be a few social drinks at the pub! Click here for full details.

In clearing out his cupboards before moving house recently, long standing member Dave Crawley came across some old records, one of which was the the Hatch End 5 results from 1982!

In that race LBAC had six people running under 28 minutes, including club vice president Geoff Roe and former club captain, secretary, chairman and now triathlon club member Steve Goodlad. However, the most notable point was that first home for the club was Dave Walsh, whose 24:52 is actually a club record. These days there are not many people in the club who can run one 4:58 mile, let alone 5 back to back! read more

Last Tuesday night saw six LBAC members make their way over to the stadium at Bedford for the third race in the East Midlands Grand Prix Series and the Bedford 6.

It is a slightly unusual distance, being just short of 10K but the race is very long standing and was supported this year by 324 runners on a glorious warm evening. The route goes around Priory Park and is extremely flat, with the one hill being a bridge over the A421, which is done both on the way out and back.

The ever improving Helen Crossland has a very good run, despite a fall in the first 100m. She was too busy reading the sign that said "Careful! Hump in Road" and fell over the hump! Despite this incident she completed the course in just over 56 minutes, which means that she was nearer to 9 minute miling than 10. read more