London Marathon 2013 – Ballot

Each year the club receives two guaranteed places in the London marathon. For the April 2013 race we will be holding the ballot for the two places during the Club Dinner on 12th May. There are certain criteria which must be honoured in order to apply for one of the places, please note in particular point 2 below:

1. You must be a paid up member of the club for 2012 and retain your membership for 2013.

2. YOU MUST USE YOUR BEST ENDEAVOURS to enter the general online ballot which opens on MONDAY 30TH APRIL, usually early morning but the website doesn't confirm the time (http://www.virginlondonmarathon.com/). The ballot always fills up very quickly,usually on the same morning it opens. For this reason it's not always possible to enter the online ballot, but please try because anybody who gains an entry through this method might be able to free up a club place for someone else. read more

London Marathon

By Pete Mackrell

Last Sunday I was one of the six club members taking part in the London Marathon. An early start awaited five of us who were meeting at 6am on the High Street to travel down on the coach organised by our friends at LFR. Meanwhile the sixth, Joe Hurley, is lucky enough to have friends living within walking distance of the start at Blackheath Common so was still tucked up in bed! Despite the early start, the five of us were in high spirits and following a week of awful weather the day was set to be much calmer and dry. We arrived in London in good time and made our way to our respective start areas to join the traditionally long toilet queues for the first time. After a couple of nervous hours had finally passed it was 9.45am and time to join the 37,000 others in our run around London. read more

Tring Invitation Run

On Wednesday 16th May, instead of our normal training run we will be heading over to Tring Running Club for their annual Invitation Evening, meeting at Tring Park Cricket Club (opposite Tesco and next to the new Tring Brewery) for a 7:30pm start. As in previous years, there will be a number of runs of varying distances and speeds, to suit all standards, including a shorter beginners run. This is always an excellent evening with the routes taking in the leafy Hertfordshire countryside and the occasional Chiltern hill! Food is provided in the bar afterwards for a nominal charge, and showers and changing facilities are available. read more

Pete leads the team home

For the first time in many years the Flitwick 10K was not the annual club championship race this year. However, it is a very well organised local race attracting upwards of 800 runners and so a merry band of twelve LBAC'ers headed over for the race in 2012.

The route is an undulating rural one lap course starting and finishing in the centre of Flitwick. Last year the weather was extremely warm for April and whilst this year there was no sun cream needed a windbreak would have been nice!

There was a fair bit of chat going on at the start as Stuart and Andy tried to persuade themselves that they could live with Pete on his current form while Chris Norman was just hoping to finish injury free and Laurie was reminding us of each individual hill on the route he does regularly as a Flitwick resident. read more

World Indoor Championships

By Gail Duckworth (which is why it's so modest) 

 

World Masters Indoor Championships

Jyvaskyla Finland April 3 – 8 2012

 

Having won the European title last year in the 3000m I was sure I could give a good account of myself in a World event. So, at a late date I decided to not only enter the 3000m but the 1500m as well and travel to Finland to take part.

 

I left home early Tuesday morning to fly from Heathrow to Helsinki. Jyvaskyla is a further 3 hours north so as you can imagine on the cold side! I didn’t have to worry about the snow – which there was a lot of – running indoors, but the first event at these Championships are the 8K cross country races and because of an unusual amount of snow they had for the time of year the course needed clearing! read more

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