Great Start to New Season

The first Chiltern Cross Country League meeting of the new season took place last Saturday in Wigmore Park, Luton with LBAC having to face the stiff challenge of following up their best ever year in division one of the league. Whilst there were a few people around running pretty well, there were also a number of last season's regulars missing from the senior ranks and so there was a slight lack of confidence around.

Nevertheless, the juniors made a big effort for the day and had an excellent turn-out with Chloe May and Sadie Towell leading the way in the U11 girls race. The two youngsters finished in 36th and 58th place respectively and they charged around the open parkland on what was a fairly breezy day. They were followed out onto the course by Becky Mead who was making her debut at cross country and came home in 88th place in the U13 girls. Alison Gosbee also did an excellent job of representing the female side of things as she finished the U15 girls race in 75th place and pick up points for the club. read more

The Stag Begins Again

Wednesday night saw the return of our old wintery friend, the Stag Trophy. This monthly event from October to April has been going since 1976 and is one of the most prestigious awards that can be won at the end of the season. The reason for this is that is favours those who turn up regularly and most importantly, consistently improve throughout the year. Three out of the last four years, the trophy has been won by someone in their first year with the club and the exception was Gary who improved greatly as he built up for the London marathon. read more

Round Norfolk Relay

In 1995, 1996 & 1997 LBAC took part with seventeen other teams in a developing event that was founded in 1987 called the Round Norfolk Relay. There are not too many current members who will have taken part in the events which were organised each year by former captain, chairman & secretary, Steve Goodlad. It was a pretty big undertaking as the relay is 195 miles around the edge of Norfolk, consisting of 17 legs of various lengths, from five to twenty miles.

Since those days the event has grown hugely and is now restricted to a maximum of sixty teams, but the basis is exactly the same. Still 195 miles over 17 legs. Each team picks their own start time based on a finish of 9.00am and every runner must have an escort all the way, of a bike during the day and a car during the night. read more

My First Marathon

By Dan Webb

It was a cool, bright but breezy day in Nottingham, not too bad for a marathon. I was nervous lining up with my old school friend Ben, and two other members of Grantham Town AC. As the only representative of LBAC, I felt that I should put on a good performance – wouldn’t want those Nottingham runners thinking we were some backwater, small-town running club! I had stayed the previous night at my mom’s house in Grantham. My three brothers and my niece and nephew had also come down which was a lovely surprise. My mom had cooked pasta especially for me. Sadly, I had to sip water while my brothers got merry on beer and wine. I was to make up for it on Sunday evening though. read more

Tour of Milton Keynes – Day 6

What the hell are we doing racing again?!?!?!

The final race of the tour saw the LBAC team (bolstered by their professional pacemaker) arrive for the 6.4(ish) mile dash around Willen Lake. Now by this stage in the tour, the team were starting to feel the effects of the previous races and particularly the gruelling cross country. Whilst the boys waited around at the start, trying to look fresh and at ease to psyche out the opposition, I think the fact that they were all shattered was given away by their warm ups – which had pretty much atrophied to a few meagre attempts at stretching and a lathargic trot across the football pitch! read more

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