Prestigious Win for Julia

The Southern Counties Veterans Championships was incorporated in The Reigate Holly Run on the 20th Dec. Julia Austin finished a very creditable 7th overall in the senior ladies race. Finishing as first V45 (and incidentally beating the “younger” V35’s and V40’s) Julia claimed the Southern Counties Cross Country Title on a tough snow covered course.

Dick Knowles 5th Feb 2010

And another title – this time for Jodie

Running in the colours of RAF Halton, Jodie Digby competed in the RAF national championships on 3rd Feb. Finishing in 1st place to claim the RAF title, Jodie dominated the race to win by 1m 40 sec. – a huge margin in a championship race – well done Jodie!

Dick Knowles 5th Feb 2010

Watford Half Marathon

I ran (well more like struggled round) the Watford Half Marathon on Sunday in a disappointing 103.02 to finish 629th out of the 1,846 finishers…

Alan Roberts 8th Feb 2010

News from Ben Gregory at Loughborough

Ben is just coming back from ligament damage in his knee(15 weeks ago) has has missed a lot of training. He competed at the weekend(Jan 30/31) - first time over senior hurdles and with a senior shot... with results of pole vault: 4.60m, Shot: 12.07m, 60m Hurldes: 8.67s and, whilst not focussing on indoors, is going to do a few more indoor events for Loughborough.

3rd Feb 2010

Senior Athletes Meeting

There will be a Senior Athletes Meeting on Monday 15th February 2010 at the Bricklayers Public House at 8.00pm. All Senior Athletes and Coaches are welcome. Senior Road, Cross Country or Track and Field Athletics issues can be discussed.

 On the Agenda so far is

1 - Our new Ladies Southern League Team
2 - Men's Southern League

If you have and matters which you may wish to raise please email them to the Chairman's email address and i will add them to the Agenda.

Graham Gorman (Club Chairman)

AGM

Notice is given of The Club AGM to be held on Tuesday 9th March at 8.15pm in the club hut, Stoke Mandeville. Any items for the agenda should be forwarded to David Maisey at 29 Hampden Road, Wendover, Bucks, HP22 6HX or by calling 07879 414442 or by emailing davidmaisey@telecomplus.org.uk

Bucks Cross Country Championships

The event at Hughenden Park, postponed from Saturday Jan 9th will now be held on February 20th from Stopsley Regional Sports Centre, Luton, with the first race starting at 11am.

Can You Help?

We need parents to help with officiating during the summer events. This is not an onerous task and would not consume much of your time. It could consist of raking the sand pit, collecting discus or helping with measurements for example. We have a full set of crib sheets which explain each event.

We are also looking for those of you who would be interested in taking an Officials qualification.

At the moment we are stretched to get the numbers necessary at each track competition and if we cannot get enough the club may have to withdraw from competition.

The more officials that the club has the less often you will be asked to help.

So PLEASE get in touch (see Pat Card or Graham Gorman) if you would like more information. We are all volunteers and at the moment it falls to the same few adults.

Hurdles Coaching

Chairmans News:

The Vale of Aylesburys International Hurdler Dwayne Stoddart has agreed to start a Sunday morning Hurdles Coaching Squad twice a month starting in February. Gary Colman one of our Induction Coaches  has agreed to attend and work with Dwayne. Other Coaches will be most welcome to attend as well.

The February dates will be released shortly.

Men's Team Manager

A Men’s Southern League Track and Field joint Team Manager to help Dan Barber is being sought.

If you would like to help out please contact Dan or Graham Gorman or leave a message through the contact form.

The Men's team compete in the Southern Mens league and recently won promotion. Click here for more details.

Loads of pb’s and Club Records at Lee Valley Indoor Centre.

In the 200m, both Karl Goodman U17 (23.60) and Gaith Taha SM (24.99) had solid runs.

In the 400m Catherine Appleby U20 (60.19) was a pbi and broke the existing club record, as did Jordan Hadley U15 (56.67) shaving off two hundreds of a second. Gaith Taha 400m time (55.08) was a massive pb as was Tommy Atkins U17 (60.68).

The 800m brought more records with both Will and Dan Gurton breaking the existing U17 record with times of 2.01.39 and 2.03.31 respectively and Dan’s time is actually quicker than his outdoor time. Given that indoor times are usually 3-4 seconds slower than outdoor times, that is impressive, as indeed was Tommy Atkins time of 2.10.07 which is a staggering 3 seconds quicker than his outdoor time. Catherine Appleby ran a pbi in the U20W 800m race despite going through the first 200m in a ridiculously quick time of 30 secs, which would have been a National record had the pace been maintained!

Nick Taylor, 1st Feb 2010

South of England Cross Country Championships - Parliament Hill Fields - 30th Jan

5 Vale Senior Men ran the 15k Cross Country on Saturday:

806 finished the race

Alan Roberts, 1st Feb 2010

Chiltern Cross Country - Shuttleworth

After such terrible weather conditions over the past few weeks, Vale of Aylesbury runners were pleased to get their spikes on again for this weeks’ Chiltern League Cross Country race at Shuttleworth, Bedfordshire, 16th Jan 2010.

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Road Race Grand Prix - Standings

The standings after the first two races are as follows: