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Warwickshire Schools Cross Country Championships - Saturday 14th January 2012
2012 Warwickshire Schools Cross Country Championships
Warwickshire County Cross Country Championships - Saturday 7th January 2012
Great to see Charlie Davis won his first Warwickshire cross-country title after a couple of 2nd places in the past. Richard Harper's bronze came in a close, tough race, 2nd successive silver for Megan McDonald. Well done to all who took part, the club's medalists:
- Charlie Davis U15 Boys Gold
- Megan McDonald U15 Girls Silver
- Dan Wilkinson U13 Boys Bronze
- Richard Harper Senior Men Bronze
- U20 Women team Gold
- U15 Boys team Bronze
- U13 Boys team Silver
- U20 Men team Silver
We have the LCAC WCAA XC Champs Results and full 2012 WCAA XC Champs Results
Many thanks to dave Potter who has forwarded a link to his Warwickshire Championships Photographs. Do get in touch with Dave, davpotter@hotmail.com, if you'd like any copies
The Christmas Morning Run
Well done to all who completed the Christmas Morning Run, it could have been worse, they had panto characters on the loose at the Christmas Eve Newbold Park Run!
James Walsh was the first senior at 16:42, congratulations to first placed vet, Richard Green and to Zara Blower who was Leamington's Lady Winner taking 21:56 to complete the 3.7 mile course over four laps of St Nicholas Park. Click here for the full 2011 Xmas Morning Run Results and do all come along to the OLRFC for the club handicap
The Club Christmas Handicap - 27th December
Well done to all who took part and thanks to everyone who helped make this year's event happen. Click here for the full 2011 Xmas Handicap Results
Midlands and National XC Champs
We are now taking entries for the Midlands and National XC Champs. Standard age categories, U13, U15, U17, U20 and Seniors. Ages as for this winter's season, on the 31st August 2011. Unfortunately no U11s, but if you are 11 on the day of the race you can enter as an U13
Midlands XC Champs - Saturday 28th January 2012 - Wollaton Park, Nottingham
National XC Champs - Saturday 25th February 2012 - Parliament Hill, London
Closing dates for entries are Sunday 15th Jan for the Midlands and Sunday 1st Jan for the Nationals. Again this year the club will enter and pay for anyone wanting to race these events.
Please consider carefully if you are free to run on those dates. If you do not run, we would ask that you reimburse the entry fee, £5 - £7. Please let Mike Davis
(mnsdavis@btinternet.com 07977 568771) know your name, age category, date of birth and EA number as well as the events you want to enter
Mike will email details of start times and directions later to those entering
Cotswold Hilly 100
The 2012 Cotswold Hilly 100 will be held on Sunday 20th May 2012. Please put the date in your diary now - let's make 2012 the year the winner's trophies come to Leamington. Do get in touch with Dave Potter or Heather Waller if you'd like to take part
UK 10K Road Championships 2012
The Championships will again be incorporated with the Bupa London 10,000 on Sunday 27th May 2012 and will again be part of the Run Britain Grand Prix series. The online entry system will be opening on Monday 13th February 2012 we will post details when we have them. The club will have 6 mens and 6 women’s places free of charge, please contact Heather Waller if you'd like one of these places
West Midland Young Athletes Cross Country League - New Website
The league's new website is now operational at www.wmyaccl.com please visit for up to date league information and results
Autumn Handicap
We have the 2011-Autumn-Handicap-Results
Warwickshire County AA Newsletter
The latest issue of "the Bear" - the newsletter of the Warwickshire County AA is now available at http://www.warwickshirecountyaa.co.uk
Run England
England Athletics have offered to fund endurance training through the CSW working group which our club is a member of. The funding is dependent on EA knowing that there are indeed runners in Warwickshire! Could you all please go to www.runengland.org to register. It's free and there are no catches, many thanks
Awards Evening
Many thanks to all who came to the autumn awards evening and congratulations to our winners. We have photographs at Autumn Awards. Our thanks too to Bill Adcock fo presenting the trophies, Bill has mailed to thank us, firstly for the invitation to and then the hospitality at, the Leamington C & AC awards evening. It was great to see so many people and their enthusiasm for being part of the Club
National 6-stage Road Relays 2011
Well done to our men's team: Guy Allen, Chris Bull, Jamie Langley, Charlie Eastaugh, Richard Harper, Eoin O'Flynn and Team Manager Alex Montgomery. We have more photographs of the 15 October event at 2011 National Road Relay Finals and results at 2011 National Road Relay Results
You'll see that whilst the men did well with a credible 70th our ladies did even better at 38th
The McCain Cross Country Challenge
Below is the link to the McCain website website with all of the relevant details
http://www.uka.org.uk/competitions/mccain-uk-cross-challenge/
Sophie James
Sophie has trained hard since joining the club only a couple of years ago, when not at the track she can be found road training around Kenilworth. The hard work paid off and Sophie was selected to represent Birmingham at the UK School Games at Sheffield 1-4 September. Sophie, with 872 points, beat Londoner Martina Barber's 700 to take Gold in the 1500m Ambulant Girls with a time of 6:29.88 - a very well done to Sophie for a very well deserved medal
The Hatton 5
We had perfect conditions Sunday the 25th September leading to the fastest Hatton 5 since its 2005 inception. Visit the forum for the LCAC Hatton 5 results or down load the Hatton 5 Full Results
Club Championships
The championships have proved popular once again - nowhere more than in the senior women category, where we had 11 ladies competing overall, plus a surprise, very welcome appearance from Sara McGreavy in the 100m hurdles!
The results are on the club forum at Club Championships Results
Our thanks as always to all the volunteers who made the champs happen, to Bob for posting the results and to the the refreshment ladies for their commitment
Congratulations to all who took part, our thoughts are with the Foz who couldn't quite keep up with the fresh talent in the men's 50-59, maybe next year Tony!
The club forum is now up and running with proper administration and we'd encourage everybody with an interest in the club to participate
Many thanks to David Ashbourne for the Quadkids photograph above. He has a gallery of pictures at Quadkids Champs 2011, we think that it's a good job that Dave had his flash to hand (he'd left his reflector at home!)
One Hour Track Race
We have the results of the One Hour Track Race
Ted and Doris Run Results
We have the Ted and Doris duathlon results well done to Richard Harper, the first athlete to win for many years
Isobel Davis
Isobel Davis has broken the club under-13 girls 1500m record that has stood since 1986. Isobel ran 5.02.21 at Loughborough on July 13th... breaking Rachel Bowen's record of 5.03.1. A terrific run from Isobel, who has improved so much in the last 12 months, is currently the club's no.1 ranked female athlete in the 1500 metres, at the age of 12!
Cosima Berry
Cosima won the English Schools High Jump clearing 1.73 for Oxfordshire, this mark equals Cosima's PB and club record and adds the first English Schools gold by a Leamington athlete in recent memory. This height puts Cosima joint 2nd on the UK U17W rankings and 21st on the Senior UK Women's rankings - a very impressive feat! She has been selected to compete for England at the international match in Cardiff on July 16, and been invited to captain the girls' team at the UK School Games at Sheffield in September so well done Cosima
West Midland Young Athletes and Birmingham Cross Country Leagues
We have the dates for the forthcoming cross country season on our fixtures page
The Hilly 100, Sunday 22nd May
To view Dave Potter's photos click on the following link Hilly 100 Photos
Please feel free to add captions to any of the photos - Dave has suggested a couple but is sure that others can be more inventive. Most are of the A Team - but also a few others.
Did anyone else take any photos they would like to share?
We also have Hilly 100 2011 results
English Schools
We have the 2011 English Schools XC results
2011 West Midland Young Athletes XC League
The end of a terrific season for our junior athletes in the West Midland Young Athletes Cross Country League. Previously Leamington C & A C have got one individual medal each year in this tough league. But this year five of our athletes won individual medals and with the under 17 team collecting the bronze makes this our best ever year. Overall Leamington came 8th out of 20 which is a tribute to all those outside the medal places who kept on turning out to represent the club. We had two athletes run for the first time in the league in the under 11s, Alistair Robinson and Georgia Clarke and three run for the last time Jimmy Bull, Guy Allen and Mary Donaldson
Charlie Davis Isobel Davis [Front-Daniel Wilkinson] [Back-Chris Jackson Coach] Megan Mc Donald and Mick Aston Team Manager and Coach
For results from the last meeting at Perry Park - and overall positions visit 2011 West Mids YA XC Results
U11 County Sportshall
Visit the 2011 U11 Sportshall results page
Club Cross Country Championships
We welcome Simon Briley to the club as Jumps Coach
Simon works for Daventry Council as a multi-sports coach. He has a level 1 coaching qualification from UKA and a coaching licence from the British Weightlifting Association. He works in an area covering Kenilworth, Leamington & Southam and studied at Warwickshire College so knows the town well
Simon will hold his first session on Thursday the 3rd March
The Bear
The latest edition of the County newsletter is now available on their web site. Visit www.WarwickshireCountyAA.co.uk. Thanks to Keith Richards for editing it and Richard carney for looking after the county web site
The 2012 One Hour Track Race
The 2012 One Hour Track Race will take place at 7.00 pm
Sportshall
David Ashbourne has posted a gallery of Sportshall Photographs taken in November at Coventry
The Two Castles Run - 10 June 2011
The Two Castles Run will once again host the Warwickshire County Athletics Association 10k Road Race Championship and is also the second in the series of races which make up the Warwickshire Road Race League
Visit the Two Castles Run website
The Championship race is open to all members of athletics clubs affiliated to UKA who live, or were born, in Warwickshire, Birmingham, Coventry or Solihull. The Road Race League is a season long competition of races promoted by affiliated Warwickshire clubs, and as well as the Two Castles includes the Regency 10k in April, the Northbrook 10k in May, Sphinx Summer 5m in June, Stratford 6m and Rowheath 5k in July, Cov Godiva 5m in August, and the Kenilworth ½ Marathon and Rugby 10m in October. Positions in the league are competed for by members of the clubs, but individual race entries are also very much encouraged from those who see themselves as social runners or just motivated to keep fit throughout the year
Masters of the Midlands
Midland Vets League Gold Cup Winners - Leamington
For the first time in its 25-year history Leamington won the A final and to do it had to beat Rugby & Northampton, who had won for the last five years. Our women's team were 2nd, and the men were 5th in a very tight match, but it was our consistency over the two matches that brought us ahead on the combined scores
Men's team: Tony Foster, Chris Georgiou, Phil Clayton, Lawrie Dunn, Mark McAleenan, Mark Wise, Steve Webb, John Leathem, Alex Montgomery, Andrew Johnson, Paul Caruana, Jim Sinnott, Pete Brown,
Noel Butler, Dominic Browne
Women's team: Lorraine Benton, Manjit Bains, Susie Tawney, Judith Hanlon, Monica Williamson, Carol Blower, June Johnson, Janet Mee, Delia Caruana, Helen West, Dayle Adams
Highlights: Our men's team won the 4 x 100 relay, but it was the 4 x 400s that provided the real excitement near the end when we knew how close it was - the announcement was that, with a couple more field events to come in as well, we were level on points with Rugby & Northampton. Both 4 x 400 teams produced amazing performances to finish one place above Rugby & Northampton in both events. The women's team of Susie Tawney, Monica Williamson, Janet Mee and Judith Hanlon also set a club W45 record. Lorraine Benton also broke her own W50 discus record. There were other great individual performances but in the end it was the team effort that mattered. A great day for everyone involved, and an historic achievement for our club
Volunteers 2011-12
The club is administered and run by a team of volunteers. Home and away fixtures pose a particular problem in that we have to find teams of officials to help run the event. it would be enormously helpful if you were able to assist at either home or away fixtures - you do not need to be a qualified official, just willing and able to spend some time: clearing hurdles, recovering javelin or raking sand in the high jump pit. We have put a fixture list here on the club's site. Please email Jeremy Eastaugh if you are able to help
Coaching - Javelin
Sarah Dunkley is joining the club as a throws coach. Please do let your coach and Sarah know should you be interested in participating
Club Team Wear - Visit the club kit page to view sizes and pricing
Sportshall & Quadkids Competition For Young People
England Athletics have introduced two modified formats of competition critical to providing young people with a fun. Both formats are easy to organize and can be deployed in schools and clubs For further information please visit www.sportshall.org or www.quadkids.org.uk
Club Information
Visit the fixtures page for forthcoming competition events
Where we train. Click here for a map
