The club had a lot of success at the British Masters Athletics championships in Birmingham over the weekend of 10th/11th August.
As previously mentioned planning is underway for the 2019 fun club championship to be held on the 29th August at CCAT.
The evening will start from 17:30 for all juniors/parents and any adult members that can attend. In a similar format to last year adult members can arrive later for additional events.
Further details and a timetable can be found below. Please note full details of the events/prizes will be announced on the night.
We look forward to seeing you all on the night & to help with planning, please either say you are going on the Facebook event and/or let me know by email/at training.
Craig Beecham travelled to Torino in Italy for the European Masters Games and came away with a gold medal in the long jump.
Competing in the M45 category, Craig’s winning jump of 6.05m came in round two, 37cm ahead of Polish athlete Pawal Szewera in silver.
Reaching the end of an extremely busy and exciting 2019 season competing Internationally for Great Britain in hammer, Charlotte Payne was selected to represent England at the first ever Youth Nations Cup in Dublin, Ireland. Continue reading
Newbury had two young athletes qualify for the national schools finals. Charlotte Payne won her first gold medal in the senior girls age group, throwing 57.53m to claim another title in the hammer, following her victory in the intermediate age group last year. Trinity O’Connor set another new PB in the pole vault, as she finished in equal 6th place with a clearance of 3.35m.
Bob Broadbridge wasted no time in his first competition as a V60 athlete, smashing two Newbury AC club records at the new weight category with 11.85m in the 5kg shot put and 43.00m in the 1kg discus. Continue reading
NAC are taking over the volunteer roles at Newbury Parkrun on Saturday 31st August, to help promote the Highclere 10km & junior races. The race raises money for the club & this years chosen charity MS Society, with the race profits shared between the two, so hopefully this event will increase the number of race entrants.
If anyone can spare a few hours (you don’t have to be a runner), as a minimum we need to fill the following volunteer roles:-
If we have enough volunteers we can also look at having 5 pace makers and some runners in club colours in the event.
Message from E-J
I have decided that due to the temperature we are going to cancel the session at Fifth Road tonight. There is no shade at Browns Meadow. So even if I scale back the events planned we will struggle to keep the athletes cool. Continue reading
Report from James Craggs
NAC Vets T & F season concluded last Sunday with the fourth and final match of the year. In the match at Reading both men’s and women’s teams finished in 5th position leading to a 6th placed finished for the women and an encouraging 3rd place for the men.
Victories in the match went to
After some disobedient Excel formula fixing, the current 2019 Road Running championship table (up to event 9) is linked below for examination/fact checking. Continue reading
Congratulations to Izzy Fry and Charlotte Payne on their performances for GB at the European Under 20 championships in Sweeden over the weekend of 20th and 21st July.
On Saturday Charlotte was an impressive 7th place in the hammer at just 17 years of age, with a throw of 59.61m.
On Sunday Izzy finished in an impressive 4th place, gradually working her way through the field to finish in a time of 16:24.5.
This years Highclere Castle 10k takes place at 10:30am on Sunday 22nd September 2019 and is kindly sponsored by Stryker UK. Entries are now open via RunBritain.
It’s an undulating race around the private grounds of Highclere Castle and a small section on public road.
There are overall winner prizes, age category prizes and team prizes too.
There will be a junior Fun Run starting at 10:05 with entries taken on the day and costing £3 per child up to the age of 15.