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Veteran’s Track & Field League – Horspath – Monday 7th May
The Veteran’s T&F season kicked off on Monday 7th at Horspath with both teams in great spirits and whilst it was cold the rain did at least hold off until the relays.
There were good performances all round with wins for Bev Hall (V35 1500m B ); Sarah Fowler (V50 400m); Sara Rudd (V35 HJ) & Liz Harkness (V60 Javelin) in the ladies team rounded off with an excellent 2nd place in an exciting 4 * 100m relay. This saw the team finishing in 3rd place on 123 points just 2 points behind Abingdon (125) & Radley (145).
The men’s team saw an improved turn-out on 2011 with 7 members competing including newcomer Ian Payne. Andy Tuttle was delighted with his best time for 12 years in the 1500m – 5:05.2 for 4th place in the V50 race whilst Wayne Lillis took 2nd in the V35 equivalent. Pete Kuehnel won the V50 Hammer and Simon Barrett had 2 good 3rd places in the V50 100 & 400m a position matched by Vic Pearson in the V60 Long Jump. The team finished in 5th place overall.
Many thanks to Dave Mason, Ian Hopkins, Sophie Fowler & Charlotte Fowler for making up our officials team.
Full results here: Vets League Match 1 Oxford May 7th Final Results
Marcus & Lee claim club 1500m & Hammer records!
Marcus Bridger-Wilkinson recorded 3:45.92 for the 1500 metres at Purdue University in Indiana on Friday night – a new personal, Belmont University and Newbury AC club (and u23) record held by Bradley Yewer since 2003.
On Saturday Lee Doran took the club senior Hammer record from his coach Bob with a throw of 45.09m to win the event whilst competing for the club in the Southern men’s league meeting at Dartford.
Jubilee Party – Monday June 4th – 4pm til late
Newbury AC would like to invite members and their families to celebrate the
Queen’sDiamond Jubilee at a street party with a difference! We will be hosting our own ‘street party’ at the Arthur Killbery Pavilion, Fifth Road on Monday 4th June from 4pm till late.
As is now tradition with NAC parties we are asking if everyone would bring a plate of food (and ‘a chair’). Emma will keep a list of food so we don’t double up too much and we will be including a few family games of rounders, frisbee and no doubt a quiz or two!
Dress code will be in the club and Queen colours of red, white and blue.
RSVP and further details contact Emma Carter at carter120@btinternet.com
Weekend Round-up
Jenny and Matthew Pudney had success at the Hamble Aquathlon on Saturday. Jenny competed in the Youth class (15/16 yr olds) completing the 400m swim and 3000m run to get 2nd overall after a very close race with the 3rd placed girl. 12 yr old Matthew competed against 13 and 14 year olds in a 400m swim followed by a 2500m run and finished 3rd overall.
Meanwhile 15 runners braved the conditions on Greenham Common to take part in the Parkrun & were led in by Sophie Crumly in 6th place overall with a new pb of 18:35. Other results: 12th Geoff Anderson -19:55; 22nd Chloe Coxhead – 20:41; 27th Bev Hall -21:17; 43rd Sam Shopland – 22:41 ; 60th Mick Cornwall- 23:29; 69th Wendy Dallimore – 24:08; 88th Sarah Thorne- 25:23; 104th Bill Weaver – 26:53; 111th Carrie Thorp – 27:14; 115th Florence Barry – 27:21; 142nd Liana Hamilton-King – 29:22; 150th Sandra Beal – 30:07; 162nd Liz Harkness – 31:21; 164th Josie Piddington- 31:28
Heart Screening for Athletes
England Athletics, UKA and the other home country governing bodies are alert to our responsibilities to all participants in athletics in respect of all aspects of health and safety. One particular area that young athletes and their parents must be aware of is the risk of cardiac problems.
There have been instances of young athletes suffering potentially fatal heart conditions without being aware that they are at risk.
England Athletics would like to make you aware of a piece of work that has been undertaken by UKA. UKA has worked with Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) for several years, providing a screening service to athletes on the World Class Performance Programme. UKA and CRY are now seeking to encourage more athletes to use CRY’s screening service to help to identify any cardiac problems that may be otherwise hidden.
CRY is a charity that was established to raise awareness of conditions that can lead to the sudden cardiac death of young people. They operate a screening programme at a number of clinics around the UK and support this with mobile units that travel to other locations.
Full information about CRY and their services can be found on their website at www.c-r-y.org.uk. Young people between the age of 14 and 35 who would like to have cardiac testing can go to www.testmyheart.org.
You can also see www.uka.org.uk/governance/health-safety/cardiac-screening-for-athletes/ for information on work being done by UKA in this area.
Pentyrch Hill Fell Race 25th April
Report from Chris Hobson
2 Newbury runners completed the Pentyrch Hill race near Cardiff last Wednesday . The course was a double climb up The Garth “mountain” which was typical fell terrain with some road (flooded in many places) , covering 1600ft ascent in 6.8 miles .
Marie Coultas found her debut fell run to her liking as she finished 1st W35 in 58:12 (33rd overall) . Chris Hobson finished 21st overall in 55:41 .
The winner was Hugh Aggleton from Cardiff Harlequins in 47:31 . There were 134 starters and all finished !!
Mid-table start for Senior Women
Report by Andy Tuttle
Newbury A.C’s Senior Women’s track & field team find themselves smack in the middle of the Southern Senior division 1 thanks to a good start to the season at Exeter Arena in Devon. Following on from last season which saw the team remain in the top division for a second term for the first time in the clubs history, the team battled well to finish 4th out of the 7 teams and just one point adrift of Yeovil who finished 3rd.
The clubs pole vaulters could not have given the team a better start to the proceedings, Katie Glare found that a four year lay off had been relatively un-harmful as she soon got back in the swing of things to win the A string with a clearance of 2m 10cm, Sara Rudd picked up where she left off last season to clear 1m 70cm to win the B event.
With the host club Exeter and Aldershot Farnham and District out in force it was always going to be a tough contest on the track, however everyone gave it a good shot and none came closer to a win then Sophie Crumly in the 1500m. Choosing to avoid the scintillating pace set on the early laps, Sophie chose to bide her time producing a last lap effort that saw her pass two athletes to go in to second place and finish within two seconds of the winner, clocking 4min.52 in her first outing of the season. Jess Franklin was tackling the 1500m for the first time in a good number of years but she paced it well to finish second in the B string, this despite earlier clocking a personal best time of 10min 59 for 3rd in the A string 3000m, Sue Van Huyssteen matching that 3rd spot in the B.
In the hurdles Hayley Herbert scored an impressive 11 points out of a possible 14 with a second place in the 100m B string, and 3rd in the 400m B string. The sprinters had to face a strong head wind so fast times were proving very difficult but Jemma Colbourne managed to clock 13.7 seconds for 4th A in the 100m with Samantha Van Huyssteen also 4th in the 100m B. Chloe Coxhead battled well against the wind to record a time of 63 seconds and claim the runner up spot in the 400m B string,while Sophie and Charlotte Fowler earned good points in a high standard 800m event, both recording times under 2min30s.
In the field events Sara and daughter Abbie Rudd teamed up well in the Triple jump, and Emma Carter covered all four of the throws events where she was joined by Caroline Tuttle in the Hammer, Sophie Crumly in the Discus, Samantha Van Huyssteen in the Shot Putt and Sue Van Huyssteen in the Javelin. The club also showed that there is plenty of strength in depth present, with Catherine Tuttle, Sally Herbert and Samantha Dredge all competing in non scoring events and finishing ahead of some the other clubs scoring athletes in the process.
1 Aldershot Farnham & District 159 pts
2 Exeter 155 pts
3 Yeovil & Wells 124 pts
4 Newbury 123 pts
5 Channel Islands 113 pts
6 Dartford 95 pts
7 Herne Hill 86 pts
Marcus crowned at Southern Conference Championships
Marcus Bridger-Wilkinson was crowned Southern Conference Champion at 1500m in a time of 3:52.52 and also took silver in the 800m in 1:53.15 in Jacksonville, Tennessee at the week end. He is now looking to clock a 3:45.00 or near to in the next couple of weeks to get him to NCAA Championships.
Berkshire County Track & Field Championships – 13th May
The Berkshire Track & Field Championships will be held on SUNDAY 13th MAY at Thames Valley Athletic Centre, Eton.
Click HERE for entry form & full details. Closing date is 28th April. There will be no late entries Or entries on the day. All enquiries to Championship Secretary: Mr M E Charlish, 2 Birkbeck Place, Owlsmoor, Sandhurst, Berks, GU47 0UL. Tel: 01276 38819
Great Welsh Marathon – Llanelli – 15th April
Three club members traveled to Llanelli this weekend to take part in the Great Welsh Marathon. Becky Coxhead and her mother Julie both dipped under 4 hours for the first time to record pb’s in 3:55.40 & 3:58.30 with Tim Marsh close behind in 4:00.52.