Mad Jack's Five

Shrewsbury Athletic Club, in partnership with The National Trust at Attingham Park are proud to announce a new multi terrain race to the local calendar:

Sponsored by Rybrook BMW Shrewsbury, the 'Mad Jack's Five' is to be held on Sunday 9th November 2008 at Attingham Park on the outskirts of Shrewsbury.

Start time is 11am prompt.
5mile multi terrain race.
Entries on the day only, £7.

More info will be posted shortly, in the meantime see below point of contact details for any queries.

The contact for the race is:
Andy Lewis, 88 Meole Rise, Shrewsbury SY3 9JE (01743 245253)
e-mail: shrews2008-madjack5@yahoo.co.uk

Cross Country Fixtures 2008/09

Fixtures for the upcoming X Country season have been announced as follows:

North Wales X Country League

Colwyn Bay 27/9/08
Lilleshall 11/10/08
Bangor 22/11/08
Wrexham 17/1/09
Oswestry 7/2/09

Please make yoursleves available for these races, as defending champions its important we are again competitve across all these fixtures.

Midland League- Division 5- Final Meeting- Telford 3rd August 2008

Shrewsbury provided a strong team for the Final meeting at Telford, needing to beat the team above (Cannock & Stafford) by 3 clear places. We filled the majority of events winning several A and B strings in the Ladies. The Men suffered some injuries and absences of their A string athletes. The Men came 4th on the day- with the Ladies winning, with the combined team score coming in second place.

Unfortunately Cannock & Stafford beat us on the accumulated League points, so subject to confirmation we were relegated.
A big thank you for everyone who made the effort both on Sunday but especially those who have competed, officiated and helped throughout the season.

We do leave the division with 10 divisional records, so nice to have our names left on the records for next season.

Lots of good performances on the day- to many to mention- well done for the two track debuts for Dom and Steve in the distance races.
See below link for details- (results subject to confirmation).

http://www.midlandathletics.org.uk/PDFS/2008_JTANDFLGE_RESULTSDIV5MATCH4.pdf

Divisional records (subject to confirmation)

100m Claire Burgoyne 12.6
200m Claire Burgoyne 25.3
400m Claire Burgoyne 56.6
400mH Claire Burgoyne 63.4
TJ Anna Kelly 11.89m
4 x 400m 4.09.5


110mH Andrew Beeston 17.2
TJ Sam Edwards 13.33m
PV Jason Green 3.50m
Discus Simon Brown 37.08m
Javelin Tom Noakes 50.04m 05.07.08

Gobowen 5

The penultimate race in the Oswestry Pentarathon series saw 8 SAC members compete over the new route.
Some strong performances throughout, with Dom Kirby leading home the club in 9th position coming back under the 30minute barrier. Steve Hatton followed in 13th overall to again claim a prize in the m45 category. Nick Jones & Grant Lloyd enjoyed a tussle over the undulating course before Jones edged out Lloyed in 20th & 23rd positions respectively.
Derek Owen claimed 2nd in m55 category with a 35m 19s effort, leading Dan Fleetwood who came in at 37m 30. Completing the SAC runners were Sheila Richards and Leo Murray.

SAC results below, for full race results follow the link to the Oswestry Olympians website:
http://www.oswestryolympians.co.uk/seniors/Gobowen%205%20Results%202008.htm


9th Dom Kirby , 29m 38s
13th Steve Hatton, 30m 24s
20th Nick Jones, 31m 41s
23rd Grant Lloyd, 32m 13s
45th Derek Owen, 35m 19s
65th Dan Fleetwood, 37m 30s
119th Sheila Richards, 50m 48s
127th Leo Murray, 54m 11s


Final race in the series is the 'Nesscliffe Nasty' on Saturday September 6th, 2.30pm start.