Severn Loop 5k Update (23rd December 2010)
In the interests of health and safety, the Severn Loop 5k that was scheduled for 27th December in the Quarry Park, Shrewsbury has been postponed. A new date of Sunday 13th February 2011 has now been confirmed and the deadline for pre-entries is now extended until Monday 7th February.
May I take this opportunity to apologise for any inconvenience caused and wish all concerned a very happy Christmas and a healthy & prosperous new year.
(Race Director).
Thursday, December 23, 2010
SAC Running Report 16/12/10
Shrewsbury Athletic Club made a successful trip to Wrexham to compete in the third fixture of the North Wales Cross Country League. In the absence of Ian Howarth and Pete Middleton, Kevin Francis rose to the occasion, producing one of his highest placings in the Series, finishing in 15th place, followed by Club Captain Graham Jones 25th, then Club newcomer Chris Penny 31st in his debut race, Paul Clarke 46th, Steve Turk 51st and Chris Wakeman completing the team placings in 61st. In the Womens’ Race, Claire Burgoyne produced her highest placing in the Series, storming to 4th place, ahead of Anna Bartlett 8th ,Emma Sheekey, 70th and Sheila Richards 88th. In the Team events, the Club achieved 2nd place in the Senior Men and Masters categories, while the Women achieved 2nd spot in the Division 2 category.
Wrexham Results:
Men: 15th Kevin Francis 32/01, 25th Graham Jones 33/10, 31st Chris Penney 33/19, 46th Paul Clarke 34/07, 51st Steve Turk 34/35, 61st Chris Wakeman 35/49, 70th Gary Harper 36/10, 118th Derek Owen 39/36, 148th Adam Stockwell 44/38..
Women: 4th Claire Burgoyne 20/04, 8th Anna Bartlett 20/37, 70 Emma Sheekey 27/23, 88th Sheila Richards 36/14.
In the Shropshire Hills Winter Series, Steve Cale continued his outstanding form, with 1st place in the Wrekin Wrecker in 56/28 and 2nd place in the Cardington Cracker in 1/13/50. In the Wrecker ,he was followed by Juan Castillo in 6th place in 66/16, with Anna Bartlett 16th and 1st Lady Vet over 40 in 68/58. At Cardington, he was followed by Kevin Francis 23rd in 1/30/47, Pete Ball 80th in 1/44/31 and Adam Stockwell 135th in 1/56/40, with Anna Bartlett 49th and 1st Lady Vet over 40 in 1/36/20. Cale currently leads the Series after three races.
The Shropshire County Cross Country Championships took place at Lilleshall, where, despite a low turnout of Shropshire clubs, the Club turned out one of their strongest squads, lead by the star trio of Steve Cale, Ian Howarth and Pete Middleton, to win the team Championships in the Senior Men and Veterans categories.
County Results:
Men: 3rd Steve Cale 27/33, 4th Ian Howarth 27/55, 6th Pete Middleton 28/06, 7th Kevin Francis 29/59, 8th Dom Kirby 30/11, 11th Steve Turk 32/35, 12th Tim Smith 32/46, 14th Chris Wakeman 33/26, 15th Derek Owen 37/06.
Women: 6th Rebecca Houston 31/20, 7th Emma Sheekey 32/53.
Wrexham Results:
Men: 15th Kevin Francis 32/01, 25th Graham Jones 33/10, 31st Chris Penney 33/19, 46th Paul Clarke 34/07, 51st Steve Turk 34/35, 61st Chris Wakeman 35/49, 70th Gary Harper 36/10, 118th Derek Owen 39/36, 148th Adam Stockwell 44/38..
Women: 4th Claire Burgoyne 20/04, 8th Anna Bartlett 20/37, 70 Emma Sheekey 27/23, 88th Sheila Richards 36/14.
In the Shropshire Hills Winter Series, Steve Cale continued his outstanding form, with 1st place in the Wrekin Wrecker in 56/28 and 2nd place in the Cardington Cracker in 1/13/50. In the Wrecker ,he was followed by Juan Castillo in 6th place in 66/16, with Anna Bartlett 16th and 1st Lady Vet over 40 in 68/58. At Cardington, he was followed by Kevin Francis 23rd in 1/30/47, Pete Ball 80th in 1/44/31 and Adam Stockwell 135th in 1/56/40, with Anna Bartlett 49th and 1st Lady Vet over 40 in 1/36/20. Cale currently leads the Series after three races.
The Shropshire County Cross Country Championships took place at Lilleshall, where, despite a low turnout of Shropshire clubs, the Club turned out one of their strongest squads, lead by the star trio of Steve Cale, Ian Howarth and Pete Middleton, to win the team Championships in the Senior Men and Veterans categories.
County Results:
Men: 3rd Steve Cale 27/33, 4th Ian Howarth 27/55, 6th Pete Middleton 28/06, 7th Kevin Francis 29/59, 8th Dom Kirby 30/11, 11th Steve Turk 32/35, 12th Tim Smith 32/46, 14th Chris Wakeman 33/26, 15th Derek Owen 37/06.
Women: 6th Rebecca Houston 31/20, 7th Emma Sheekey 32/53.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Severn Loop 5km UPDATE on 21st December
The organisers of the Severn Loop 5k race are very hopeful that the event will go ahead as planned. A thaw is forecast for Christmas Day and Boxing Day so hopefully the course will be free of snow and ice.
Due to disruption of the postal service a substantial number of pre-entries have only just been processed. Numbers will not be sent out to these entrants as there is little liklihood of them arriving prior to the event. If you have sent a pre-entry and have not received your number please collect it from the registration desk on the day.
Registration for the event will take place in the lower room at the Boathouse pub. Please use the steps from the pub car park to access the room. The staff are anxious that runners do not walk through the pub prior to the race as the cleaning staff will be busy at this time. The presentation will also take place at the Boathouse between 11:30 and 12 midday.
Please visit this site for further updates prior to race day.
Thank you in anticipation.
(Race Director).
Due to disruption of the postal service a substantial number of pre-entries have only just been processed. Numbers will not be sent out to these entrants as there is little liklihood of them arriving prior to the event. If you have sent a pre-entry and have not received your number please collect it from the registration desk on the day.
Registration for the event will take place in the lower room at the Boathouse pub. Please use the steps from the pub car park to access the room. The staff are anxious that runners do not walk through the pub prior to the race as the cleaning staff will be busy at this time. The presentation will also take place at the Boathouse between 11:30 and 12 midday.
Please visit this site for further updates prior to race day.
Thank you in anticipation.
(Race Director).
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Severn River Loop 5km
Entries for the Severn Loop (winter) 5k race, which takes place on Monday 27th December 2010 (10:30am) are coming in at a steady rate. If you plan to run the race please try to enter in advance by accessing the entry form at http://shropshirerunnersnetwork.blogspot.com/ and submitting your entry to the address given at the bottom of the form. Pre-entries close on 20th December 2010. For the junior race, which takes place at 9:45am, it is entries on the day only. Thank you in anticipation. (Race Director)”.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Shropshire Cross Country Championships - Lilleshall 11th December
For the second weekend in a row, SAC again returned home with medals, this time after the County Championships held at the National Sports Centre in Lilleshall. With the recent snow now long gone the going was surprisingly good underfoot as our young athletes readied for battle against the assembled rivals from across the 'Shire.
Despite only entering 2 teams , both boys teams, in the mornings fixture the lads all equitted themselves superbly and again demonstrated the strength we are fortunate to have within the in the junior ranks of the club.
Following up on the SYAL silver medal won by the U13 boys team, again a team 5 turned out for the Championship race. Stuart Duff has had a fine end to the winter season, this time recording the first SAC runner home, leading Ross Kirby in 9th & 10th. The Turner twins, Freddie & Tom were close in pursuit with Hamish McCartney rounding off the team placings as the lads again medalled, this time with team Bronze.
After his recent individual Gold medal in the SYAL league, all eyes again fell on Ben Ashcroft as he led his U15 team. Backed by Ryan Cullen, who is another showing his strength in the latter stages of the season the lads secured team Gold by the narrowest of margins. George Speakman returned from injury in 7th and William McCartney in XXth, to round off the scoring with Alex Robinson Bebb withdrawing with injury.
U15 Gold Medal winning team : Alex, George, Ben, William, Ryan
With 2 teams fielded, the return of Gold & Bronze individual medals for Ben & Ryan U15 Team Gold & U13 Team Bronze made for a successful days racing for the club. Well done to all the athletes once again.
Seniors:
A hugely dissapointing field of only 18 senior men lined up the County Champs this year, due to a fixture clash which took out much of the competition.
SAC senior men put out half the field with 9 runners, and each returned with a medal! The Senior men claimed the Team Gold, behind fell running supremo Steve Cale's 3rd place. Ian Howarth (4th), Pete Middleton (6th), Kev Francis (7th), Dom Kirby (8th) and Steve Turk (10th) rounded off the scoring.
In the womens race, only Emma Sheeky lined up our club colours and her commitment was rewarded with an individual Bronze medal.
Despite only entering 2 teams , both boys teams, in the mornings fixture the lads all equitted themselves superbly and again demonstrated the strength we are fortunate to have within the in the junior ranks of the club.
Following up on the SYAL silver medal won by the U13 boys team, again a team 5 turned out for the Championship race. Stuart Duff has had a fine end to the winter season, this time recording the first SAC runner home, leading Ross Kirby in 9th & 10th. The Turner twins, Freddie & Tom were close in pursuit with Hamish McCartney rounding off the team placings as the lads again medalled, this time with team Bronze.
After his recent individual Gold medal in the SYAL league, all eyes again fell on Ben Ashcroft as he led his U15 team. Backed by Ryan Cullen, who is another showing his strength in the latter stages of the season the lads secured team Gold by the narrowest of margins. George Speakman returned from injury in 7th and William McCartney in XXth, to round off the scoring with Alex Robinson Bebb withdrawing with injury.
U15 Gold Medal winning team : Alex, George, Ben, William, Ryan
With 2 teams fielded, the return of Gold & Bronze individual medals for Ben & Ryan U15 Team Gold & U13 Team Bronze made for a successful days racing for the club. Well done to all the athletes once again.
Seniors:
A hugely dissapointing field of only 18 senior men lined up the County Champs this year, due to a fixture clash which took out much of the competition.
SAC senior men put out half the field with 9 runners, and each returned with a medal! The Senior men claimed the Team Gold, behind fell running supremo Steve Cale's 3rd place. Ian Howarth (4th), Pete Middleton (6th), Kev Francis (7th), Dom Kirby (8th) and Steve Turk (10th) rounded off the scoring.
In the womens race, only Emma Sheeky lined up our club colours and her commitment was rewarded with an individual Bronze medal.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Shropshire Young Athletes League, 4/4, Bridgnorth
Crisp snow and firm ground made for fast exciting races throughout the day at Oldbury Wells School, where the Counties top young athletes battled for final medal honours in the finale of the Shropshire Young Athletes League. Host club, Bridgnorth AC worked tirelessly to ensure the final fixture was able to go ahead as planned this weekend. Unsafe conditions added to the workload and resulted in a change of course, which the Shrewsbury athletes relished.
The girls team was reduced to just a single runner on the day, with Maya Richardson in the U11 race. As in all the races in this category this season, an extremley fast pace was set from the off. Maya stuck with a chasing pack for the first half before she was dropped as a second increase in pace broke this group up. Nevertheless, a good finish to end up 17th for Maya, who has been ever present this season as our sole U11 competitor.
A progressive season for Shrewsbury has seen the club field full teams in the boys U11 and U13 competitions, while injuries have hampered the U15's from fielding full teams in each race. As it was, this strength in numbers and quality has proven to be valuable with the boys securing the clubs only medals of the Cross Country Season.
First race with an SAC interest was the U15 boys, where Ben Ashcroft was in the driving seat for the individual title and also with his team sitting in the medals. Shrewsburys Ryan Cullen took the pace for the first lap to stretch the field as he was joined by Ashcroft and Oswestry's Jimmy Kershaw. The breakaway trio kept up a relentless pace to breakaway from the rest with ease. Into the second lap Ashcroft assumed control tailed by Kershaw, with Cullen dropping back to third and this was how they finished with Ashcrofts win securing the Title ahead of Kershaw. With George Speakman, the 3rd member of the team missing through injury, the team secured Bronze medal in the team event to cap off a successful season for the group.
Gold Medallist Ben Ashcroft in action alongside silver medallist Jimmy Kershaw of Oswestry.
With the U11 boys facing a 19 point deficit behind Oswestry in bronze medal position, the team had a clear target to aim for, and to a man they raced superbly with massive improvements in placings and a team placing of second on the day. Harry Dowley has been a revalation in his two races, with consecutive 5th placings to again lead his new team. Backed up by Lloyd Humphries and Joe Timmis in 10th and 11th place, the aim of closing in on Oswestry was clearly relished. Rhys Humphries and Fergus Stevens completed the scoring for a great team run, but on the final count this team effort came up agonisingly short of overtaking the Oswestry team.
The final race of the day was the u13boys, with Shrewsbury sitting comfortably in silver medal position behind another dominant Telford team in an unasailable gold position. Great supportive team running in each fixture has seen the boys score well, with todays race possibly the best of their season. Luke Howes led the charge through the first lap, closely checked by Stuart Duff and Ross Kirby, with Freddie Turner in close contention. Duff, running his best race took control in the final quarter and picked the pace up with Howes sticking by. Kirby and Turner had dropped back slighlty, but as the final 300m drew close, a massive shake up was about to unfold. Kirby, fresh from a 6th place in the North Wales League the day before, saw his strong finish bring Duff, Howes and two Wenlock Athletes back, and a strong kick propelled him from 10th to finish 6th. Howes edged out Duff by a second for 8th & 9th, with Turner just behind comfortably in 11th place.
U13Boys Silver Medallists; Stuart Duff, Ross Kirby, Freddie Turner, Luke Howes. (Missing is Tom Turner)
Consistency throughout the season of the boys team has been rewarded with 2 team medals and Ashcrofts individual title. The core of the U11boys will again be eligible for U11 competition next season which has real potential for continued improvement on the basis of what they have achieved this year.
Many thanks to all athletes who have competed so well over the 4 fixtures, and to the support from parents, family & friends.
The girls team was reduced to just a single runner on the day, with Maya Richardson in the U11 race. As in all the races in this category this season, an extremley fast pace was set from the off. Maya stuck with a chasing pack for the first half before she was dropped as a second increase in pace broke this group up. Nevertheless, a good finish to end up 17th for Maya, who has been ever present this season as our sole U11 competitor.
A progressive season for Shrewsbury has seen the club field full teams in the boys U11 and U13 competitions, while injuries have hampered the U15's from fielding full teams in each race. As it was, this strength in numbers and quality has proven to be valuable with the boys securing the clubs only medals of the Cross Country Season.
First race with an SAC interest was the U15 boys, where Ben Ashcroft was in the driving seat for the individual title and also with his team sitting in the medals. Shrewsburys Ryan Cullen took the pace for the first lap to stretch the field as he was joined by Ashcroft and Oswestry's Jimmy Kershaw. The breakaway trio kept up a relentless pace to breakaway from the rest with ease. Into the second lap Ashcroft assumed control tailed by Kershaw, with Cullen dropping back to third and this was how they finished with Ashcrofts win securing the Title ahead of Kershaw. With George Speakman, the 3rd member of the team missing through injury, the team secured Bronze medal in the team event to cap off a successful season for the group.
Gold Medallist Ben Ashcroft in action alongside silver medallist Jimmy Kershaw of Oswestry.
With the U11 boys facing a 19 point deficit behind Oswestry in bronze medal position, the team had a clear target to aim for, and to a man they raced superbly with massive improvements in placings and a team placing of second on the day. Harry Dowley has been a revalation in his two races, with consecutive 5th placings to again lead his new team. Backed up by Lloyd Humphries and Joe Timmis in 10th and 11th place, the aim of closing in on Oswestry was clearly relished. Rhys Humphries and Fergus Stevens completed the scoring for a great team run, but on the final count this team effort came up agonisingly short of overtaking the Oswestry team.
The final race of the day was the u13boys, with Shrewsbury sitting comfortably in silver medal position behind another dominant Telford team in an unasailable gold position. Great supportive team running in each fixture has seen the boys score well, with todays race possibly the best of their season. Luke Howes led the charge through the first lap, closely checked by Stuart Duff and Ross Kirby, with Freddie Turner in close contention. Duff, running his best race took control in the final quarter and picked the pace up with Howes sticking by. Kirby and Turner had dropped back slighlty, but as the final 300m drew close, a massive shake up was about to unfold. Kirby, fresh from a 6th place in the North Wales League the day before, saw his strong finish bring Duff, Howes and two Wenlock Athletes back, and a strong kick propelled him from 10th to finish 6th. Howes edged out Duff by a second for 8th & 9th, with Turner just behind comfortably in 11th place.
U13Boys Silver Medallists; Stuart Duff, Ross Kirby, Freddie Turner, Luke Howes. (Missing is Tom Turner)
Consistency throughout the season of the boys team has been rewarded with 2 team medals and Ashcrofts individual title. The core of the U11boys will again be eligible for U11 competition next season which has real potential for continued improvement on the basis of what they have achieved this year.
Many thanks to all athletes who have competed so well over the 4 fixtures, and to the support from parents, family & friends.
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