The Club is very sad to announce the death of Ron Noble on Sunday 20^th  September.
 
Ron joined the club in 1980 following a very successful period as a semi-professional footballer playing for Bedford Town and others. After a couple of years competing primarily in local cross country and road races he redirected his talents to coaching the Under 15 Boys. He coached a large group of lads for many years before finally hanging up his stop watch in the late 1990’s. In this role he had considerable success, with both individuals and teams winning medals at both
Area and National level. Our current Boys Endurance Coach James Danobrega was himself coached by Ron in the early 1990’s. Ron was a former winner of the Club’s Peter Kot Trophy for Club Person of the Year.

There will be a celebration of Ron's life on Tuesday 3^rd  November at Mowsbury Golf Club at 2pm.

Ben Philips finished a very creditable 11th at the English Schools’ Pentathlon Championships held in Bedford last weekend. With the pentathlon lacking some of Ben’s strongest events, the javelin, discus and pole vault – the latter of which he is currently English Schools champion, he was always going to find it harder than he did in winning the England U15 Octathlon in August.

Nevertheless, Ben set personal lifetime bests in hurdles (14.97s) shot (12.65m) and 800m (2m 21.06) with his 5.40m long jump only a couple of centimetres short of his PB. His total score of 2676 points surpassed his previous Pentathlon best by over 600 points.