Congratulations to Darren Kerr who set another new club M55 Masters Shot Record on Saturday 21^st February at the British Masters Athletics Championship at Lee Valley in winning the M55 Championship with 11.99m.

The final match of the 2025/26 Chiltern Cross Country League season brought the campaign to a close at Luton last weekend, with testing conditions at Stopsley Common providing a fitting end to a highly competitive winter.

5 of our athletes won their races; Ed Blythman (Senior Men), Oliver Weddell (U17 Men), Fraser Williams (U15 Boys), Poppy Makin (U13 Girls) and Imogen Murphy (U11 Girls). 

Across the age groups Bedford & County came away with 3 individual league titles and 5 team titles, finishing 2nd in the overall team competition behind Chiltern Harriers.

Ben Alcock ran a PB of 63:09 in the Barcelona Half Marathon yesterday (Sunday 15th February 2026), the second fastest ever by a Bedford & County athlete behind Matt Leach’s club record.

Mia Flynn claimed victory at the inaugural U16 England Athletics South Regional Winter Long Throws Championships 2026 in testing conditions at Lea Valley Athletics Centre.

Battling torrential rain and biting, horizontal winds, Mia delivered a composed and consistent performance. She produced three throws over 47 metres, with a best mark of 47.62m — an impressive result given the challenging weather.

Bedford athletes excelled at the England Age Group Championships with five athletes sharing three medals, three club indoor records and thee lifetime bests. 

Congratulations to Ed Foy on his new Club Senior Men's Indoor Shot record of 14.85m at Loughborough on Sunday 1^st February.

James Lawler, who recently rejoined the club, claimed the Silver Medal in the M50 age group at the British Masters 10K road championship in Chichester on 1^st February. His time of 33:15 knocked almost 2 minutes off the existing club M50 record.

Well done to everyone who ran in the Southern Cross Country Championships in Beckenham on Saturday. 

Bedford & County results:

Thaila-Jade Mason won the England bronze medal by the narrowest of margins with a personal best score of 3434 points in the England U20 Pentathlon Championships at Sheffield last weekend.

Following hurdles (9.23 sec.) and high jump (1.59m) she set a pb of 8.51m in the shot and leapt 5.74m in the long jump to leave her in 2^nd (English) place. However, a hamstring injury sustained in the long jump put her participation in the final event, the 800m, in doubt.