Peter Lee Memorial Open meet Sunday 30th March
An early season opportunity to have a run out at this Open Meet Track event at Stevenage on Sunday 30th March.
News Archive
Leanne wins National title at Indoor Pentathlon Championships
The British Masters Indoor Pentathlon Championships was held last Sunday at the EIS in Sheffield.
Bedford & County athlete Leanne Buxton competed in the W45 category and won the National Title.
She achieved three W45 club records (60 Hurdles 9.51 sec; High jump 1.39m; and Long jump 5.00m) in setting a club W45 pentathlon record of 3868 points.
Congratulations Leanne, what an amazing start to her 2025 competitive season.
Southern cross country championships 2025
The U17 Men came away with the silver medal at today's SEAA Cross Country Championships in Beckenham. The U15 boys came 19th.
Well done to everyone that ran. See full results below.
Summer 2025 track and field competition
We have now completed our affiliations to Track and Field leagues for 2025 and the fixture list is taking shape.
Seniors
The focus for the club this season for senior athletes will be the Southern Athletics League (SAL). This means that we get a home fixture, plus a further local match at Sandy, with the other two fixtures being at Colchester. This league also gives an opportunity to our U17 athletes, as the minimum age for this league is 15 as of 31/8/25. It has also historically proven to provide good competition for our masters athletes.
We have not affiliated to the National Athletics League this year, as in recent years we have found that the travel distances involved have meant that we have struggled to get teams out. We will, though, obviously support any of our senior athletes who wish to compete for NAL clubs as Higher Claim Athletes.
New Year New Club Record for Jasmine
After returning from a tough warm weather training session in Tenerife, Jasmine Wilkins flew to Dublin for an indoor meet at Abbotstown, running in the 60m and 200m.
Although very tired from Tenerife Jasmine still managed a new club record in the 200m, 24.33 secs.
Not one to rest for long, Jasmine has been selected to represent England in Iceland at the Reykjavik International Games on 27th Jan.
Indoor track results from the weekend
Sheffield BMC indoor meeting
3000m A race, 9th Jack Goodwin 7.59.9PB
London Games, Lee valley
800m race 3, 1st Jamie Webster 1.56.36
Eastern Indoor Track & Field Championships
Entry for the Eastern Indoor Track & Field Championships is now open!
The championships is on the 1st & 2nd March 2025 and is combined with the Essex Indoor Championships.
Entry deadline 17th February. Please read all the information provided before entering.
Club record for Tennyson
Congratulations to Tennyson James on breaking the first club record of 2025 - 43.57 for M65 300m indoors at Lee Valley today.
Last Friday of the Month 5k PBs
Some of Bedford and County’s athletes were at the Last Friday of the Month 5k in Hyde Park yesterday and ran some big pbs.
Archie Henderson was 8th in 15:59
Oliver Coombes was 37th in 17:54
Harry Henderson was 39th in 17:59
Oliver Henderson was 67th in 19:03
Emma Coombes was 177th in 26:11
Well done all!
Bedford Christmas Indoor Pole Vault
On Sunday 22nd December Bedford hosted an indoor pole vault competition. We had athletes from Biggleswade, Hunts AC, Dacorum & Tring, as well as former BCAC member Mark Burgman (now living in Hawaii) and his daughter Jessie Layman from Melbourne competing.
There were prizes for best height (related to 2024 SB). Lois Fordham won with a 1cm PB and new U15 girls club record, ranking her equal 10th in the UK for U15. Jemma was 2nd - 7cm down, Chloe was 3rd with 10cm down and Oskar was 4th with 12cm down.
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There were prizes for best height (related to 2024 SB). Lois Fordham won with a 1cm PB and new U15 girls club record, ranking her equal 10th in the UK for U15. Jemma was 2nd - 7cm down, Chloe was 3rd with 10cm down and Oskar was 4th with 12cm down.
Club record for Lois
Congratulations to Lois Fordham on what is probably the last record of 2024, when setting a new U15 Pole vault record of 2.81M at the Bedford Christmas Invitation Pole Vault on Sunday 22nd December.
Bedford & County Christmas Handicap 2024
Thanks to everyone who helped make yesterday’s 44th Annual Christmas Handicap such a success.
The race was won by Emma Coombes who, after going close to winning several times in the past, strode to a well deserved and very popular victory. Emma closed a 3 minute gap on the 3 ladies in front, passing them just a few hundred metres from the finish to win by 11 secs. The first man to finish was Matt Bray who set off 9 mins behind Emma but finished 32 secs behind in 5th place.
