Many of our athletes travelled to Aldershot on Saturday 20th September to take part in the SEAA Road Relays, and produced some outstanding individual and team performances.
Well done to everyone who ran. Bedford & County results:
Glen Kerr continued his renaissance as a Masters athlete with a throw of 57.23m to win the M50 Hammer at the British Masters on Sunday. In 1991 as an intermediate boy, he won gold at the English Schools Championship, following it with another gold at the Schools International a week later. As a Senior Man he represented Scotland and set the current Club Record of 65.53m.
Congratulations to the twenty Bedford & County athletes who represented Bedfordshire at the SEAA Inter Counties Championships at a very wet and windy Horspath Stadium on 13/14 September.
Ten athletes achieved top three places:

Bedford & County’s Junior athletes took part in the EYAL Plate Final on Sunday 7th September at Thurrock. We went into the match 3rd on paper. After an amazing set of performances we finished 2nd overall. Our U13 & U15 girls won their age groups. U17W were 6th, U13B 3rd, U15B 2nd and U17M 5th.
Match results:
1st Thurrock 623
2nd Bedford 565
3rd Herts Phoenix 544
4th Ipswich 528
5th Cambridge 503
6th Cobra 488
Bedford Masters Men and Women made the journey to Thurrock on Saturday to contest the Eastern Masters League Final. The Women’s team having qualified for the first time in 20 years, a terrific result for a very small team.
The match started with the pole vault for both men and women and resulted in the Bedford competitors Bob Kingman, Simon Eastwood, Richard Phelan and Gemma Eastwood all winning their events, setting the team up for the rest of the day.
From that great start the Men’s Team was never headed with sterling support from all athletes. Everyone competed in multiple events, some covering events that they had not tried for many years, but there were still a few unfilled places due to holidays, work and injuries.
The Women’s team competed well but shortage of numbers meant they were always going to struggle.
Special mention must be made to Bob Kingman who was awarded the Men’s Field Best Performance Trophy for his 3.8m pole vault.
Congratulations to Bob Kingman on increasing his M50 pole vault record to 4.01m at the SAL in Sandy on 31 August 2025.
Congratulations to Helen Buller who set a new W45 5000m club record at the SAL in Sandy on 31st August with a time of 19 minutes 26.5 seconds.