Club record for Helen
Congratulations to Helen Buller who has set a new W45 3000m record of 11:22:7, a minute faster than the previous record that has stood for 25 years.
Newport Pagnell 5K
Some of our Bedford & County athletes ran in the Newport Pagnell 5K today.
Jamie Prior 4th 16:06
Mark Allen 16th 16:59
Oliver Coombes 19th 17:11
Thomas Harper 24th 17:18
Adam Harris 28th 17:26
Sean Crawley 52nd 18:10
Ellie Harper 62nd 18:39
Simon Harper 74th 19:18
Rosie Cusack 133rd 21:48
Eliza Gibbs 175th 23:25
Well done to everyone that ran.
Bedford & County Athletes selected for English Schools Track & Field Championships 2025
Bedfordshire Team Captains: Lyla Danobrega and Zaphaniah Bryan
JG 300m Sophia Wing
JG PV Lois Fordham
JG Javelin Emily Elphick
JG Ham. Mia Flynn
Bedford Athletes at Regional Schools Combined Events
Three Bedford & County athletes competed at the Regional Schools Combined Championships in exhausting conditions of extreme heat last weekend.
Now competing for Buckinghamshire Schools, Thaila-Jade Mason scored a decisive win by nearly 400 points in the Senior Girls Heptathlon at Abingdon .Her standout event was the 200m where she ran 25.2 seconds aided by a wind of 4.6mps, although to be fair the wind was in her face around the bend. She set a person best of 8.04m with the 4Kg shot whilst her overall total of 4434 points was also a personal best as it was her first U20 Heptathlon with a 4 kg shot and 600gm Javelin.
Meanwhile Lois Fordham and Emily Elphick were competing for Bedfordshire in the Junior Girls Pentathlon at the East Anglian Regional Finals at Corby.
Lois in only her third pentathlon finished a very creditable 10th with a score of 2142points- a massive increase on her previous best of 1875 points, having improved her hurdles by a second to 13.6 sec, her long jump to 4.50m and equaled her best of 1.40m in the high jump. Emily finished in an equally creditable 12th place in her first ever pentathlon scoring a promising 2069 points. She equaled her best of 13.5 sec in the hurdles and set a lifetime best of 1.46m in the high jump.
Battersea Park 5k
Congratulations to Ellie who was 3rd female finisher at the RunThrough 5k in Battersea Park on Wednesday 25th June in a time of 19:15.
Colworth Marathon Challenge
On Friday 27th June a few of our Bedford & County runners ran in the Colworth 5 mile trail which is part of the Colworth Marathon Challenge weekend.
Jamie finished 1st in 28:44
Mark finished 4th in 30:01
Adam finished 8th in 30:47
Ellie finished 14th in 32:46 and was 1st female
Simon finished 25th in 34:08
Divindra finished 160th in 46:38
Bedford & County won the 1st male team with Jamie, Mark and Adam.
In the junior race, Fraser was 1st, Henry was 2nd and Thomas was 4th.
Divindra also completed the 8.1 mile trail on Saturday 28th June and the Half Marathon on Sunday 29th June to complete the challenge in 05:27:25.
Eastern Young Athletes League Match 3 – 15th June
Our youngest athletes travelled to Stevenage on the 15th June for our 3rd EYAL match. We scored 650 points – the most we have scored since before COVID! We came away with 65 PBs (boys 33, girls 32) and 8 SBs (boys 2, girls 6). We are now 10th in the league after 3 matches with a home match to come. Being in 10th means we currently qualify for the Plate Final on 07th September.
Bedfordshire 10K 20th June 2025
Well done to everyone who ran in the Bedfordshire 10k yesterday, it was a hot one!
Bedford & County had great success winning both 1st men’s team and 1st women’s team.
Women’s individual placings:
Alice 1st
Ellie 3rd
Men’s individual placings:
Mackenzie 1st
Theo 2nd
Isaac 3rd
JP 1st v45
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Bedford & County win fastest team at the Greensand Ridge Relay
Bedford & County won the fastest mixed team at the Greensand Ridge Relay yesterday and came third overall in the handicap race.
Team of Ewan Wilson, Natasha Peters-Cooper, Alice Lambert, Andy Blair, Henry Taylor and Helen Buller in a time of 3:58:47 over 34 miles of trail running from Leighton Buzzard to Northill.
Well done to everyone that ran.
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