Summer is finally starting to feel like it has arrived! Well done to all of the boys team who competed on Sunday – your hard work in training is really paying off. In total we saw personal bests in 24 events, with a number of the boys who are starting to move up the performance levels. Please check out https://www.englandathletics.org/competitions-and-events/pb-awards/ for more information and see what your personal level is.
Congratulations to Bob Kingman who broke Tony Mackay’s 33 year old M50 Pole Vault club record with a vault of 3.70m in the SAL match at Braintree on 20th May.
Congratulations to four Bedford and County athletes who won awards at the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire County Championships on 13th and 14th May. They were:
127 Bedford and County athletes registered for the main meeting, and 35 for the 1500m (run on a different day).
For all the Bedford and County winners, and the full results see Bedfordshire County Championships.
There were some excellent performances at the Bedfordshire County Championships, which were held at Watford on 13th and 14th May. Well done to all of the Bedford and County winners, who are listed below, along with their level of performance from new tables produced by England Athletics:
As part of the club’s recognition of Alex and Rosemary’s success and contribution to athlete development upon their retirement, it has been decided to award a bursary of £100 for the next 5 years starting in May 2023.
We are pleased to announce that Eleanor Smith is the first recipient of the bursary.
The first EMAC League match took place at Milton Keynes on Wednesday 10 May, and everyone travelling over through the torrential rain was, I’m sure, ready for a thoroughly wet evening, but the clouds broke and the sun shone.
For Bedford and County AC the evening started well with ‘new Masters’ Darren Kerr (M50) and Glen Kerr (M45) taking first place in the hammer, and on the track Adam winning the 1 mile walk.
The weather was a far cry from the miserable rain we experienced at the Norwich meet two weeks ago, which made for better running conditions.
We had a number of first timers competing on Sunday, a big well done to them, it must have felt very daunting for you, but everyone tried their best! There have now been lots of personal bests set, so there is now a benchmark to work on for future events.
The competition in the YDL is very tough, but all of the boys worked very hard and should be very proud of getting stuck in. We had a number of personal bests
On a much warmer and drier Sunday than our first match we competed in the first YDL at Bedford. This was a tough competition for the youngest members of our club as we were up against very strong U13 & U15 teams from Brighton, Cambridge Harriers, Crawley, Herne Hill and Woodford Green. To their credit the athletes battled very hard in every event they took part in.
The girls had 6 first time athletes, 31 personal bests and 5 season’s bests. Our only A string win came from Serena in the U13 800m in 2.27.89, nearly 5 seconds clear of second, not bad for a debutant race!
There was a convincing win for Ben Davies in the night's fastest 1500m at the Watford Open Graded Meeting on Wednesday 3rd May. Ben made up a lot of ground on the leader in the last lap and then kicked away with 200m to go to win in 3:57.12. Jamie Webster finished fourth in 4:00.14. Daniel Toner (U17) ran the fastest 100m of the night in 11.76 seconds.
