Bedford and County AC

Thaila wins Bronze at England Championships

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.

Club record for Darren

Congratulations to Darren Kerr on another club record in the M55 Shot with 11.79m at the London Indoor Games on Sunday 18^th January.

Eastern Indoor Track and Field Championships 2026

The Eastern Indoor Athletics Championships are being held at Lee Valley Athletics Centre from 28^th February to 1^st March.

Entries are now open and close on the 10^th February.

Enter here: https://meets.rosterathletics.com/public/competitions/details/about?id=27968

Valencia 10K and a club record for Ben

Several Bedford & County athletes ran in the Valencia 10K on Sunday.

The stand-out performance was Ben Alcock’s fantastic club record – although his gun time shows 28:38, his chip time (thus his true time) was even quicker at 28:34.

Behind him, there were other excellent performances by club athletes. Sam Winters’ 30:39 shaved 3 seconds off his pb, whilst Alf Yabsley took over a minute off his previous best with 31:05. There were also excellent runs from Stan Willis (32:02) and Pete Benedickter (32:25) – both of which were highly commendable efforts given that they are just easing their way back into full training after long spells out thought injury and illness respectively. Ed Whiting (33:03 - PB) and Lauren Nichols (34:59) also put in strong performances. Alice Lambert is in fine form, running extremely well to achieve an outstanding PB of 35:17, following her PB of 17:03 at the Battersea 5K on New Years Eve.

Well done to everyone that ran.