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 | Up & Running Off-Road Shoe Promotion |
 Up & Running Bristol are having an off-road shoe promotional day this Saturday 4th October at their store on North View (between the White Tree roundabout and Waitrose).
There's a free goody bag with off-road shoes purchased.
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Visit Up & Running online
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Posted by admin on Thursday, October 02 @ 09:01:39 BST (32 reads)
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| Bridge Inn Results |
 The results of Tuesday's Bridge Inn Winter Series Race 1 are now available online from the results section, Information -> Bridge Inn - Info and Results
Well done to everyone who braved the potential rain, which in the end threatened much but held off for the race, making for reasonable conditions if a little breezy. We had one of our largest turnouts with 124 finishers.
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Posted by admin on Thursday, October 02 @ 08:53:33 BST (30 reads)
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| Young Athlete Road Relay Results |
U17 men
4 Bristol & West AC 'A' 37:41
Matthew Deacon (12) 13:16
Matthew Peters (5) 12:27 10th fastest time of day
Nathan Young (4) 11:58 3rd fastest time of day
Bristol & West AC 'B' 27:37
Jack Thompson (10) 13:11
Danny Joseph (17) 14:26
U15 boys Gold!
1 Bristol & West AC 'A' 39:45
Sam Bedwell (6) 13:00 8th fastest time of day
George Hurford (2) 13:46
Adam Speake (1) 12:59 6th fastest time of day
18 Bristol & West AC 'B' 44:34
Adam James (25) 15:12
Zak Tobias* (18) 13:59
Zac Marsh (18) 15:23
23 Bristol & West AC 'C' 47:10
James Griffin (24) 15:09
A Campbell (28) 16:55
Daniel Bagnall (23) 15:06
U13 boys
Bristol & West U13 Boys 35:06
Finian Bedwell (29) 16:30
Magnus Gordon (31) 18:36
U15 Girls
15 Bristol & West Ac 'A' 49:10
Robyn Brailey (22) 16:14
Chloe Hayward (19) 16:53
Megan Fowler (15) 16:03
16 Bristol & West Ac 'B' 49:24
Lily Owsley (3) 14:50 8th fastest time of day
Olivia Sadler (6) 16:06
A W.-Trafford (16) 18:28
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, September 24 @ 22:48:40 BST (57 reads)
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| Midland 6-stage Road Relay Championships at Sutton Park in Birmingham |
 The Bristol and West men's team turned back the clock almost 30 years to
score only the club's second ever victory in the Midland 6-stage road relay
championship at Sutton Park in Birmingham. So commanding was their triumph
on the day, leading virtually all the way to beat the holders Notts AC by
the best part of two minutes, that it is hard to credit that they had not
won it since their lone success at Melton Mowbray back in 1979. But one
thing is for sure they will have given their rivals for next month's
National title race a warning shot that they are going to be a force to
reckon with.
From the moment Cornish farmer Kevin Heywood hit the front at
the top end of the 6K lap, they never looked back. Heywood gave Craig
Peters a 25m start over the 104 other teams, and though briefly
surrendering the lead the Welsh and Midland junior champion soon reasserted
his authority to give Jon Wills a near half minute advantage at the second
changeover.
The race was virtually over by halfway as Wills extended the
lead another ten seconds before new recruit GB U23 international Tom
Russell put the issue beyond all doubt with the third fastest time of the
day. This left National Duathlon champion Phil Wylie, who was using the
race as a warm-up for next weekend's World championship in Italy, and team
captain Rob Whalley with an armchair ride to the finish. Russell's time
apart, only 11 seconds covered the other five runners' times that were all
among the top 20 fastest of the day. and confirms the strength of their
challenge for the National.
Almost as encouragingly their separate U20 junior team , headed by Harry Webb and Richard Peters, achieved another first for the event, exceeding all expectations by finishing in the top ten
in 8th place. Of the other Avon clubs in the race Clevedon, led inspiringly by Julian Emery, did particularly well to finish in their best ever position of 11th and easily qualify for the National final, but none of the others apart from the Bristol and West Vets and B teams could make the required top 25 places.
To complete what was arguably their best ever performance in the regional championships, the Bristol and West women's team, despite being without all of their star senior runners, still repeated last year's silver medal effort behind defending champions Charnwood, and, Helen Fines apart, they did it with a very young team. Their top junior Katie Knowles gave them a fine start in 4th place before Kate Goodhead took them into an unexpected lead with one of her best ever relay performances - the sixth fastest of the event. Although Fines was passed by the Charnwood and Telford runners, she held on well enough for Steph Barnes to make sure of the silver medals on the anchor leg. Like the men the second team made the top ten in 8th place, while the third quartet
too did well to finish 15thin just ahead of neighbours Westbury, with Bitton and GWR also in the first 25 of the 70 starters.
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, September 24 @ 20:55:41 BST (78 reads)
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| Coach Education Programme |
There are a range of Coach Education Courses available with England Athletics.
For details and a list of courses click here.
Please note that there are still spaces on the Children in Athletics course being held in Gloucester at Oxstalls Campus this Saturday 20th September. If you know of anyone who may be interested in attending can you please tell them to contact the office on 01392 879733.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, September 16 @ 19:36:19 BST (72 reads)
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| Bristol Road Mile and Street Sprints |
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The results of Yesterday's (Sat 13th Sept) Reebok Bristol Road Mile and Street Sprints (for the Under 10's) are now available online here.
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Posted by admin on Sunday, September 14 @ 14:19:25 BST (93 reads)
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| Road Race Success |
Our top runners provided a great start to the winter season in the Cardiff 10K. National cross-country champion Tom Humphries won the race from an African, who only just held off our fast-finishing trio Rob Bugden (30.25), Jon Wills(30.26) and Kev Heywood (30.35). To complete a good day Rebekah Randell won the women's race in 35:17. Further back Steve Granier ran 41.42. Well done guys. If we can keep this up everyone had better watch out.
In the London women's 5K Katie Knowles ran 17:22.
REEBOK BRISTOL ROAD MILE AND STREET SPRINTS
Remember it's the Bristol Mikes on Saturday (13th Sept) from 1 until 3pm. We are still looking for the odd course marshall.
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Posted by admin on Thursday, September 11 @ 07:32:03 BST (98 reads)
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| Winter is almost here |
and so too is the Bridge Inn 5k Winter Series.
As always, the races take place on the last Tuesday of the month with registration from 6:30 in the Bridge Inn, Shortwood nr Mangotsfield, Bristol with the race to start at 7:30. This years dates are as follows:
Race 1 - Tuesday 30th Sept,
Race 2 - Tuesday 28th Oct,
Race 3 - Tuesday 25th Nov,
Race 4 - Tuesday 27th Jan and
Race 5 - Tuseday 24th Feb
So make a note in your diaries and come on down and have a go.
Click on the link for a Google Map of the Race HQ.
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, September 10 @ 17:25:35 BST (108 reads)
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| Bristol Road Mile and Street Sprints |
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Posted by admin on Sunday, September 07 @ 15:52:23 BST (101 reads)
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| National Medal On The Fells |
 BRISTOL AND WEST'S Helen Fines finished individual silver medallist in the English Fell Running Championships. After leading the Championships since June, a bad run in the final race lost the title. However, an unbeaten run of 4 races of the Welsh Open Championships has secured the individual gold, in addition to team wins in the British and English Championships for 2nd claim Calder Valley Fell Runners.
Fell running is a true test of endurance-based athleticism, requiring speed, strength, stamina, technical ability, nerve and mental toughness over distances of 3 to 25 miles and ascents of 1000 feet to 9000 feet. It is to be included as a new event in the 2014 Commonwealth Games and is expected to be a demonstration event in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Posted by admin on Thursday, September 04 @ 12:44:40 BST (127 reads)
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| NJAL Midland Severn Division (Sun 27th July) |
The individual results below are the Bristol & West with Mendip performances at the 4th and final meeting of the Midland Severn Division of the National Junior League.
The match score was:
Cheltenham 519
Bristol & West with Mendip 343
South Wales 60
East Wales 0
Cheltenham again finished first and became Division champions. The Bristol & West with Mendip team finished second throughout the season. On average better than Cheltenham except for number of athletes! For this final fixture there were some fine performances on a very hot summers day. James Preston, Matthew Norton and Hayley Green in the throws and Matthew Norton's landing when guesting in the triple jump was spectacular. Nathan Young's win in the 3000m was an outstanding time in the conditions. Sean Malone set a new PB in the high jump with 1.85 and hopefully he will be in the team more frequently next season. Rob Whitham was disappointed that a lap miscount ruined his hope for a new PB in the 2000m Steeple Chase. At least the barriers were set at the correct height.
Generally this season saw a further decline in numbers supporting the meetings. The four meeting format can only continue if fixture date clashes with the Welsh Junior League and increased support can be assured. Athletes will need to guide the team managers about their wishes for competition in 2009.
Hilary Nash
Meeting Organiser and Team Manager
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Posted by admin on Sunday, August 10 @ 09:07:18 BST (251 reads)
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| SW Intercounties Results |
Only some results available for SW intercounties.
Christina Jones was on form retaining her U 20's hammer title (45m), silver in shot (11.2) and bronze in discus (22.1) and javelin (30.34). Katie Knowles won the U20 1500m, 4.29.2 and 2nd in 800, 2.15.3 with Emma Chapman 6th, 3.24. Scott Davie won the U20 PV (4.00m).
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Posted by admin on Sunday, August 10 @ 08:57:25 BST (244 reads)
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| Track and Field |
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Midland Track & Field League (Men & Women)
Promotion to Division One achieved!
This promotion has been achieved against great odds. As with the young athletes earlier, it was the whole team which secured promotion - athletes and their coaches, managers, officials and all other Club volunteers before and on the days of matches.
It shows the importance of every individual when we finish second equal but gain promotion on points scored. Every athlete who took part knows they contributed to the overall success (see below). I echo Chris Elson’s words, ‘a big thank you to the officials - Mike Strange, Pete Davenport, Murray Grant, Bill Kingston, Chris Preston and Martin Travis and the co-team managers, Mike Down, Murray Grant, Paul Weston, Martin Davies and Simonne Lowrey.
I would like to point out that our Club owes great thanks to Chris Elson himself who took responsibility at the beginning of the season to create the big lift-off and who was the main Team Manager throughout. This was on top of his normal job of Membership Secretary.
Final Match, Division Two, Alexander Stadium, Birmingham
Overall: 1 Birchfield Harriers 287; 2 Bristol & West
AC 259; 3 Charnwood AC 228; 4 Notts AC 220; 5 Halesowen 203; 6 Telford 172.
with 1 event to go
Final league positions after 4 matches
1 Birchfield 18; 2= Bristol & West AC and Charnwood 17; 4 Notts 14; 5 Halesowen 121; 6 Telford 6.
Promoted: Birchfield and Bristol & West AC (by virtue of scoring more points overall)
On behalf of the Management Committee I send congratulations and thanks to you all.
Mike Adams, Honorary Secretary
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, August 06 @ 07:25:47 BST (236 reads)
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| Track and Field |
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B Team Results from Saturday 2nd August at Telford.
The team finished 5th on the day although I'm not sure of the overall league final positions but guess that we were 5th or 6th.
After a wet start in Bristol we arrived in sunny Telford only 10 minutes after the first events had started which was a little embarrassing as we were officiating the hammer.
Again, praise and thanks has to go to Alison and Ruby who put in some great performances with support from Chloe on her debut in the midland league to finish 5th women's team. In the men's team Alex Field made his debut in the sprints and Rob Whitham and Steve Spiers had heir first outings of the season with Rob gaining a personal best in the 800m and Steve getting the verdict on a close 100m with the first three running the same time. Elsewhere on the track, Simon Park had a rare appearance in the 400m whilst Rob, Jerry Hogan and Rick Wallis covered he longer distances. Rob covered the jumps with Luke Bailey and Steve West who, with Martin Davies, gave us a double first in the pole vault. In the field Martin, Luke, Simon, Steve W and Rick gave us valuable points and the day ended with solid performances in the relays.
Rick Wallis
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, August 06 @ 07:17:51 BST (258 reads)
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| Free Tickets for the UK School Games |
For details of the events being held and how to get free Tickets for the UK School Games please read the information in the attached link.
There is only one week to apply so please act quickly.
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Posted by admin on Friday, August 01 @ 07:43:57 BST (274 reads)
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| Thursday, July 31 | | · | Bridge Inn 5k |
| Monday, July 21 | | · | National Young Athletes League |
| Friday, July 18 | | · | Is it time you thought about getting new shoes? |
| Sunday, June 29 | | · | Bridge Inn Summer 2008 |
| Sunday, June 22 | | · | Bridge Inn 5k Tuesday 24th June |
| Tuesday, June 10 | | · | Midland League Div 2 Athlete Results |
| Sunday, June 08 | | · | Senior Track and Field, A Team |
| Thursday, June 05 | | · | Various Results |
| Monday, June 02 | | · | Bridge Inn 5k Results |
| · | NYAL League Meeting, 25th May 2008 |
| Thursday, May 29 | | · | Patrick Woodisse Does The Bob Graham Round |
| Tuesday, May 27 | | · | NYAL Midland Div 1, Sun 18th May |
| · | Vets Triumph |
| Monday, May 05 | | · | Bridge Inn Summer 2008 |
| Tuesday, April 29 | | · | NJAL, Severn Division |
| · | National Road Relays |
| Sunday, April 20 | | · | Calling All Young Athletes |
| Monday, March 10 | | · | Child Protection Procedures & Club Welfare |
| Sunday, March 02 | | · | Final Winter Bridge Inn 5k Result |
| Saturday, February 02 | | · | Bridge Inn Race 4, 2007/8 Results |
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