Edinburgh Athletic Club

Club Membership for 2010 is now due for renewal.

Annual Club Membership is now due for renewal with effect from 1st January 2010.

An application form and guidance notes are available for download here:
EAC 2010 Membership Application Form
Member Application 2010 Guidance Notes

We encourage our members to make use of the downloads and forward their application to the Membership Secretary before the 28th February 2010.

To do so will speed up the renewal process and save the club close to £400 in administration costs.

Spring is here, well almost. What certainly is here is the road race season. No more smelly, muddy cross country. Although, I rather enjoyed the cross country and hill races over the winter season especially training for them across Fife and the Pentlands. In fact, it only dawned on me today that it has been 4 months since my last road race, so I obviously haven’t missed them!

For those not in the know, the Lasswade 10 mile is a lovely scenic, but fairly challenging race. In recent years it has always brought out a good showing from EAC runners and this year was no exception. Seven EAC runners took to the start line. With a high sun, blue sky and crisp air no one could have asked for a finer day and better running conditions. (more…)

Hi all,

What a weekend – almost like spring – but beware, we are still officially in winter.  Those of you have strayed beyond the bypass will have realised that there is still lots of snow on the hills.  Though there is a bit of melting, its not making much inroads into the white stuff.

Some complaints that there was not time to run the ‘gently undulating’ Lasswade 10, and get to Scotlandwell to run the Bishop Hill Race.  Maybe you didn’t run fast enough – more speedwork needed I think coach, uphill and carrying heavy weights as well.  Coach is by now holding his head in his hand and sobbing, crying No! No!.

Never mind, you will be in peak condition for Chapelgill in 2 weeks time. (more…)

Lasswade 10 Mile Road Race 07/03/10

 If races were to be rated by the quality of their post race buffets, the Lasswade 10 would definitely be up there in my top three. A couple of races in Fife (and the Musselburgh 10k apparently according to EAC’s race foodie experts) might give the Lasswade bakers  a good run for their money but the fact that the cakes appear after 10 miles of really hilly roads, make them taste pretty fantasic.

Due to injuries, we were only able to muster two-thirds of a women’s team for this year’s Lasswade 10 so we weren’t able to fight to retain the team prize. So it was left to the guys to fight for the honours which left the pressure was off for Marietta and I. (more…)

The first weekend in March not only saw spring weather finally appear, but the re-emergence of road runners for the 2010 season. Saturday 6^th March had the local KB5 road race and 10 EAC runners turned up to blow away the cobwebs.

After all of the freezing temperatures of this winter, the day was almost warm. Certainly no need for gloves and t-shirts under running vests as has been the case for most of the cross country races.

Registration was busy and the more experienced runners were getting confused with the start and finish banners at KB. They certainly didn’t correspond to any previous KB5 starts/finishes. However confusion was cleared up when someone explained that there was also an orienteering event taking place on the KB campus!

I did my warm up with Malcolm who was new to this race, we jogged over the last mile so that Malcolm would know the crucial final stages, vitally important for planning finishing strategy. (more…)

Edinburgh to North Berwick 20 mile Road Race open for entries
This ever popular point-to-point race is now accepting entries.
There is a limit of 250 entries this year so get in early to avoid disappointment. This year’s race is on the 1st of May.

Click here for Online entry via Entry Central:
http://www.entrycentral.com/index.php?raceID=100721

New False Start Rule Summer from April 2010 -  Senior Events Only
 
The New Rule
Essentially, the new rule imposes an immediate disqualification for any athlete who commits a false start. This is in line with the IAAF rule introduced in November the previous year.
For senior combined event, competition there will be one false start allowed per race only.
 
The new penalties apply at all levels of Senior competition (ie Championships, leagues, open graded etc).
The penalties for all other age groups and masters events will remain unchanged.
 
UKA has introduced this new rule so that we are not significantly different in the technical delivery of our sport from the rest of the world.
(Keith Ridley)

English Indoor Age Group Championships  -  Birmingham 27/28 February 2010
 
Hannah Evenden was our only medal winner at the English Indoor Age Group Championships. Her throw of 13.35m took Gold in the Under 20 Women’s Shot.
 
Other club athletes who took part were Ben Robbins who finished 4th in the U15 Boys 400m in a massive PB of 53.77, missing a medal by just 3/100ths of a second, and Emma Lowry who was 9th in the U20 Women’s shot with 10.62m. 
 (Keith Ridley)
Full results available on:
http://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=31459&pagenum=4#172

A few EAC athletes have been thinking about entering the Corrieyairack Challenge which is held on 3rd July this year, so it looks like we could possibly get a few teams together for it. We have had some success in this duathlon in previous years with Graham, Marietta, Kim and Jenny all winning prizes. It would be good to keep up that tradition!

Teams consist of 4 of which there are 3 competitors and 1 helper. The team result is based on the time of the third counter, therefore it makes sense to have all three competitors in a team as close as possible to the same standard. The helper may be asked to do various tasks such as marshall or help find the correct bike for  competitors at the transition point from running to cycling. Have a look at the website

 www.corrieyairack.org      

and if you would be interested in taking part, either e-mail me or post a comment to this article. We can then sort teams out. Also bear in mind that we do need helpers, so if you perhaps are not at the level of competing over this distance or perhaps are not fully fit or injured but would like to come along to enjoy the weekend (and the ceilidh afterwards is one of the highlights!), then we would be more than pleased to have you in the team.   

 Cheers,   Garry

EDINBURGH ATHLETIC CLUB 

WOULD LIKE YOU  TO HELP US

RAISE FUNDS FOR

SPORTS RELIEF 

We will be selling socks, waterbottles, wristbands
and even socks for your mobile phone! 

We will also be selling the Programme expertly prepared by David Cunningham, Results Team
As well as collecting your loose change 

At the

SCOTTISH ATHLETIC INDOOR LEAGUE FINALS ON 14^TH MARCH, 2010

MANY THANKS 
YVONNE JONES/GAIL WILSON
&
DAVID CUNNINGHAM

There are a couple of local road races this weekend and it sounds like there will be a good turnout of EAC runners at both of them.

Edinburgh University KB 5 Mile Road Race:

Saturday 6th March, 1pm start. £5 if enter on-line today. Entry on the day (£6) will be available from 11:30am-12:40pm in in Kings Buildings House Union. A fair number of EAC athletes have indicated they will be running, so good prospects of potential prizes both individual and team.  

http://haries.eusu.ed.ac.uk/?q=node/29

Lasswade 10 Mile race is on Sunday and with the EAC runners entered, it looks like we must be in the fight for the Team prize, but it is pre-entry only, so if you have not already entered, it is too late. 

For anyone not racing and looking for the weekend training sessions: there will be no Saturday speed session at the Meadows this week as most runners will be heading to the KB5 race. The Sunday long run at 9.00am from Craiglockhart Tennis Centre will go ahead as normal.