Edinburgh Athletic Club

Good luck to all our athletes competing in the East District Championships at Meadowbank, tonight and tomorrow.
The provisional timetable can be downloaded here: eastprovisional

A big weekend of racing with the Edinburgh Marathon, 1/2 Marathon, 10k and 5k, and we have a large pack heading overseas to the Leiden Marathon, 1/2 Marathon and 10k! Also a Scottish Trail race at Falkland and a bunch of fairy’s heading for the Edinburgh Park run (I’m sure photo’s will appear later!).   

Add in Richard and Gail’s wedding reception on Saturday night and on Sunday we may be down in numbers, but if anyone is still looking for a long run from Craiglockhart Sports Centre, meet in the top car park at 9.00 and head out on the Canal and Water of Leith paths to Balerno and beyond.

JSB Plumbing Forth Valley League, Grangemouth 18thMay
The results from the second meeting held at Grangemouth are available to download, the weather was terrible, cold with torrential rain, the high jump and the afternoon javelin were moved to the inside arena, thanks to all officials and the groundstaff for enabling the meeting to carry on.
We were first in both Division I and Division II, we have now won the first two meetings in the League and we now look forward to the final on the 3rd of August.
Div I Sat 18th May
Div II Sat 18th May

Firstly can we thank everyone who makes a financial contribution to the Club.

As we are sure you will appreciate the “running” (forgive the pun) costs of the Club are growing year on year particularly in regard to entering competitions and travelling to compete in them. In 2011 we spent approximately £24,500 in this regard, this increased to approximately £38,200 in 2012. We do not anticipate 2013 being any lower than this and in the circumstances it is clear to see that fund raising is a priority for us all.          (more…)

Congratulations to the Edinburgh Athletes who were competing for the Scottish and the British University teams at the Loughbourgh International

Kathryn Christie 7th 100m 12.27
Kirsty Yates 3rd Shot  15.10m
Susan McKelvie 4th Hammer  62.13m (CWG 2014 Qualifying Standard)
Laura Dunn 7th 3000m 9:58.81
Tom Holligan 7th 100m 10.85
Jayne Nisbet 1st High Jump 1.84m (Guest) (CWG 2014 Qualifying Standard)
Emma Nuttall 3rd High Jump 1.78m
Emily Stewart 2nd 3000m Steeplechase 10:10.83 (BU)

Full results can be found here:   Loughborough International

Good luck to all of the EAC athletes selected to run for Scotland at Loughborough this weekend, hopefully a stepping stone to the 2014 Commonwealth Games for all of them.    Loughborough Preview

Livingston AC are organising an open graded meeting on the evening of Wednesday 29 May.
Open graded meetings are where you enter an event and will be seeded so that you compete against athletes of a similar standard. Any athlete aged from 9 years up to seniors/masters can take part. This is an ideal chance to get a time, distance or height, particularly if you missed the Lothian Trials. Your results will go into the club ranking lists which help team managers to pick teams for the league matches. It also gives you the opportunity to experiment in events that you don’t normally do.

Entries must be made online -   Closing Date Sunday 26^th May. http://www.livingstonac.com/open

Full entry details and a timetable are in the flyer.  2013_Livingston_Open_Meeting_Series

Div 1 and Div II have switched times, Div II are now in the morning session and Div I in the afternoon.  It would be good if everyone could be there for the start of your competition  to support your team, you should be there an hour before your event to allow warm up time. It is also useful because if you are there early, you may be able to compete in an event should someone be unable to attend at the last minute.
Timetables
Div I Sat 18th May       Div II Sat 18th May

You will find instructions on how to get to Grangemouth Stadium under the ‘fixtures and direction’ tab on this site. I will bring vests and red shorts/pants for girls on the day for anyone who does not have kit yet – £10 each. We won Match 1 – so bring on Match 2!

Yvonne Jones

This is a quiet weekend for races so there is a speed session planned for Saturday morning at Saughton track. Meet at 9.30 for the warm up, drills, strides, then the session will be 2 x 2 miles tempo, then 4×800, 4×400 and 1×200. 

On Sunday, we have our usual training run from Craiglockhart Sports Centre, meet in the top car park and head out on the Canal and Water of Leith paths to Balerno and beyond, with run distances of 12-24 miles, mainly on paths and trails. A range of distances and a range of speeds, all welcome, just turn up and join in.

Here are the latest rankings compiled by Keith: Young_Rankings 2013