Edinburgh Athletic Club

Club Membership for 2010 is now due for renewal.The renewal form can be downloaded here:
EAC 2010 Membership Application Form

Once completed the form is to be sent to the Membership Secretary Brian Nisbet.

A guide to the form can be downloaded here:
Member Application 2010 Guidance Notes

Hi folks, 

Those who read my nature notes a few weeks ago may recall mention that there had been sightings of a rare prehistoric being lumbering across the Fife countryside.
 
Reports have reached me that Fife is not alone in having an ancient and rare collection of wild life.  Those in the know who headed north to the Grampian coast last weekend were rewarded with a scene from the land that time forgot.  Specimens from a bygone age could be seen in the mist shrouded woods near Forres.  Some had been thought to be extinct as they had not been seen for several years.  Cave paintings and drawings on ancient pottery depicts them as highly active creatures.  Carbon dating of some remains show a small number to have been active in more recent times, but there is little other evidence available till now.  But there, at the edge of the Grampian ice sheet in Forres, there were confirmed sightings of some very rare beasts. (more…)

Here are the latest indoor rankings for the Young Athletes, compiled by Keith:
Young Indoor Rankings 2010

The Grand Prix spreadsheet has now been updated with the results from the Scottish 4k Championship, Masters Championship and the Borders League races at Berwick and Gala.

Grand Prix 09 Winter 070210

Click on the ‘tab’ at the bottom of the spreadsheet to get all of the individual times for each event.

Full results from the Scottish 4k at: 

http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/index.php?p=80&itemType=fixtures&itemId=11635

Great results at Bellahouston, Jenny was 2nd in the womens race leading the EAC womens team to gold medals. The Mens team were the silver medal winners.

Full Results From the Masters Championships at:

http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/index.php?p=80&itemType=fixtures&itemId=11639

Great results again, this time at Forres, Jenny winning the womens race and EAC team silver. The Mens team was just out of the medals in 4th place. 

Full Borders Results at:

http://www.norhamrc.co.uk/

Scottish Schools Indoor Championships – 4 February 2010

Athletes from EAC won 13 medals at the Scottish Schools Indoor Championships – 6 Gold, 4 Silver and 3 Bronze. Top performer was Allan Hamilton with Golds in the 60m and the Long Jump; his distance of 6.82 in the long jump was a Championship Best Performance.
(Keith Ridley)

Full results available on:
 http://www.ssaa.co.uk/results/2010results/Indoor2010.pdf
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Scottish Senior Indoor Championships – Kelvin Hall, 6 February 2010
 
Edinburgh athletes won 9 medals at the Scottish Indoor Championships. The club finished runners up in the LDC ‘Club First Cup’ on 43 points, just 4 points behind VPCoG.
Full results available on:
http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/index.php?p=80&itemType=fixtures&itemId=11487

Men     
Pole Vault 3rd Gregor Maclean 4.51

Women     
400m               1st Ashleigh Kennedy 58.10
                      2nd Lauren Peffers 59.27
800m              3rd Ashleigh Kennedy 2.26.01
60m Hur         2nd Catriona Pennet 9.07
High Jump      2nd Jayne Nisbet 1.71
Long Jump     3rd Lisa Ferguson 5.67
Pole Vault      2nd Kirsty Maguire 3.90
Triple Jump    3rd Sarah Warnock 11.54

(Keith Ridley)

Scottish Junior Indoor Relay Championships – Kelvin Hall, 6 February 2010
 
At the Scottish 4 x 200m Junior Championships teams from Edinburgh AC won medals in 4 out of the 6 events – 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze.
 
The U17 men’s team had a superb run winning in a new Scottish record time of 1.32.87.
    
U17 Men Tom Holligan, Alex North, Cameron Goodall, Seamus Thomson
U15 Boys Kyle Hogg, Jamie Batho, Daniel Holligan, Ben Robbins
U15 Girls Rosie Wilson, Lizzie Wells, Caitlin Hardie, Emma McGinty
U13 Girls Natalie Robbins, Ellie McGinty, Katie Robinson, Amy Armstrong

Other photos have been added to the Gallery page on this site.
  
Full results available on:
http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/index.php?p=80&itemType=fixtures&itemId=11487

We ran & we ran & we ran – pretty fast!

Great team turnout at the Masters Cross Country all the way up North in grey & murky Forres today, with plenty of cameraderie & fun along the way. This was the last opportunity for those of us still in the V35  category to go & have a play at the Masters Championships before they put the age up to 40 at the beginning of April, so I for one was keen to exploit the chance.

The Forres course is very different to the type of terrain that we’re used to in the central/eastern scotland area, as after a couple of short, grassy laps, both the races headed up into the woods for some fun trail running. Conditions were really good for cross country running – still, cool & firm underfoot after a crisp week, so very little mud in evidence either. (more…)

Edinburgh AC had a fantastic day out at the National 4K Cross Country Championships held in Bellahouston Park on Sunday 31st January. On a chilly, though stunningly sunny January day we were triumphant with Womens Team Gold, Womens Individual Silver & Mens Team Silver medals, with great performances from everyone involved.

With a solid bank of training under my belt I have been running well, but had yet to achieve a result to reflect this in the current cross country season, so went into the Bellahouston Race (short, flat, fast – not what I would normally describe as my strengths) without significant expectations. This relaxation gave way to competitive instinct once the womens race got underway. After the usual scramble for advantage in the first 500m we all settled down into a steady rhythm, with very little to choose between the front runners for the first lap of the two lap race. Feeling strong, I moved from 6th to 5th place just before passing the start line and concentrated hard on consolidating my position. (more…)

Hi Folks, Well thats January out of the way.  The more observant of you will have noticed that the days are getting a bit longer.  But beware of the old saying that ‘as the days get longer so the cold gets stronger’.  We have had more than our fair share of cold and winter so far, but we have also still got quite a bit of winter to come, as winter does not officially end until the Spring equinox on March 21st.  Another saying that you might want to be aware of is that ‘when the snow lies on the hills, we will have to have some more to take it away’.  So there may be more of the white stuff to come.

TROPHY WINNERS or BANDITS?

A team of bandits, with several names from this happy group managed to snatch the 2nd place mixed team prize at the Devil’s Burdens Relay last week.  Well done, and I look forward to seeing you at hill races in the weeks and months to come. (more…)