Edinburgh Athletic Club

As announced in yesterday’s Evening News, the Scottish Gas 5k & 10k races are set for 2nd August 2009.  The full information is here, and online entry via EntryCentral is here.  This year we’ve even got a Facebook event page for pre-event fun.

28th June 2009
The latest rankings from Keith are now on the site:
Young_Rankings_2009

HASL league 28th June Meadowbank

The results are here:28-06-09 hasl results

Aviva England Under-20 and Under-23 Championships and European Trials.
Bedford , Sunday 21st June.

Gold:  Stephen Lisgo,  3000m Steeple Chase, 9:08.47
Silver : Hannah Evenden, Shot Putt, 13.40m
Bronze : Jayne Nisbet  High Jump,  1.78m
Pat Sawn: 400m in a lifetime best (47.18).

Full results:England Athletics website.

JSB Plumbing Forth Valley League 18^th June

Division 1 Pitreavie
The third meeting of the league held on a bright evening with a strong headwind..
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Pictures of  our Gold Medal winning relay teams from the recent Scottish Championships:

Under 17 Women
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Tom Holligan and Rebecca Caswell meet Oscar Pistorius (‘Bladerunner’).

As part of his visit to Scotland, Pistorius met with members of the Bank of Scotland Talented Athlete Sprints and Disability Squads at a specially arranged training session at Pitreavie Athletics Centre on Friday evening. The young athletes had the opportunity to put their own questions to him and pick up invaluable advice on training and event preparation from one of the world’s most inspiring athletes.
(Keith Riddley)

SCOTTISH NATIONAL COMBINED EVENTS AND U17/20 3000M CHAMPS AND U11s TRIATHLON
Athletes are reminded that entries for the Scottish National Combined Events (U13/15 and U17/20, Senior and Masters) and U17/U20 3000m Championships will close on Friday 3rd July.

In addition there will be an Under 11s Triathlon Challenge on Sunday 19th July featuring 200m, long jump and turbo javelin. 

All competitors will receive a FREE T-shirt for competing. 

Entries for this event are through SportTayside & Fife; on-line entry is NOT available for the under-11s event and entries close on Thursday 9th July.

The events, hosted by Fife Council, will be held at Pitreavie Stadium.

*Enter online through the following link for:  U13/15 Pentathlon
*Enter online through the following link for: U17/20, Senior and Masters Heptathlon/Decathlon
*Enter online through the following link for: U17/20 3000m
*The Under 11s Triathlon Challenge is NOT available for online entry but a downloadable entry form is available through the following link: Under11 Triathlon.

Jogscotland have kindly agreed to promote our Scottish Gas 10k/5k by including about 2,000 of our flyers in their goodie bags. 

As a thank you to them, we have said that we will supply a few helpers to assist at the Edinburgh 5k’s on Tuesday 30th June at Inverleith Park. There are two races, one at 6.00pm and one at 7.30pm. we are therefore looking for volunteers who can help out anytime from 5pm onwards.

If you can spare a few hours to help, it would be very much appreciated, please add a comment to this post or contact either Alex, Garry or any of your coaches.

The following entry is from the Scottish Athletic Website and highlights the problems associated with race number swapping.    (more…)

Willie Lyall has put photographs from the weekends Scottish Championships
on line and they can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wlyall/sets/72157620031177183/