Edinburgh Athletic Club

This week several club members competed in the Rigg Race at Balerno. The evening of the race was overcast with a cold wind which was thankfully behind the runners on the initial climb. Although the turnout for the club was down on previous years it proved to be a successful outing for EAC. Sarah Balancier had an excellent run, over a what is a tough course, to take the overall womens title in a time of 36.18. Garry Robertson also had a good run to finish in tenth place in a time of 35.26. Several other club members finished further back in the field including Graeme Brown and Willie Gallagher.

There still seem to be a number of race organisers, of both large and small races, who are using City Of Edinburgh AC as the club name. This could prove problematic if people are entering using the new club name or a mixture of old and new names are used.  Its worth double checking with organisers that they have Edinburgh Athletic Club as the club name in order to prevent any problems with team results.

I’ve started a blog at    http://jumpinggill.wordpress.com/   covering athletics in Scotland.

Any comments/suggestions welcome.

If you have information, a news item or suggestions for a topic you would like covered please e-mail me at: jumpinggill@blueyonder.co.uk

I would like to include details of what’s happening around the country – competition, squad or event, perhaps regional coaches would like to get in touch with anything planned for their region?

(Gillian Cooke)

Meadowbank 25th May

The photographs from the HASL League 2nd meeting are courtesy of Stephanie Lyall, more photo’s can be seen at  http://picasaweb.google.com/wlyall/HASL

The results from the 2nd meeting are available here:
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Meadowbank, 25th May
Gordon Pringle Managing Director of Livingston based Heating Appliances and Spares Ltd. who sposor the Lothians and Borders HASL League, presents a cheque for £1000 to Donald Gorrie President of Edinburgh Athletic Club.

This was matched by Scottish Athletics who also gave a cheque for a £1000  through their Sportsmatch scheme.
(Derek Cogle)

Division I, Match 2, Livingstone 15^th May 2008 

The second match in Division I was held at Livingston on a pleasant evening with very little wind, this makes a change from the usual rain or even snow. 

We went into this match in second place behind Pitreavie.

There were many good performances throughout the programme, in most events PB’s were achieved, or athletes were competing in the event for the first time.

Bethany Valente was attempting to beat her own record in the Javelin but just missed out by 8cm.

Some of the notable improvements in performances were:
              Kerry-Ann Hastings improved her Shot from 5.55m to 7.17m
              Sean Stout improved his 800m time by 26 secs.
              Ryan Ross and Cal McClellan improved their 200m times by 3 secs.
              Laura Page cleared 4m in the long jump.

We won the match by 19 points; we are now level with Pitreavie with two more matches to go.

Thanks to Petra Biberback, George and Pat Sinclair and Jim Redmond for officiating.
(Derek Cogle, Yvonne Jones)

Division II, Match 2, Pitreavie 15^th May 2008

 The second match in Division II was held at Pitreavie on a pleasant evening at with very little wind.

 One problem we had was that there was no one at the meeting organising the Field events, so they were late in starting.

 In most of the events our athletes were either trying them for the first time or it was their first time this season.

 A couple notable improvements in performances were:
                           In the 800m Peter Cameron improved his time by 10 seconds
                           Jaclyn Marshall improved her time  by 9 seconds.

 Although there were still no U/15 Girls in the 800m. we did not have as many gaps as the last time and this helped us attain  2^nd place in the match, a big improvement on the previous one.

We are now in 4^th place after two meetings.

Thanks to Sandy Cameron, Roddy McBlain and Elsie Morris  for officiating.
(Eric Fisher, Anna Sutherland)

Full results are available on the link below.
http://www.jsbplumbing-forthvalley.fsnet.co.uk/results.htm

Brief details of club athletes who competed at the Loughborough International meeting:

Lynsey Sharp           3^rd             800m Inv                  2.05.90   
Kathryn Evans          4^th              400m                       55.86
Joanna Ross            2^nd             800m                        2.04.75   
Freya Murray           5^th             5000m                       16.25.89
Steven Charters       3^rd Inv C   100m                         11.32
Pat Swan                 3^rd Inv D   400m                         48.73      
Steven Lisgo           3^rd            3000s/c                     9.14.45
Gillian Cooke          3^rd            Long Jump                 6.16
Susan McKelvie       7^th            Hammer                    57.18
Lisa Glover             7^th             Javelin                      42.67

 Lynsey Sharp achieved the qualifying time in the 800m for the World Junior Championships.

(Apologies for anyone missed)
Keith Ridley

Scottish Women’s League, 18 May 2008 – Grangemouth

Provisional Results from the 2nd Women’s League match at Grangemouth – another good win for the club after convincingly winning the first match. The Lothian team had another good result, finishing 4^th just 6 points behind 3^rd place.

1st – Edinburgh AC – 523.5
2nd – Tayside & Fife – 440
3rd – Team West – 406
4th – Lothian – 400
5th – Forth Valley – 345.5
6th – Pitreavie – 305
7th – VP Glasgow – 287
8th – Aberdeen – 264

 Provisional placings after 2 matches:

1st – Edinburgh AC              16            (1049.5)
2nd – Tayside & Fife            14            (891)
3rd – Lothian                        11            (819.5)
4th – Team West                   11            (757)
5th – Pitreavie                        7              (656)      
6th – Forth Valley                 7              (614)
7th – VP Glasgow                  4              (525)
8th – Aberdeen                     2              (490)

click on the link below for the full results (note the Events T21 & 22 U15 Girls 75m Hurdles. The times and places are the wrong way round for A & B races.):

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